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Meta Platforms

The latest news, analysis and opinion on Meta Platforms. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.

Chairman / President

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO / Managing Director

Mark Zuckerberg

CFO / Finance Director

Susan Li

Industry

Technology, Social Media

Website

meta.com

Headquarters address

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Stock Code

NASDAQ:META

Year founded

2004

Melinda French Gates and Phoebe Gates attend the Michael Kors runway show during New York Fashion week on September 14, 2022. Photo: AFP

Artificial intelligence

Bill Gates’ daughter lands US$30 million for star-backed AI firm

The capital raise will value the start-up at US$180 million and comes just months after Phia completed its first US$8 million funding round.

5 Dec 2025 - 11:15AM

Facebook

Meta plans budget cuts as high as 30% to its metaverse efforts

5 Dec 2025 - 10:19AM

VR and AR

Ex-Apple engineer unveils chip to rival Vision Pro for XR headsets, AI glasses

3 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM

Australia

Fight’s over: YouTube becomes last major platform to accept Australia’s age rule

Despite agreeing to comply, YouTube maintains that it is still ‘fundamentally different’ from other social media services.

3 Dec 2025 - 10:52AM

Six-year-old Enrique Navarro watches a show on YouTube at his home in western Sydney on October 30. Photo: AFP

Alibaba

Alibaba launches US$537 Quark AI glasses to challenge devices from Meta, Xiaomi

The glasses are expected to ‘usher in a revolution in human-computer interaction in the AI era’, Alibaba vice-president Wu Jia says.

27 Nov 2025 - 8:58PM

China Future Tech briefing

AI | Smart-glasses makers see AI as long-awaited must-have app

Chinese smart-glasses makers, such as Rokid and Alibaba, and global giant Meta are counting on artificial intelligence to kick-start demand for the devices.

27 Nov 2025 - 5:46PM

Artificial intelligence

AI scaling hasn’t reached a dead end yet, Chinese Google scientist says

Pouring money into increasing computation resources and training data can still yield better AI models, Yao Shunyu says.

27 Nov 2025 - 10:07AM

Google DeepMind scientist Yao Shunyu says scaling is still expected to yield better AI models in the near future. Photo: Handout

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI start-up takes on Google in tensor processing unit race

Zhonghao Xinying was founded in 2018 by Yanggong Yifan, a Stanford and University of Michigan-trained electrical engineer.

26 Nov 2025 - 6:32PM

Australia

Australia’s under-16 social media ban faces high court challenge

Critics say the world-first law, effective next month, infringes on political communication rights. Australia lacks an express free speech right.

26 Nov 2025 - 5:50PMvideocam

Singapore

Singapore tells TikTok, Meta to block accounts of man fanning racial tension

Singapore said Zulfikar ‘repeatedly continued to stir up discontent within the local Malay/Muslim community against the Chinese community’.

26 Nov 2025 - 3:37PM

Singapore skyline. The city state has accused an Australian citizen of inciting racial disharmony. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductors

Nvidia-Google AI chip rivalry escalates on report of Meta talks

Meta is reportedly in talks to use Google’s TPUs in data centres, as the search giant challenges Nvidia’s market dominance.

26 Nov 2025 - 10:19AM

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a conference in Washington last month. Photo: AFP

Singapore

Singapore orders Apple, Google to stop fake government message scams

Police told the tech giants to block spoofed government accounts on iMessage and Google Messages to tackle rising fraud threats.

25 Nov 2025 - 3:30PM

Artificial intelligence

AI pioneer Yann LeCun leaving Meta to launch start-up

LeCun joined the company in 2013 to create Facebook AI Research, the in-house lab that helped transform Meta into one of the AI leaders.

20 Nov 2025 - 9:41AM

Nvidia

Nvidia’s latest earnings run into a market suddenly afraid of AI spending

Analysts expect the AI chip behemoth to show more than 50 per cent growth in both net income and revenue in its financial third quarter.

19 Nov 2025 - 2:36PM

Strong earnings and an encouraging outlook from Nvidia could provide a respite for investors, who are growing concerned about the valuation of AI stocks. Photo: Shutterstock

United States

Meta defeats US antitrust case over Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions

The ruling gives Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in Trump’s first term.

19 Nov 2025 - 7:19AMvideocam

Meta’s corporate headquarters are seen in Menlo Park, California, in November 2022. Photo: TNS

Artificial intelligence

Tencent expands into AI ‘world models’ as tech giants chase spatial intelligence

Tencent is developing physics-aware ‘world models’ to advance spatial intelligence, joining global players such as DeepMind and xAI.

14 Nov 2025 - 1:31AM

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic commits US$50 billion to build AI data centres in US

The start-up plans to build data centres in Texas, New York and other locations in partnership with UK firm Fluidstack.

13 Nov 2025 - 10:13AM

Artificial intelligence

Meta Platforms’ AI lay-offs triggered by resource competition: ex-researcher

Tian Yuandong says internal conflicts emerged at Meta as LLM development became the industry-wide focus.

13 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM

Meta Platforms let go of around 600 employees from its legacy AI research unit. Photo: Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence

Big Tech firms bet big on AI glasses, as Ant offers iris authentication

Heavyweights including Alibaba, Baidu and Xiaomi are vying to dominate what a market research firm calls a ‘war of 100 smart glasses’.

12 Nov 2025 - 8:08PM

Artificial intelligence

China’s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer AI chips than US rivals

In a Reddit forum, a Moonshot AI executive says start-up is ‘outnumbered’ by US rivals in terms of ‘high-end GPUs’ used for training models.

14 Nov 2025 - 8:31AM

Semiconductors

Semiconductor giant TSMC posts slowest growth in 18 months amid AI bubble debate

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is the go-to chipmaker for Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm and Apple.

11 Nov 2025 - 2:43PM

TSMC posted a 16.9 per cent rise in sales for October, the slowest pace since February 2024. Photo: AP

Malaysia

Meta disagrees with Malaysia’s social media licensing framework, proposes talks

Malaysia says its licensing rules are aimed at curbing scams, online gambling and child pornography.

29 Oct 2025 - 5:33PMvideocam

Meta’s three social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, on a mobile phone. The firm has been criticised over content that is harmful to young people on its platforms. Photo: Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI star slams Meta after lay-offs hit hundreds in research unit

Facebook owner’s decision to fire hundreds of AI scientists, including star researcher Tian Yuandong, has exposed divisions in the company.

24 Oct 2025 - 6:00PM

DeepSeek

Will DeepSeek’s new model break the ‘long-context’ bottleneck holding back LLMs?

The solution proposed by DeepSeek in its latest paper is to convert text tokens into images, or pixels, using a vision encoder.

22 Oct 2025 - 11:23PMvideocam

France

Prince Harry, Meghan join calls to halt AI surpassing human intelligence

Tech leaders, and celebrities, urge for a halt to AI ‘superintelligence’ development until safety is assured and public support exists.

22 Oct 2025 - 7:55PMvideocam

Prince Harry (left), Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, pose for a photo in front of City Hall in Duesseldorf. Photo: dpa

Apple

Apple’s newly tapped head of ChatGPT-like AI search effort to leave for Meta

The AKI team is central to a major Siri revamp planned for March, part of Apple’s broader effort to revive its struggling AI operations.

16 Oct 2025 - 11:00AM

United States

Meta’s Instagram rolls out PG-13 safety settings for teens amid pressure

By default, teenagers on Instagram will only see PG-13 content, and cannot change the setting without parental permission, Meta said.

14 Oct 2025 - 8:42PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Broadcom’s valuation surges by US$150 billion after chip deal with OpenAI

OpenAI agrees to buy custom chips and networking components from Broadcom to help power its AI services.

14 Oct 2025 - 9:56AM

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