Meta’s Profit Falls 14 Percent as A.I. Spending Continues
Meta reported a 14 percent drop in profit as the company's costs outpaced revenue growth, driven by heavy ongoing investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The results reflect how much the company is spending to build out AI capabilities across its platforms.
Why this matters: Meta is pouring money into AI while its profits shrink. That spending has a direction: building systems that run on your data, target you with ads, and decide what you see. The business model has not changed. The scale just keeps growing. When a company this size bets this heavily on AI, the people who fund it with their attention and personal information are worth watching closely — because they are not the customers, they are the product being optimized.
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