Meta Shares Dip On Massive AI Spending; Q1 Daily Active Users Soften On Internet Disruptions In Iran

Instagram and Facebook parent Meta beat on the top and bottom lines last quarter but the stock dipped more than 5% in late trading Wednesday on market jitters over expanding capex, which the company anticipates in the $125 billion-$145 billion range this year.

That’s up from its previous guidance of $115 billion-$135 billion and includes data centers, higher components pricing and more as it competes again bigger rivals in the space.

Its key user metric, daily active people (or DAP), of 3.56 billion on average for March was up 4% year-over-year but down slightly from the previous quarter. Meta said that was due to internet disruptions in Iran as well as a restriction on access to WhatsApp in Russia.

Meta’s net income jumped 61% to $26.1 billion on revenue, which is mostly advertising, up 33% to $56.3 billion.

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• Anonymous on April 29, 2026 1:52 pm

  Anyone who actually uses AI knows that it’s still decades away, if not more, from being fully functional. All these AI investments will end the same way the Metaverse did and you’ll have a bunch of datacenters with weeds growing in them.

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