Meta

Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is a technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, Calif. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, among other products and services. Meta is one of the world’s most valuable companies and is among the 10 largest publicly traded corporations in the U.S. It is considered one of the Big Five, alongside Google parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.

Recent Articles about Meta

The plaintiff's family and attorney react to the news that the jury has found Meta and YouTube liable in the social media addiction trial in Los Angeles Superior Court. Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images.

Meta’s Future Value and the Social Media Verdict

By Martin Peers · Mar 25, 2026 5:00pm PDT

Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock grants for senior executives that fully pay out only if the company’s market capitalization rises above $9.4 trillion by 2031, from $1.5 trillion now. Hours later, on Wednesday, we scooped the news that Meta was laying off hundreds of people. And... Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

What Meta’s Nebius Deal Signals

By Martin Peers · Mar 16, 2026 5:00pm PDT · 3 comments

If you’ve got a ticket on the AI gravy train, times are good. That could be because you’re a supplier to Nvidia—and therefore enjoying booming business, as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pointed out in his speech on Monday at the company’s GTC convention. Or it could be because you’re a small data center operator picking up business from a big tech... If you’ve got a ticket on the AI gravy train, times are good. That could be because you’re a...

Meta’s Internal Chip Design Efforts Hit Roadblocks

By Jyoti Mann, Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu · Feb 26, 2026 12:59pm PST

As Meta Platforms strikes new chip supply deals with AMD and Nvidia, it has been running into problems with AI chips it is designing internally, according to six people with direct knowledge of the matter. Meta last week scrapped the most advanced chip it was developing for training AI models, after struggling with the chip’s design, and shifted... As Meta Platforms strikes new chip supply deals with AMD and Nvidia, it has been running into...