Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

Source: press TechCrunch•October 22, 2026 at 07:13 PM

Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

Meta is making a big push into AI, and it’s creating a new kind of stock that could help pay for it. On Wednesday, as the company [[L1]] its third-quarter earnings, Semafor reported the company might issue non-voting stock, meaning shares that don’t give their owners a vote on company decisions,…

Meta is making a big push into AI, and it’s creating a new kind of stock that could help pay for it.

On Wednesday, as the company reported its third-quarter earnings, Semafor reported the company might issue non-voting stock, meaning shares that don’t give their owners a vote on company decisions, to help fund its push into artificial intelligence.

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