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GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN Jul 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:13 John Coogan He can probably bring back a lot of the reality lab spending, and sort of just tuck it in a bucket, and people won't notice if there's an extra.

Tech Earnings Quadkill, Red Button vs Blue Button | Diet TBPN Apr 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:34 unnamed speaker 30.8 billion, which makes losing six billion at reality labs, like, quaint.

SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:31 unnamed speaker This was when the interest rate hike happened, and, uh, the end of Zerp, and basically all software companies, uh, sold off significantly, and so we saw declines in Snap, and Pinterest, and, uh, basically anything that was, uh, even Meta…

Allbirds’ AI Pivot, Snap Cuts 16% of Workforce, Amazon’s GlobalStar Deal | Diet TBPN Apr 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:46 John Coogan Meta eliminated hundreds of jobs globally in March and shed roughly 1000 workers from its Reality Labs group back in January, all while ramping up investments in AI.

FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race Mar 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:00 unnamed speaker It's probably even less like wasteful than reality lab spend, which might take even longer to realize that the cash flows from like they can recoup. 2 times in the scene

Palmer Luckey: Why I Started My Own Bank Feb 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:15 Palmer Luckey But you have to remember, they got rid of 10% of the Reality Labs team in one layoff.

Elon’s go-to banker leads SpaceX IPO, SaaSination, Bejing’s robot Boom | Diet TBPN Feb 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:06 unnamed speaker It's like what happened with Meta and Reality Labs.

Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN Jan 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:02 John Coogan There's so many, so many acquisitions, so many hires, so much, uh, so many experiments, so many different, uh, so many different, uh, strategies and, and discussions and changing of the guard and restructurings, layoffs and reality labs.

Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN Jan 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:02 John Coogan But even when, even when Mark Zuckerberg comes out and says, Hey, we're laying off a thousand people in the metaverse team and the reality labs team.

Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN Jan 16, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 21:28 Tyler Denk Uh, but they still have 14,000 people working on, uh, Reality Labs. 4 times in the scene

Nvidia’s China Shift, Meta AI Drama, Paramount's Pitch | Diet TBPN Dec 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:02 Jordi Hays Part of what maybe we haven't discussed so far is how TBD will tie into reality labs, right? 2 times in the scene

Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN Dec 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:33 unnamed speaker So this is Reality Labs. 2 times in the scene

Google's First $100B Quarter Reactions | Diet TBPN Oct 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:23 unnamed speaker You've spent seventy billion on reality, reality labs to make the Ray-Ban vision.

Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5 Sep 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 47:01 Mark Zuckerberg I mean, we, um, when we started Reality Labs, or the, the kind of precursor to it, I think it was back in 2014, it was basically, like, we went public, 2 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale Jun 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:06 John Coogan And so fun, uh, could be interesting from a developer angle, obviously, um, you know, nowhere near the budget of reality labs for what Zuck is working on with meta, but potentially some constraints.

We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts May 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:50:03 Aiden Smith You may have seen a recent paper out of reality labs and meta where they use exactly this to kind of

Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:26 Mike Vernal I think he's like spent eighty billion dollars so, so far on like reality labs. 2 times in the scene
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