{
  "id": 15978746,
  "title": "Quarterly figures: Meta invests $135 billion in AI - and creates new stock class",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/quartalszahlen-meta-investiert-135-milliarden-dollar-in-ki-und",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-21T21:06:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/quartalszahlen-meta-investiert-135-milliarden-dollar-in-ki-und-schafft-neue-aktienklasse/100262901.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has reaffirmed Meta's commitment to artificial intelligence (AI). Meta, the company that owns Facebook, is set to invest at least $135 billion in expanding its AI infrastructure this year, Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday during the release of the quarterly earnings. The company has raised the lower end of its spending forecast by $5 billion, with a potential maximum investment of $145 billion. Zuckerberg is aggressively building expensive AI data centers to compete with leaders like OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and Anthropic, a startup backed by Amazon. The money for AI expansion continues to come from the company's booming advertising business. Last quarter, Meta increased its revenue compared to the previous year by 26 percent to $64.6 billion. Overall, Meta reported a profit of $9.8 billion (up from a loss of $2.7 billion a year ago).",
  "summary": "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is accelerating his bet on the AI boom. The money for the gigantic expenses is supposed to come from the thriving advertising business - and a new class of shares.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Handelsblatt",
        "title": "USA: $25 billion fine for Meta in Cambridge Analytica scandal",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/usa-25-milliarden-dollar-strafe-fur-meta-im-cambridge-analytica",
        "published": "2026-10-21T17:42:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}