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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park, California on Sept. 17, 2025. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Why Meta is positioning itself as an AI infrastructure giant—and doubling down on a costly new path

With Meta Compute, Mark Zuckerberg is turning data centers, chips, and power into what may be the company’s next great strategic weapon.

By Sharon Goldman

January 24, 2026

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Oklahoma City street crews clear roadways of snow in Oklahoma City on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

Stranded by winter weather? Here’s what airlines owe you

By Rio Yamat and The Associated Press

Federal agents stand near the site of a shooting Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Latest deadly shooting by federal agents pushes government closer to shutdown as Trump claims Minnesota officials are ‘inciting insurrection’

A boy sits on the couch of a Minneapolis safe house Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, as his younger siblings and niece play on the floor beside him after they fled their home because they were sought by federal immigration enforcement agents. (AP Photo/Jack Brook)

Minneapolis Trump voter now helps move immigrants’ kids to safe houses to keep them away from his federal agents

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrives at the Wall Street heliport ahead of his appearance in federal court in New York, US, on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. The indictment released on Saturday accuses Maduro and others of partnering with groups including the Sinaloa Cartel and Tren de Aragua, which have been designated by the US as foreign terrorist organizations. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump says U.S. used ‘discombobulator’ weapon in Maduro raid

By Kate Sullivan and Bloomberg

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‘Wake up, AI is for real.’ IMF chief warns of an AI ‘tsunami’ coming for young people and entry-level jobs

‘Wake up, AI is for real.’ IMF chief warns of an AI ‘tsunami’ coming for young people and entry-level jobs

By Tristan Bove

January 23, 2026

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AI anxiety is so widespread that veteran Microsoft researchers are having panic attacks because they’re making themselves obsolete

By Patrick Barry and The Conversation

January 23, 2026

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Inside Big Pharma and VC’s big bet on AI: You wouldn’t ‘want to fly an airplane designed by hand, but all of our drugs are designed like that’

By Nick Lichtenberg

January 23, 2026

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When AI meets healthcare, how should payers react?

By Shubham Singhal

January 23, 2026

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The real cost of job automation isn’t economic, it’s identity

January 23, 2026

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No ‘job apocalypse’: Goldman Sachs CEO denies the AI hiring nightmare is real

By Nick Lichtenberg

January 23, 2026

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2026.

AI luminaries at Davos clash over how close human-level intelligence really is

January 23, 2026

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AI makes human intelligence more important, not less

By Bob Sternfels and Lucy Perez

January 22, 2026

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Deloitte to scrap traditional job titles as AI ushers in a ‘modernization’ of the Big Four

January 22, 2026

OpenAI’s former head of sales is entering VC. She still calls herself an ‘AGI sherpa’

OpenAI’s former head of sales is entering VC. She still calls herself an ‘AGI sherpa’

By Sharon Goldman

January 22, 2026

David Sacks gestures during a speech outside the White House

America could ‘lose the AI race’ because of too much ‘pessimism,’ White House AI czar David Sacks says

By Tristan Bove

January 22, 2026

Elon Musk, in front of a blue "World Economic Forum" background, puts his hand to his mouth.

Elon Musk warns the U.S. could soon be producing more chips than we can turn on. And China doesn’t have the same issue

By Sasha Rogelberg

January 22, 2026

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he welcomes government ban on mass-firing people for AI: ‘We’re going to cure a lot of cancers’

By Preston Fore

January 22, 2026

‘Visual elevator music’: Why generative AI, trained on centuries of human genius, produces intellectual Muzak

By Ahmed Elgammal and The Conversation

January 22, 2026

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Despite promises that AI will create more jobs, 1.2 million jobs were actually slashed last year—a grim throwback to losses from the 2008 financial crisis

By Emma Burleigh

January 22, 2026

Why AI’s greatest challenge is leadership, not innovation

Why AI’s greatest challenge is leadership, not innovation

By Aslesha Mehta

January 22, 2026

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I’m the Napster CEO and I agree with Pinterest: the Napster phase of AI needs to end

January 22, 2026

AI drug startup Insilico Medicine launches an AI ‘gym’ to help models like GPT and Qwen be good at science

AI drug startup Insilico Medicine launches an AI ‘gym’ to help models like GPT and Qwen be good at science

By Nicholas Gordon

January 22, 2026

Elon Musk predicts ‘agonizingly slow’ Cybercab and Optimus rollout. But he’s not giving up on Tesla’s big bet on robots

Elon Musk predicts ‘agonizingly slow’ Cybercab and Optimus rollout. But he’s not giving up on Tesla’s big bet on robots

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

January 22, 2026

The pioneer behind Google Gemini is tackling an even bigger challenge—using AI to ‘solve’ disease

The pioneer behind Google Gemini is tackling an even bigger challenge—using AI to ‘solve’ disease

By Allie Garfinkle

January 22, 2026

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Jamie Dimon says government should have power to intervene in AI-driven mass layoffs

January 21, 2026

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The rise of on-demand leadership in the AI economy

January 21, 2026

The Walmart C-suite reshuffle shows how the retailer sees itself now: As a tech company

The Walmart C-suite reshuffle shows how the retailer sees itself now: As a tech company

January 21, 2026

WPP’s CTO says AI is reshaping advertising. But creative judgment needs to remain in human hands

WPP’s CTO says AI is reshaping advertising. But creative judgment needs to remain in human hands

January 21, 2026

‘AI adoption is accelerating, but confidence is collapsing’: The more workers use AI, the less they trust it. Baby boomers show a 35% drop

‘AI adoption is accelerating, but confidence is collapsing’: The more workers use AI, the less they trust it. Baby boomers show a 35% drop

January 21, 2026

US President Donald Trump jokes with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) as he hosts tech leaders for a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2025.

Trump says Mark Zuckerberg showed him a ‘Manhattan-sized’ AI data center

By Eva Roytburg

January 21, 2026

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Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’

By Beatrice Nolan

January 21, 2026

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘a lot’ of six-figure jobs in plumbing and construction are about to be unlocked because someone needs to build all these new AI centers

By Preston Fore

January 21, 2026

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Jensen Huang says AI bubble fears are dwarfed by ‘the largest infrastructure build-out in human history’

By Nick Lichtenberg and Beatrice Nolan

January 21, 2026

US President Donald Trump delivers a special address during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026.

Trump’s AI deal for Silicon Valley: Build your own nuclear, skip years of regulation

By Eva Roytburg

January 21, 2026

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