Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta’s AI and hardware bets.
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Nieman Lab ·
Meta has indefinitely delayed its proposed commercial terms of service, which would have permitted the company to scrape the websites of Meta Business account users.
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal ·
Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference, Dina Powell McCormick says the company is more optimistic about scaling up its existing data centers
Jay Peters / The Verge ·
Muse AI agent now has voices and 'expressive' avatars that animate while chatting with you.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters ·
Google (GOOGL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended …
Charles Rollet / Business Insider ·
Meta is done with fruits.
Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. raised €9 billion from a debut euro debt bond sale that drew a record €53 billion of orders …
Madison Mills / Axios ·
Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that lets software engineers manage multiple coding agents simultaneously …
Financial Times ·
SpaceX-Tesla merger and Meta's new share class expected to fend off legal challenges after shareholder rights diminished in Delaware and Texas.
Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. raised $15 billion from a US dollar bond sale, drawing solid demand as it became the latest Big Tech company …
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine ·
Charles Porch is rich, super-connected, and tasked with getting celebrities (and everyone else) to not hate AI so much.
Meir Orbach / CTech ·
The platform turns company procedures into short, branded videos delivered through WhatsApp, Teams and other familiar channels.
Gunjan Banerji / Wall Street Journal ·
With trillions riding on the artificial-intelligence trade, investors, traders and tech executives alike are hunting for high-stakes protection
Jyoti Mann / The Information ·
Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC ·
Meta's outlook has been revised downward by S&P Global Ratings on concerns surrounding cash flow and AI spending.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg ·
The five largest players in the data center race have committed more than $3 trillion in spending over the coming years …
Sam Tobin / Reuters ·
Meta (META.O), TikTok and X lost a legal challenge against British regulator Ofcom on Friday over information requests made under …
Reuters ·
Britain's competition regulator on Friday said it has opened an investigation into whether Meta (META.O) was imposing exploitative terms …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·
Meta has quietly launched Style Sketch, an AI fashion app that helps users put together outfit ideas using clothes they already own.
Business Insider ·
Instagram wants what YouTube has
Wall Street Journal ·
As midterms near, Google, Meta and other tech firms resist broad ICE demands for user data as the agency scours platforms for immigration speech
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·
Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the "For You" feed popularized by TikTok. The company announced on Wednesday that users will now see two options …
Mariella Moon / Engadget ·
But it's only available in the Philippines for now.
Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg ·
AI chipmaker Moore Threads Technology Co. said sales grew 1,774% in the three months through September, buoyed …
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC ·
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have said they will invest a total of $4 billion in Meta after the social media …
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter ·
Select creators in the U.S. Monday and will be able to test out the new product, which could make the platform more of a destination for full video podcasts.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times ·
Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc.'s $349-and-up Ray-Ban Meta Audio, announced last month, are an odd proposition.
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors ·
Instagram is now available on the Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows via the platform to Apple's streaming device for the first time.
Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg ·
A new villain is emerging in the closing stretch of Brazil's bitterly contested presidential election: Meta Platforms Inc.
Rachel Monroe / New Yorker ·
Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution.
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. said it has agreed to spend about $825 billion in the future on various leases and contracts …
New York Times ·
The billionaire told Meta's board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure to help him pay the tax if voters pass it.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC ·
Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy case that stemmed …
Mike Allen / Axios ·
Joel Kaplan, Meta's chief global affairs officer, will leave Meta next year after 15+ years as Mark Zuckerberg's top Washington adviser.
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg ·
Australia to Sue Social Media Firms on Alleged Breaches
Engineering at Meta ·
- With the recent release of the Muse family of foundational models, we want to take you inside the infrastructure that has made it all possible.
Dan Mangan / CNBC ·
The Saudi national charged with planting a recording device in a sensitive OpenAI executive conference room in San Francisco was …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge ·
Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta's terms.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times ·
The 29-year-old in charge of the company's Superintelligence Labs is being touted as a potential successor to Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·
Apple Inc. has tapped a longtime Meta Platforms Inc. executive as its new litigation chief, bolstering its legal team at a time when the iPhone maker faces a growing array of lawsuits.
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times ·
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.
Alix Coutures / The Information ·
As OpenAI has jockeyed with Anthropic to win over developers with new models and tools this year, its advertising business at times has seemed like an afterthought.
Nieman Lab ·
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law ·
Top Justice Department officials have sidelined career prosecutors' long-running grand jury investigation of Meta Platforms …
Ina Fried / Axios ·
Apple and Meta, whose leaders have spent years trading barbs over privacy and the future of computing …
Washington Post ·
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
Kashmir Hill / New York Times ·
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, questioning the company's $6.6 billion in tax breaks.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·
Many businesses around the world use consumer-facing chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, or iMessage to talk and coordinate with staff, and exchange documents or data.
Anna Washenko / Engadget ·
It's also working on calendar integrations for later this year.
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge ·
Meta's bringing Instagram's "Your Algorithm" feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank content.
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek ·
Most of the affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States and they are being offered credit monitoring services.
Reece Rogers / Wired ·
My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting "control" and described pornographic encounters.
Cheeky Pint ·
As Meta scales its AI infrastructure past five gigawatts, Mark Zuckerberg (founder and CEO, Meta) and Alexandr Wang …
Wall Street Journal ·
Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom
Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance Ltd., the former controlling owner of TikTok, intensifying the competition with the popular social video site.
Anniek Bao / CNBC ·
AI agent startup Manus has raised more than $500 million in its first funding round since Meta was forced to abandon its acquisition of the company.
David Pierce / The Verge ·
ICANN's latest top-level domain applications are out, and they are all about AI. … For the first time in years …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch ·
Meta announced Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026.
Krystal Hu / Reuters ·
The US government and tech heavyweights Meta Platforms (META.O) and Google parent Alphabet are joining nonprofit Biohub …
Boone Ashworth / Wired ·
Xreal's long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here's how they fare against Meta's recently announced VR Glasses.