Business & Economy

Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion

Source: Business | The Guardian · Published 26 Oct 2026, 13:37

Tech firm announces two-part fundraising after Elon Musk warns hundreds of AI startups face collapse Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced plans for a $95bn (£71bn) fundraising to cover its AI expenditure, even as Elon Musk warned that funding for smaller players in the sector was drying up. The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is a leading investor in AI and is ploughing multibillion-dollar sums into datacentres, the central nervous systems of the technology. Continue reading...

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Culture & Entertainment

Instagram Is Testing Ability to Share Videos up to 90 Minutes Long and Launches on Apple TV — but Unlike YouTube, It’s Still Not Going to Pay Creators

Meta’s Instagram is trying to make itself a place for longer-form entertainment content from digital creators, including testing out video lengths of up to 90 minutes and letting users watch Reels and more on Apple TV. The moves are meant to position Instagram as a bigger potenti

Variety · 26 Oct 2026, 16:57

Technology & AI

Instagram chases YouTube with a push for longer, widescreen videos

Instagram is announcing a big push into longform horizontal video, which the platform is calling "Features." Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has been against doing longform video on the platform "for a long time," he says in a six-and-a-half-minute video (here's the widescreen versio

The Verge · 26 Oct 2026, 16:05