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Meta and Microsoft are both focusing on AI and investing in infrastructure buildouts. These companies also built strong businesses prior to the AI boom. The words "dirt cheap" and "artificial ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ: META) AI push was a key driver for the company in 2025, with integrations coming across numerous platforms, which is fueling engagement and increasing ad sales. Despite ...

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) is in focus Wednesday ahead of the company's fourth-quarter earnings report today after the market closes. Meta approaches its fourth-quarter earnings report as the ...

Ecommerce and Meta often go hand in hand. You can give Meta a 20,000-item catalog and a budget, and with its AI-powered Advantage+ campaigns, it’ll try to pair the right person with the right product, ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday that it plans to appeal a November ruling finding that Meta did not have a monopoly over personal social networking. The agency, which sued the Facebook ...

Meta is cutting roughly 1,000 jobs, about 10% of the approximately 15,000‑person group, with employees starting to receive notices on Tuesday, according to an internal message from CTO Andrew Bosworth ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced deals Friday with three nuclear energy companies to help power its AI infrastructure, including the tech giant’s forthcoming Prometheus ...

Regulators said they would look at whether the deal for Manus, a Singapore start-up with Chinese roots, complied with China’s export and investment rules. By Meaghan Tobin Xinyun Wu and Eli Tan ...

In December 2025, Facebook users shared a rumor claiming Meta signed into policy a "new Facebook rule" allowing the company the rights to users' photos starting "tomorrow." According to the posts, a ...

Meta altered how scam advertisements appear inside its public ad transparency tools to reduce regulatory scrutiny, according to internal company documents, revealing how platform design choices can ...