Paramount's hostile Warner Bros. bid, Meta's AI course correction, McDonald's value crackdown and more in Morning Squawk

Paramount is going directly to Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders with a $30 per share, all-cash hostile bid. President ...

Meta signs commercial AI data agreements with publishers to offer real-time news on Meta AI

Meta is partnering with CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, Le Monde Group, the People Inc. portfolio of media brands, The Daily ...
Opinion

Meta’s Heavy AI Spending Justified Says Pro. Is He Right?

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is spending heavily to advance its position in the AI race, perhaps far too heavily, such that the firm might be at risk of wasting cash that would have been better spent ...

Meta's metaverse reversal nods to tech's new mantra: AI or the highway

Meta's plan to cut back on metaverse spending is a sign that projects not helping tech companies' AI goals are falling out of ...

Meta strikes AI licensing deals with CNN, Fox News, and USA Today

Meta struck a similar AI licensing deal with Reuters last year. OpenAI has signed content agreements with publications such ...

EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

The European Commission is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta's move to ban other AI companies from using ...

Meta could launch a new AI model early next year to take on Gemini and ChatGPT: here's what we know

Meta could launch a new AI model next year, codenamed ‘Avocado’ which could be a product of the company's Meta ...

The EU is probing Meta over WhatsApp’s AI chatbot restrictions

“As a result of the new policy, competing AI providers may be blocked from reaching their customers through WhatsApp,” says ...