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 ...

A sense of smug satisfaction wafts across the internet whenever a report indicates Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is in trouble. So it was last week when my colleague Kurt Wagner broke the news ...

Meta Platforms is expected to make budget cuts of up to 30% for its metaverse initiative, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the discussion. The Facebook parent’s shares ...

Company insiders told Bloomberg last week that Mark Zuckerberg is planning to slash its metaverse budget by 30% next year in ...

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 ...

In October 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that his social media empire was officially rebranding itself as “Meta” as part of a sweeping company-wide doubling down on virtual reality tech.

As Meta pulls back investment, here’s what happened to some of the startups that went all-in on the metaverse.

(Bloomberg/Kurt Wagner) — 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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / July 29, 2025 / It wasn't that long ago the airways were filled with Metaverse commercials sponsored by Facebook as the new "Meta". Then suddenly all the hype ...

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company. A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse ...

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 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 ...