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Apple AI executive Ke Yang departs for Meta amid intensifying talent war

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Apple has lost another key artificial intelligence executive to Meta, as competition for top AI talent across Silicon Valley continues to escalate. Ke Yang, who was recently appointed to lead Apple’s new Answers, Knowledge and Information (AKI) division — a team central to the overhaul of Siri and Apple’s web-based AI search project — is reportedly leaving to join Meta Platforms, according to Bloomberg News.

Yang’s departure comes just weeks after her promotion, which positioned her at the forefront of Apple’s push to develop a ChatGPT-like AI-driven search tool. The project was expected to debut in March as part of Apple’s broader effort to integrate generative AI into its ecosystem.

Neither Apple, Meta, nor Yang have commented publicly on the move. Yang joined Apple in 2019, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, has been aggressively recruiting AI experts from competitors including Apple, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, as major tech firms pour billions into advancing generative AI and large language models. Bloomberg previously reported that other Apple executives, including Ruoming Pang and Robby Walker, have also recently left the company amid the growing AI talent war.

The move underscores the fierce competition among tech giants seeking to gain an edge in the race toward AI-powered search and digital assistants — a space increasingly defined by breakthroughs in conversational models and multimodal intelligence.

Meta partners with Arm to boost AI recommendations across Facebook and Instagram

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Meta Platforms announced a new partnership with chip technology firm Arm Holdings to power the AI systems behind its personalization and recommendation engines across Facebook and Instagram. The collaboration marks another milestone for Arm as it pushes deeper into data center and AI computing — areas long dominated by Intel and AMD’s x86 architecture.

Meta will deploy Arm-based data center platforms to run the ranking and recommendation algorithms that determine what users see on its apps. Both companies said the shift will deliver higher performance and improved energy efficiency compared to traditional x86 systems.

Arm, backed by Japan’s SoftBank, provides the chip designs that serve as blueprints for central processing units (CPUs) used in billions of devices worldwide. While its technology already dominates smartphones, it is rapidly expanding into server and personal computer markets.

As part of the announcement, Meta revealed a $1.5 billion investment in a new Texas data center, its 29th facility globally, to support AI infrastructure growth. The two companies also said they have optimized Meta’s AI software for Arm chips and made the improvements open source, allowing developers to freely use and build upon them — a move expected to speed up Arm’s adoption in cloud computing.

Meta and Arm plan to continue refining their joint open-source projects to make AI workloads more efficient and accessible across the industry.

Singapore unveils new law empowering online safety commission to block harmful content

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Singapore will establish a new online safety commission with authority to compel social media platforms and internet providers to block harmful online content, under a bill tabled in parliament on Wednesday.

The proposed law follows research by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in February, which found that more than half of verified user complaints about online harms — including child abuse, cyberbullying, and harassment — were not promptly addressed by major platforms.

The commission, which is expected to be operational by mid-2026, will have powers to order platforms to restrict or remove harmful content, ban perpetrators, and grant victims a right to reply. It will also be able to direct internet service providers to block access to harmful web pages or entire platforms within Singapore.

The new agency will oversee cases of doxxing, stalking, abuse of intimate images, and child exploitation, with further powers to target non-consensual data disclosures and incitement of enmity added in later phases.

The bill will be debated in the next parliamentary session. Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo said the initiative aims to address the persistent failure of online platforms to act on harmful content. “More often than not, platforms fail to take action to remove genuinely harmful content reported to them by victims,” Teo said.

The move expands Singapore’s regulatory oversight following the Online Criminal Harms Act, which took effect in February 2024. Under that law, the Home Affairs Ministry previously threatened Meta with fines of up to S$1 million ($771,664) for failing to combat impersonation scams on Facebook.