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Meta AI predicts a Bitcoin price prediction bottom at $64,700 and targets $140,000 to $170,000 by December. Explore the insights. The post Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI Just Revealed This Shocking Bitcoin Price Prediction for the End Of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI predicts a rapid $120,000 to $150,000 macro leg for Bitcoin price by late 2026, here is the four catalysts behind it The post Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI Predicts Unbelievable Bitcoin Price by the End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

The New York Times reported on June 23 that Mark Zuckerberg directed a small team to build a prediction market app, internally called Arena, where users would forecast outcomes in politics, sports, and world affairs using points. The company that renamed itself for a virtual world that has produced nearly $90 billion in cumulative Reality […] The post Meta wants in on prediction markets – has it learned anything from the metaverse? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Meta CEO reportedly plans for the company to launch a prediction market independent of its other apps allowing users to place wagers using a points system rather than money. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly directed his staff to create a prediction markets mobile app called “Arena” in what could become a challenge to platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. According to a Tuesday New York Times report citing two employees with knowledge of the matter, Zuckerberg ordered the development of the prediction markets app that would allow users to place wagers using a points system rather than money. The app will reportedly function independently of Meta’s existing platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. The news outlet said insiders described the effort as experimental but a top priority for the company. If launched, it could challenge Kalshi’s and Polymarket’s market share for prediction markets, with Meta reporting its apps drew in 3.56 billion users daily as of March. Read more

Meta’s decision to pay creators in USDC validates stablecoins as a mainstream disbursement tool, Joslyn suggests, but it also exposes the industry’s unresolved problem: moving seamlessly from digital dollars to usable local currency.

Approximately 49,000 workers were laid off in 2026 as companies adopted a more AI-reliant business model. Meta has reportedly begun cutting staff in Singapore as the company executes a plan to reduce employee numbers by 8,000 to lean more heavily on AI.  Emails were sent out at 4 a.m. Singapore time to affected employees, and staff in the US and Europe were also expected to be notified that morning, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Meta’s engineering and product teams are expected to be hit hardest.  Meta is one of several Big Tech firms cutting staff while investing heavily in AI infrastructure in an effort to streamline operations and reduce costs. An estimated 49,135 layoffs have occurred at US companies in 2026 as a result of AI integration.  Read more

Elizabeth Warren asked the Meta CEO to provide details on a stablecoin integration to the platform, a week after a small rollout to creators in Colombia and the Philippines. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions about the company’s stablecoin integration in 2026, signaling concerns about guardrails. In a Wednesday letter to Zuckerberg, Warren said Meta’s lack of transparency regarding its stablecoin was “deeply troubling,” given the company’s previous plans to roll out Libra, a global stablecoin proposed in 2019 that was later rebranded to Diem. The senator said Meta’s plans were necessary for Congress to understand, given the US government’s efforts to pass a digital asset market structure bill with implications for stablecoin issuers. Read more

Libra launched in 2019, rebranded to Diem, and sold its blockchain assets to Silvergate Bank in 2022, three years of work that ended when regulators pushed back, and bank partners withdrew. On Apr. 29, Meta announced USDC payouts to eligible creators through compatible crypto wallets on Solana and Polygon, starting with selected creators in Colombia […] The post Meta’s USDC pilot shows how stablecoins could capture billions in creator payouts appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The latest stablecoin move comes years after Meta first dipped its toes into stablecoins through Libra in 2019, before scrapping the plans in 2022 due to regulatory pushback. US tech giant Meta has launched USDC payouts for creators on its platforms in the Philippines and Colombia, with plans to expand to additional markets.  Creators who opt into the service will receive payments directly into crypto wallets on the Solana and Polygon blockchains. However, Meta does not offer a built-in conversion option, so an external exchange is required to convert USDC into fiat currency, according to the announcement on Wednesday.  The service is currently available only to select creators in Colombia and the Philippines, but Polygon said Wednesday that the stablecoin rollout is expected to expand to more jurisdictions soon. Read more

Long-term agreement between Meta and CoreWeave signals growing demand for scalable AI compute and inference capacity.

The Meta co-founder is reportedly working on a personal AI agent to bypass management layers as Meta pushes employees to adopt agentic tools.  Meta CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI agent to help handle his work in managing the company amid a company-wide push for employees to adopt agentic tech. ​According to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, citing sources close to the matter, Zuckerberg’s AI agent is still in development but already being used to help the CEO speed up information retrieval. Instead of going through multiple layers of people or teams to get the required information, the agent has been retrieving the information directly.   Read more

ICAC officers say AI-generated reports are overwhelming investigators and slowing down cases as Meta disputes the claims.

Social media giant Meta is quietly plotting a return to stablecoins. This time, however, the primary beneficiary may not be Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse, but the US Treasury market. On Feb. 24, Coindesk reported that Meta was exploring stablecoin-based payments for a possible rollout in the second half of 2026, likely through a third-party provider rather […] The post Meta’s digital dollar comeback could unlock a $1 trillion Treasury shift Washington is not ready for appeared first on CryptoSlate.

In its fourth quarter earnings report, Meta said capital spending plans for 2026 should be in the range of $115-$135 billion, well ahead of consensus forecasts.

Meta is reportedly cooling on the metaverse with planned 30% cuts in its virtual reality research department, Reality Labs, which shareholders seemingly support. Social media giant Meta is reportedly planning to scale back its metaverse spending by up to 30% and redirect the funds into virtual reality glasses and artificial intelligence. No final decision has been made yet, but budget cuts and possible layoffs are on the table for Meta’s Reality Labs division, mainly aimed at its virtual reality unit, which eats up the bulk of metaverse-related spending, Bloomberg and The New York Times reported on Thursday. The budget cuts could come as early as January, but Meta plans to redirect resources to a Reality Labs unit developing augmented reality glasses. Read more

ChatGPT has quietly turned into the “busiest hangout” spot on the internet. What began as a productivity tool now draws crowds like a digital piazza with more than 800 million registered users and around 125 million of them showing up daily. Average session time? Roughly 14 minutes. That’s the kind of attention Facebook hasn’t seen […] The post Why ChatGPT’s prompt box has Meta up at night appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Why is Meta allegedly pirating porn? Math suggests AI agents won’t take everyone’s jobs, AIs secretly trained to love owls, and more: AI Eye. A new lawsuit claims Meta has been secretly pirating porn for years from torrent sites using virtual private clouds in order to train its AI models. Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media, which own porn sites attracting 25 million monthly visitors, have sued Facebooks parent company for almost $359 million for allegedly infringing on the copyright of 2,396 adult films that Meta is said to have downloaded since 2018. The allegations are similar to the lawsuit brought by well-known authors against Meta that claimed the tech giant pirated 81.7 terabytes of books only this case is much more interesting because its about porn. Strike 3 Holdings told the court it offers rare long cuts of natural, human-centric imagery showing parts of the body not found in regular videos and said it is concerned Meta will train its AIs to eventually create identical content for little to no...

Meta's latest AI hire follows several developments and partnerships aimed at making the tech giant a leader in the burgeoning sector. Tech company Meta has hired Trapit Bansal, a former key researcher at artificial intelligence company OpenAI, who was central to developing the firm's o1 reasoning AI model. Bansal is the latest ex-OpenAI researcher to join the Meta team, following the addition of Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, according to TechCrunch. The hires are part of Meta's push to expand its AI operations and overhaul the capabilities of its reasoning models by training its AI on real-world scenarios to cultivate intelligence. Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun previously said: Read more

“These plaintiffs made the wrong arguments,” Judge Chhabria wrote, as he ruled Meta’s AI training on their copyrighted books was fair use.

Uber has widened its AI ambitions, renaming its data-services division Uber AI Solutions and offering external access to proprietary datasets, clickworker labeling teams and project-automation software. The expansion has come as Meta’s Scale stake prompts model builders to seek neutral partners. The post Uber Races Into AI Data Labeling as Meta’s $14.8B Scale Deal Sparks Mass Defections – Who’s Next? appeared first on Cryptonews.