META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
NASDAQ · Technology · Internet Content & Information · US
$624.52
+1.96%Oct 2, 2026, 21:15 UTC
Rep. Ro Khanna sent letters on Sept. 30 to Alphabet, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI asking them to disclose Chinese attempts to obtain frontier AI model weights and details of their cybersecurity safeguards.
Source:Oct 2, 2026, 19:20 UTC
Nscale hired Meta Platforms executive Justin Osofsky as its chief operating officer ahead of its upcoming initial public offering.
Oct 2, 2026, 19:00 UTC
Shopify began automatically enrolling merchants' stores in new AI shopping channels, sharing products with Meta and unnamed startups via its agentic storefronts setting.
Source:Oct 2, 2026, 17:45 UTC
The Morningstar Global Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Index rose 6% in the third quarter of 2026, a slowdown from its 42% gain in the second quarter, with hyperscalers and software stocks outperforming hardware and semiconductor names.
Source:Oct 2, 2026, 17:31 UTC
Meta laid off employees it had hired in June from Virtue AI.
Oct 2, 2026, 17:30 UTC
Peripheral Labs appointed former Meta Reality Labs head of product Shaun Carrigan as its first chief product officer in June 2026.
Source:Oct 2, 2026, 17:28 UTC
Meta and Virtue AI ended their partnership.
Source:Oct 2, 2026, 15:47 UTC
OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic introduced cute mascot characters for their AI products—OpenAI's new AI agent, Meta's Muse assistant, and Anthropic's pixel-art orange crab 'Clawd'—in an effort to make the technology seem less frightening.
Source:Oct 2, 2026, 15:30 UTC
More than 30 Indigenous herders from Biliqo Bulesa in Kenya filed a lawsuit against the Northern Rangelands Trust's Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project, challenging the carbon credit scheme on their ancestral land.
Oct 2, 2026, 07:13 UTC
Elon Musk said on X that SpaceX plans to use Starship to place larger-aperture telescopes into orbit and eventually deploy a giant telescope on the Moon.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 23:45 UTC
Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco AI startup founded in 2024, announced a $30 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing total funding to $38.5 million.
Oct 1, 2026, 21:30 UTC
Neptune Insurance Holdings announced that its flood insurance products can now be purchased through AI agents such as Meta's Muse, enabling consumers to shop for flood insurance via personal AI assistants.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 20:45 UTC
Sigo Seguros launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enabling personal AI agents such as ChatGPT, Grok Bot and Muse to quote and purchase Texas auto insurance within the conversation, and launched InsuranceMCP.com, an open directory for insurers' MCP servers.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 16:01 UTC
Meta poached MongoDB's CEO.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 14:45 UTC
The Illinois Economic Policy Institute projected that $57 billion in new data center investments in Illinois through 2035 would create 121,000 jobs, mostly temporary construction positions.
Oct 1, 2026, 14:13 UTC
Meta Platforms filed a notice of appeal on September 30 against a Lagos High Court judgment ordering it to stop unlawful processing of Nigerian Facebook and Instagram users' data for behavioural advertising and to pay $100,000 in damages.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 11:05 UTC
Instagram is rolling out a new AI video assistant that analyzes creators' Reels performance and suggests what content they should make next.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 10:15 UTC
Meta permanently disabled all of Toronto resident Jasmine Ault's Instagram and Facebook accounts overnight, including a linked Instagram account for her dog.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 09:30 UTC
Tulane University hosted its Future of Energy Forum on campus from Sept. 28-30, 2026, focusing on energy demand from AI data centers, LNG, nuclear innovation and regulatory streamlining.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 08:00 UTC
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority submitted a report to the Islamabad High Court in Writ Petition No. 4163 of 2026 stating that selectively blocking individual content on encrypted social media platforms is technically difficult.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 07:09 UTC
Meta rolled out its Muse AI agent, driving longer server CPU lead times and extending AMD EPYC processor orders into 2028.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 07:00 UTC
Twenty-eight cyber fraud cases were reported in Bhopal, India, in a single day, with victims losing more than ₹29 lakh to online scams including fake credit-card upgrades, electricity bill warnings, job offers and traffic challans.
Source:Sep 30, 2026, 15:48 UTC
Meta released an AI-powered analytics assistant for its Edits app to help creators analyze Instagram Reels performance data.
Source:Sep 30, 2026, 14:30 UTC
Meta launched a new AI assistant within its Edits video editing app that offers Instagram creators personalized content guidance based on their audience and performance data.
Source:Sep 28, 2026, 20:32 UTC
MongoDB shares plunged 18% after Meta Platforms tapped its CEO Dev Ittycheria to lead a new AI platform.
Source:Sep 28, 2026, 15:10 UTC
Meta Platforms hired MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria to lead a new enterprise AI platform, which Mark Zuckerberg called the company's next major business pillar.