{"id":988456,"date":"2026-01-29T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988456"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:18:36","slug":"meta-boosts-annual-capex-sharply-on-superintelligence-push-shares-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/meta-boosts-annual-capex-sharply-on-superintelligence-push-shares-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta boosts annual capex sharply on superintelligence push, shares surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram-owner Meta on Wednesday boosted its capital spending plans for this year by 73% in the pursuit of &#8220;superintelligence,&#8221; an effort to offer deeply personalized artificial \u2060intelligence to its large social media user base. <\/p>\n<p>Shareholders backed CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s ambitious capital outlay, boosting Meta stock 10% in extended trading, as the company posted a 24% surge in advertising revenue &#8211; its mainstay &#8211; for the quarter ended December 31. It also forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram-owner Meta on Wednesday boosted its capital spending plans for this year by 73% in the pursuit of &#8220;superintelligence,&#8221; an effort to offer deeply personalized artificial \u2060intelligence to its large social media user base. Shareholders backed CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s ambitious capital outlay, boosting Meta stock 10% in extended trading, as the company posted a 24% surge in advertising revenue &#8211; its mainstay &#8211; for the quarter ended December 31. It also forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations.<\/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-988456","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\/988456","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=988456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}