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Following the demise of its ill-fated Libra experiment, the company is offering third-party cryptocurrency options for creators and advertisers.

Miivo AI (TSX-V:MIVO) CEO Alex Damouni talked with Proactive about the company's new Customer Insights Platform and how it supports small and medium-sized businesses by improving customer engagement through AI-powered automation. Proactive: Welcome back inside our Proactive newsroom. Joining...

Meta Platforms and BlackRock announced a partnership to develop a US$14b data center campus in Texas focused on AI infrastructure. The project is structured as Meta's largest external infrastructure collaboration to date and is intended to expand AI compute capacity. The data center campus is designed to support the training and deployment of Meta's AI models for its products and services. Meta Platforms, trading on NasdaqGS:META, is moving ahead with this large AI focused buildout while...

Investing.com -- Direxion on Wednesday launched a new family of exchange-traded funds designed to generate income by writing call options on individual high-volatility stocks, expanding beyond its traditional leveraged and inverse ETF offerings.

Meta will retain a 20% interest while BlackRock-managed funds own 80% of the planned El Paso facility.

Meta Platforms (META) and BlackRock (BLK) have agreed to form a strategic venture to develop and own

Meta has launched a dedicated Seller app for Facebook Marketplace, aimed at professional sellers. The app focuses on enhanced seller tools and potentially lower fees, directly challenging eBay's core seller base. This development introduces fresh competitive pressure on eBay's marketplace model and its high-margin seller segment. eBay, traded as NasdaqGS:EBAY, now faces a new competitor targeting the same professional sellers that are central to its marketplace model. The stock trades at...

Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) and Lightspeed Commerce have launched a direct integration that syncs in-store sales data with Meta's advertising systems. The integration allows physical retailers to connect point-of-sale transactions to Meta ad campaigns, even without an ecommerce site. The move is aimed at improving attribution of Meta ads to offline purchases and expanding Meta's role in brick-and-mortar retail marketing. Meta Platforms enters this partnership with Lightspeed Commerce...

Meta Platforms is launching a dedicated app for sellers on Facebook Marketplace. Meta stock was a fraction lower early Friday while the news appeared to weigh on eBay shares. The new app will be called Seller, according to an announcement from Meta on Friday morning.

BlackRock combines GIP and HPS to finance Meta's AI data center project through a major bond sale.

The AI Materials Foundry combines data, lab access, computing power and expertise on one platform for new materials design.

Meta launched Muse Image and Muse Spark 1.1 this week while revealing plans to manufacture its first in-house AI chip in September

The Muse Spark 1.1 model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, with $20 in free credits to start

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB)’s Meta Superintelligence Labs on Thursday announced the launch of Muse Spark 1.1, an updated multimodal reasoning model designed for advanced artificial intelligence workflows, including autonomous agent tasks, coding and computer-use...

Nebius Group (NasdaqGS:NBIS) has been added to the Nasdaq-100, a shift that often draws in index-linked capital, just as the company rolls out new AI offerings and faces fresh competition from Meta Platforms. See our latest analysis for Nebius Group. The recent index inclusion and AI product launches come after a volatile stretch, with Nebius Group’s share price up 140.67% year to date and 58.79% over 90 days. Over 1 year, the total shareholder return is very large, suggesting strong but...

Broadcom (AVGO) will develop custom microchips for Apple's (AAPL) products under an expanded partner

Meta Platforms is launching a new cloud infrastructure business, Meta Compute, to sell excess AI computing capacity. The move positions NasdaqGS:META as a direct competitor to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Meta aims to turn its heavy AI data center investment into a potential high margin revenue source. Meta Platforms enters this shift with its stock at $582.9 and a mixed recent record, up 5.9% over the past week but down 7.1% over the past month. Shares are also...

Meta Platforms Inc. released an experimental app called Pocket, allowing users to build and share instantly playable mini-games using simple text prompts.

Qualcomm (NasdaqGS:QCOM) has outlined a broad AI data center plan that includes new partnerships with Meta and Microsoft. The company introduced its Dragonfly C1000 CPU and a new High Bandwidth Compute architecture for AI workloads. Qualcomm confirmed the acquisition of AI software company Modular to build an ecosystem that can compete with Nvidia’s CUDA. Qualcomm is best known for its smartphone processors, and the new AI data center push signals a wider focus on infrastructure and cloud...

Virtuix Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:VTIX) earlier this week announced the launch of Omni One for Quest, a development that significantly expands the reach of the company's virtual reality platform by making it compatible with Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets. Speaking with Proactive, chief...

The chipmaker unveiled its Dragonfly portfolio at an investor day, targeting more than $15 billion in data center revenue by fiscal 2029

Investing.com - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU and secured Meta Platforms as its first major customer on Wednesday, announcing a strategic multi-generation supply agreement at its Investor Day 2026 in New York City. Despite the milestone announcements, Qualcomm shares are trading at $193.61, down 5.15% on the session, as investors weigh the near-term cost of a separate ~$4 billion acquisition against data center revenue that won’t arrive until th

Cboe Global Markets (BATS: $CBOE) has launched a prediction market tied to the performance of the benchmark S&P...

The new lineup gives Meta a lower-cost option in wearable AI.

Meta (META) unveiled its newest AI-powered glasses, starting at $299. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley takes a closer look.

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms announced Tuesday a new line of AI smart glasses in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, marking the company's first entry into lower-priced models under its own brand.

The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 were down, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up in late-mo

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) has rolled out new AI-powered search capabilities across its apps as part of a broader push into AI-native products, with Bank of America analysts saying the update could mark an early step toward a larger search and monetization opportunity...

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