Meta News

Key highlights:

• Ad executives say Meta’s AI won’t necessarily drive long-term ad growth as much as investors expect, undercutting a core belief lifting the stock.
• Meta Platforms is sending its engineers to work with ad agencies on developing AI tools as it tries to make money from new AI technology.
• A little-known startup is powering search features for Perplexity, Meta, Mistral, and other conversational AI developers.

AI News

True Value Meta’s AI May Not Be as Good for Ad Growth as Investors Think By Anita Ramaswamy

Exclusive Meta Taps Ad Agencies to Help Devise AI Ad Tools By Catherine Perloff

Exclusive Meta Scrambles After Chinese AI Equals Its Own, Upending Silicon Valley By Kalley Huang and Stephanie Palazzolo

AI Agenda The Startup Powering Perplexity, Meta's AI Search By Kalley Huang

Product News

Exclusive Meta Curbs Privacy Teams’ Sway Over Product Releases By Kalley Huang

Exclusive Meta CTO Says Company Mishandled Introduction of New Content Policies By Kalley Huang

General Meta News

Meta Platforms Plans Performance-Based Job Cuts By Sylvia Varnham O'Regan and Kalley Huang

The Briefing Meta’s Seismic Shift By Martin Peers

Creator Economy Meta’s Fact-Checking Reversal Ups Ante for YouTube By Erin Woo

Meta to Farm Out Design for Mixed Reality Devices, Shift Some Production From China By Kalley Huang, Wayne Ma and Juro Osawa