This isn't tech gossip. It's a structural signal. Inside Meta, the newly formed AI unit is unraveling: morale at rock bottom, talent fleeing, internal battles over direction. Silicon Valley, which once promised wonders, now looks fragile, divided, unable to retain the very people building its future. Meanwhile, Peter Thiel keeps weaving his secret power network, and Sam Bankman-Fried — convicted fraudster — makes a desperate plea to Trump. Three faces of the same coin: the belief that technology is a game for oligarchs.
Why should we in Italy care? Because Meta, Google, OpenAI are not abstract entities. Their technological choices dictate how our websites work, our ads perform, our data is handled. When a giant cracks, the tremor reaches down to a Sicilian SME spending budget on Facebook Ads. And when talent flees Meta, who will build the next platform? Probably no one in Europe, if we keep watching.
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