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Chairman / President

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO / Managing Director

Mark Zuckerberg

CFO / Finance Director

Susan Li

Industry

Technology, Social Media

Website

meta.com

Headquarters address

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Stock Code

NASDAQ:META

Year founded

2004

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos leave the Aman Venice hotel, in Venice, Italy, June 29, 2025. Photo: Reuters

My Take

My Take | Rich guys’ ostentatious weddings are reflection of human condition

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ US$55 million nuptials in the Italian city of Venice say as much about the 1 per cent as the world we live in today.

2 Jul 2025 - 9:00PM

United States

Opinion | Why Silicon Valley signing up to nationalism puts Asia on edge

2 Jul 2025 - 8:30PM

Donald Trump

Paramount settles Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit for US$16 million

2 Jul 2025 - 2:45PM

Artificial intelligence

Scale AI CEO stresses start-up’s independence after Meta deal

Scale’s 28-year-old former CEO and co-founder Alexandr Wang left the start-up to lead a new superintelligence unit at Meta.

2 Jul 2025 - 12:05PM

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | As Hong Kong is learning, a deepfake crime epidemic is upon us

Anyone with an image can become fodder for fraud. For a global city like Hong Kong, the threat is not just financial, it is existential.

1 Jul 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Meta bolsters AI team with top OpenAI talent from China

The recruitment highlights the rising global recognition of Chinese talent in AI development.

30 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

Mergers & Acquisitions

Deal makers hit US$1.8 trillion as they get used to trade chaos

More than half of the 10 largest deals announced in 2025 have involved a private target, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

30 Jun 2025 - 1:42PM

Trade

Carney says trade talks with US resume after Canada rescinded tech tax

On Friday, Donald Trump abruptly cut off trade talks with Canada over what he called a ‘blatant attack’ on the US.

30 Jun 2025 - 8:26PM

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia taps 2 young Chinese AI experts to strengthen research

Zhu Banghua and Jiao Jiantao share photos of themselves with Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia.

29 Jun 2025 - 5:18PM

United States

S&P500, Nasdaq hit record highs on renewed AI bets, rate-cut hopes

A US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran that sparked higher crude prices also boosted market confidence.

27 Jun 2025 - 10:09PMvideocam

A trader at the New York Stock Exchange. The S&P 500 has surged more than 23.5 per cent and the Nasdaq about 32 per cent since their recent lowest close on April 8. Photo: Xinhua

Xiaomi

Xiaomi enters ‘smart glasses war’ with first AI-powered eyewear

The tech giant announced its camera-equipped frames during an event on Thursday, leveraging its vast ecosystem in a crowded market.

26 Jun 2025 - 9:32PM

People walk past a Xiaomi store in downtown Beijing on September 8, 2021. Photo: Simon Song

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia climbs to record high to become world’s largest stock again

With Wednesday’s gain, Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the world’s largest stock.

26 Jun 2025 - 12:46PM

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic wins ruling on use of copyrighted books to train AI

A US judge rules that training AI on copyrighted books is fair use, but the downloading of pirated books is not.

25 Jun 2025 - 11:50AM

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud to bring AI capabilities to global data centres this year

The company operates more than two dozen data centres worldwide, including two in the US and one in London.

24 Jun 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

Liu Weiguang, senior vice-president of Alibaba Cloud, speaks on stage during a company event in Shenzhen on Tuesday. Photo: Handout

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong-based financial adviser’s name and image exploited again in scams

Professor Chan Yan-chong of City University stresses he never gives advice online, notes that many victims, including some in Singapore, are retirees.

22 Jun 2025 - 3:15PM

Professor Chan Yan-Chong of City University says he never gives financial advice online. Photo: Dickson Lee

DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model matches Google, Anthropic in coding benchmark

The updated reasoning model, released in May, performed well against leading US models in the real-time WebDev Arena tests.

18 Jun 2025 - 6:03PM

US-China tech war

US pushes Vietnam to decouple from Chinese tech, sources say

Vietnam has been asked ‘to reduce its dependency on Chinese hi-tech’, say one of the people familiar with the discussions.

17 Jun 2025 - 10:18AMvideocam

Hong Kong courts

Meta sues Hong Kong firm over AI app making non-consensual explicit images

US tech giant accuses Joy Timeline HK of promoting ‘nudify’ app, with lawsuit part of Meta’s clampdown on such software.

13 Jun 2025 - 7:27PM

Meta has also said it is developing new technologies to detect adverts for “nudify” apps. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Meta in talks for Scale AI investment that could top US$10 billion

Scale AI, whose customers include Microsoft and OpenAI, provides data labelling services to help companies train machine-learning models.

9 Jun 2025 - 10:41AM

Malaysia

Malaysia orders telecoms firms to hand over user data, raising privacy concerns

The government claims it’s for a mobile project, but critics cite data security risks.

6 Jun 2025 - 11:15PM

Huawei

Huawei claims better AI training method than DeepSeek using own chips

Huawei’s progress in AI model architecture could prove significant, as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on US technologies.

4 Jun 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

Huawei researchers say they have improved on an AI training method used by DeepSeek. Photo: EPA-EFE

Artificial intelligence

Meta becomes the latest big tech company turning to nuclear power for AI needs

The agreement announced Tuesday is just the latest in a string of tech-nuclear partnerships as the use of AI expands.

4 Jun 2025 - 11:06AM

The Meta sign outside the headquarters of Facebook parent Meta Platforms in Menlo Park, California, November 9, 2022. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft cuts hundreds more jobs after firing 6,000 last month

The AI boom has roiled the tech labour market, as companies prioritise AI-focused jobs and harness the technology to save money.

3 Jun 2025 - 9:54AM

Artificial intelligence

Meta partners with US military contractor to develop VR helmets

The ‘sci-fi-style military helmet’ named ‘Eagle Eye’ is one of several advanced products being developed for the US military.

30 May 2025 - 12:45PM

Artificial intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI bot is used a billion times monthly

Use of Meta AI is growing the fastest on WhatsApp, the company says, as it competes against Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

29 May 2025 - 1:15PM

Meta Platforms founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends an AI developer conference in Menlo Park, California, last month. Photo: AP

Semiconductors

Huawei pushes Ascend AI chip-based ‘Supernode’ architecture to developers

Huawei’s Supernode 384 computing architecture reflects the company’s efforts to overcome tightened US tech restrictions.

27 May 2025 - 8:00AM

Huawei Technologies’ Ascend chip-based, high-performance computing architecture, Supernode 384, is touted as best-suited for training next-generation artificial intelligence models. Photo: Shutterstock

Video gaming

Genshin Impact creator taps AI to create fresh video games

Cai Haoyu, billionaire founder of miHoYo, is using AI and developers poached from major Western companies to create interactive media.

23 May 2025 - 7:15PM

Apple

Apple aims to launch smart glasses in 2026 in push into AI devices

The iPhone maker is looking to join the emerging trend of AI-powered devices – an area where it faces fresh competition.

23 May 2025 - 11:15AM

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