Meta’s shares jumped more than 10 per cent off the back of better than expected second-quarter earnings, in a sign of Wall Street confidence as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on his big bet on artificial intelligence.
In recent months, the chief executive has embarked on an aggressive hiring spree, offering sign-on bonuses of more than $100mn to tempt AI talent from rivals such as OpenAI, Apple and Google to a new secretive “superintelligence” lab inside the company.
Strong financial results will help reassure investors concerned over whether Zuckerberg’s increasingly sprawling AI ambitions will eventually bear fruit and not overwhelm the otherwise healthy advertising-based business with costs.
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