{"id":834284,"date":"2026-07-30T21:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834284\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:39:14","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-defends-metas-ai-bets-as-forecasts-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834284\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta\u2019s AI bets as forecasts disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco | Meta Platforms has given a disappointing quarterly revenue forecast, stepping up pressure on chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to allay investor concerns that the company isn\u2019t swiftly benefiting from its massive outlay on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant on Wednesday (Thursday AEST) also reported the lowest free cash flow in years, a sign of ballooning expenses for AI bets, including data centres and smart glasses, which could amount to $US145 billion ($208.5 billion) this year.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco | Meta Platforms has given a disappointing quarterly revenue forecast, stepping up pressure on chief executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-834284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}