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Mark Zuckerberg spent all of 2024 telling investors that artificial intelligence would be key to the future of his company, Meta. In 2025, he plans to put his money where his mouth is.On Friday, Zuckerberg said the company expects its capital expenditures in 2025 to be about $60 billion to $65 billion, a big increase from the roughly $38 billion to $40 billion Meta spent in 2024.Much of that amount will go toward building and expanding data centers, the warehouse-sized buildings that provide the computing power that powers Meta's products and artificial intelligence algorithms in its apps, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.“This is a massive effort that will propel our core products and businesses, unlock historic innovations, and extend America's technology leadership over the ne...

President Trump on Friday reinstated a long-standing Republican anti-abortion policy known as the "Mexico City Rule," which bars federal funding from going to any nongovernmental organization abroad that performs or promotes abortions.The move came after he addressed thousands of abortion opponents in Washington on Friday to mark the 52nd anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, who created a national right to abortion and which the Court overturned in 2022.Federal law already prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to support abortion services abroad. But in 1984, President Ronald Reagan went a step further, blocking foreign aid to nongovernmental organizations that discuss abortion as part of family planning services or support abortion rights, even if those groups do...

Hamas said on Friday that he will release four women soldiers held hostage for over a year in Gaza, as part of an exchange of hostages with prisoners who will take place on Saturday, while Israelis and Palestinians look forward to the next steps towards the cessation of employment. Agreement on the fire.In a statement, Hamas identified the four women like Karina Ariev, 20 years old; Daniella Gilboa, 20 years old; Naama Levy, 20 years old; And Liri Albag, 19 years old. All four were kidnapped by the military base near Gaza where they served during the attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which started the war.Israel said that the mediators between the two sides transmitted a list of hostage names scheduled for release on Saturday, without confirming their identity. It was not clear if th...

Ukraine launched a large barrage of explosive drones at Russia on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials and the Russian military, in a barrage that set fire to an oil refinery and a pumping station and briefly closed several airports, including several serving Moscow.The attack was the latest and one of the largest in Ukraine's campaign to disrupt Russian military logistics and put pressure on the country's economy by targeting the oil industry that is Moscow's main source of revenue.Ukraine's fleet of drones, which resemble small airplanes and have a range of about 1,600 miles, have attacked Russian refineries and factories at least 17 times this year and dozens of times in 2024. Ukraine has increased drone production in last year and now regularly fires large bursts.Posts on Russian s...

Instagram and Facebook recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two suppliers of abortion pills. Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid providers from appearing in searches and recommendations.The shares have surged over the past two weeks and were particularly noticeable in the past two days, suppliers of abortion pills said. The contents of their accounts - or in some cases, their entire accounts - were no longer visible on Instagram.Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, confirmed some account suspensions and blurring of posts. The company reinstated some of the accounts and posts Thursday, after The New York Times asked about the actions.Meta has come under scrutiny since Mark Zuckerberg, its CEO, announced broad changes to the company...

Seven months after the Supreme Court struck a deal that would resolve thousands of opioid cases against Purdue Pharma, the company's owners, members of the Sackler family, increased their cash offer to resolve the litigation, but with a new problem.Under a new agreement, the Sacklers would not receive immunity from future opioid lawsuits, a condition they had long insisted on but which the court had ruled was impermissible.Instead, they would pay up to $6.5 billion – $500 million more than in the previous agreement – ​​but with a new condition: Claimants, including states, municipalities and individuals, would have to set aside up to $800 million into an account similar to a legal account. -defense fund for billionaires to fight such cases, according to people familiar with the negotiation...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told President Trump on Wednesday that the kingdom plans to increase its investment and trade with the United States by at least $600 billion over the next four years, according to the official Saudi Press Agency .The crown prince, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, told Trump that his new administration has the ability to create "unprecedented economic prosperity" in the United States and that the kingdom wants to participate, the Saudi Press Agency said . he said.There was no immediate confirmation of the call from the White House. Trump has promised to accelerate investment in the United States, particularly to help revive manufacturing. On the campaign trail last year, he said he would use a mix of tax cuts and tariffs to force companies to ...

On the evening of January 18, a 32-year-old Greek man came to police with an unusual object he said he found in a plastic bag among garbage bins near the northern city of Thessaloniki.It was a headless, armless statue depicting a female form in a flowing, draped dress.Police announced on Wednesday that the statue is believed to date from the Hellenistic period, after the death of Alexander the Great, from around 323 BC to 31 BC.The find sparked an investigation among Greece's crime, traffic, antiquities and heritage protection units into its origins and how it might have ended up in the bin.The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places is not uncommon in a country as rich in history and archeology as Greece. Relics are often unearthed during construction projects, such as those i...

Amazon said Wednesday it will close all of its warehouse and logistics operations in Quebec, the Canadian province where unions have gained a foothold in one of its facilities, and lay off 1,700 workers.The closures represent a reversal of Amazon's recent investments in the province. The company opened three delivery stations in 2021 and one last year. It also had a small logistics center in Quebec and two warehouses that sorted packages. Overall, the investments amount to about 2 million square feet of assets, according to an estimate by Marc Wulfraat, a Montreal-based warehouse industry consultant who has long studied Amazon's logistics network.Amazon said it will close the seven facilities to "provide the same great service and even more savings to our customers in the long term," accor...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick to lead the nation's health agencies, formally asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke authorization of all Covid-19 vaccines during a deadly phase of the pandemic when thousands of Americans were still dying every week.Mr Kennedy submitted a petition to the FDA in May 2021 asking that officials revoke authorization for the shots and refrain from approving any Covid vaccines in the future.Just six months earlier, Trump had declared that the anti-Covid vaccines were a miracle. By the time Mr. Kennedy filed the petition, half of American adults were getting the shot. Schools reopened and churches filled.Estimates had begun to show that the rapid rollout of Covid vaccines had already saved around 140,000 lives in the Unite...