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☆ Mark Zuckerberg considered acquiring or permanently funding the Associated Press to combat Facebook misinformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Before Meta stepped away from nearly all its dealings with the news industry, Mark Zuckerberg considered getting more entangled with it than ever. Between 2017 and 2018, the founder and CEO of Facebook, as it was still known, seriously considered acquiring a news outlet. His focus eventually turned to The Associated Press, the storied news agency service, according to three people familiar with internal Facebook talks surrounding the idea. Around this time, Zuckerberg weighed another option for Facebook to start a news organization, the three people said. This idea was also ultimately abandoned, mostly due to concerns about public blowback and trust in Facebook at the time.

Persons: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Chan Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Facebook's Organizations: Facebook, Associated Press, Washington Post, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, AP, Meta

Cadre Holdings CEO Warren Kanders sold $50.3 million worth of stock. Ares Management CEO Michael Arougheti sold $32.7 million worth of stock. Cadence Design Systems CEO Anirudh Devgan sold $14.7 million worth of stock. AppLovin CFO Herald Chen sold about $9.5 million worth of stock. Cleanspark CEO Zachary Bradford sold nearly $9 million worth of stock.

Persons: Michael Dell, Verity Data, Mark Zuckerberg, Chan Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Warren Kanders, Kanders, Jayshree Ullal, Michael Arougheti, Sytse Sijbrandij, Sijbrandij, Anirudh Devgan, Aneel Zaman, Herald Chen, Zachary Bradford Organizations: Dell Technologies, Dell, DELL, Securities and Exchange Commission, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Facebook, Cadre, VerityData, Arista Networks, Ares Management, Cadence Design, Herald Locations: 10b5

☆ Former researcher alleges Harvard forced her out to preserve Facebook donations
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Eamon Javers | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

WASHINGTON — Social media researcher Joan Donovan says she knows the exact moment her career began to go off the rails. "I got called into the principal's office and was questioned about why I'm talking about Facebook," Donovan said. In a statement to CNBC, Harvard Kennedy School Director of Public Affairs James Smith disputed Donovan's account of her departure. "The narrative is full of inaccuracies and baseless insinuations, particularly the suggestion that Harvard Kennedy School allowed Facebook to dictate its approach to research." Smith told CNBC that Harvard University and the Kennedy School continue to carry out misinformation and social media research to this day.

Persons: Harvard Kennedy, Joan Donovan, Donovan, John F, Frances Haugen, Haugen, Elliot Schrage, Schrage, Nick Clegg, Clegg, didn't, Douglas Elmendorf, Dean Elmendorf, Sheryl Sandberg, Sandberg, Elmendorf, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan –, –, Zuckerberg's, Guillermo S, Hava, Eleanor V, Wikstrom, —, Chan, Public Affairs James Smith, Smith, Kennedy, Chan Zuckerberg, Donovan's Organizations: Harvard, Media Politics, WASHINGTON — Social, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Dean's Council, CNBC, Meta, Facebook, Dean's, Kennedy School, Elmendorf, Harvard's Kennedy School, Twitter, Google, Washington Post, Initiative, Technology, Research, Whistleblower, Massachusetts, U.S . Department of Education's, Civil Rights, Harvard Kennedy School, Public Affairs, School, Kennedy, Media, Politics, Public, Tech, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Locations: Malden, Harvard, Central, Dean's, FBarchive.org

☆ Former Harvard disinformation scholar says she was pushed out of her job after college faced pressure from Facebook
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Donie O'Sullivan | Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A nationally recognized online disinformation researcher has accused Harvard University of shutting the project she led to protect its relationship with mega-donor and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The allegations, made by Dr. Joan Donovan, raise questions about the influence the tech giant might have over seemingly independent research. Beginning in 2018, Dr. Donovan worked for the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and ran its Technology and Social Change Research Project, where she led studies of media manipulation campaigns. But last year Harvard informed Dr. Donovan it was shutting the project down, Donovan claims. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is the philanthropy run by Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, who both attended Harvard.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Joan Donovan, Donovan, Harvard University’s John F, Dr, Miguel Cardona, Chan, Chan Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, ” Libby Liu, Frances Haugen, “ We’ve, ” Liu Organizations: CNN, Harvard University, Meta, Shorenstein, Harvard University’s, Kennedy School of Government, Technology, Research, Harvard, US Education, University, Initiative, The Washington Post, Post, Big Energy, Big Pharma

☆ Starfish bodies are really just heads, new research says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The heads of most animals are easily identifiable, but scientists haven’t been able to say the same for sea stars until now. But new genetic research suggests the opposite — that sea stars are largely heads that lack torsos or tails and likely lost those features evolutionarily over time. There, they go through a process that transforms a bilateral body into a star shape, or pentaradial body. But echinoderms also share a common ancestor with bilateral animals, which adds to the puzzle researchers are trying to solve. Specific molecular markers act like body plan blueprints, directing each cell to the body region where it belongs.

Persons: haven’t, It’s, ”, Laurent Formery, “ It’s, Christopher Lowe, Jeff Thompson, “, ” Lowe, Formery, Chan Zuckerberg, Dr, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Laurent Formery “, ” Thompson, Daniel Rokhsar Organizations: CNN, Stanford University, University of California, University of Southampton, NASA, National Science Foundation, Leverhulme Trust Locations: Berkeley, San Francisco

☆ Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan say they were in the delivery room when they wrote the letter announcing the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife were in the delivery room when they wrote a letter announcing their foundation. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is now investing in efforts to try to eliminate all human disease. The post, which began with the words "Dear Max," outlined the couple's hopes for their daughter's future, and announced the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. And the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is now investing in moves to try to rid the world of all human disease by 2100. AdvertisementAdvertisementA representative for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Chan Zuckerberg, —, Chan, Max, Andrew Huberman, Huberman, Aurelia Organizations: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Service, Facebook

☆ Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced they're building a computing system to help eliminate human disease by 2100, but costs may be hefty
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Priscilla Chan and husband Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to eradicate human disease by 2100. One researcher's excited by the potential, but said it'll likely take lots of time and money to complete. The data could be used to make new discoveries that completely eliminate human disease, Chan and Zuckerberg said in a statement. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the couple's LLC, told The Register that they plan to have their product running by 2024. "AlphaFold has sparked a wave of innovation by showing people what's possible," Chris Bahl, the chief scientist at AI Proteins, previously told Insider.

Persons: Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, it'll, Chan, Zuckerberg, I'm, Anne Carpenter, Carpenter, Chan Zuckerberg, CZI, Forbes, AlphaFold, Chris Bahl, Jeff MacGregor Organizations: Service, Broad Institute of Harvard, MIT, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, San, Engadget Locations: Wall, Silicon, San Francisco

☆ Zuckerberg's philanthropy project plans AI system for life sciences research
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 19 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy venture plans to build a computing system powered by artificial intelligence for life sciences research to study human cells and diseases. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, created by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, will use the computing system to run openly available AI models, the philanthropy venture said on Tuesday. AI has been used in the life sciences domain for some years. The system will be trained on datasets from software tool CZ Cell x Gene, as well as resources from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging, and publicly available data. The company released its latest Llama 2 model in July, and offered it for free to businesses of a certain size.

Persons: Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Chan, Beck, Mark, Chan Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Nvidia's, Yuvraj Malik, Shounak Dasgupta Organizations: Initiative, UCSF, REUTERS, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Google, Imaging, Meta, Thomson Locations: Bay, San Francisco , California, U.S, Bengaluru

☆ Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan told leaders of its charity to 'clarify' their work. The result was layoffs, a plan to invest in AI, and a tacit admission their big education project failed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The organization will no longer be granting money toward educational policy, a big part of CZI's work since its founding, the emails said. As part of its "refreshed strategy," CZI said it is "transitioning" how it supports Summit Learning. The new strategy, laid out to CZI's roughly 500 employees, is to find new education products. Politics was one of its founding areas of work, alongside education and the eradication of all disease. "I give it two more years," one of the people familiar said of CZI's current education work.

Persons: Zuckerberg, Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Chan Zuckerberg, CZI, Sandra Liu Huang Organizations: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Meta, Facebook, Summit, Summit Public Schools, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado Locations: CZI, California, Washington, Boulder

☆ Mark Zuckerberg says people should assume Elon Musk's comments about their cage fight 'has not been agreed on'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Zuckerberg suggested that people should take Elon Musk's comments with a pinch of salt. He said on Threads on Friday that people should "assume anything he says has not been agreed on." The Meta chief made the quip after Musk claimed that an "epic location" had been agreed upon. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have renewed their intense rivalry as both billionaires continue to exchange jabs. "Until then, please assume anything he says has not been agreed on," Zuckerberg wrote.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk's, Musk, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, he'll, Elon, I'm, Chan, Gennaro Sangiuliano, Musk brazenly, X didn't Organizations: Morning, UFC, Initiative, Musk Foundation, Culture, Italy's, Twitter, Meta Locations: Rome

☆ Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's charity organization is making a major change in strategy after laying off 48 people. Read the leaked emails.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative conducted layoffs this week, in a major blow to its education team. However, the cuts were entirely focused on employees in tech and grantmaking in CZI's education department, a core pillar of the organization's since its founding. As part of the changes, two leaders in CZI's education work are leaving their roles. While today's announcement most directly impacts our Education teammates, I know we are all affected regardless of where we sit in the organization. I am grateful for all of our Education teammates, past and present, whose contributions made our accomplishments to-date possible and carved our path forward.

Persons: Chan Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Chan, Brooke Stafford, CZI's, Dakarai Aarons, Sandra Liu Huang, Huang, CZI, Slack, Brizard, Brooke, Dakarai, Sandra, Priscilla Organizations: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Meta, CZI, Facebook, Education Policy Center, University of Colorado, Education, People Team Locations: Meta, Boulder

☆ Mark Zuckerberg's 'Year of Efficiency' spreads from Meta to Priscilla Chan's charitable organization, which just laid off dozens of people
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a charitable vehicle for the wealthy couple. The charitable foundation of Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan conducted its first layoff this week. The cuts at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative impacted 48 employees, according to two people familiar with the company. Over at Meta, employees there have dealt with layoffs since November, as the company looked to reduce costs in the face of slowing revenue growth and massive expenses on Zuckerberg's metaverse ambitions. It seems that mandate has made its way over to the CEO's charitable initiative as well.

Persons: Chan Zuckerberg, CZI, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Chan, Raymonde Charles, Charles, Zuckerberg Organizations: Harvard University, Meta, Facebook Locations: Meta

☆ Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have 3 kids: Maxima, August, and Aurelia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have been married since 2012 and have three children. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have been married since 2012 after meeting in college. On the day the couple announced Maxima's birth, they also unveiled their philanthropic fund, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Zuckerberg and Chan have also found a balance between teaching their kids part of Zuckerberg's Jewish religion and Chan's Chinese heritage. At the end of the night, Zuckerberg does a bedtime prayer in Mandarin Chinese with his children, Chan told The Times.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Zuckerberg, Aurelia, There's, —, fascinates Zuckerberg, Augustus Caesar, Newborn, Marcus Aurelius, Chan Zuckerberg, Chan, Mark Organizations: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

☆ Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of hypocrisy by some on social media after hiding his daughters' faces with emojis in a July 4 Instagram post
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Zuckerberg shared a family photo with his daughters' faces hidden by emojis. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg provoked accusations of hypocrisy from users on his platforms by censoring his childrens' faces in a family photo. It is a common practice among parents to obscure the faces of their children in social media posts for privacy reasons. On Instagram, one user got 2,800 likes commenting under Zuckerberg's post: "Even Zuck doesn't trust his platforms to put his kids faces up." Much of the ire focused on accusing Zuckerberg of hypocrisy, since Meta has been embroiled in controversies relating to its users' data.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Maxima, August Chan Zuckerberg, Aurelia —, Meta Organizations: Morning, Facebook, Meta, Cambridge, European Union Locations: America

☆ Affirmative Action Is Dead. It’s Time for Corporations to Step Up. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Angel B. Pérez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

They sit back and wait, content to let the nation’s colleges and universities scout and nurture that talent. Look at what happened when California banned affirmative action nearly 27 years ago. The most obvious way to help colleges level the field among students is to level the field among colleges. Harvard University recently received a gift of $300 million, the University of Chicago received a gift of $100 million and Columbia University received a gift of $175 million. I asked Elsa Núñez, president of Eastern Connecticut State University, what her institution, with its modest $50 million endowment, could do with a $100 million gift.

Persons: —, That’s, Chan Zuckerberg, Pell Grant, Elsa Núñez, “, ”, you’re Organizations: University of California, Apple, Mastercard, Meta, Verizon, Harvard University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Harvard, Trinity Washington University, Pell, Eastern Connecticut State University Locations: California

The resignations of GV Ravishankar of Peak XV Partners, earlier Sequoia Capital India, Russell Dreisenstock of Prosus, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Vivian Wu mean Byju's board now only comprises the founder's family. In a statement to Reuters on Friday, Byju's said it is in discussions with investors about reshaping the board, including the addition of independent directors. A "few" investors had to vacate their board seats as their shareholding dropped below the required minimum threshold, necessitating a board reshuffle, it said. The confirmation of the resignations comes after Reuters and other media outlets reported on Thursday that three Byju's board members had quit recently. On Friday, sources told Reuters that the edtech was asking its three global investors to reconsider their decision to quit its board.

Persons: Russell Dreisenstock, Chan Zuckerberg, Vivian Wu, Byju's, Akriti Sharma, Shivani Tanna, Shounak Dasgupta, Anil D'Silva Organizations: GV, XV Partners, Sequoia Capital, Blackrock, Reuters, Deloitte, Thomson Locations: Sequoia, Sequoia Capital India, Bengaluru

Byju's leadership is in talks with the investors to try to convince them to reverse their decision, the three sources, who declined to be named as the talks are private, told Reuters. Its rise was seen as a boost for India's startup scene as investors including General Atlantic made big bets on Byju's. Two of the sources said the investors took the decision collectively to resign from the board as they were not getting answers from Byju's founder and senior management. The departures mean Byju's board is now only made up of its founder and chief executive Byju Raveendran, his wife Divya Gokulnath, and his brother Riju Raveendran. While the investors are holding talks with Byju's, it has not yet been decided whether or not their decision to resign would change, one of the sources added.

Persons: Chan Zuckerberg, Byju's, Byju Raveendran, Divya Gokulnath, Riju Raveendran, Aditya Kalra, Alexander Smith Organizations: Peak XV Partners, Sequoia Capital, Deloitte, Reuters, Byju's, General Atlantic, Thomson Locations: DELHI, Sequoia Capital India, U.S

☆ Maxima, August and Aurelia: Why Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg keeps naming his kids after Roman emperors
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Facebook co-founder on Friday announced the birth of his third child, revealing that he and his wife Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg have named the baby Aurelia. Zuckerberg shared the first photo of his newborn in an Instagram post, calling her "such a little blessing." His second daughter is named August in reference to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, who Zuckerberg has called one of the "most fascinating" figures in history. In a 2018 interview with the New Yorker, Zuckerberg said that he became interested in Ancient Rome while studying Latin in high school. Take this survey and tell us how you want to take your money and career to the next level.

☆ From Jeff Bezos to Jack Dorsey, here are 14 the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs trying to crack the code of living forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg, with a net worth of $56.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, once told physicist Stephen Hawking he wanted to know what would enable humans to live forever. Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesInsider's Cadie Thompson reported that in 2015, the late physicist Stephen Hawking asked Mark Zuckerberg about which big questions in science he sought answers to. Zuckerberg responded, "I'm most interested in questions about people. How does learning work and how we can empower humans to learn a million times more?" Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are among a small crop of Silicon Valley elite who founded the prize in 2012, and continue to back it.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg's private jet made 28 trips in just 2 months, emitting 15 times more carbon than the average American does in a year, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Meta CEO's private plane made 28 trips in less than two months, flight data shows. In 28 trips between August 20 and October 15, Zuckerberg's plane released more than 253 tons of carbon, data compiled by Fox News showed. By comparison, the average American has an annual carbon footprint of 16 tons, according to environmental non-profit The Nature Conservancy. Sweeney previously declined $5,000 from Elon Musk to stop tracking his private jet. Musician Taylor Swift has also drawn criticism for her frequent use of private jet travel.

☆ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting baby No. 3
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are expecting their third child. "Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year!" Zuckerberg and Chan are college sweethearts and have been married since 2012. The Meta CEO announced Wednesday that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting their third child, a girl. "Lots of love," Zuckerberg wrote in an Instagram post, accompanied by a selfie of Chan and him.

☆ One of the most popular courses among Stanford MBA students is informally named 'Touchy Feely' — here's why
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-23 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The popular course "Interpersonal Dynamics" was nicknamed "Touchy Feely" by professors and students. Stanford GSB shared with Business Insider that 95% of Stanford GSB students take this beloved course, even though it's not required. Courtesy of Ian CinnamonCinnamon added that now, whenever he's in any difficult situation, it's become "instinct" to think back to what he learned from the "Touchy Feely" course. "'Touchy Feely' has been influential in much of our work at Impact Experience," she said. "'Touchy Feely' and the courses in leadership that build from its approach … helped me develop the tools I now employ on a daily basis."

☆ Inside the 19-year relationship of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, who are about to have their 3rd baby together
▼ + stars: | 2020-03-11 | by ( Madeline Stone | Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been married to his wife, Priscilla Chan, since 2012. The couple met during college and have since had two kids together with a third on the way. They've also founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and amassed a real estate empire. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may not have gotten an undergrad degree out of Harvard, but he has his time at the university to thank for introducing him to his wife, Priscilla Chan. The couple met in 2003 at a frat party, and tied the knot in 2012, one day after the IPO of what was then called Facebook.

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