Meta News & Updates
Last updated September 10, 2026
TikTok settles the three bellwether trials set for October and leaves Meta, YouTube, and Snap to defend the addiction claims
Google and Meta move to dismiss voice actors’ AI training suits, saying the complaints never allege their voices were used
Meta makes its AI Developer Assistant the primary support path for developers instead of documentation and support tickets
Amazon stock rises 9% on the same kind of capex increase that knocked 9% off Meta and 7% off Alphabet earlier this month
More than 1,200 workers at Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta ask Washington to help build tools for pacing AI development
FTC sues Hims & Hers over tracking pixels that allegedly fed patient health data to Meta, Snap, Microsoft, Reddit, and X
Scale AI hires Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as its new CEO, a year after founder Alexandr Wang left the company for Meta
Meta’s future AI data center lease obligations jump 53% in a single quarter to $279B, with another $68B signed in July
Freehand raises $75M co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad for AI agents that run supply chain spend at Meta and Unilever
Meta brings audio and video calling to WhatsApp Web and adds call transfer, waiting rooms, QuickHD, and noise suppression
Meta beats two class actions blaming its scam ads for stock pump-and-dump losses, on a technicality rather than the merits
Lightspeed syncs in-store POS transactions with Meta’s Conversions API so brick-and-mortar shops can tie Facebook and Instagram ads to sales
OpenAI builds a Meta-shaped ad sales organization around a business that ran its first advertisement only five months ago
Meta buried its own findings on teen harm while chasing ad views, Tennessee’s lawyers tell a Nashville jury as trial opens
Facebook launches a standalone Seller app for Marketplace
#288 – TikTok Shop Plus, Facebook’s Seller App, & the Online Sellers Bill of Rights
Instagram bans harassment videos filmed on Meta glasses and removes two pickup artist accounts with over a million followers
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and Palantir sign a letter warning policymakers against premature restrictions on open-weight AI models
Mark Zuckerberg posts a nostalgia-heavy video selling its AI future as a bet on people amid layoffs, lawsuits, and backlash
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