Mark Zuckerberg

Built World

Leading Meta's AI infrastructure expansion

Meta's Hyperion data center, a $27 billion AI campus rising in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, is on track to become the largest facility of its kind in history. Meta has quietly bought enough land to more than double it. The initial 2,250-acre, 4-million-square-foot build will deliver 2 to 5 gigawatts of computing power, enough to train the next generations of Llama. The financing is the biggest private-credit deal ever executed and the single largest private investment in Louisiana history. In February 2026, Fortune revealed Meta's quiet purchase of another 1,400 adjacent acres, setting up a Phase 2 that would roughly double the campus footprint.

Updated 3 days ago

Money Moves

Q1 2026 earnings: ad business accelerating, AI tools driving 30% engineer productivity gains; maintaining $115-135B capex; committed to building into capacity even in slower demand scenario

The four largest cloud providers—Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon—are tracking toward over $720 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending for 2026, up sharply from $410 billion in 2025. All four reported first-quarter results on April 29, 2026. Microsoft delivered the clearest signal: $77.7 billion in revenue (up 18% year-over-year), Azure cloud growth of 40% (above its 37% guidance), and earnings per share of $4.13 versus analyst estimates of $3.67.

Updated 3 days ago

Rule Changes

Testified at trial February 18; expected to remain under cross-examination

The Los Angeles bellwether trial testing social media liability for addictive design features began jury selection January 27 and opened February 9. It's the first time major tech companies face a jury over claims their products harm children's mental health.

Updated 6 days ago

Rule Changes

Leading Meta's policy shift toward Trump administration

Mark Zuckerberg banned Donald Trump after January 6th, calling the risks of keeping him on Facebook too great. Four years later, on the ban's anniversary, Zuckerberg killed Meta's entire U.S. fact-checking program, amid a Mar-a-Lago visit, a million-dollar inauguration donation, and elevation of a Bush-era Republican to Meta's top policy role.

Updated May 19

Rule Changes

Leading Meta’s consolidation toward fewer, more controllable client surfaces

On December 15, 2025, Meta effectively bricked Messenger's standalone desktop apps: no more logins, no native client. Users got pushed to Messenger.com or Facebook.com.

Updated May 15

Money Moves

Driving company-wide AI restructuring; has not ruled out further cuts in H2 2026

Meta will cut 8,000 jobs on May 20 and scrap 6,000 open roles it had planned to fill. HR head Janelle Gale framed the layoffs as the price of Meta's $145 billion AI infrastructure bill, with more cuts planned for the second half of 2026.

Updated May 13

New Capabilities

Betting heavily on proprietary AI after Llama 4 setback

For three years, Meta staked its artificial intelligence strategy on giving models away. The company's Llama series became the most widely used open-weight model family in the industry, downloaded hundreds of millions of times. On April 8, 2026, Meta released Muse Spark — the first model built by its new Superintelligence Labs division — and kept it closed. The shift is not subtle: the company that once argued open-source AI would defeat proprietary rivals the way Linux defeated Unix is now competing on their terms.

Updated Apr 8

New Capabilities

Leading company's all-in AI transformation

Meta Platforms has committed more money to artificial intelligence than any other company in history—up to $135 billion in 2026 alone, and $600 billion in American data center infrastructure by 2028. But money hasn't bought capability. The company's next-generation AI model, code-named Avocado, was delayed from March to at least May 2026 after internal tests showed it trailing systems already shipping from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic on reasoning, coding, and writing tasks.

Updated Mar 13