Meta boosts capex forecast in push to be an ‘AI leader’
- Meta announced increased capital expenditure guidance on April 30, 2025, aiming to lead in artificial intelligence investment.
- This decision follows Meta's focus on advancing AI-driven business messaging and expanding infrastructure amid strong first-quarter results.
- Meta pilots AI chatbots on WhatsApp and Messenger, where its 'other' revenue segment grew 34% year-over-year, primarily from WhatsApp sales.
- CEO Zuckerberg stated business messaging should be the company's next pillar and noted AI can lower costs in developed countries, making the model viable.
- Meta's broader AI investments, including data centers, suggest long-term transformation priorities despite macroeconomic headwinds and unchanged advertising dominance.
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Mark Zuckerberg Touts A.I. Business Messaging as Future Revenue Focus
Meta beat analyst expectations in the first quarter, reporting $42.3 billion in revenue, up 16 percent from the year prior, and $16.6 billion in profit, up 35 percent. Advertising remained its dominant income source, generating $41.3 billion in the past quarter. While much of Meta’s attention remains on advancing A.I., CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized a broader, longer-term vision: using A.I. to transform how businesses engage in commerce via mess…
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Pushes Full Tilt on AI Spending
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner writes about Mark Zuckerberg’s undeterred enthusiasm that artificial intelligence will propel his company forward regardless of the outside economic conditions.


Meta earnings recap: Stock pops on revenue, earnings beats, while Mark Zuckerberg talks AI, increased spending
Meta beat revenue and EPS estimates in first-quarter earnings.Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMeta reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, beating revenue and EPS estimates.CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about AI plans and increased spending but tiptoed around tariffs.Meta's stock rose more than 5% in after-hours trading.It was another good quarter for Meta, which reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell, bea…
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