Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

By Lucas Ropek · TechCrunch · Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 22:45 (46m ago) · Original article ↗

The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.

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