<\/p>\n
Capex for 2025 totaled $72 billion amid an AI arms race that\u2019s spooked investors but Meta shares are doing well after market close with the stock up about 10% on the q4 numbers and 2026 forecasts.<\/p>\n
The company said it expects higher operating income this year versus last despite the higher capex. The company\u2019s latest open-source AI software version, Llama 4, launched last year.<\/p>\n
Users, or what Meta calls daily active people (Dap), across its platforms was in line with expectations at 3.58 billion on average, up 7%. Meta is the parent of Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, WhatsApp<\/a> and Messenger.<\/p>\n Advertising was solid with increases in impressions delivered across platforms and average price per ad up, respectively, 18% and 6% for the quarter ended in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meta\u2019s fourth quarter beat on the top and bottom lines as the company anticipated a big increase in spending this year to as much as $135 billion driven by increased investment in its Superintelligence Labs. Capex for 2025 totaled $72 billion amid an AI arms race that\u2019s spooked investors but Meta shares are doing well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2255457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2255456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meta-Warns-Of-Potential-Material-Loss-From-Trials-Around-Youth.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255459,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255456\/revisions\/2255459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}