Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to trial premium subscriptions The firm also plans to test subscriptions for features, such as its Vibes video generation app, which the firm says "can bring your ideas to life with new AI visual creation tools". Under the plan, access to the platforms' core services would remain free to use. The new offerings would give access to features including expanded artifi...
Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to trial premium subscriptions The firm also plans to test subscriptions for features, such as its Vibes video generation app, which the firm says "can bring your ideas to life with new AI visual creation tools". Under the plan, access to the platforms' core services would remain free to use. The new offerings would give access to features including expanded artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Technology giant Meta is set to trial premium subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp users in the coming months in its latest experiment with paid services. Meta announced Vibes in September as part of the latest version of the Meta AI app. It also aims to use Manus, a Chinese-founded AI firm it bought in December for a reported $2bn (£1.46bn), in its subscription plans, according to TechCrunch, which first reported the story. The company will also continue to offer standalone Manus subscriptions to businesses. At the time, Meta said the deal would help improve its own AI by giving people access to "agents" - tools which can do complex things with minimal user interaction such as planning trips or making presentations. "Manus's exceptional talent will join Meta's team to deliver general-purpose agents across our consumer and business products, including Meta AI," it said in a blog post. Based in Singapore after relocating from China, Manus has sought to set itself apart from rival AI developers with what it claims can be a "truly autonomous" agent. Unlike many chatbots which need to be repeatedly asked for things before a user can get their desired response, Manus says its service can plan, execute and complete tasks independently in accordance with instructions. Last year, Facebook tested placing a limit on how many links some users can share when they post on the social media platform. Notifications seen by some users based in the UK and US said they could only share a certain number of links in Facebook posts without a sub...
Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to trial premium subscriptions The firm also plans to test subscriptions for features, such as its Vibes video generation app, which Meta says "can bring your ideas to life with new AI visual creation tools". Under the plan, access to the platforms' core services would remain free to use. The new offerings would give access to features including expanded artificial...
Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to trial premium subscriptions The firm also plans to test subscriptions for features, such as its Vibes video generation app, which Meta says "can bring your ideas to life with new AI visual creation tools". Under the plan, access to the platforms' core services would remain free to use. The new offerings would give access to features including expanded artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Technology giant Meta is set to trial premium subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp users in the coming months in its latest experiment with paid services. The company announced Vibes in September as part of the latest version of the Meta AI app. It also aims to use Manus, a Chinese-founded AI firm it agreed to buy in December for a reported $2bn (£1.46bn), in its subscription plans, according to TechCrunch, which first reported the story. Meta will also continue to offer standalone Manus subscriptions to businesses. At the time, the firm said the deal would help improve its own AI by giving people access to "agents" - tools which can do complex things with minimal user interaction such as planning trips or making presentations. "Manus's exceptional talent will join Meta's team to deliver general-purpose agents across our consumer and business products, including Meta AI," it said in a blog post. Based in Singapore after relocating from China, Manus has sought to set itself apart from rival AI developers with what it claims can be a "truly autonomous" agent. Unlike many chatbots which need to be repeatedly asked for things before a user can get their desired response, Manus says its service can plan, execute and complete tasks independently in accordance with instructions. In January, Beijing said it would investigate the Meta deal to assess whether it broke China's technology export laws or national security regulations. Last year, Facebook tested placing a limit on how many links some users can share when they post on the soci...
Silver’s record-breaking rally is being driven by a collision of unprecedented physical demand and speculative interest in a relatively illiquid market, according to a leading refiner and trader. “There’s immense silver demand, in a way that we’ve really not seen before,” MKS PAMP SA Chief Executive Officer James Emmett told Bloomberg News in an interview. “It’s not a market that traditionally has...
Silver’s record-breaking rally is being driven by a collision of unprecedented physical demand and speculative interest in a relatively illiquid market, according to a leading refiner and trader. “There’s immense silver demand, in a way that we’ve really not seen before,” MKS PAMP SA Chief Executive Officer James Emmett told Bloomberg News in an interview. “It’s not a market that traditionally has that level of speculation, and you are definitely seeing more price action driven by short-term players.” Silver more than doubled last year – its best annual performance since 1979 – and has continued an extraordinary rally by gaining a further 50% so far this year. On its way to a record above $117 an ounce on Monday, the white metal posted its biggest intraday jump since the global financial crisis in 2008. Worldwide upheaval and the so-called debasement trade, whereby investors retreat from sovereign bonds and currencies in favor of hard assets like precious metals, have underpinned the blistering rally. But silver has rallied harder and faster even than gold, with wild intraday swings reflecting a market overwhelmed by speculative interest. Part of this is due to lower liquidity. At current prices, based on average volumes in London, the daily value of gold transactions in London is about five times that of silver. Even then, recent price moves have been much more extreme than usual. Investors have been driven by a fear of missing out and are “chasing the price action,” Emmett said. Some investors, concerned they had missed the bandwagon for gold, used silver as a substitute and “a sort of macroeconomic geopolitical play,” he said. Read More: Silver Retail Buying Keeps Supplies Tight as Rally Gathers Pace Physical demand remains a crucial driver of silver prices, with retail and wholesale orders continuing to outstrip supply, Emmett said. In part, market tightness in the broader wholesale market is due to large amounts of metal moving to India even as outflows from Co...
Goldman Sachs' CEO, David Solomon, says the Trump administration is "open for business" and that the company has a “very, very good” relationship with Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)
Goldman Sachs' CEO, David Solomon, says the Trump administration is "open for business" and that the company has a “very, very good” relationship with Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)
Stock rebounds after a 20% decline following its results last Thursday. In this photo illustration, the Intel logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Intel stock snaps two-day losing streak, rising by over 3% on Tuesday. Shares advanced further in the after-market session, amid speculation that Nvidia might use Intel ...
Stock rebounds after a 20% decline following its results last Thursday. In this photo illustration, the Intel logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Intel stock snaps two-day losing streak, rising by over 3% on Tuesday. Shares advanced further in the after-market session, amid speculation that Nvidia might use Intel manufacturing for its next-gen AI and GPU platform. Stocktwits sentiment has reamined ‘extremely bullish’ over the past few days. Intel Corp. stock broke its two-day losing streak, rising 3.3% on Tuesday, offering investors some respite amid a polarising debate over the future of the legacy chipmaker. Shares advanced by a similar magnitude in the after-market session as well, without a clear catalyst, further piquing interest. Some users on Stocktwits speculated whether Intel has a major deal or announcement in the works, which would boost the sentiment after its fourth-quarter report last week largely disappointed. “$INTC what if I told you there was more news?” remarked a user. Intel said it had not bagged a major customer for its foundry – a fledgling business unit that the company has been trying to turn around by reorganizing and bringing in external customers. Now, rumours are swirling that chip giant Nvidia might use Intel’s factories for part of the production related to Nvidia’s next-gen Feynman architecture. The AI and GPU platform is likely to be announced in 2028 and would succeed the recently announced Rubin system. Shay Boloor, a market strategist at Futurum Equities, said in an X post that Intel would be part of Nvidia’s multi-sourcing plan. Neither Nvidia nor Intel has publicly confirmed this news. Its main manufacturing partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, would build the main GPU die, while Intel could handle the input/output (I/O) die and Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) packaging, Boloor said, without discussing the source of the inf...