Meta Beats Earnings Expectations, AI Remains Top Priority
Meta is performing well after reporting its quarterly earnings but will it last? As guidance for the upcoming quarter has investors on edge, questions remain about some of the company's biggest investments like the Metaverse. Cheddar News senior reporter Michelle Castillo reported on the earnings and where the company stands with its progress in artificial intelligence development.
The Energy Department is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them.
Ed Egilinsky, managing director and head of sales and distribution & alternatives with Direxion, joined Cheddar News to discuss how bond traders are reacting to the latest consumer price index data and how they're positioning portfolios ahead of next week's release of Nvidia's earnings. Egilinsky also discussed some of the other bigger-cap companies, including Alphabet, Amazon and Apple.
Facebook and Instagram will require political ads running on their platforms to disclose if they were created using artificial intelligence, their parent company announced on Wednesday.
