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Sep 20, 2026, 05:45 UTC
Australia unveiled draft legislation this month imposing a 'duty of care' on platforms such as Facebook, TikTok and Instagram and letting users turn off algorithms, with the bill to be introduced to parliament later this year.
Source:Sep 19, 2026, 17:30 UTC
More than 70 buyers of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses filed a 230-page lawsuit in a federal court in Northern California accusing Meta of fraud and false advertising over alleged recording of private moments without consent.
Sep 19, 2026, 17:00 UTC
Meta Platforms launched new AI-related products, including Muse, Meta One, and a line of smart glasses.
Source:Sep 19, 2026, 13:48 UTC
On September 18, 2026, US stocks closed mixed on quadruple witching day, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rising 2.8% to 11,921.69, its fourth straight gain, while the Dow fell 0.2% to 51,682.64, the S&P 500 rose 0.2% to 7,650.5, and the Nasdaq gained 0.4% to 26,522.55.
Source:Sep 19, 2026, 07:52 UTC
Oskar Flodstrom launched a pill-bottle-shaped side table in June 2026, produced with NO LOGO's help and sold through a Shopify website.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Shopify partnered with Meta's private AI agent Muse to support AI-driven shopping and payouts for its merchants.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Alaska secured a $17.1 billion settlement with Meta Platforms.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 23:59 UTC
A separate proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois alleges Meta used photographs publicly posted on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence that could power facial-recognition tools such as NameTag.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 18:18 UTC
A data center tied to Meta Platforms Inc. completed its debut junk-bond offering, drawing demand more than four times the deal's size.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 18:05 UTC
Meta released a software update for its smart glasses that prevents users from secretly recording people around them.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 17:45 UTC
The Candle submarine cable consortium reached a construction milestone in Indonesia, landing a golden buoy at Tanjung Bemban on Batam, as part of the 8,000-km system linking six Asian markets.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 17:19 UTC
Hacktron researchers disclosed a software decoder vulnerability nicknamed HEIF Heist that can trigger memory corruption errors, enabling data theft and remote code execution across major internet platforms, enterprise services, and web frameworks.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 16:15 UTC
New Mexico asked a judge to order Meta Platforms to pay $5.45 million in litigation costs from two trials the state won against the company this year.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 13:00 UTC
XLSmart announced the start of construction on the 8,000-kilometre Candle Cable System, a subsea fibre optic cable linking Indonesia with Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 12:39 UTC
Anthropic is in talks to lease computing capacity from Meta in a potential two-year deal worth up to $10 billion.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 12:39 UTC
Meta's personal AI agent app Muse reached the top of Apple's US App Store, surpassing ChatGPT.
Sep 18, 2026, 10:17 UTC
Meta Platforms declared a quarterly cash dividend payable on September 28, 2026.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 08:30 UTC
WhatsApp began rolling out a new in-conversation search button for iPhone users in September 2026, after testing the shortcut in August.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 04:30 UTC
Colombia's Ombudsman's Office reported that drone attacks by armed groups in Colombia surged 146 percent in the first five months of 2026 versus the same period in 2025, killing 21 and wounding 145, with civilians nearly a third of the casualties.
Sep 17, 2026, 23:59 UTC
New Jersey schools banned smart glasses under the state's internet device restrictions, with districts required to establish bell-to-bell prohibitions on phones and other internet-capable devices.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 22:45 UTC
Meta Platforms (META) closed at $682.31, up 1.34% from the previous trading day.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 21:00 UTC
U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Cyber Subcommittee, said in a Fox Business interview that AI fearmongering resembles past scares and warned that China could beat the United States in AI and quantum computing.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 18:00 UTC
Meta Platforms shares rose 0.7% to $677.94, on pace for a fifth consecutive daily gain and back above their year-to-date breakeven level.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 11:22 UTC
The Delhi High Court framed a legal question in Saurabh Maurya v. John Doe (CS(COMM) 870 of 2026) on whether social media platforms' copyright-strike suspension and takedown procedures comply with the principles laid down in Shreya Singhal and Myspace Inc.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 11:15 UTC
A Kenyan judge stated during Thursday's court proceedings that Eye Media, the company behind Eye Radio, was not among the four defendants before the court, contradicting a document Eye Radio received identifying it as a party.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed a consent decree in Hinds Chancery Court outlining how the state will spend $189 million from the national Meta settlement, directing $18.8 million annually to three state agencies over ten years starting January 2027.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 19:50 UTC
Two families filed a proposed class action lawsuit alleging Meta extracted biometric information from Instagram and Facebook photos to build a face-recognition system for its smart glasses.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 14:25 UTC
Meta Platforms Inc. stock traded nearly 2% higher on Wednesday as investors favored mega-cap growth stocks.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 23:59 UTC
New Mexico's 2021 lawsuit against Facebook over Cambridge Analytica's data harvesting went to trial in Santa Fe, where former COO Sheryl Sandberg testified via video deposition on Monday.
Sep 14, 2026, 22:00 UTC
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced the distribution of Iowa's $126 million share of the national Meta settlement, including $25 million for teen restitution and several state funds for online child safety.
Sep 11, 2026, 20:30 UTC
New Mexico Department of Justice attorneys presented a video deposition of Meta Platforms founder Mark Zuckerberg during the state's trial against Facebook over allegations it misrepresented how it stored and shared users' data.
Sep 10, 2026, 23:01 UTC
Meta announced a quarterly cash dividend.
Sep 10, 2026, 20:47 UTC
Goldman Sachs Group is testing investor demand for a data center bond linked to Meta.
Source:Sep 9, 2026, 08:30 UTC
The Delhi High Court issued summons to defendants in Pulkit Mani's copyright lawsuit against Meta and others, and Meta stated it restored two Instagram Reels.
Source:Sep 8, 2026, 08:00 UTC
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled draft laws imposing a duty of care on social media companies to protect under-18s from harmful content, with fines up to Aus$109 million for non-compliance.
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Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 UTC
Meta released firmware version 128 for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, adding voice-activated turn-by-turn navigation, spatial audio processing, Mandarin Chinese language support, and improved anti-tampering measures.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 16:45 UTC
The Canadian government reaffirmed its commitment to Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, which would ban users under 16 from social media platforms, despite Meta's U.S. settlement.
Source:Aug 25, 2026, 13:46 UTC
US stock indices rose on Tuesday, with the Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Philadelphia Semiconductor Index all trading higher, while Taiwan stock index futures and TSMC ADR also gained.
Aug 21, 2026, 19:30 UTC
A class action lawsuit was filed in Chicago federal court by journalists, podcasters, and audiobook narrators against Apple, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, and other tech companies, alleging unauthorized harvesting of biometric data to train AI models.
Source:Aug 17, 2026, 10:00 UTC
Meta and BlackRock announced a $14 billion data centre project, exposing lenders to an insurance gap due to underinsured risks.
Source:Aug 13, 2026, 05:58 UTC
The Delhi High Court asked Meta to explain its criteria for granting access to its Rights Manager copyright-protection tool, in a case brought by content creator Mohit Kumar alleging fraudulent copyright strikes against his original videos.
Aug 10, 2026, 13:55 UTC
On August 10, 2026, U.S. stock indices opened lower, with the Dow down 0.09%, S&P 500 down 0.04%, and Nasdaq down 0.04%, while optical communication stocks continued to rise and SpaceX rose for a third consecutive day.
Jul 17, 2026, 16:18 UTC
Meta and Anthropic have entered into a computing capacity cooperation deal with a potential total value of up to $10 billion over two years.