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Zuckerberg says Meta won’t slow down AI spend despite DeepSeek’s breakthrough
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Zuckerberg says Meta won’t slow down AI spend despite DeepSeek’s breakthrough

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said it’s too early to tell what impact DeepSeek’s breakthrough AI model will have on his company and the broader […]

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Mark Zuckerberg starts Meta earnings call by praising Trump administration
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Mark Zuckerberg starts Meta earnings call by praising Trump administration

(L-R) Priscilla Chan, CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, and Lauren Sanchez attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.  Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg praised the Trump administration […]

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Meta’s Reality Labs posts  billion loss in fourth quarter
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Meta’s Reality Labs posts $5 billion loss in fourth quarter

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, demonstrates the Meta Quest Pro during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York on Oct. 11, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta continues to lose billions of dollars developing the virtual reality and augmented reality technologies needed to underpin the nascent metaverse. The social media […]

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Meta to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell
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Meta to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta is slated to report fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the close of regular trading. Here is what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per share: $6.77 Revenue: […]

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Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok
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Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok

A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.  Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. Microsoft declined to comment. TikTok and ByteDance did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for a comment outside regular […]

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Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ in Maps after government updates
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Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ in Maps after government updates

The Gulf of Mexico as seen on Google Maps. Source: Google Maps Google said Monday it will change the name of Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” after the government updates its “official government sources.” The company also said it will start using Mount McKinley, which is currently called Denali. Last week, President Donald […]

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David Beckham shares ‘simple values’ his parents taught him that he passed on to his own children
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David Beckham shares ‘simple values’ his parents taught him that he passed on to his own children

David Beckham sits down with CNBC’s Tania Bryer at the World Economic Forum 2025. David Beckham opened up about the “simple values” his parents taught him that he passed on to his children, in a conversation with CNBC host Tania Bryer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The former soccer star attended the […]

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Perplexity AI revises Tiktok merger proposal that could give the U.S. government a 50% stake
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Perplexity AI revises Tiktok merger proposal that could give the U.S. government a 50% stake

Photo illustration of TikTok app logo on a smartphone screen displayed with the American flag. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance. The proposal, which would create a new entity combining Perplexity and TikTok U.S., would now also allow for the […]

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White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok, NPR reports
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White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok, NPR reports

Photo illustration shows the TikTok logo displayed on a mobile phone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app’s global operations, […]

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Meta to begin testing ads on Threads, its micro-blogging app
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Meta to begin testing ads on Threads, its micro-blogging app

Thilina Kaluthotage | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta will begin testing ads on its Threads microblogging service with a few companies in the U.S. and Japan, the company said in a blog post Friday. The experiment marks Meta’s first run at generating revenue from Threads. Meta launched the app in July 2023 to rival X, […]

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