Meta News & Updates
Last updated September 10, 2026
AWS’s marketing chief asked staff to recruit recently laid-off Meta workers even as Amazon keeps cutting jobs elsewhere
xAI faces a class action accusing its Grok chatbot of sharing user queries with Google, Meta, and TikTok without consent
Meta and Google lose their bid for a new trial in a youth social media addiction case after a $6M jury verdict
A bug in Meta’s AI support chatbot let hackers hijack over 20,000 Instagram accounts with a password-reset exploit
Flipkart and Meta launch an affiliate partnership letting creators tag and sell Flipkart and Myntra products in Facebook posts
Meta strips its hidden NameTag face-recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED exposed it
The EU orders Meta to give rival AI chatbots free WhatsApp Business API access while it investigates antitrust claims
Meta will start using your off-platform purchases and activity to personalize Facebook and Instagram feeds, not just ads
Asaas buys WhatsApp-based CRM startup Helena for R$150M to fold AI sales agents into its payments platform for small businesses
Meta launches AI business agents to book appointments and close sales
Meta is weighing a multibillion-dollar stock offering to fund its AI infrastructure after Alphabet’s $84.75B raise, the Financial Times reports
Meta built an AI feed that generated fake clickbait “news” articles, then killed it after The Verge started asking questions
Meta is so starved for AI compute that it’s building giant chip-filled tents with gas generators to serve as data centers
Meta paying creators in USDC validates stablecoins but leaves the messy off-ramp to users, columnist Tim Joslyn argues
Meta tests a Reels “Series” feature letting creators turn one-off videos into followable episodic collections viewers can return to
Meta launches AI business agents on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger that can answer questions, book appointments, and close sales
Meta spins out VR fitness app Supernatural into an independent company three years after its $400M acquisition
Meta’s own Oversight Board raises “due process concerns” over how the company bans user accounts
The DOJ disrupts 1.4 million scam accounts in a first-of-its-kind operation with Apple, Meta, Coinbase, and others
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