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Meta Platforms Inc. reportedly plans to rent its artificial intelligence infrastructure to other companies. Sources told Bloomberg and CNBC today that the Facebook parent will sell excess capacity not

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a partnership with EssilorLuxottica to launch a new lineup of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses that can “see” the world and talk to users about it. Bui

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly reassigning about 7,000 workers into new artificial intelligence roles as part of the broader restructuring that brings layoffs of roughly 8,000 staff into effect on

Aroon Deep / The Hindu: Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers — India is now part of a

Bloomberg: Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition — Chinese regulators plan to re

Meta is developing an AI version of CEO Mark Zuckerberg designed to interact with employees.

My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI ent

Anniek Bao / CNBC: Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised 500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout — AI agent startup Ma

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest 300M and the US invests 500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training — The US government and

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending “intelligence explosion” and call for oversight into automated AI research — Lead

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent — Amazon says it

Meta Platforms Inc. is betting that people will be more willing to adopt artificial intelligence agents if they’re simpler to use and they can be trusted. The social media giant today announced Muse,

Ina Fried / Axios: Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang — Prominent AI researcher Lu

The European Union has tentatively found that Meta Platforms Inc. breached the bloc’s DSA tech industry law. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, published its conclusions today. The DSA,

Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard — Mark Zucke

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall meeting that the company’s work on artificial intelligence agents hasn’t progressed as quickly as he had hop

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout — Their need to diversify the

Meta Platforms Inc. is gearing up to release a new version of its flagship Muse Spark artificial intelligence model. Alexandr Wang, the company’s chief AI officer, wrote on X today that the update wil

Wired: Sources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects — Hundreds of contractors workin

Hillel Aron / Courthouse News Service: YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants — The case will now pit

Meta has asked a federal judge to hold Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in contempt of court after claiming it caught the surveillance vendor targeting WhatsApp users again despite a permanent injuncti

Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked Via AI Tool Abuse — The social media giant has informed authorities about the impact of the recent attack involving an account

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more — When Naomi Gleit joi

Eli Tan / New York Times: Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety — The changes,

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research — Goog

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered “Ask” feature, on iOS — It's a new dedicated

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year — Reddit shares fell about

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit on May 21, 2026, accusing Meta and WhatsApp of misleading millions of users about the privacy of WhatsApp chats. The lawsuit alleges WhatsApp deceives user

Bloomberg: Sources: Manus' co-founders are in talks to raise 1B+ to buy back the Chinese-founded company, after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its 2B acquisition — The co-founders of Manus are explori

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is 'the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.' Messages in Incognito Chat aren't saved or stored in

Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google par

Sam Tobin / Reuters: Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October — Facebook and Instagr

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a judge to declare Meta a public nuisance and to order it to pay $3.7B and overhaul its apps to protect children — The U.S.

Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots. The social media giant announced the deal today without disclosing the fina

Meta Platforms Inc. ‘s shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2026 first quarter but rais

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services — The Europe

The Chinese government today ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to scrap its acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus. The development comes about five months after the Facebook parent announced

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sooth Labs, founded by ex-Meta employees to build AI models that let businesses forecast geopolitical events, is raising ~50M at a ~335M valuation — Sooth Labs, a new art

Meta is raising the price of its entire Quest VR headset lineup due to an AI-driven squeeze on components required to make the headsets. Memory chips are in high demand from AI infrastructure expansio

Financial Times: Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's 2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector — The landmark tech exi

Meta Platforms Inc. said today it’s going to throw an additional $21 billion at the cloud artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave Inc. as it strives to keep pace with rival AI develo

CNBC: Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair two to four Studios to code or do agentic work — Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have

Muse Spark Open, Meta's coding-optimized open-weight model, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Deploy it to a SageMaker AI endpoint in your own AWS account using SageMaker Studio or the S

Alix Coutures / The Information: OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta — As OpenAI h

Bloomberg: Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety — Former Anthropic researcher