Meta News & Updates
Last updated October 25, 2026
Meta lets Facebook users tell its feed algorithm in plain language what they want to see, using LLMs in its ranking systems
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta decided to spend up to $200 billion on its AI push before it knew whether the models would work
Meta bans ads from ByteDance and anyone linking to TikTok
Meta and Sierra launch a Personal Agent Protocol for AI shopping agents
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed out the Muse AI agent despite safety concerns after rival startup Instinct’s agent took off
Meta faces a class action claiming its “Ends today” AI glasses emails broke Washington law because the $224 sale kept running
Meta donates 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to Singapore disability groups and funds training for visually impaired users
YouTube, Meta, Twitch, and X won’t say if they’ll host the Pentagon’s planned livestream of a firing squad execution in December
Orita raises $7M seed to expand its AI customer segmentation beyond Klaviyo email into SMS, direct mail, CTV, and Meta ads
Meta and Sierra launch a Personal Agent Protocol with Walmart, Shopify, and Stripe to set rules for AI agents acting for shoppers
Meta bans ads from ByteDance and from any advertiser linking to TikTok across its apps in the US and six other countries
Meta adds AI that checks where ads send users to catch harmless-looking ads that point to CSAM elsewhere
Meta tests an agentic ad assistant that builds and runs campaigns by chat and a Shopify checkout inside its Messenger agent
TikTok creators push cheap Meta AI glasses knockoffs on TikTok Shop by claiming they can record people without a warning light
Manus raises over $500M led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, its first round since Beijing forced Meta to unwind its acquisition
Meta tests a Facebook app in India and Indonesia that opens into full-screen Reels, while Instagram trials a Reels-first setting
Self-proclaimed crypto “Godfather” Adam Iza is sentenced to 78 months in prison for selling access to hijacked Meta ad accounts
Lettering artist Jessica Hische faces backlash from designers for creating Meta’s Muse logo, a $12,500 job she did without AI
Microsoft cuts internal Claude spending by a third and Meta halves Claude Code users as both push staff onto their own AI tools
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