
Mark Zuckerberg set to make announcements about Facebook's future
CNN
Facebook is set to hold a product event on Thursday where it is expected to focus on its big bet on the "metaverse" and potentially reveal a new name for the company.
At 1 p.m. ET, Facebook will livestream its eighth annual Connect event to unveil its latest innovations and research in augmented and virtual reality, and more on its vision for the metaverse, which refers to efforts that combine virtual and augmented reality technologies in a new online platform.

Tucked in the Trump administration’s sweeping AI action plan announced Wednesday is a recommendation that tech companies with federal contracts ensure their models don’t include “ideological bias.” Such a rule would likely have a wide impact considering many large tech companies either work with or are pursuing work with the government work; Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI were each awarded $200 million to work with the Department of Defense earlier this month.