Continuing with its third year of shareholder rewards, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is expected to issue its next quarterly cash dividend next week, on Thursday, June 25, 2026.
In the span of just a few months, Irene Roggero Ugues watched her daughter Rossella's behaviour change as social media fed her an increasing stream of self-harm content, before the 12-year-old died by suicide.
Meta Platforms (META) reached $600.21 at the closing of the latest trading day, reflecting a +1.13% change compared to its last close.
Meta Platforms is recommended as a buy due to its AI-driven strategy, which is driving digital advertising market share gains and operational outperformance. META's Advantage+ and upcoming Spark and GEM models are delivering superior ROAS, fueling 24%+ ad revenue growth and projected market share leadership over Google. Despite compressed valuation—forward P/E ~17.6x, EV/S ~5.3x—concerns over elevated AI capex and free cash flow are outweighed by robust growth and improving margins.
Threads surpassed X in terms of daily active users on mobile devices worldwide in September, according to Similarweb data shared with Forbes at the time. Then, Threads barely edged out X, recording 130.2 million average daily users over X's 130.1 million for the week ending Sept.
It's hard to be genuinely bullish on stock markets these days, even as the AI revolution moves ahead and models like Claude Code and Claude Mythos look to transform the way we think about the software.
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday its Threads app had reached 500 million monthly active users, nearly three years after the social network platform was launched as a competitor to Elon Musk's X.
How exactly Meta's new AI Mode is sourcing its search results. The company says it will “give you answers grounded in what people are saying publicly across our apps like in Groups and Reels,” but doesn't address exactly how its algorithm is weighing sources or how it will combat misinformation, which has plagued Facebook for years.
A new unit at Meta devoted to artificial intelligence is turning into real-world hell for employees, according to a new report.
As Meta tries to catch up in the AI race and boost engagement with its AI bot, the company announced Monday that it's rolling out new AI features on Facebook that aim to change how users find information, create content, and interact with the platform.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) is up 5% at $595.57 this afternoon, after the tech concern launched new AI features on social media platform Facebook.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) is up 5% at $595.57 this afternoon, after the tech concern launched new AI features on social media platform Facebook.