The Troubles of Meta and Mark Zuckerberg.

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has de-emphasized its metaverse initiative and shifted its focus to generative AI. The company recently announced a massive second round of layoffs and killed off its Portal platform. CEO Mark Zuckerberg still believes in the metaverse dream but is more eager to talk about AI. Despite this, Meta still has big metaverse plans in the works for both hardware and software. A hardware war is brewing as companies continue to iterate on or introduce new metaverse-adjacent products.