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Oct 20, 2026, 14:30 UTC
Gray Swan launched a redesigned version of its Arena red-teaming platform, alongside the Indirect Prompt Injection Black competition offering $300,000 in prizes sponsored by Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, Meta Platforms, Inc., Google DeepMind, and Reflection AI.
Source:Oct 20, 2026, 11:00 UTC
Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson ordered Meta Platforms, Inc. to identify employees involved in decisions to obtain and download shadow-library data via BitTorrent, including participants in discussions preceding a 2023 LibGen download.
Oct 20, 2026, 10:00 UTC
Meta Platforms, Inc. and South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies launched the AI Academy South Africa, offering free AI skills programmes for developers, startups, students and early-career professionals.
Source:Oct 19, 2026, 23:59 UTC
The Alliance for Affordable Energy and the Union of Concerned Scientists appealed the Louisiana Public Service Commission’s decision blocking access to Meta Platforms, Inc. records, asking a state court to reinstate a subpoena, halt activity on ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC’s application and reopen the evidentiary record.
Source:Oct 19, 2026, 16:22 UTC
The article reported early U.S. trading moves in several major stocks, including gains for AMAZON COM INC, Tesla, Inc. and NVIDIA CORP and declines for Apple Inc. and Meta.
Source:Oct 19, 2026, 15:00 UTC
The Electoral Commission of South Africa partnered with Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc., MICROSOFT CORP, TikTok, Inc. and Moxii Africa on a cooperation framework to combat election disinformation and protect the integrity of the 4 November local government elections.
Oct 19, 2026, 15:00 UTC
Cboe Global Markets, Inc. launched extended pre-market and post-market trading sessions for selected U.S. single-stock and ETF options on its Cboe Global Markets, Inc..
Oct 19, 2026, 13:00 UTC
Jim Desmond’s county supervisor office spent $249,470 in public funds on advertising from January to early September 2026, including about $62,000 paid to Target River and the remainder to Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc., Disney and X.
Source:Oct 19, 2026, 13:00 UTC
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation signed at least five nondisclosure agreements with data-center developers, including agreements with Balloonist LLC, QTS Realty Trust, Inc. and MICROSOFT CORP.
Source:Oct 19, 2026, 09:00 UTC
SCHWAB CHARLES CORP began blocking unauthorized third-party AI agents from attempting to execute transactions in client accounts.
Source:Oct 18, 2026, 20:00 UTC
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued an advisory asking Meta to review its content recommendation systems, strengthen checks on potentially misleading or harmful material, cooperate with authorities, and report actions taken.
Oct 17, 2026, 21:30 UTC
The Delhi High Court decreed Arjun Kapoor’s personality-rights suit, protecting his identity from unauthorised commercial use and directing the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Telecommunications to remove specified infringing links.
Source:Oct 17, 2026, 21:30 UTC
Meta Platforms, Inc. asked the High Court in London to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, challenging the regulator’s interpretation of qualifying worldwide revenue and joint liability across its services.
Source:Oct 17, 2026, 13:15 UTC
Prime Minister Edi Rama said his government would safeguard students’ right to demonstrate and reiterated its goal of bringing Albania into the European Union by 2030.
Source:Oct 17, 2026, 07:00 UTC
The Jewish Democratic Council of America launched a social-media ad campaign targeting Jewish voters in six states and toss-up House districts, criticizing Young Republicans over antisemitic group-chat messages; the council said the campaign cost close to $300,000.
Source:Oct 17, 2026, 00:34 UTC
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency and Department of Commerce’s Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence issued voluntary guidance recommending cybersecurity controls, independent testing and shutdown policies for frontier AI systems.
Source:Oct 16, 2026, 22:15 UTC
Regional School Unit 9 voted unanimously to join multidistrict litigation against social media companies and signed a retainer agreement to participate.
Oct 16, 2026, 21:50 UTC
Apple Inc. appointed a Meta Platforms, Inc. veteran as its head of litigation as part of a legal-team reshuffle.
Oct 16, 2026, 20:58 UTC
Meta Platforms, Inc. withdrew $25 million from its midterms push, which had aimed to elect state politicians friendly to the AI industry.
Source:Oct 16, 2026, 18:38 UTC
U.S. online travel company shares fell after Meta introduced its Muse travel-booking agent, with Booking Holdings Inc. down 14% and Airbnb, Inc. down 4% from their September 4 closing prices as of October 16.
Source:Oct 15, 2026, 06:20 UTC
A Bengaluru civil court issued an ex parte order restraining 42 defendants from disseminating two videos linking Siddaramaiah to an alleged honey trap.
Source:Oct 14, 2026, 23:00 UTC
The Rockingham County School Board voted unanimously to authorize litigation seeking damages from Meta, Bytedance, Inc., Snap Inc and Alphabet Inc. over alleged harms from social media use by students.
Source:Oct 13, 2026, 09:15 UTC
A Meta Platforms, Inc. hearing on Meta’s challenge to Ofcom’s online safety fee rules was scheduled for Tuesday.
Source:Oct 13, 2026, 08:23 UTC
The Delhi High Court issued an ex parte ad-interim injunction restraining unauthorised use of Kangana Ranaut’s identity and directing Meta to remove identified content and MeitY and DoT to direct service providers to block specified websites.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 07:50 UTC
Ofcom opened an investigation into whether Meta adequately assessed the risks of its Instagram Instants feature before launch.
Oct 1, 2026, 23:59 UTC
The McCracken County Board of Education voted to join a multi-district social media lawsuit against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Google and other platforms over alleged harms to students.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 17:30 UTC
Local revolts against AI data center construction spread across the United States, with opposition blocking or delaying at least 120 data center projects worth $198 billion in the first six months of 2026.
Source:Sep 24, 2026, 15:45 UTC
Airbnb stock fell to $149.58, its lowest level since August 6, and is down 23% from last month's peak amid investor concerns about Meta Platforms' Muse AI agent.
Source:Sep 22, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Clearview Dynamics LLC is evaluating the 111-acre Wood Haven Technology Park in Roanoke, Virginia for a proposed large-scale data center, with an earnest money deposit expected on October 7 and due diligence scheduled through March 2027.
Source:Aug 26, 2026, 16:45 UTC
The Trump administration has entered into data-sharing agreements with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other technology companies to monitor the impact of artificial intelligence on employment and hiring practices.
Source:Aug 11, 2026, 07:21 UTC
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an essay on August 10, 2026, proposing that frontier AI labs provide the U.S. government with intermediate training checkpoints of unreleased models before public launch.
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