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Meta is under the microscope today, as Ars Technica pulls back the curtain on the company's scramble to close the gap with its AI rivals. The piece paints a picture of a tech giant with enormous resources but a culture still finding its footing in the age of large language models. The stakes, as always, are enormous.
Staying with Meta, the company has quietly launched something it calls the Meta Business Agent — an AI tool aimed at automating customer interactions for businesses on its platforms. The timing is no coincidence. With competitors embedding AI into every product surface, Meta is clearly betting that commerce is where its AI ambitions can gain the most traction, fastest.
And in a story that blends crypto, corporate strategy, and a little anxiety, Strategy's recent move to sell Bitcoin in hopes of steadying the market appears to be raising more questions than it answers. With shares trading under one hundred dollars, analysts are divided on whether the company has revealed a fundamental weakness in the flywheel model that made Michael Saylor famous. The bitcoin faithful are watching closely.
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