FB2AMeta Platforms, Inc.
469.70EUR+1.05%Mkt Cap: 1.29T $P/E: 20.25

Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality (VR) headsets, and AI glasses in the…

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Nebius (NBIS) Raises $5B Convertible Bond As AI Compute Demand Surges

On August 20, Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) confirmed what had already rattled its stock a day earlier: a $5 billion convertible bond offering that ranks among the largest in recent corporate history. The company increased the deal from an initial $4.5 billion late Wednesday, and the total could still grow to $5.75 billion if buyers exercise […]

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Market Chatter: Meta Platforms, Google, Snap See Teen Dismiss Lawsuit Ahead of October Trial

Meta Platforms (META), Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google and Snap (SNAP) face one fewer teen social media ad

MMT Newswires
Memory Stocks Struggle for Momentum With ‘Smart Money’ Moving On

After ripping through the first half of the year, memory stocks are struggling to regain momentum as growing concerns about the state of the artificial intelligence trade overshadow their strong fundamental backdrop.

Bloomberg
Billionaire Jeff Bezos once asked Warren Buffett why so few people copy his strategy—now he’s backing $7 billion Liverpool FC

If Amazon founder Jeff Bezos takes his own Warren Buffet-inspired advice, Liverpool fans can expect him to stick around for at least seven years.

FFortune
Yesterday
The Biggest Risk Facing the First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF (FTXL) Right Now

FTXL has handed holders a stunning run, but the modified-equal-weight label that made the fund feel safe may be hiding a concentration problem that turns one bad earnings call into a portfolio event.

24/7 Wall St.
Atlanta Falcons Agree to Sell 10% Stake: Report

Investment firm Arctos Partners agrees to buy a minority stake in the Atlanta Falcons at a $10.6 billion valuation, CNBC reports.

Barrons.com
Broadcom seeks more than $60 billion in latest AI debt deal, Bloomberg News reports

Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise more than $60 billion in debt for an AI ‌chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies, ‌Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The financing could include a roughly $30 ​billion junior debt tranche, while the chip designer would guarantee a part of a senior-secured tranche that could range from about $60 billion to $70 billion, the report said. Broadcom plays a crucial role in helping design custom chips for firms like Alphabet and Meta, as tech companies ⁠look to develop chips in-house to reduce their reliance on market leader Nvidia.

Reuters
Meta Slips as $200 Billion Youth-Safety Trial Intensifies

Former employee testimony sharpened the legal threat surrounding Facebook and Instagram's design, data collection and recommendation systems.

GuruFocus.com
Top Meta Reporter: Zuckerberg Dropped a Major Hint About Meta’s Next AI Breakthrough and Nobody’s Paying Attention

Mark Zuckerberg told a top Meta journalist something about the company's AI roadmap that reframes every complaint about the $145 billion capex as potentially missing the point entirely.

24/7 Wall St.
Meta Is Now One of Microsoft's Largest AI Customers

Meta has quietly become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to access the Azure cloud service - and reviving concerns around circular business dealings in the AI space. Bloomberg's Brody Ford joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."

Bloomberg
X reportedly explores stablecoin payments for content creators

X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, is in talks to use stablecoins such as USDC to pay royalties to influencers and other content creators, a person familiar with the discussions told CoinDesk on Thursday. The talks are ongoing, according to the source, who also works with other...

Proactive
Billionaire Bill Ackman Just Sold 25% of His Stake in This Big Tech Giant for 2 AI Rivals

Ackman sold shares of Amazon and Alphabet while buying shares of Microsoft and Meta Platforms.

Motley Fool
BNP Paribas Has Surprising Message for Meta Stock Investors

A costly infrastructure build may unlock another growth engine

GuruFocus.com
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Meta faces risks whether it wins or loses major social media trial

Meta could face major challenges regardless of if it wins or loses its latest social media addiction lawsuit.

Yahoo Finance
Australia Hits Meta, Google With 2.5% News Levy

Tech giants can avoid the charge by paying publishers.

GuruFocus.com
Update: Meta Glasses, Other Wearable Devices Restricted in UK Cinemas Over Piracy Concerns

(Updates with Meta Platforms' comments in the fourth and fifth paragraphs.) Meta Platforms' (META

MMT Newswires
VYM Is Beating the S&P 500 With a 17% Year-to-Date Return by Owning What Wall Street Won’t

A mechanical yield screen is quietly outpacing the S&P 500 this year by excluding most of the AI complex before a single share is purchased, and the valuation gap it creates raises a question worth answering before the rotation reverses.

24/7 Wall St.
Great Eight? Why SpaceX Stock Isn’t Like the Magnificent Seven.

Early in its life as a publicly traded company, SpaceX stock has shown little correlation with other large tech stocks.

Barrons.com
CRWV Stock On Track For Third Straight Day In The Red Despite New Hudson River Trading Deal

CoreWeave signed a multi-year agreement with Hudson River Trading to provide AI infrastructure for the quantitative trading firm's research and model-development workloads.

Stocktwits
This Billionaire Was Recently Loading Up on "Magnificent Seven" Stocks

David Tepper added shares of Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Nvidia to his portfolio in Q2.

Motley Fool
Meta Falls Far Behind Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft In AI

The AI market cap race among the biggest tech giants reveals a brutal reshuffling of power, and one social media behemoth is watching its AI ambitions get priced into irrelevance while a private upstart threatens to leapfrog it entirely.

24/7 Wall St.
Beyond Chipmakers: 4 Stocks to Buy That Power AI Data Center Expansion

Dell, Celestica, Lumentum and Vertiv offer four ways to tap into AI data center growth across servers, networking, optics, power and cooling.

Zacks
Meta Quietly Becomes One of Microsoft's Biggest AI Customers

The social giant is spending hundreds of millions on Azure models.

GuruFocus.com
Anthropic CEO Borrowing a Page From Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk's Playbook? Dario Amodei Could Reportedly Get Super-Voting Shares Ahead of IPO

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei could receive super-voting shares ahead of the AI company’s potential IPO, giving him and other co-founders greater control even as their ownership stakes remain relatively small. Anthropic Reportedly Eyes Super-Voting Shares Ahead of IPO Anthropic is...

Benzinga
BNP Paribas Delivers Bullish Message on Meta Stock

BNP Flags Major AI Compute Opportunity for Meta, Keeps $855 Target

GuruFocus.com
Meta emerges as major Microsoft Azure AI customer

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has become one of Microsoft Corp.

InvestorsHub
The AI Bond Bonanza Could Be a Big Problem for the Stock Market

As U.S. companies raise billions of dollars to fund their AI dreams, they’re primarily tapping debt markets. Nearly 70% of the $456 billion cash raised for AI from the public market in 2026 has come from the investment-grade debt market, according to Bank of America Global Research. At $309 billion, that amount is more than double the $136 billion in AI-related investment-grade debt issued in all of 2025.

Barrons.com
Meta’s Trial Adds a Trillion-Dollar Risk to Its Struggling Stock

Shares of Meta Platforms Inc. have been under pressure all year due to questions about its spending on artificial intelligence. But a trial accusing its social media platforms of targeting children goes beyond that, raising existential questions about the future of its core business.

Bloomberg
Billionaire Dan Loeb of Third Point Dumped Nvidia, Broadcom, and Meta, but Increased His Stake in This Virtual Monopoly by Almost 500%

Some of Wall Street's most influential artificial intelligence (AI) stocks are being shuffled around by Third Point's billionaire boss.

Motley Fool
Anthropic, OpenAI Clash Over Strict Massachusetts AI Safeguards

Massachusetts lawmakers are seeking to establish the nation’s most stringent state-level safeguards for artificial intelligence, a proposal that’s divided an industry the governor’s office is concurrently seeking to woo.

Bloomberg
Meta Has Quietly Become One of Microsoft’s Largest AI Customers

Meta Platforms Inc. has become one of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest AI customers, underscoring how demand for the emerging technology remains concentrated in the tech industry.

Bloomberg
AI is becoming a financial engineering business

As large language models become more interchangeable, balance sheets will matter as much as tech breakthroughs in the AI race.

FFortune
Great Eight? Why SpaceX Stock Isn’t Like the Magnificent Seven.

Early in its life as a publicly traded company, SpaceX stock has shown little correlation with other large tech stocks.

Barrons.com
Chamath Palihapitiya Says Mark Zuckerberg Knows ‘Great Engineers’ Want to Join ‘Space/Search/AI’ Companies, Not Meta’s Advertising Machine

Chamath Palihapitiya says Mark Zuckerberg avoids emphasizing Meta Platforms Inc.‘s advertising roots because “great engineers” would rather join companies seen as leaders in space, search or artificial intelligence, even though ads remain the engine funding Meta’s costly AI push. Meta’s...

Benzinga
Kentucky Family Turns Down $26 Million To Build Data Center On Their Farm As 7 In 10 Americans Don’t Want A Data Center Near Them

A Kentucky family walked away from a life-changing offer for their land, and they are not alone. A wave of resistance is forcing one of the most powerful industries in America to reckon with the communities it needs most.

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Saw Free Cash Flow Plunge 91% to Just $784 Million as AI Spending Ballooned. Here's Why That Should Worry Investors.

Meta Platforms' revenue growth is accelerating thanks in part to its AI efforts, but the scale of its infrastructure spending is increasing its long-term financial risk.

Motley Fool
AI Stocks Have Soared. Is It Too Late to Buy This Vanguard ETF?

The Vanguard Growth ETF has doubled during the past three years. But the rally may not be over.

Motley Fool
Market Chatter: Australia Passes Legislation Ordering Social Media to Pay Taxes on News Usage

Australia passed a law on Thursday ordering Meta Platforms' (META) Facebook and Instagram, Alphabet'

MMT Newswires
Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news

Australia passed legislation on Thursday that will force tech giants to pay millions of dollars in ‌levies if they fail to strike commercial deals with local ‌media outlets for news on their platforms. Proceeds from the scheme would be directed to local Australian news outlets, whose content helps drive user engagement and advertising revenue on the tech firms' platforms. The levy applies to Meta, Alphabet's Google, ‌TikTok and Microsoft's LinkedIn, ⁠covering companies with a "significant" social media or search service in Australia, and local advertising revenue exceeding A$250 million ($178 million).

Reuters
Meta faces a $1.4 trillion threat that could mean ‘turning in the keys and walking away’—but the stakes of the case reach across tech

The $1.4 trillion figure may be unlikely, but the case could give states a new way to challenge how social media platforms are designed.

FFortune
Corrections & Amplifications

CORRECTIONS A judge ordered Meta Platforms to create a $567 million abatement fund as part of remedies stemming from a New Mexico trial. A U.S. News article on Wednesday about a different child-safety trial in California incorrectly said $567 billion.

The Wall Street Journal
Meta ran ads for an app that only needs one photo and no consent

The app takes a photo of someone real and does something Meta says it bans.

TheStreet
Big Tech Is on Pace to Spend $735 Billion on AI Data Centers in 2026. These 3 Industrial Stocks Collect the Checks.

Big Tech's AI data center spree still needs power and hardware. Three industrial stocks positioned to benefit: Caterpillar, Eaton, GE Vernova.

Motley Fool
This week
Broadcom (AVGO) Is Down More Than 20%—Why TD Cowen Still Sees 27% Upside

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) stock is down roughly 20% from its all-time highs in June, a pullback driven by a mix of lofty AI expectations, a high valuation multiple, broader market pressures, the Mediatek-driven narrative, and more recently, Marvell Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MRVL). Despite the drop, TD Cowen analyst Joshua Buchalter recently reiterated a Buy rating on […]

IInsider Monkey
Alphabet Stock Surged When Its AI Spending Found Customers

Its largest peers all trailed the market over the same year, so the re-rating was about what Alphabet's own spending started to earn rather than about artificial intelligence in general.

Trefis
Justin Wolfers Says AI Won't Kill Your Job — but It Will Change What It's Worth: 'Lab-Grown Diamonds Didn't Abolish Diamonds

Economist Justin Wolfers said the artificial intelligence shock to labor markets may resemble what happened to diamonds once lab-grown alternatives hit the market, not eliminating jobs entirely but sharply reducing the worth of certain tasks. ‘Lab-Grown Diamonds Didn’t Abolish Diamonds’...

Benzinga
Mark Zuckerberg ‘cannot be trusted’ to protect kids online

Mark Zuckerberg sidelined child safety concerns at Meta and parents “cannot trust” the billionaire to protect their kids online, a former engineer has claimed.

TThe Telegraph
This Stock Has Become Too Important to the AI Revolution to Ignore

OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and AWS are all competing for the same scarce silicon, and one chipmaker sits at the center of every deal. Whether that position justifies the current price depends on a set of risk factors most investors have not priced in.

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