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Meta Smart Glasses Spending Approaches ‘Eye-Watering’ $100 Billion
Wearables // February 03, 2025

Meta’s investments in virtual and augmented reality projects could reportedly exceed $100 billion this year. This spending comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees 2025 as the “defining year” for the company’s smart glasses, the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (Feb. 3). Meta last year invested nearly $20 billion...

Zuckerberg Weighs In on DeepSeek and AI Spending
Meta // January 29, 2025

In one of the most high-profile reactions since it rocked the artificial intelligence (AI) world earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday (Jan. 29) lauded the innovations of DeepSeek’s lower-cost AI model during the company’s Q4 earnings call. But he said it is...

Why Is Silicon Valley Spending a Fortune on AI Data Centers?
artificial intelligence // January 27, 2025

This week, President Donald Trump and a small group of tech executives — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle founder Larry Ellison — announced Stargate, a four-year, $500 billion project to build data centers and other artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in...

Meta Plans $65 Billion Infrastructure Investment During ‘Defining Year’ for AI
Meta // January 24, 2025

Meta plans to invest $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures and grow its artificial intelligence (AI) teams “significantly” this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Friday (Jan. 24) post on Facebook. Saying this will be a “defining year” for AI, Zuckerberg said Meta is...

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Zuckerberg Weighs In on DeepSeek and AI Spending

January 29, 2025
In one of the most high-profile reactions since it rocked the artificial intelligence (AI) world earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday (Jan. 29) lauded the innovations of DeepSeek’s lower-cost AI model during the company’s Q4 earnings call. But he said it is too soon to tell whether that means it’s time to […]

Meta’s Zuckerberg Touts AI Progress but Warns of ‘Serious Infrastructure’

October 30, 2024
The old saying is you’ve got to spend money to make money. For Meta, notching a third quarter earnings report with record revenues, the fact remains that the long-term artificial...

Zuckerberg Tries On Meta’s Wearable Tech Plans for the Connected Economy

September 25, 2024
On Wednesday (Sept. 25), the first of Meta’s two-day Meta Connect 2024 conference, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled an ambitious vision for the future of wearable technology. The event showcased...

Zuckerberg Details AI Vision in Meta’s Q2 Earnings Call

July 31, 2024
A funny thing happened on the way to Meta’s Q2 earnings call. As it has for many tech companies during this earnings season, discussion of actual financial results took a...

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Meta Smart Glasses Spending Approaches ‘Eye-Watering’ $100 Billion

February 03, 2025
Meta’s investments in virtual and augmented reality projects could reportedly exceed $100 billion this year. This spending comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees 2025 as the “defining year” for the company’s smart glasses, the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (Feb. 3). Meta last year invested nearly $20 billion in its Reality Labs unit last year, the report said, […]

Meta Plans $65 Billion Infrastructure Investment During ‘Defining Year’ for AI

January 24, 2025
Meta plans to invest $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures and grow its artificial intelligence (AI) teams “significantly” this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Friday (Jan. 24) post...

Meta Will Continue Fact-Checking Outside the US

January 20, 2025
Meta’s use of fact checkers will reportedly continue, at least outside the U.S. The social media giant has decided to phase out fact-checking in the U.S. in favor of a...

Zuckerberg: Apple’s ‘Random Rules’ Hampering Meta’s Profits

January 12, 2025
Meta’s CEO criticized Apple for a lack of innovation and “random rules,” on a recent podcast. And those rules, Mark Zuckerberg argued, hinder Meta’s profits, CNBC reported Friday (Jan. 10),...