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Meta

May 26, 2026, 10:39 AM

Meta cuts nearly 1,400 jobs in Seattle area, 20% of local workforce, in sweeping AI revamp

A new state filing shows Meta is eliminating nearly 1,400 positions across its Seattle, Bellevue and Redmond offices, about 20% of its local workforce, as part of a companywide restructuring impacting 8,000 jobs. Read More

Apr 24, 2026, 7:17 AM

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to use Amazon’s Graviton chips for agentic AI

Facebook parent Meta signed a deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 processor cores for agentic AI workloads, the latest major customer win for Amazon’s growing custom silicon business. Read More

Mar 31, 2026, 10:52 AM

Latest Meta layoffs target 168 employees in Washington state

Another round of layoffs at Meta will affect 168 employees in Washington state, with jobs in Meta’s virtual reality division being particularly hard hit. Read More

Jan 20, 2026, 3:08 PM

Meta laying off 331 workers in Washington state as part of broader cuts to Reality Labs division

The heaviest hit facility is the Reality Labs office in Redmond, followed by the Spring District office in Bellevue, according to a state filing. Read More

Jan 12, 2026, 2:23 PM

Report: Meta plans to cut around 10% of Reality Labs workforce

The division — which employs roughly 15,000 people — has a strong presence in the Seattle area and is responsible for the company’s “metaverse” technologies that work in conjunction with augmented and virtual reality. Read More

Jul 14, 2025, 6:31 PM

Meta snags Seattle startup co-founder for Zuckerberg’s elite superintelligence team

Meta has recruited Matt Deitke, co-founder of Seattle-based AI startup Vercept, to join its newly formed Superintelligence Lab — the… Read More

Apr 30, 2024, 7:00 AM

Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and… Read More

Jan 5, 2024, 9:52 AM

Meta fights shutdown of Seattle-area Reality Labs cleanroom by state safety regulators

Meta Platforms is asking a judge in Seattle to nullify a Washington State Department of Labor & Industries order that… Read More

Mar 22, 2023, 10:04 AM

Lessons in virtual reality: What these computer science students built (and learned) in 10 weeks

The tech world is abuzz about artificial intelligence, but there’s still plenty to learn and accomplish in virtual and augmented… Read More

Mar 14, 2023, 8:50 AM

Meta laying off 10,000 more workers, four months after Facebook parent cut 11,000

Meta announced another round of significant layoffs on Tuesday, as the parent company of Facebook and Instagram said it would… Read More

Nov 14, 2022, 10:32 AM

Filing: Facebook parent Meta to cut 726 jobs in Seattle region as part of broader layoffs

Meta, parent company of Facebook, Oculus, WhatsApp, and Instagram, will lay off 419 workers in Seattle and another 307 in… Read More

Nov 12, 2022, 7:51 AM

When Mark Zuckerberg met Seattle: Facebook, Meta, and a turning point for Silicon Valley

The year was 2011, Facebook was serving a mere 600 million users, and Mark Zuckerberg was making his pitch to… Read More

Nov 9, 2022, 8:47 AM

Meta layoffs ripple through Seattle region, taking some of the luster from ‘Silicon Valley North’

Mark Zuckerberg got it wrong. The Meta CEO and Facebook founder admitted this explicitly Wednesday morning, announcing the layoff of… Read More

Bob Ferguson
Oct 26, 2022, 5:48 PM

Facebook parent Meta fined $24.6M for violating Washington state’s political ad disclosure law

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was fined the maximum penalty of $24.6 million on Wednesday for violating Washington state’s… Read More

Oct 12, 2022, 10:25 AM

Meta officially cuts ribbon on growing Bellevue office space as tech and art merge in Spring District

With cranes still swinging overhead and construction continuing on the Spring District in Bellevue, Wash., Meta officially threw open the… Read More

Oct 11, 2022, 1:01 PM

Microsoft goes Meta: Here’s what Nadella and Zuckerberg announced for the new Quest Pro

Microsoft will make Windows, Office, Teams and other programs available for the new Meta Quest Pro and existing Meta Quest… Read More

Oct 4, 2022, 9:00 AM

Meta’s new Seattle leader: ‘The road to the metaverse passes through the Pacific Northwest’

In Paresh Rajwat‘s 20-year journey across the tech landscape, he’s held leadership positions at Apple, Criteo, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. For… Read More

May 18, 2022, 9:02 AM

Univ. of Washington and Meta partner on program linking PhD students to AI mentors at tech giant

Meta has accepted a new friend request from the University of Washington. The tech giant is bolstering its relationship with… Read More

Several avatars chat at a coffee house in Second Life.
Apr 16, 2022, 8:55 AM

‘Second Life’ creator shares lessons learned from one of the world’s first metaverses

Philip Rosedale has spent a lot of time thinking about the “metaverse,” long before it became a buzzword in today’s tech… Read More

Jan 11, 2022, 10:40 AM

Facebook parent Meta delays full return to office to late March, ensuring two years of remote work

In case it wasn’t already clear, the tech industry’s Great COVID-19 Remote Work Experiment is destined to last a full… Read More

Jan 10, 2022, 10:41 AM

Meta/Oculus expands in Seattle’s stadium district as tech giants anticipate regional light rail

All aboard the Meta Express? The parent company of Facebook and Oculus has renewed and expanded its office leases in… Read More

Dec 28, 2021, 10:11 AM

Christmas was so Meta: Big jump in Oculus app installs signals a tipping point for VR

New installations of the Oculus mobile app jumped more than 150% over the Christmas weekend, compared to past years, according… Read More

Nov 16, 2021, 4:08 PM

Seattle startup calls Meta’s VR glove prototype ‘substantively identical’ to its own patented tech

Meta made a big announcement Tuesday about how it hopes to bring touch to the virtual world through the use… Read More

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