Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AI

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Mark Zuckerberg’s media spree touting the positive effects of artificial intelligence did little to cushion the blow of Meta’s second-quarter earnings, which sent its stock tumbling on Wednesday. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Tuesday, the Meta chief executive expressed his optimism for a world where everyone has access to a super-intelligent machine. “As a thought experiment, imagine only one person had a super-intelligent lawyer,” Zuckerberg wrote. “He would have an unfair advantage in court. That would lead to a worse society. But now imagine everyone has a super-intelligent lawyer. Justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today.” But Zuckerberg’s message of…

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