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Alex Heath

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Deputy Editor at The Verge

deputy editor @verge and author of Command Line, a newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation https://t.co/1Y9gWlFJbF

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  • OpenAI is building a social network | The Verge

    1 week ago | theverge.com | Kylie Robison |Alex Heath

    Sam Altman’s OpenAI has recently starting woking on an internal prototype social network to rival Elon Musk’s X.

  • Meta reportedly offered $1 billion to settle the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit.

    1 week ago | theverge.com | Alex Heath

    Posted Apr 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM UTCAAlex HeathMeta reportedly offered $1 billion to settle the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mark Zuckerberg called FTC chair Andrew Ferguson and initially offered $450 million before upping the offer to settle to $1 billion. Ferguson apparently wouldn’t initially settle for “anything less than $18 billion and a consent decree” before the FTC upped its counter to $30 billion, per the report.

  • We’re done with day two of Zuckerberg’s testimony.

    1 week ago | theverge.com | Alex Heath

    Posted Apr 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM UTCAAlex HeathWe’re done with day two of Zuckerberg’s testimony. He was on the stand for roughly 6 hours. The day consisted mostly of how Instagram and WhatsApp fared after they were acquired, and Zuckerberg then teaching his version of Social Media 101 in the afternoon. We got the spicy memo from 2018 in which he suggested spinning off Instagram but otherwise, there weren’t any big bombshells today.

  • Mark Zuckerberg suggested spinning off Instagram

    1 week ago | theverge.com | Lauren Feiner |Alex Heath

    About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.” In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, ​​“while most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after they’ve been split up.” The memo was displayed in court on Tuesday as...

  • Zuckerberg’s “crazy idea” was resetting everyone Facebook’s friends to zero.

    1 week ago | theverge.com | Alex Heath

    The Verge logo. LIVEFTC v. Meta: the latest from the battle over Instagram and WhatsAppSee all StoriesZuckerberg’s “crazy idea” was resetting everyone Facebook’s friends to zero.

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Alex Heath
Alex Heath @alexeheath
8 Apr 25

RT @kyliebytes: i chatted with @simonw about whats going on with meta's llama 4 release - specifically, whats going on with its performance…

Alex Heath
Alex Heath @alexeheath
8 Apr 25

"Meta’s interpretation of our policy did not match what we expect from model providers"

lmarena.ai (formerly lmsys.org)
lmarena.ai (formerly lmsys.org) @lmarena_ai

We've seen questions from the community about the latest release of Llama-4 on Arena. To ensure full transparency, we're releasing 2,000+ head-to-head battle results for public review. This includes user prompts, model responses, and user preferences. (link in next tweet) Early

Alex Heath
Alex Heath @alexeheath
5 Apr 25

what a giant farce https://t.co/UhAcHQSMgD