The start of 2026 delivered the final nail in the coffin for the metaverse, the digital world once hailed by Mark Zuckerberg as the future of human interaction. After putting all his eggs in this one ...

From factory floors to operating rooms, the future of work is getting a tech upgrade, but it won’t be how Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg imagined, reports trade publication ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Reality Labs unit has lost more than $80 billion. But only some of that money was spent on metaverse projects. Much of it went to hardware projects like the Orion prototype ...

Roughly 8,000 employees will be laid off and another 7,000 reassigned as Meta tries to keep pace in the AI race.

Meta cuts 8,000 jobs and cancels 6,000 open roles as Zuckerberg pivots to AI with $115-135B in spending. Here's what it means ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of the metaverse has rarely looked farther away. The Facebook founder is finalizing significant budget cuts to Meta’s years-long project to create virtual worlds that users can ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for ...

Since reporting its Q3 2025 earnings in late October, Magnificent Seven stock Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has been in a rut. Shares fell by more than 11% on Oct. 30 in reaction to those results, ...

The ha-ha videos about the failure of the metaverse are everywhere. Seriously, I watched one last night that was just a cringe-by-cringe replay of the original Mark Zuckerberg launch video for the ...

After years of hype and tens of billions of dollars in spending, Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse appears to be drawing to a close. Meta has scaled back its once-ambitious plans for a fully ...