Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg has dominated headlines in the past few days
Speaker 1: with several high impact moves and public appearances that signal
Speaker 1: pivotal shifts both for his personal vision and for Meta's future.
Speaker 1: According to The New Yorker and widely picked up by
Speaker 1: tech outlets, Zuckerberg recently declared before the Federal Trade Commission
Speaker 1: that the golden age of traditional social media is over.
Speaker 1: He testified in a widely watched three day hearing that
Speaker 1: the era of platform centered on friends and family updates
Speaker 1: is fading, replaced by feeds driven by AI generated content,
Speaker 1: celebrity promos, and entertainment for mass audiences. The shift is
Speaker 1: already stark in the numbers. People now spend far less
Speaker 1: time viewing friends posts on Facebook, dropping from twenty two
Speaker 1: percent to seventeen per cent in two years, and on
Speaker 1: Instagram from eleven per cent to just seven percent. Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: told regulators and the world that Meta is now focused
Speaker 1: on becoming a broader entertainment and discovery platform, not just
Speaker 1: a social network. Meanwhile, Meta's AI ambitions have hit overdrive.
Speaker 1: Both The New York Times and Bloomberg report that Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: is personally spearheading a new superintelligence team offering staggering nine
Speaker 1: figure compensation packages to poach leading talent in artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: He has even reorganized Meta's offices so this elite AI
Speaker 1: team sits near him, underscoring how urgent and personal this
Speaker 1: project has become. Recent grumblings about Meta losing top recruits
Speaker 1: to competitors with offers over two million dollars a year
Speaker 1: have reportedly spurred Zuckerberg to take a far more hands
Speaker 1: on roll. He sees the race for AI dominance as
Speaker 1: Meta's defining challenge, with plans to invest billions, possibly even
Speaker 1: bringing scaleai founder Alexander Wang on board to build a
Speaker 1: system surpassing human intelligence. Social media chatter exploded as Zuckerberg's
Speaker 1: testimony and AI plans made waves. His Instagram remains active,
Speaker 1: with recent posts showing personal moments from events and social gatherings,
Speaker 1: offering fans glimpses of his non corporate life. But beyond
Speaker 1: the selfies, Tech reporters like Business Insider have noted the
Speaker 1: uneven reception to Meta AI's consumer products. Some features, like
Speaker 1: the Meta Ai discover feed, have been met with confusion
Speaker 1: and a sense of missed potential as they devolve into
Speaker 1: rambling personal overshares and oddball requests from users. Industry observers
Speaker 1: continue to debate whether Zuckerberg's grand AI vision can translate
Speaker 1: into a meaningful, mainstream product. Notably, all of this comes
Speaker 1: as Zuckerberg publicly described the current smartphone based social experience
Speaker 1: as antisocial in a recent interview, championing smart glasses as
Speaker 1: the next natural interface and predicting tens of millions will
Speaker 1: soon done AI powered ray bands instead of squinting at
Speaker 1: their phones. According to the Times of India, he believes
Speaker 1: that displayless AI glasses will soon be come ubiquitous, changing
Speaker 1: how we interact with information in one another in some
Speaker 1: the past days have seen Zuckerberg signal the end of
Speaker 1: old school social media, go all in on AI, and
Speaker 1: spark industry wide debate about what comes next for one
Speaker 1: of tech's most watched and polarizing leaders. And that is
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