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Meta AI shot to No. 5 on the U.S App Store on Thursday from No.57 before Muse Spark launch, Appfigures data shows
Similarly, Sensor Tower estimate Meta AI saw around 46,000 U.S. iOS app downloads on April 8, 2026, an increase of 87% day-over-day.
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Meta Platforms hires three executives behind OpenAI’s massive effort to set up hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of AI data centers
- Meta hires Peter Hoeschele, Shamez Hemani, and Anuj Saharan, who worked in OpenAI’s Stargate initiative.
- Peter Hoeschele, in particular, held a critical role in the Stargate initiative.
- Stargate is a $500 billion venture between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group.
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Meta recently expanded its El Paso data center project investment to $10 billion from $1.5 billion announced last year
The increased investment will see El Pasa data center capacity grow to 1 gigawatt and will come online in 2028.
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Meta Platforms is building an AI Clone of Mark Zuckerberg that will interact with employees
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Meta’s VP of Engineering in charge of AI infrastructure departs
Aparna Ramani has been in charge of Meta’s AI infrastracture since 2016 and was leading a team of around 700 engineers.
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-meta-ai-infrastructure-executive-departs
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Meta will launch a software that capture employees’ mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes and use them to train new AI systems
The action is part of Meta’s goal of integrating AI into its workflows so as to operate more efficiently.
“The vision we are building towards is one where our agents primarily do the work and our role is to direct, review and help them improve," Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth said in a memo.
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Meta signs “multi-billion” dollar deal with AWS to deploy “tens of millions” of Graviton5 cores over 3-5 years
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The exact financial terms were not disclosed by AWS told DCD that it is a “multibillion-dollar deal over several years.”
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Nafea Bshara, an Amazon vice president said the deal is between three and five years.
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According to Claude, “multi-billion” here implies a maximum of around $5 billion over the contract term.
Claude cost estimate
The Meta newsroom page confirms everything in the text you shared but adds no financial details — the post is purely a strategic announcement with no pricing disclosed.
The answer remains what we found from the earlier search: AWS confirmed to press that this is a “multibillion-dollar deal over several years” but declined to disclose exact financial terms or chip counts. datacenterdynamics
Bottom line on likely cost:
The honest answer is we can’t be more precise than “multibillion over 3+ years” from public sources. But here’s a reasonable triangulation:
The deal covers hundreds of thousands of Graviton chips over at least three years. CNBC Graviton instances on AWS are priced significantly cheaper than GPU instances — roughly $0.04–$0.10 per core-hour for large enterprise commitments. At tens of millions of cores running continuously, even at heavily discounted enterprise rates, the maths lands somewhere in the $2–5B total range over the contract period.
That said, the more interesting context is the broader picture: Meta has already committed a combined $48 billion in AI infrastructure spend via recent deals with CoreWeave and Nebius CNBC, making this AWS deal — however large in absolute terms — a relatively modest diversification play rather than a headline commitment. It’s CPU compute for agentic workloads, not GPU compute for model training, which is structurally cheaper per unit of work.
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China blocks Meta’s acquisition of Manus for $2 billion
- It remains unclear how Meta will unwind the deal as Manus employees have already joined the company and Manus’s existing investors have received their proceeds.
- Meta said it expect a resolution to China’s investigation, without giving more details.
- Acquired in December 2025, Manus is an AI agent that conducts deep research and other tasks for paying users.
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Meta is preparing to unwind the Manus deal after being ordered by the Chinese government
Manus’s previous investors plan to cooperate with Meta if it unwinds the acquisition, the Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter.
According to sources, the Chinese government gave Meta and Manus several weeks to unwind the deal and is threatening to impose penalties if they don’t.