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Report: Meta has discussed using Google’s AI to help with ads

Meta has a huge advertising business, and it wants it to get even bigger with the help of AI, with ambitions to create tools that will help businesses create, place, and track ads with just a quick conversation with an AI chatbot. But it seems the social media company, whose AI models have lagged its competitors and which is spending gobs of money to fix it, might need some help getting there. The Information reports that Meta has been in talks with Google to use the latter’s AI models to improve its ad business.

It may be an interim step for Meta, but it’s a big deal, as The Information notes:

The fact that Meta is considering using Google’s technology for advertising is striking. Advertising is the engine behind Meta’s $164.5 billion revenue empire, and Meta executives have highlighted improvements to advertising as a top opportunity coming out of the company’s investments in AI.

It may be an interim step for Meta, but it’s a big deal, as The Information notes:

The fact that Meta is considering using Google’s technology for advertising is striking. Advertising is the engine behind Meta’s $164.5 billion revenue empire, and Meta executives have highlighted improvements to advertising as a top opportunity coming out of the company’s investments in AI.

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Tesla asks Trump not to repeal legal underpinning for carbon emissions rules

Electric vehicle company Tesla would prefer that the government didn’t roll back long-standing emissions rules, according to new comments from Tesla on a proposal to reconsider 2009 findings that said greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution and could endanger the public.

Tesla wrote:

The Endangerment Finding — and the vehicle emissions standards which flow from it — have provided a stable regulatory platform for Tesla’s extensive investments in product development and production. This clear regulatory structure has provided incentives for continued innovation in motor vehicle technology and is vital to continued global competitiveness by companies based in the United States.

Tesla relies heavily on regulatory credit revenues it receives from other automakers that don’t build enough electric vehicles. President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed this summer essentially eliminated the marketplace for such credits, which will cost Tesla about $255 million in revenue each quarter going forward. If the EPA proposal goes through, it would dismantle the foundation for tailpipe emissions rules in the first place.

Tesla wrote:

The Endangerment Finding — and the vehicle emissions standards which flow from it — have provided a stable regulatory platform for Tesla’s extensive investments in product development and production. This clear regulatory structure has provided incentives for continued innovation in motor vehicle technology and is vital to continued global competitiveness by companies based in the United States.

Tesla relies heavily on regulatory credit revenues it receives from other automakers that don’t build enough electric vehicles. President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed this summer essentially eliminated the marketplace for such credits, which will cost Tesla about $255 million in revenue each quarter going forward. If the EPA proposal goes through, it would dismantle the foundation for tailpipe emissions rules in the first place.

$2.5B

For $2.5 billion, Amazon has settled a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission in which the regulatory body alleged Amazon had tricked people into signing up for Prime and made it difficult to cancel. The sum includes $1.5 billion in redress to consumers, the Financial Times reports, and $1 billion in civil penalties — the most the organization has ever charged for violating its rules. However, it may be just a drop in the bucket to Amazon, which pulled in more than $12 billion in subscription revenue last quarter alone. Amazon will also have to alter its user interface to prevent mistaken sign-ups and to create an easier way to cancel. The stock doesn’t appear to be moving on the news.

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Cipher reverses course after Google deal, sinks 10%

After rising nearly 10% premarket on news that Google was taking a 5.4% equity stake in the company, Cipher Mining is now trading down about 10% after market open. It’s unclear why.

The stock is still up more than 90% for the month and more than 175% for the year.

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