META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
NASDAQ · Technology · Internet Content & Information · US
$624.52
+1.96%Oct 7, 2026, 06:45 UTC
The European Commission was reported to be considering expanding its proposed Corporate Resource for Europe levy to cover large companies operating in the EU, including major US technology groups.
Oct 6, 2026, 13:45 UTC
Meta halved the number of its employees using Anthropic's Claude Code from 60,000 earlier in 2026 to 30,000 while pushing adoption of its internal MetaCode tool.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 12:45 UTC
Meta's ads MCP server became available in Databricks Marketplace, letting marketers connect it to Genie to explore Meta campaign performance alongside governed business data in Databricks.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 11:30 UTC
India's large technology companies raised concerns during September industry consultations, conducted by Management Development Institute Gurugram for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, over key provisions of the proposed Digital Competition Bill, which would impose ex-ante rules on dominant digital platforms.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 11:00 UTC
Microsoft and Meta plan to restrict their developers' use of Anthropic's Claude Code AI coding tool.
Oct 6, 2026, 08:36 UTC
South Africa's Information Regulator met with Meta Platforms in September 2026, where Meta demonstrated its camera-equipped smart glasses to the privacy watchdog.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 08:00 UTC
A 13-member committee of Chile's Chamber of Deputies voted on Monday 5 October to invite former presidential candidates Evelyn Matthei and Jeannette Jara, Camila Vallejo, and representatives of Google, Meta and X to testify in its probe into political bots and disinformation since 2020.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 05:30 UTC
Adam Iza was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23,402,766 in restitution for conspiracy against rights, wire fraud, and tax evasion, including stealing more than $37 million from Meta Platforms Inc.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 01:27 UTC
CDC Data Centres terminated its Project Southgate data centre rollout partnership with Firmus, with only 2.5% of the planned project completed.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 23:59 UTC
The New York City Council held its first Committee of the Whole hearing since 2022 on AI regulation, questioning former AI researchers and policy staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta and weighing 10 bills to regulate AI in the city.
Oct 5, 2026, 22:51 UTC
Meta censored the Instagram and Facebook accounts of two gay bars in Austin, Texas, Oilcan Harry's and Rain on 4th, flagging drag queen performer photos as inappropriate and threatening reduced visibility.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 19:30 UTC
Amazon Web Services announced the Built Together program, committing more than $1 billion over five years to community college costs, skilled-trades training, and home and school energy efficiency upgrades in data center host communities.
Oct 5, 2026, 18:59 UTC
Meta halved its Claude Code users to 30,000 and Microsoft cut its cloud division's monthly per-employee Claude budget from $100,000 to $10,000, as both companies shift toward their own AI tools.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 15:30 UTC
Democrats are divided over how aggressively to pursue oversight of corporations with ties to President Donald Trump and his family if they regain power in the midterms, according to a Politico report.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 10:13 UTC
Apple announced plans to introduce more user-facing control over granting apps Full Disk Access on macOS, adding additional steps to make the decision more intentional.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 08:00 UTC
Former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan warned that allowing AI companies to self-regulate is a "proven failure" and urged investigations, enforcement of existing laws and new legislation on AI risks.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 07:00 UTC
Dentsu South Africa became the first market in Africa to move to Managed Meta Accounts, replacing personal Facebook logins with company-managed identities authenticated through Okta.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 06:44 UTC
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor shared a chart showing Bitcoin's 30-day historical volatility at 39%, matching Nvidia, while Strategy's common stock (MSTR) registered 94% and its Stretch (STRC) preferred stock logged 9%, as of the October 2 market close.
Source:Oct 4, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Toronto-based Psiphon announced it has started drawing up plans to move its operations out of Canada if the federal lawful-access bill, Bill C-22, passes in its current form.
Oct 4, 2026, 20:00 UTC
The New York City Council will hold a hearing on Monday where former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives of major AI companies including Google, OpenAI and Meta are set to testify.
Oct 4, 2026, 18:55 UTC
Apple and Google are lobbying state lawmakers to adopt kids' online safety bills featuring self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits, while Meta backs bills that place age verification duties on app stores rather than platforms.
Oct 3, 2026, 23:00 UTC
US President Donald Trump announced a voluntary AI safety pact with Nvidia, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Alphabet's Google, describing it as 'morally binding' though not legally enforceable, and directed his administration to rename AI as 'Super Intelligence' or SI.
Oct 2, 2026, 23:15 UTC
The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office confirmed it has had an open investigation into the Lineage warehouse fire since the first week of July 2026.
Source:Sep 30, 2026, 00:32 UTC
Meta reached several agreements to source AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus, which will lease GPU compute capacity at its AI factories in Southeast Asia.
Source:Sep 29, 2026, 21:29 UTC
Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Elon Musk and Nvidia signed a White House artificial intelligence agreement.
Sep 29, 2026, 20:07 UTC
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said technology companies have agreed to establish robust internal controls and a multi-layer audit system for artificial intelligence.
Source:Sep 29, 2026, 01:53 UTC
The New York City Council subpoenaed Elon Musk and SpaceXAI representatives to testify at an October 5 full-committee hearing as part of its investigation into AI safety risks.
Source:Sep 28, 2026, 22:10 UTC
AI startup Firmus and Meta announced multiple strategic cooperation agreements for AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.
Sep 21, 2026, 16:00 UTC
Iris Ramaya Au, the former girlfriend of crypto fraud defendant Adam Iza, is scheduled to be sentenced in Los Angeles federal court for failing to report more than $2.6 million in income from Iza's fraud scheme.
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