Meta’s Q4 blowout and Microsoft’s capex-heavy quarter produced a rare, stark split: investors rewarded visible AI-driven revenue and punished deferred AI payoffs. The market reaction—bullish for Meta, cautious for Microsoft—was less a referendum on product quality than a vote on timing and unit...
Meta is shutting down its standalone Messenger desktop apps for Windows and macOS, and will block logins after December 15, 2025 — directing desktop users to the Facebook and Messenger websites instead. Background
Meta split Messenger from Facebook years ago to create a focused messaging...
Oracle’s latest earnings didn’t just move markets — they rewrote the rules for how a decades‑old enterprise software vendor can pivot into the center of the AI cloud arms race. Background / Overview
In fiscal Q1 2026 (quarter ended Aug. 31, 2025) Oracle reported a set of headline figures that...
Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to sue Meta is true — but not for the reason most people will assume: the plaintiff is Mark S. Zuckerberg, a veteran bankruptcy lawyer in Indianapolis whose legal complaint accuses Meta of repeatedly disabling his Facebook accounts, accepting advertising payments while...
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Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment...
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Some of the world’s largest AI labs stand accused of quietly harvesting the world’s recorded music to teach their models how to sing, riff and mimic the voices and styles of living artists — and a newly public dossier compiled by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has...
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Missouri’s attorney general has opened a formal probe into major AI developers after consumer-facing chatbots produced answers that his office says are unfairly critical of former President Donald Trump — a move that merges politics, consumer-protection law, and the messy realities of modern...
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The largest technology companies are weathering a volatile market not because the case for them is uncomplicated, but because the economics of artificial intelligence have tilted the strategic balance in their favor: giant, cash-rich platforms can underwrite the infrastructure, talent and...
A frenzy of artificial intelligence investment is igniting Silicon Valley’s quarterly earnings season, with the world’s most influential tech giants unleashing capital expenditures at rates that would have seemed inconceivable only a few years ago. Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Amazon now lead an...
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The generative AI arms race has entered a new phase—one less focused on pure productivity and more on a radical reimagining of how we spend, and monetize, our free time. Mark Zuckerberg’s unveiling of Meta’s “personal superintelligence” strategy signals a bold and controversial departure from...
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From regulatory scrutiny in Europe to AI-driven growth in the United States, the recent Q2 results for tech megacaps—Microsoft and Meta in particular—have echoed through the industry and investor circles alike, highlighting both impressive momentum and pressing challenges beneath the surface...
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The world’s largest technology companies are rewriting the rules of economic scale, strategy, and competitive advantage by unleashing a tidal wave of investment in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure. Fueled by breakneck enterprise demand for AI-powered services and the rise of...
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Meta's recent decision to phase out the native WhatsApp application for Windows 11 in favor of a web-based version marks a significant shift in the platform's desktop strategy. This move has sparked discussions among users and industry experts, highlighting both the advantages and drawbacks of...
The artificial intelligence battleground has shifted from theoretical promise to commercial reality, and nowhere is this more evident than in the escalating arms race between Microsoft and Meta. In 2025, these two titans stand as avatars of distinct corporate cultures, strategic philosophies...
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WhatsApp, the widely-used messaging platform owned by Meta, has recently announced a significant shift in its desktop application strategy for Windows users. The company is transitioning from a native Windows application to a web-based version encapsulated within a desktop container, commonly...
In a move that is shaking up the Windows ecosystem, Meta has officially started phasing out native WhatsApp support for Windows 11 PCs, signaling a fundamental transformation in how millions will access one of the world’s most popular messaging services on desktop. This decision, first apparent...
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Meta's recent decision to replace WhatsApp's native Windows application with a Chromium-based web wrapper has sparked considerable discussion among users and industry experts. This shift marks a significant departure from the company's previous commitment to platform-specific optimization and...
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In a recent update, WhatsApp has transitioned its Windows 11 desktop application from a native Universal Windows Platform (UWP) framework to a Microsoft WebView2-based architecture. This shift aligns the desktop experience more closely with WhatsApp Web but has raised concerns regarding...
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WhatsApp, long celebrated as one of the best-executed native apps for Windows 11, is undergoing a major architectural shift that has taken many by surprise. After several years invested in WinUI and native platform integration, Meta has now decided to abandon the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)...
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Microsoft and AMD’s announcement of a deeper partnership to co-engineer the next generation of Xbox hardware signals a potentially radical shift in the console landscape. For years, the Xbox ecosystem has gradually blurred the lines between the traditional living-room console and the versatility...
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