{"id":1005874,"date":"2026-04-30T09:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005874"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:59:39","slug":"meta-shares-fall-on-concerns-over-ai-spending-legal-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/meta-shares-fall-on-concerns-over-ai-spending-legal-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta shares fall on concerns over AI spending, legal scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms raised its annual capital spending forecast on Wednesday, signaling plans to pour billions more into artificial intelligence infrastructure even as it confronts potential losses from a global youth backlash against social media. <\/p>\n<p>The Facebook and Instagram parent projected 2026 capital expenditure between $125 billion and $145 billion, compared with its prior forecast of $115 billion to $135 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of the company fell more than 6% in extended trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms raised its annual capital spending forecast on Wednesday, signaling plans to pour billions more into artificial intelligence infrastructure even as it confronts potential losses from a global youth backlash against social media. The Facebook and Instagram parent projected 2026 capital expenditure between $125 billion and $145 billion, compared with its prior forecast of $115 billion to $135 billion. Shares of the company fell more than 6% in extended trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005898,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005874\/revisions\/1005898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}