META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
NASDAQ · Technology · Internet Content & Information · US
$616.77
+1.00%Aug 3, 2026, 09:56 UTC
WhatsApp, owned by Meta, began testing a feature in India that prompts some users to declare their date of birth, citing upcoming Indian regulations under the DPDP Act.
Aug 2, 2026, 16:30 UTC
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang issued a joint statement on July 24, 2026, co-signed by Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other companies, endorsing open-weight AI models as an important part of the AI foundation.
Source:Aug 1, 2026, 13:00 UTC
WhatsApp plans to launch a username feature allowing users to chat without phone numbers, expected to roll out globally in the coming months.
Source:Aug 1, 2026, 09:02 UTC
Nvidia launched its Vera CPU, a standalone Armv9.2-based processor, and announced that Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta, Oracle, CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, and NScale have signed up to deploy it in their clouds.
Source:Jul 31, 2026, 22:45 UTC
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Senator Mark Kelly sent a letter to CEOs of major AI companies requesting information about safeguards on AI chatbot companions for at-risk users, and Gillibrand held a hearing on AI-fueled financial scams against seniors.
Source:Jul 31, 2026, 14:39 UTC
Meta is testing a new WhatsApp feature that automatically moves messages from large businesses into a separate 'Offers & Updates' folder after a set number of hours, up to 24 hours.
Source:Jul 31, 2026, 07:42 UTC
US tech companies including NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Meta jointly urged the US government to make open AI a national development priority and formulate a national open-model strategy.
Source:Jul 31, 2026, 03:40 UTC
SoftBank, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta made donations to projects associated with President Trump, including his library, White House ballroom, and a pro-Trump group.
Jul 31, 2026, 01:45 UTC
Meta announced that its new AI-powered recommendation algorithms, including a redesigned Reels algorithm, have increased time spent on Instagram by over 10% year-on-year and boosted Reels viewing time by 15 basis points.
Source:Jul 30, 2026, 04:15 UTC
Meta made its Meta Business Agent platform available globally on WhatsApp and Messenger, and is now rolling out business agents on Instagram.
Jul 29, 2026, 22:23 UTC
Meta launched an enterprise AI agent for businesses in June 2026.
Source:Jul 29, 2026, 16:34 UTC
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Hims & Hers alleging the company shared users' health data with Meta and Snap and engaged in deceptive billing and cancellation practices.
Jul 29, 2026, 14:30 UTC
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Oracle issued about $194 billion of bonds in 2026 through July 7, up 79% from roughly $108 billion in all of 2025.
Source:Jul 28, 2026, 18:15 UTC
Meta increased the price of Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3 S hardware on April 19, 2026, due to a global surge in the price of critical components.
Source:Jul 28, 2026, 14:01 UTC
Meta launches web version WhatsApp calling feature.
Jul 28, 2026, 13:01 UTC
Meta has obtained the right to use Newsmax's digital news content.
Jul 27, 2026, 21:33 UTC
Meta quit RE100, the global renewable electricity pledge.
Source:Jul 27, 2026, 15:50 UTC
Meta launched the Meta Holiday Insights Center, an online hub with consumer research, platform benchmarks, and a step-by-step advertising guide for small businesses.
Source:Jul 27, 2026, 15:13 UTC
AMD unveiled its Helios AI rack system at the Advancing AI conference in San Francisco, positioning it as a competitor to Nvidia's products.
Source:Jul 27, 2026, 10:10 UTC
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has exited from a clean energy pact it had been a signatory to for over a decade.
Source:Jul 27, 2026, 07:00 UTC
DeepMind was acquired by Google in January 2014 for approximately £400 million.
Source:Jul 24, 2026, 23:13 UTC
Meta has withdrawn from the RE100 renewable energy initiative, a voluntary commitment to source 100% renewable electricity, as it increasingly relies on natural gas for its AI data centers.
Jul 24, 2026, 13:55 UTC
A judge dismissed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. alleging that WhatsApp can access users' encrypted messages and made false claims about privacy and security.
Source:Jul 23, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Meta launched Meta AI, a chatbot powered by Llama 4.
Source:Jul 14, 2026, 10:00 UTC
Meta made its Business AI agent available worldwide on WhatsApp on June 3, 2026.
Source:Jul 10, 2026, 05:40 UTC
WhatsApp submitted its written response to the Indian government's notice regarding the username feature.
Source:Jul 10, 2026, 05:40 UTC
The Indian government issued a notice to Meta, ordering WhatsApp to stop the rollout of its username feature due to concerns over fraud and impersonation.
Jun 26, 2026, 22:45 UTC
News Corp reached a deal with Meta reportedly worth up to $50 million annually for Meta to use its journalism across AI products.
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