How Apple glassmaker Corning won a $6 billion AI infrastructure deal with Meta

Meta is giving Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, in a deal reported first by CNBC. Famous for making iPhone glass for Apple, the 175-year-old U.S. company is now seeing record fiber demand and its stock rose 75% in a year. CNBC went to North Carolina for an exclusive interview with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks about a new type of optical fiber invented for AI, and saw the expansion that Corning says will make its Hickory cable factory the largest in the world.