In a move that screams "we have no idea what we’re doing," Meta just threw $15 billion at Scale AI—primarily to snag their 28-year-old wunderkind CEO, Alexandr Wang, aka the chosen one of superintelligence. Because why buy a company when you can just buy a person? This “acquihire” has shaken the AI world so much that even Google reportedly hit the pause button on their own projects, presumably to re-evaluate if they should be handing their AI soul over to anyone with a slightly shinier business card.

Meanwhile, contractors who once danced to Scale’s tune now find themselves scrambling, probably Googling "how to pivot into cryptocurrencies or artisan pickles" to stay afloat. And one investor panicked, choosing to bail out faster than you can say “neural network.” Classic startup drama meets billionaire ego flex.

Meta’s grand vision? To have AI write half its code within a year. The kicker: for now, their AI coding help comes from rivals. So while Meta’s busy buying brains, their own AI is still stuck in AI kindergarten, puzzling over multi-step reasoning like a toddler at a logic puzzle. But hey, when you’re Mark Zuckerberg, a $15 billion bet on a young prodigy sounds like pocket change—because who needs efficient AI when you can have drama and dominos falling spectacularly?