Meta has launched a new stock option incentive plan requiring executives to boost the company's market value to $9 trillion by 2031 to fully realize the value. This marks the first stock option grant since the 2012 IPO, involving six core executives. Meta's plan is similar to Tesla's but with a tighter timeline. Intensified competition for AI talent has increased stock compensation costs, with related expenditures expected to account for 96% of free cash flow in 2025.

The CEO of humanoid robot company Figure, Brett Adcock, announced the establishment of a new AI lab called Hark, dedicated to developing advanced personal intelligence that integrates multimodal models with custom hardware. Hark has been operating secretly for 8 months with an initial investment of $100 million, and plans to launch a new type of AI device with the first batch of models expected to be released this summer. The team has recruited talent from companies like Apple and Meta, and is collaborating with NVIDIA to leverage GPUs for model training.

Payment company Block rehires some employees after layoffs due to execution errors in the restructuring. The company said it cut 4,000 employees to advance its AI transformation, but some employees have already received rehiring offers, indicating there is room for adjustment in the layoff decision. The CEO acknowledged possible misjudgments, similar layoff phenomena are increasing across the industry, talent structure reshaping is accelerating but still faces uncertainty in the short term.