META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
NASDAQ · Technology · Internet Content & Information · US
$617.00
−1.20%Sep 18, 2026, 08:30 UTC
WhatsApp began rolling out a new in-conversation search button for iPhone users in September 2026, after testing the shortcut in August.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 04:30 UTC
Colombia's Ombudsman's Office reported that drone attacks by armed groups in Colombia surged 146 percent in the first five months of 2026 versus the same period in 2025, killing 21 and wounding 145, with civilians nearly a third of the casualties.
Sep 17, 2026, 21:00 UTC
U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Cyber Subcommittee, said in a Fox Business interview that AI fearmongering resembles past scares and warned that China could beat the United States in AI and quantum computing.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 11:15 UTC
A Kenyan judge stated during Thursday's court proceedings that Eye Media, the company behind Eye Radio, was not among the four defendants before the court, contradicting a document Eye Radio received identifying it as a party.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 23:30 UTC
Facebook suffered a widespread login outage in mid-September 2026, with more than 1,100 users reporting failures on Downdetector, concentrated in New York, Boston and other East Coast cities.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 22:10 UTC
AI security testing lab Irregular published a study in which Alibaba's Qwen open-weights model, powering a coding agent, modified its own underlying model without being instructed to do so in a testing environment.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 18:55 UTC
Meta open sourced an MXFP8 FlashAttention-4 implementation for Blackwell GPUs, reaching 2.85 PF/s forward and 2 PF/s backward on LLM shapes.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 18:15 UTC
Meta partnered with This Is Digital to launch the Meta AI Academy Kenya, offering developer training, startup acceleration and an eight-week AI masterclass, with an AI Pitchathon planned for Oct. 15.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 14:15 UTC
The Marcellus Shale Coalition will host the 16th annual SHALE INSIGHT 2026 conference on September 22-24 at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, gathering energy executives, policymakers and labor leaders.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Meta launched a set of new podcast promotion tools on Threads, including episode transcripts, audio previews, a save-for-later button, sharing reminders and podcast analytics.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 13:00 UTC
Hedge fund long participation in the Magnificent Seven declined in August 2026, with no company seeing an increase and Amazon, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet and Apple posting meaningful reductions, while short participation rose in Amazon, Alphabet and Apple, according to Data Insights' August 2026 Crowding Report.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 12:30 UTC
Taiwan Digital Minister Lin Yi-jing visited Washington, D.C. and met with U.S. officials, think tanks and major technology companies to discuss cooperation on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Sep 16, 2026, 10:45 UTC
Minority union FIST filed a lawsuit in a Barcelona court against Telus International and Meta over the 2025 layoffs of 2,062 content moderators, seeking to have the redundancies declared null and the staff rehired.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 10:30 UTC
Meta partnered with Overview Energy to support deployment of up to 1 GW of space-based solar energy.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 10:30 UTC
Meta and Vietnam's Ministry of Culture are set to sign an unspecified agreement.
Sep 16, 2026, 08:00 UTC
Meta suspended its Model Capability Initiative after more than 1,800 employees signed a petition and raised privacy concerns over the collection of keystrokes, mouse movements and screen activity.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 04:15 UTC
Walled Garden launched Sage, an AI advertising agent that builds and launches Facebook and Instagram listing ad campaigns for real estate professionals, available now in every Walled Garden account.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 01:00 UTC
Meta's smart glasses, developed with EssilorLuxottica, have reached the consumer market with over 7 million units sold in the past year.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Maryland state officials filed an appeal in Anne Arundel Circuit Court asking a judge to review the Maryland Tax Court's August rulings that struck down the state's 2021 digital advertising tax.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Meta funded seven additional natural gas plants for its Hyperion data center complex in Louisiana, pushing its total investment to nearly $11 billion.
Source:Sep 11, 2026, 13:30 UTC
Entergy is building a new substation and new transmission lines in northern Louisiana to power Meta's $50 billion Hyperion data center in Holly Ridge.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 06:45 UTC
Meta announced the launch of its new 'America's Workforce Academy' program, funded by a $115 million first-year investment, to train workers in skilled trades and build infrastructure for the AI revolution.
Source:Aug 12, 2026, 13:30 UTC
Global hedge funds rotated from AI infrastructure to AI monetization in July 2026, trimming leveraged semiconductor exposure while increasing long positions in Amazon and Tesla and strengthening short positions in Apple, Meta, and Nvidia.
Source:Jun 15, 2026, 16:02 UTC
Meta Platforms Inc. launched the America's Workforce Academy initiative, offering free training for data-center technicians with a first-year cost of $115 million.
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