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TNB Tech Minute: Meta Will Create New Applied AI Engineering Organization

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Kraken becomes the first crypto firm to win access to the Federal Reserve’s core payments system. And OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended his Pentagon deal during an all-hands meeting. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall.

0:05.0

It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand.

0:11.3

That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI.

0:17.5

Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

0:24.8

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, March 4th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:30.7

We exclusively report that Meta Platforms is creating a new applied artificial intelligence

0:35.8

engineering organization to help bolster the company's

0:38.5

superintelligence efforts. According to an internal memo viewed by the journal, the new organization

0:43.7

will partner with META's superintelligence lab to build a, quote, data engine to improve its AI models.

0:50.0

The new organization is aiming for an ultra-flat structure of up to 50 employees to one manager,

0:55.6

according to the memo.

0:57.9

Cracken has won access to the Federal Reserve's core payment system, making it the first

1:02.2

crypto firm to be able to move money on the same rails as thousands of banks and credit unions.

1:07.4

The company says that will allow it to handle transactions more quickly and seamlessly for big clients and professional traders.

1:13.6

It also gives crack in direct access to Fedwire, a critical interbank payment system that handles more than $4 trillion in daily fund transfers.

1:22.4

And we exclusively report that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended his decision to allow the Pentagon

1:28.3

to use its tools for classified work during an all-hands meeting Tuesday.

1:32.9

According to remarks viewed by the journal, Altman said he didn't regret signing the deal,

1:37.3

but wished he hadn't announced it so quickly.

1:39.7

The deal was announced Friday, hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated rival company

1:45.0

Anthropic a supply chain risk. After a backlash from OpenAI employees and AI researchers to the

1:51.5

potential for the deal to allow for mass surveillance, the chat GPT maker changed the agreement

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