🤖 Meta, Google, Reddit: The AI Boom Is Hot, But Who’s About to Get Burned?
EduInvesting | 15 May 2025
Welcome to the holy trinity of tech tension: Meta, Google, and Reddit — three companies that somehow represent the extremes of Big Tech, public outrage, and internet memes, all while pretending they care about user privacy.
In May 2025, these three names are dominating headlines for very different reasons:
Meta is busy harvesting your data to feed its AI.
Google might get forcefully broken up by regulators or Apple.
Reddit IPO-ed, memed its way onto Wall Street, and is now hoping it can stay relevant.
Let’s do what investors should but rarely do: actually look beyond the headlines — with sarcasm, stats, and some SEO seasoning.
🧠 META: From Facebook to Faceborg
Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has gone full techno-dystopia in 2025. He’s not just building the Metaverse anymore — he’s now repurposing your DMs, clicks, and cat pics to train Meta’s generative AI models.
📊 Latest Numbers (Q1 2025):
Metric
Value
Revenue YoY
+13.4%
Net Income
$13.1 billion
Daily Active Users (DAUs)
2.13 billion (yes, still)
AI Spend
$37 billion projected for FY25
Meta is still a money printer. But it’s also now:
Laying off more employees than a bankrupt crypto startup
Facing lawsuits in Europe over data misuse for AI training
Using AI to write posts, moderate hate, and predict breakups (ok maybe not the last one… yet)
