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

Twenty-six letters, twelve months, and more plot twists than a season finale. That was 2025 in technology—a year when Chinese AI labs shocked Silicon Valley, when the thinnest iPhone ever made ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

Meta plans to cut its budget by up to 30% in its Reality Labs metaverse division. It's considering job cuts as part of that move, leaving employees uncertain. The cuts may impact Horizon Worlds and ...