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Manus co-founders are weighing ways to comply with China's order to unwind Meta's $2 billion-plus acquisition ‌of the AI startup, Bloomberg News reported on ‌Thursday. Founders Xiao Hong, Ji Yichao and Zhang Tao are exploring options, including raising ​about $1 billion from external investors to buy their way back, the report said citing people familiar with the matter. They are discussing a funding round that would value the company ‌at a level to ⁠match what Meta paid to buy Singapore-based Manus, the report added.

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U.S. energy storage developers installed 9.7 gigawatt-hours of new capacity in the first quarter of 2026, marking a record ‌high for the quarter, an industry report showed on Thursday. Energy storage ‌capacity grew 32% in the quarter from a year ago despite federal actions the industry ​says are slowing clean energy development, the report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence said. The SEIA said the demand is being driven by data centers, volatile electricity prices and disruptions to global gas and gas ‌turbine supplies.

Wall Street has spent the last six months questioning Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive AI capital spending, with Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) raising its 2026 capex guidance to $125 to $145 billion after a Q1 in which revenue grew 33% year over year. While everyone debates whether Meta is overspending, a quieter filing from SpaceX just laid out ... The Real Winner of SpaceX’s IPO: Mark Zuckerberg

Meta began laying off roughly 8,000 employees Wednesday -- about 10 percent of its global workforce -- as co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pushes to redirect resources toward an ambitious artificial intelligence agenda.In a memo to staff Wednesday, posted by Business Insider, Zuckerberg expressed thanks to departing employees and sought to reassure those remaining.

SpaceX, which is expected to target a valuation of more than $1.5 trillion at IPO, has a financial picture that is notably worse than any other mega-cap U.S. company. Meta, valued in the same range SpaceX is targeting, had sales 11 times that last year and profits of $60 billion. SpaceX, if ultimately valued at $1.5 trillion, would be valued at 80 times sales.

Arm stock pushes higher as Bernstein initiates coverage with an “outperform” rating. Here’s why analyst David Dai sees ARM shares ripping higher from here as the year unfolds.

Intuit reported better-than-expected financial results for its crucial tax season Wednesday, while also announcing a round of layoffs. Intuit said it’s reducing its full-time workforce by 17%. According to Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks tech layoffs, 111,173 tech employees have lost their jobs in 2026.

Investors are watching whether Nvidia can extend confidence in AI spending through 2027 and 2028.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in an internal ‌memo on Wednesday that he does not expect more ‌company-wide layoffs this year, according to a copy of the memo ​seen by Reuters. He made the announcement on the same day the Facebook owner carried out a massive restructuring of the company, laying off 10% of its workforce globally and ‌transferring 7,000 other ⁠employees to new initiatives related to AI workflows. The changes are part of a far-reaching overhaul taking place at Meta this year, as the company surges its AI investments in a bid to center AI ‌agents in both its product offerings ​and its approach to work ​internally.

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Cost cuts continue as company increases investment in artificial intelligence

Meta Platform's stock was wavering as the company began cutting roughly 8,000 jobs in a prominent example of AI layoffs.

The cuts of roughly 8,000 jobs, or 10% of staff, are meant to offset the cost of the company’s AI investments.

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, May 20 (Reuters) - Indian fashion-to-beauty retailer Nykaa has asked a New Delhi court to make Meta a party to a copyright dispute filed by media firm Zee, court documents

Notifications went out Wednesday morning starting in Asia, with U.S. employees expected to hear during their morning

AI’s big bucks go mostly toward computing gear like chips and servers in data centers. Should that trend persist, it could come to bite suppliers including chip giant Nvidia which reports quarterly results after the bell today. Nvidia can insulate itself from cost inflation by expanding offerings that don’t require as much in-demand memory, by passing on higher prices to customers and by inking longer-term deals with its own suppliers at lower prices.

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SpaceX already defies the law of gravity. The rocket maker is looking to raise as much as $80 billion or more in its initial public offering, making it the biggest ever in terms of funds raised. If its market value at offering reaches $1.71 trillion, that would top the previous record for valuation of a newly public company, set in 2019 by the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Aramco.

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Hedge funds stuck to their holdings in companies with ‌strong fundamentals in April, particularly technology ‌and semiconductor stocks, according to a report on Wednesday ​from data platform Hazeltree, in a month when the S&P 500 jumped over 10%.

Artificial-intelligence leader Nvidia has a big task when it reports first-quarter earnings later today: convince investors that the AI investment boom still has legs and that Nvidia won’t lose its pole position. Wall Street analysts expect the company to report earnings per share of $1.75, up from 81 cents a year ago. Nvidia remains the biggest winner of the AI age.

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Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots including OpenAI free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp in Europe, but will start charging them ‌once they hit a limit, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. The details of ‌the offer, previously unreported, come as Mark Zuckerberg's tech and social media giant that also controls Facebook, looks to appease increasingly tough EU regulators ​that are tightening the screws on Big Tech. Meta submitted its proposal to EU antitrust regulators last week after the European Commission said it was considering an order requiring the firm to provide rivals access to WhatsApp until it wraps up an ongoing investigation into the case.

All three major US stock indexes were down in late-morning trading Tuesday, as the 30-year Treasury

Saudi Arabia-backed artificial intelligence company Humain has picked Goldman Sachs to advise on a financing package to build data centres in the kingdom that ‌could be worth at least 20 billion riyals, two sources with knowledge of the matter ‌told Reuters, as the firm races to expand capacity amid a regional AI push. The move illustrates how Saudi Arabia, like Gulf neighbours ​Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, is accelerating its AI build-out to capitalise on surging global demand for computing power. The country is also banking on cheap energy to power data centres - a powerful lure for hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft and Meta that are driving AI adoption.

Meta plans about 8,000 layoffs while raising AI-related capital spending.