Meta Platforms started 2026 by laying off around 1,500 employees in its Reality Labs division, a move that highlights the fading glow of its metaverse dreams amid billions in losses and a clear shift ...

Zuckerberg’s $110B metaverse dream crashed because its developers didn’t seem to know exactly what problem they were solving.

Now that he’s all but abandoned his capital-M Metaverse, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot to artificial intelligence is in the spotlight — and it’s gonna be hella expensive. In a post on ...

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg recast Facebook as Meta and declared the metaverse—a digital realm where people would work, socialize, and spend much of their lives—the company’s next great frontier. He ...

Our future was pronounced dead last week. I mean that glorious future of "The Metaverse," promised to us by Silicon Valley's ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It’s now two years since Facebook changed its name to Meta, ushering in a ...

While Meta’s shift may signal a broader retreat from the metaverse, law firms that opened virtual offices in the early 2020s have already stepped back from their investments in the space.

Meta is laying off several hundred employees across key divisions — including Facebook and its Reality Labs unit — as it ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, few concepts have captured the collective imagination as powerfully as the metaverse. This virtual universe, an extension of the Web3 framework, is ...

Meta (META) hasn’t given up on the metaverse, despite a very public pivot to artificial intelligence. “Our investments in AI continue. We remain fully committed to the Metaverse vision as well. We've ...

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But ...