{"id":1024716,"date":"2026-07-30T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024716"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:36:54","slug":"meta-cash-flow-craters-as-mark-zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-ai-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/meta-cash-flow-craters-as-mark-zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-ai-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta cash flow craters as Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on AI spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms reported a 91% drop in second-quarter free cash flow on Wednesday, underscoring the financial strain of the social media giant&#8217;s costly AI buildout amid an uncertain payoff. <\/p>\n<p>The Facebook and Instagram parent company reported free cash flow \u200bof $784 million in the second quarter ended June 30, down from $8.55 billion a year earlier, sending its shares down 10% in extended trading. <\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s \u200bcash flow wipeout echoed Alphabet&#8217;s, which last week reported its first-ever cash-flow-negative quarter, stunning even the most bullish of Wall Street investors who sold off the Google owner&#8217;s stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms reported a 91% drop in second-quarter free cash flow on Wednesday, underscoring the financial strain of the social media giant&#8217;s costly AI buildout amid an uncertain payoff. The Facebook and Instagram parent company reported free cash flow \u200bof $784 million in the second quarter ended June 30, down from $8.55 billion a year earlier, sending its shares down 10% in extended trading. Meta&#8217;s \u200bcash flow wipeout echoed Alphabet&#8217;s, which last week reported its first-ever cash-flow-negative quarter, stunning even the most bullish of Wall Street investors who sold off the Google owner&#8217;s stock.<\/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-1024716","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\/1024716","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=1024716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024739,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024716\/revisions\/1024739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}