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Meta’s earnings sent a clear signal to Wall Street on Wednesday: while its core advertising engine is still firing on all cylinders, the price tag for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions will skyrocket in 2026.The company reported $59.89 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025, topping Wall Street’s forecasts. Meta’s stock jumped as high as 10% in after-hours trading.Alongside the upbeat numbers, Meta laid out how hard it plans to push in 2026. The company said it expects to spend $115 billion to $135 billion next year on capital expenditures — largely on the computers and data centers…

A line in Trump’s State of the Union address could be good news for hopeful retirees.President Donald Trump proposed an expansion of retirement savings for Americans without 401(k)s and other employer-provided retirement plans during his Tuesday speech. He said the federal government will soon match individual savings up to $1,000 a year. Over 40 million Americans who work full-time don’t have a retirement plan, and nearly 49 million don’t have employer matching, according to the Economic Innovation Group.”Next year, my administration will give these often forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country, access to the same…

Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer is leaving the firm, after more documents from the Department of Justice’s files on Jeffrey Epstein shed further light on the attorney’s relationship with the convicted sex offender.Kathy Ruemmler, previously a top attorney at Latham & Watkins, is resigning from Goldman effective June 30, her representative told Business Insider. She joined Goldman in 2020.In a statement to Business Insider, Ruemmler said it was her duty “to put Goldman Sachs’ interests first.”Goldman CEO David Solomon said in a statement to Business Insider that he accepted Ruemmler’s resignation and respected her decision.”As one of the most accomplished professionals…

2026-02-17T05:01:01.216Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. 2026 is the year of fiber, with big brands gearing up to offer more fiber-rich products. So we tested out Coca-Cola’s fiber-enriched Diet Coke, a drink available only in Asia. There were some small differences with regular Diet Coke, but we were pleasantly surprised. Six weeks into 2026, it’s…

Lots of publishers are freaked out about “Google Zero” — the notion that one day, Google will stop sending them any traffic at all. Loading audio narration… That’s more or less already happened at People Inc., says CEO Neil Vogel: Vogel says Google referrals used to account for 70% of his properties’ traffic, but dropped off quickly in the last couple of years. Now Google represents about 25% of its mix.That decline is supposed to be an existential problem for people like Vogel, who spent years building sites designed to harvest search traffic. Instead, he’s growing at a double-digit clip.One…

Costco’s Auto Program should be as popular as its $5 rotisserie chicken — but I’ve learned not too many of its members actually know it exists. I discovered the program this past summer during a Costco grocery run when a pamphlet caught my eye as I was leaving. At the time, I was in the market for a car but putting it off because I didn’t want to deal with persistent salespeople or lose a day haggling at a dealership.Turns out, the warehouse offers more than just deals on a few specific vehicle brands. Soon, I learned that with this…

If you handed most people nearly $400 billion, they’d find plenty of silly ways to squander it. Warren Buffett isn’t most people.The legendary investor — known for his patience, discipline, and love of a bargain — said last year that he would happily put $100 billion to work if the right opportunity arose. But he resisted any urge to go on a last-ditch spending spree in his final quarter as Berkshire Hathaway CEO.The message to shareholders from Berkshire’s fourth-quarter earnings report, released Saturday, is that Buffett once again struggled to find much worth buying.That’s been the situation for years now…

Sex trafficking victims of Jeffrey Epstein scored a mixed victory in court on Thursday after a federal judge tossed one of their lawsuits against a bank — but greenlit part of another case against a different bank.US District Judge Jed Rakoff allowed portions of a proposed class-action lawsuit filed by victims against Bank of America to move forward, but dismissed other parts of the case.Rakoff dismissed the entirety of a similar lawsuit the victims had filed against another bank, BNY.The Epstein victims had accused Bank of America of ignoring red flags for Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. Their lawsuit said the bank…

AI isn’t just reshaping the role of software engineers — it’s also making them more skilled.That’s according to Avishai Abrahami, the CEO and cofounder of website management company Wix. He told Business Insider that the technology equips developers with “superpowers” and that the value of smart, talented engineers will be “dramatically enhanced” with AI tools.”What would take you a month, you can do in a few hours,” Abrahami said, adding that not every task can be reduced in this way, but most can.What entry-level candidates needA Google Cloud report released in September found that AI adoption had surged to 90%…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kaitlin Landolfa, 25, an American who moved full-time to Florence, Italy, in 2022 after studying abroad there. She now works as an English teacher at an Italian school. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.At Florida State University, the study abroad programs give you the opportunity to go to Valencia, London, or Florence. Originally, I was supposed to study abroad my freshman year summer in Valencia, Spain, but I didn’t get the money together in time, so I ended up not going.Then I completely changed ideas and said, “Nope,…