Meta has pushed back the release of its new A.I. model, code-named Avocado, to at least May after internal tests showed it trailing rivals Google, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast record $650B in 2026 AI infrastructure spending, sparking growth, market jitters, and economic uncertainty.
Meta will pay Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cable as AI data centers scale, reviving a 175-year-old glassmaker at the center of the AI boom.
