Meta is planning to slash the budget of the metaverse team, but still remains focused on hardware like AI glasses. Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of the metaverse has rarely looked farther away. The Facebook ...

Meta Platforms (META) is planning sharp budget cuts—up to 30%—in its metaverse operations, with layoffs likely as soon as January. META's metaverse spending reductions reflect underwhelming industry ...

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 ...

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 ...

Them's fighting words.

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg recast Facebook as Meta and declared the metaverse—a digital realm where people would work, socialize, and spend much of their lives—the company’s next great frontier. He ...

Shares of Meta Platforms rose up to 4% Thursday following reports the company was scaling back its spending on the metaverse project, a virtual reality experience the company once touted as the future ...

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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 ...