A 44-minute call and a memo: How Alexandr Wang won Mark Zuckerberg’s trust—and a $100 billion-plus AI bet

A ai pulse story from the U.S., reported by Fortune.

AI Pulse · the U.S. · October 17, 2026

By HeyHomees Newsroom · October 17, 2026

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A 44-minute call and a memo: How Alexandr Wang won Mark Zuckerberg’s trust—and a $100 billion-plus AI bet. Meta’s CEO and his 29-year-old chief AI officer revealed on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s podcast how one phone call became Meta Superintelligence Labs, and why the company’s CFO warned that failure would be “very, very bad in financial terms.”

National News — Evening edition, October 17, 2026

Reported by Fortune, October 17, 2026. Read the full story at Fortune →

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