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Companies and regulators are struggling to determine who is responsible when things go wrong.

Meta Platforms Inc. and state attorneys general have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of a blockbuster case accusing the company of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to addict teens, people familiar with the matter said.

Earlier in August, Meta Platforms revealed plans for “Hatch,” a consumer AI agent that can access and browse Reddit content alongside other services, spotlighting Reddit’s role as a source of user-generated data in the AI ecosystem. This integration positions Reddit as a potential infrastructure layer for consumer AI experiences, raising fresh questions about how its content licensing, data economics, and platform partnerships could evolve. We’ll now examine how Meta’s planned use of Reddit...

Chris Malone’s exit adds to a string of senior departures as OpenAI reshuffles its infrastructure team and prepares for a potential IPO.

Shares of online community and discussion platform Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) jumped 4.9% in the afternoon session after The Information reported that Meta Platforms is preparing to launch a consumer AI agent named Hatch that is trained to access and browse the social discussion platform. According to coverage of the upcoming launch, Hatch will allow users to navigate Reddit, order from DoorDash, shop on Etsy, check Yelp, and manage Microsoft Outlook directly inside Meta’s ecosystem. Meta plans to launc

A consumer AI agent may launch within weeks.

The market rotation may be healthier than it first appears.

Tech stocks advanced late Tuesday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF

Advertising growth is financing Meta's defense, but proposed product restrictions threaten more than cash.

Meta's massive AI spending is crushing free cash flow, but BNP Paribas sees multiple ways the company could eventually turn its enormous computing capacity into a new source of revenue.

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) could generate as much as $22 billion in annual gross revenue starting in 2027 by renting out excess AI computing capacity, according to Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney, who raised his price target to $860 from...

While AI was supposed to gut Google's core business and rivals like Meta and Tesla have stumbled badly this year, Alphabet's founders are sitting on a jaw-dropping windfall that tells a very different story.

Tech stocks advanced Tuesday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK

The market has heavily discounted this social media company's stock, yet its financial engine continues to generate cash at a notable rate.

Artificial intelligence labs and cybersecurity firms are reconsidering the way they test advanced AI models after models from at least three firms jumped onto the open internet and breached real-world victims.

Warren Buffett, Bill Ackman, and Stanley Druckenmiller all rotated into the same stock last quarter, but the bear case raises a concern most investors are overlooking before they follow suit.

D.A. Davidson Head of Technology Research Gil Luria talks with Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma about how traders should approach Nvidia (NVDA) ahead of its latest earnings report after enduring its longest losing streak since 2022.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri is expected to take ‌the witness stand on Tuesday in ‌a trial over whether Meta Platforms designed ​Instagram and Facebook to addict children without proper regard for their safety. Mosseri is a central witness in the lawsuit ‌by 29 ⁠U.S. states, in what experts call the biggest legal test ⁠yet of social media's effects on young users. Four of the states — California, ​Colorado, Kentucky ​and New ​Jersey — have accused ‌Meta of designing the platforms to hook young users, fueling anxiety, depression and even suicide, while misleading consumers about their safety.

Management's narrative has pivoted hard from optimizing its massive retail machine to funding aggressive AI infrastructure buildouts, quietly changing what an investment in the company is actually a bet on.

If you hold Alphabet (GOOGL) stock, the recent top-line numbers look spectacular. In the second quarter of 2026, the company delivered 24% overall revenue growth, propelled by an 82% surge in its Google Cloud segment. This is the AI-fueled future investors have been waiting for. But beneath the surface of that growth, a fundamental shift is underway in the company’s financial DNA, and it represents the most significant risk to the stock today.

Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) is moving ahead with Hyperion, a planned US$50b data center project in the US, as part of its long term AI build out. The Hyperion facility is intended to be one of the largest data centers in the country, focused on supporting Meta's AI workloads and operational flexibility. Meta has recruited AI researcher Luke Metz to its Superintelligence Labs unit, adding senior talent to its advanced AI research efforts. Meta is far from the only company investing...

Warren Buffett almost never chases mega-cap tech, which makes Berkshire's massive new position in Alphabet one of the most surprising moves in years and a signal worth taking seriously before the rest of the market catches on.

The AI tailwind is still just getting started for these two stocks, provided Zuckerberg's predictions come true.

Meta Stock Jumps as New AI Agent Nears Launch, October Model Raises AI Stakes

Booming AI chip sales may not "re-rate" Google stock, says Morgan Stanley. That will wait for the debut of Gemini 4 AI model.

OpenAI has terminated a number of ChatGPT accounts from Russia, accusing them of participating in a clandestine online misinformation operation. The Sam Altman-led company discovered the issue while analyzing AI-generated social media posts, leading to the identification of a broader...

Coinbase tokenized US equities went live on Base on Monday, putting four technology stocks onchain as transferable tokens that eligible non-US users can hold in a self-custodial wallet with no brokerage account required.NVDAc, AAPLc, METAc, and GOOGLc track Nvidia, Apple, Meta, and Alphabet, and Chainlink now sits as the official ...

The "Mad Money" host argues big tech can absorb tougher regulatory requirements that smaller developers cannot afford

NVIDIA sells the compute powering the AI boom while Meta bets billions that buying it will print money through ads. Wall Street expects both to lead the pack in Q3, but the logic behind each bull case could not be more different.

Meta is aggressively testing the boundaries of its messaging ecosystem, moving beyond simple chat interfaces to integrate third-party agentic AI directly into WhatsApp. This shift, currently in limited trials, serves as a precursor to a more ambitious, internal project codenamed “Hatch.” If realized, Hatch would transform Meta from a social media giant into a primary […]