Sylvia Varnham O'Regan

Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia has joined Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to work on “improving the slow and paper-based retirement process” for federal employees, Gebbia announced on X Thursday. Gebbia, who is on Tesla’s board of directors and reportedly has a close relationship with Musk, said in his post that he had been looking for his “next digital design challenge” since

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew had some good news for employees at the company’s all-hands meeting Wednesday night—and then some less than stellar news.While its short-lived shutdown in the U.S. nearly a month ago hurt the business, the app has seen “positive momentum” since then, Chew said, adding: “ ...

Meta Platforms is preparing to implement on Monday previously announced job cuts of 5% of its workforce. In a message to staff on Friday, Meta said employees who are laid off will be cut off from the company’s internal system within an hour and will be notified by email about their severance packages. Meta also said it does not plan to send out any internal communications about the layoffs after

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Thursday that Meta sold more than one million of its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2024, marking the first time the company has disclosed sales figures for the product. Meta has invested heavily in the glasses, designed in partnership with Ray-Ban owner Essilor Luxottica, and plans to release new versions in the coming years. Zuckerberg said this

Meta is transferring oversight of Reality Labs’ business operations to Meta Chief Operating Officer, Javier Olivan, away from Reality Labs’ Chief Operating Officer, Dan Reed. Meta’s chief technology officer and the head of Reality Labs, Andrew Bosworth, announced a major reorganization of the department’s business unit to employees on Monday, according to a person with direct knowledge of the

TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes to block the ban, according to two people familiar with TikTok’s plans. Abruptly switching off the app, rather than allowing people who have already downloaded ...

Meta Platforms plans a new round of job cuts in the coming weeks, the company told employees on Tuesday, focused on employees who are considered weak performers. The cuts would affect about 5% of Meta’s employees, or about 3,600 people, a human resources director later told staff. In a post on ...

TikTok has long been aware that its livestreaming feature poses risks to children and is used for money laundering, a newly unredacted lawsuit from Utah’s attorney general claims. The suit, which is one of several filed against TikTok by different states over child safety issues in the past year, claims that TikTok’s livestream feature, TikTok Live, “allows adults to prey on children in many

Venezuela’s top court has fined TikTok $10 million and ordered the company to open an office in Venezuela after three young people died participating in popular TikTok “challenges” that involved ingesting chemical substances. According to the Voice of America , the court found that TikTok failed to adequately stop material from spreading on the app that encouraged the challenges. Three young

Google has hired more than 100 staffers at augmented reality firm Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google’s work on its new Android XR operating system, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. The unusual arrangement, which Magic Leap’s senior vice president of ...