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Meta signs multi-billion-dollar deal to rent Google AI chips: report

The Facebook owner has also signed a deal with Nvidia to buy its current and future AI chips

The ratepayer protection pledge marks the latest step in Trump’s push to address a significant political challenge, mounting electricity prices, before the November midterm elections.

Trump summons Amazon, Google, Meta to sign power-cost pledge

Analysts say major tech firms behind the AI data centre boom are happy to pay more for the power they need

Child safety advocates argue that the end-to-end encryption poses a heightened risk when built into public social networks that readily connect children to people they do not otherwise know.

Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was ‘so irresponsible’, shows court filing

The company is facing a wave of litigation and regulatory threats globally linked to the welfare of young users

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at court in a key test case accusing Meta and Google's YouTube of harming kids' mental health through addictive platforms, Los Angeles, California, Feb 18, 2026.

Meta’s Zuckerberg denies at LA trial that Instagram targets kids

[LOS ANGELES] Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday repeatedly said during a landmark trial over youth social media addiction that the Facebook and Instagram operator does not allow kids und...

Nvidia’s announcement also comes as Meta is developing its own AI chips and is in discussions with Google about using that company’s TPUs for AI work.

Nvidia to sell Meta millions of chips in multiyear deal

It also includes standalone installations of its Grace and Vera central processors

Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica more than tripled sales of its Meta AI glasses in 2025, selling more than seven million units.
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(From left) Mariano Janin, Ellen Roome, and George Nicolaou sit outside a court with photos of their children who died, during a trial in a key test case accusing Meta and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health through addictive platforms, Los Angeles, California, Feb 11, 2026.

Instagram‘s top executive grilled over safety decisions at trial

[LOS ANGELES] The top executive at Meta Platforms’ Instagram defended the social media platform’s choices around features that some company insiders called harmful to young users, at a trial on claims...

Mark Zuckerberg (above) has grown closer to US President Donald Trump in his second term, and has visited the latter's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach on multiple occasions.

Zuckerberg set to join California billionaires with Miami home

South Florida has continued to attract wealthy technology executives from California

A spokesperson for Meta said the contractors’ allegations that they had “unfettered” access to WhatsApp messages are impossible.

US has investigated claims that WhatsApp chats aren’t private

Meta says it cannot see WhatsApp messages because they are encrypted with digital keys on users’ phones