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Mark Zuckerberg attended UFC 298 on Saturday, and appeared in fighter Alex Volkanovski's corner. X users turned it into a meme, comparing it to meeting new people and trying to fit in in social situations. AdvertisementMost people know by now that Mark Zuckerberg is a big martial arts fan, from the near-endless saga of whether he'd fight Elon Musk, to tearing his ACL while sparring. I was looking at Mark Zuckerberg and I had too much fun. Saturday's UFC trip is not the first time Meta's CEO has found himself on the receiving end of the meme treatment.
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Zuck said last month he started raising cattle and feeds them beer and macadamia nuts. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMark Zuckerberg recently added cattle ranching to his list of hobbies, and he relies on a surprising choice of feed for his cattle. The Meta CEO said on Instagram last month he'd started raising wagyu and angus cows on his ranch in Hawaii and that he planned to feed them beer and macadamia nuts, which the ranch would also produce.
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Mark Zuckerberg has entered his Posting Era
  + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Mark Zuckerberg put out an Instagram video reviewing the Apple Vision Pro this week. AdvertisementHaving not personally tested both devices, I am not fully qualified to judge whether Mark Zuckerberg's video review accurately compares Apple's Vision Pro to the Meta Quest 3. Mark Zuckerberg has entered his Posting Era. I don't attempt to think too hard about Mark Zuckerberg's inner life, but I don't get the sense that what we're seeing is a window into his soul. What I see now is something I never thought might happen: Mark Zuckerberg is getting high on his own supply.
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The gloves are off among Silicon Valley CEOs
  + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Silicon Valley CEOs are doing battle in public. AdvertisementThe Silicon Valley elite have been at each other's throats a little more than usual lately. AdvertisementThe latest example of this came this week when Mark Zuckerberg derided Apple's Vision Pro headset in an Instagram video. The Vision Pro is a direct competitor to Meta's Quest Pro but Zuckerberg does not appear concerned for now. “If you go back to the PC era, Microsoft’s open model was the winner, and in this next generation Meta is going to be the open model, and I really want to make sure that the open model wins out again.”Zuckerberg has good reason to be on the offense.
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The nerd goggle review everyone has been waiting for is finally in: Mark Zuckerberg tried out Apple's Vision Pro and he has thoughts. The usability and comfort of Apple's Vision Pro has been criticized since its release, with some people beginning to return the devices. Zuckerberg made sure to point out in his review that the Quest "is a lot more comfortable" than the Vision Pro. Compliments, with some needleZuckerberg did allow himself two compliments on the Vision Pro. He also said the Vision Pro has "higher resolution" than Meta's Quest, which is also "really nice."
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai doesn't read legacy media outlets first thing in the morning. Instead, Pichai reads a niche website called Techmeme which compiles tech news across outlets. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella are also readers of the site. AdvertisementGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai doesn't start his mornings reading the Wall Street Journal over a cup of coffee. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Meet Relatable Zuck, who wants you to know that he, too, uses a book stack for a laptop stand. The Meta CEO has gone from a hoodie-wearing tech wunderkind to a shredded martial arts practitioner. Mark Zuckerberg in the early days of Facebook's founding (left) and Mark Zuckerberg today (right). While most were battling cabin fever or binge-watching Netflix during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zuckerberg said he'd picked up mixed martial arts instead. AdvertisementIn fact, martial arts has become such a big part of Zuckerberg's life, that it even warranted a mention in Meta's latest annual report.
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Mark Zuckerberg has had quite the week
  + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
In today's big story, we're recapping earnings from three tech giants: Meta, Apple, and Amazon. The big storyMeta's mega-winMark Zuckerberg is smiling: Its profit margins are much improved — and that's partly because of a shrinking headcount. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images ; Isabel Fernandez-Pujol/ BIMark Zuckerberg has had quite the week. It lost $16 billion on the Metaverse in 2023, and Zuckerberg indicated more pain for years to come.) Following the success of Meta's "Year of Efficiency," Zuckerberg said that the company may never go back to large-scale hiring.
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download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewMark Zuckerberg has been steering the ship since he cofounded Facebook almost 20 years ago. Unlike some of the other founding fathers of major tech firms, the Meta CEO has not yet handed over the reins to someone else. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Meta didn't respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
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However, this person has been investing for more than 2 decades and sold a startup to a big tech company in the first dot-com boom. "The lesson of Microsoft Windows"Then this hedge funder schooled me on the "lesson of Microsoft Windows." He also pointed out that if you don't own a big platform, your life kinda sucks. AdvertisementThe biggest betsThis is why big tech companies are investing 100s of billions of dollars to find the next big platforms. Big Tech is all about winning our attention and being the first "funnel" that sends us out into the world.
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The Meta chief told The Verge that the company was still investing heavily in it. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMark Zuckerberg wants you to know Meta is not pivoting to AI. In an interview with The Verge, the Meta CEO said the company was still focused on the metaverse despite recent AI investments. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg upped the ante this week by disclosing how many of these graphics processing units Meta will have by the end of 2024. AdvertisementTo that end, Meta will have purchased about 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024. And overall the company will own roughly 600,000 of these types of chips, if you include other similar GPUs, Zuckerberg noted. A single Nvidia H100 GPU is estimated to cost about $30,000 although other estimates put the cost as high as $40,000. And similar GPUs from other providers may be cheaper than Nvidia's offerings.
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The academic launched the project after the Meta boss discussed privacy issues in interviews. AdvertisementA lot has changed for Mark Zuckerberg since the drunken night at Harvard in 2003 when he decided to release Facemash. Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Facebook owner Meta. "The Zuckerberg Files came out of a project where I was thinking about how Zuckerberg talks about privacy," Zimmer explained in the documentary. Zimmer thinks the exhaustive project has been "really insightful" in helping track the maturity of both Zuckerberg and his company.
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AdvertisementFor a few weeks in July, an uncanny phrase permeated the air that mildly pained some who typed it: "Hot Zuck Summer." And although "Hot Zuck Summer" might have been a lighthearted take on Zuckerberg, the latest scandal is anything but. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported the disturbing way that sexualized content of children was served to adults through Instagram's Reels. Those accounts were then recommended Reels for adult sexual content and sexualized child content, the Journal reported. "Hot Zuck Summer" has turned into "Instagram Nightmare Fall."
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Sam Altman's ouster has been so unpopular that most OpenAI workers have threatened to quit. The chaotic ouster of Sam Altman from OpenAI offers lessons around corporate stewardship and about seizing opportunity . It's a remarkable and uncommon show of support for a top dog at a company, leadership experts told Business Insider. Young, leadership expert and author of "Kissinger's Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War" told BI. "Emotions and personalities play a much greater role in the small company," he said.
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's rivalry has peaked this year. Ben Mezrich told Business Insider that Zuckerberg had shown little interest in Musk in the past. "I think Zuckerberg is more reacting to Elon." The tension between Musk and Zuckerberg culminated earlier this year when the Tesla CEO challenged Zuckerberg to a fight. Mezrich said Musk had wanted "to go head to head with Zuckerberg" for some time, and Zuckerberg was now engaging with the Tesla CEO.
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Elon Musk shouted a profanity-laden jibe when he signed the Twitter takeover deal, per a new book. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk shouted a profanity-laden jibe when he signed the Twitter deal, according to the author of the new book titled "Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History." Ben Mezrich's book documents Musk's chaotic Twitter takeover and cites "unique access to Twitter employees and Musk's confidants." AdvertisementAdvertisementThe author, who also wrote "The Accidental Billionaires," said Musk "definitely sees" Zuckerberg as a rival but was a much more "dictatorial control person than Mark." Musk and Zuckerberg have also butted heads outside the ring since Musk's Twitter acquisition.
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Zuckerberg said the injury has delayed a competitive MMA fight he had planned for early next year. It's unclear who the planned fight is with, but it's likely not Elon Musk. AdvertisementAdvertisementMark Zuckerberg on Friday said he tore his ACL and had surgery to get it replaced, delaying a competitive MMA fight he had planned for early next year. Grateful for the doctors and team taking care of me," Zuckerberg wrote, adding he had been training for a competitive MMA fight that has now been delayed. On an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast that aired Tuesday, Musk said he was still willing to fight Zuckerberg "anytime, anywhere."
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Elon Musk took several jabs at Mark Zuckerberg and Meta while on Joe Rogan's podcast. I mean, Zuck himself doesn't post," Musk said of Twitter rival Threads. Zuckerberg usually posts on Threads every one to two weeks, a far cry from Musk's daily posts on X. Besides trashing Meta, Musk touched on a wide variety of topics, ranging from Tesla's Cybertruck to the courtroom sketches of disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. "Yeah, it's eerily quiet," Musk said after host Joe Rogan called Threads a "ghost town" despite its record-breaking launch.
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Meta released Llama 2 as a mostly open-source AI model in July. Replit CEO Amjad Masad said Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk making the model open-source. AdvertisementAdvertisementSince Meta released Llama 2 as a (mostly) open-source project in July, the AI model has become a huge hit. The AI community has embraced the opportunity, giving Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg his next potentially huge platform. There's the latest Falcon open-source AI model.
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Spotify's founder says the world has met three different versions of Mark Zuckerberg over the years. There's "The Social Network" Mark, "Cambridge Analytica" Mark and the Mark we're seeing today. Daniel Ek told Forbes that today's Zuckerberg "is a lot more authentic in his public persona." AdvertisementAdvertisementSpotify founder Daniel Ek says the public has been entreated to three different versions of Mark Zuckerberg over the years. But Ek told Forbes that the Zuckerberg of today is a lot different from the past two versions.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been curating a "shredded" persona over the last year. His training regimen drew attention after he agreed to a possible cage fight with Elon Musk. Zuckerberg's newest post shows him sparring with MMA fighters on a floating barge. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. The new summertime Zuck spars with MMA fighters on a floating barge.
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The mayor of Pompeii is keen to host a bout, and Florence's mayor suggested "a clash of ideas" instead. Plans for a fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg appear to be scuppered after the Meta CEO grew tired of the other billionaire's shenanigans. But the mayors of Italian towns and cities are still vying to host a potential bout between the pair, Euronews reported. Despite this, there have been at least seven proposals from other Italian cities, including Pompeii and Verona, to host a potential fight, according to Euronews. xenotar/Getty Images"Pompeii is the best site to host the worldwide challenge between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg," the city's mayor, Carime Lo Sapio, told Euronews.
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Pettiness is the order of the day for prominent tech bros.Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others are behaving similarly amid their rivalries with each other. It comes at an awkward moment: petty season has come straight after layoff season. Whatever the case, it's got tech bros stooping to new depths of pettiness. Musk's response, in peak petty fashion, was to suggest that he'd rock up at Zuck's home in Palo Alto and fight him there. Tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off in recent months amid claims that they need to get serious.
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The saga of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's will-they-won't-they fight continues. Musk on Monday said he was going to show up at Zuckerberg's door for a fight and livestream it on X. "Will also test latest X livestream video, so you can monitor our adventure in real-time!" In a follow-up post, Musk predicted Zuckerberg would post a thread about how he would "love to fight anytime, but blah blah UFC something something." Also, Mark takes this sport seriously and isn't going to fight someone who randomly shows up at his door," a Meta spokesperson said.
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