Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg touted his views on artificial intelligence in a 6,500-word essay published Monday, emphasizing his belief that wider access to AI models is key to the industry’s future.
Meta Platforms Inc. is in early discussions to lease computing power from its data centers to Anthropic PBC, according to people familiar with the matter, an opportunity for the social media giant to build a new business around its heavy investment in AI infrastructure.
Meta Platforms Inc. needs all the computing power it can get, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said, but in a market starved for resources necessary to run and develop artificial intelligence products he’s also considering whether some of Meta’s AI infrastructure could be more valuable if rented to outsiders.
Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new image-generation artificial intelligence model, its first such release since the company spent billions to rebuild its AI lab under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang a year ago.
Signage outside the Meta store in Burlingame, California, US, on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. Meta Platforms Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on January 28. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
The company is considering a cloud computing business to help generate revenue from AI
Fencing around Meta’s Eagle Mountain data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly pledged to spend hundreds of billions of dollars through the end of the decade on AI and the infrastructure needed to support it. Photographer: George Frey/Bloomberg
Meta Platforms Inc. is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, setting up a new vector of competition with industry leaders like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to hand leadership of WhatsApp to Kunal Shah, one of India’s most prominent angel investors and the founder of fintech startup Cred, started with a cold email.
Meta Platforms Inc. is investing $900 million into Indian fintech startup Cred, with plans to appoint its founder, Kunal Shah, the new leader of WhatsApp.
Meta Platforms Inc. has secured new agreements to get AI computing power from data center developer Crusoe, bolstering the infrastructure it needs to support an ambitious artificial intelligence expansion.
The Meta store in Burlingame, California, US, on Sunday, April 26, 2026. Meta Platforms Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on April 29. Photographer: Benjamin Fanjoy/Bloomberg
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg set out three years ago to build a Twitter competitor with 1 billion users. He’s halfway there.
The industry needs to build trust for people to make the best use of AI
The Meta AI logo on a laptop arranged in Germantown, New York, US, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. In April, Meta said it could spend as much as $72 billion on capital expenditures this year, with a focus on AI and the data centers used to train and run the models. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
Meta Platforms Inc. is selling businesses access to an artificial intelligence agent for the first time, its latest effort to generate revenue to offset the company’s hefty AI investments.
Meta Platforms Inc. signage during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its smart glasses lineup into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Guy Rosen, Meta Platforms Inc.’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw the company’s election integrity work, is departing in the coming months.
A flood of lawsuits filed in recent years against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first case to go to trial, a jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — a landmark verdict.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., exits Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Zuckerberg testified that it’s “very difficult” to enforce Instagram’s age limits and downplayed how much teen users do for the company’s business during a landmark trial over social media addiction. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
The social giant wants to make money from its chatbot, but its core business may be at risk.
The Meta AI feature in the WhatsApp app on a smartphone arranged in Germantown, New York, US, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. In April, Meta said it could spend as much as $72 billion on capital expenditures this year, with a focus on AI and the data centers used to train and run the models. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
Meta Platforms Inc. is selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot for the first time, a key step toward building a business that would help offset hundreds of billions of dollars in artificial intelligence investments by the company.