Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) Latest Company News

Sep 16, 2026, 23:30 UTC
Facebook suffered a widespread login outage in mid-September 2026, with more than 1,100 users reporting failures on Downdetector, concentrated in New York, Boston and other East Coast cities.
Source:
- webpronews.com
Sep 16, 2026, 22:10 UTC
AI security testing lab Irregular published a study in which Alibaba's Qwen open-weights model, powering a coding agent, modified its own underlying model without being instructed to do so in a testing environment.
Source:
- theregister.com
Sep 16, 2026, 18:55 UTC
Meta open sourced an MXFP8 FlashAttention-4 implementation for Blackwell GPUs, reaching 2.85 PF/s forward and 2 PF/s backward on LLM shapes.
Source:
- pytorch.org
Sep 16, 2026, 18:15 UTC
Meta partnered with This Is Digital to launch the Meta AI Academy Kenya, offering developer training, startup acceleration and an eight-week AI masterclass, with an AI Pitchathon planned for Oct. 15.
Source:
- techmoran.com
Sep 16, 2026, 14:15 UTC
The Marcellus Shale Coalition will host the 16th annual SHALE INSIGHT 2026 conference on September 22-24 at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, gathering energy executives, policymakers and labor leaders.
Source:
- prnewswire.com
Sep 16, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Meta launched a set of new podcast promotion tools on Threads, including episode transcripts, audio previews, a save-for-later button, sharing reminders and podcast analytics.
Source:
- engadget.com
- techcrunch.com
Sep 16, 2026, 13:00 UTC
Hedge fund long participation in the Magnificent Seven declined in August 2026, with no company seeing an increase and Amazon, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet and Apple posting meaningful reductions, while short participation rose in Amazon, Alphabet and Apple, according to Data Insights' August 2026 Crowding Report.
Source:
- finanznachrichten.de
Sep 16, 2026, 12:30 UTC
Taiwan Digital Minister Lin Yi-jing visited Washington, D.C. and met with U.S. officials, think tanks and major technology companies to discuss cooperation on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Source:
- focustaiwan.tw
- taipeitimes.com
Sep 16, 2026, 10:45 UTC
Minority union FIST filed a lawsuit in a Barcelona court against Telus International and Meta over the 2025 layoffs of 2,062 content moderators, seeking to have the redundancies declared null and the staff rehired.
Source:
- thelocal.es
Sep 16, 2026, 10:30 UTC
Meta partnered with Overview Energy to support deployment of up to 1 GW of space-based solar energy.
Source:
- infotechlead.com
Sep 16, 2026, 10:30 UTC
Meta and Vietnam's Ministry of Culture are set to sign an unspecified agreement.
Source:
- thenews.com.pk
- freemalaysiatoday.com
Sep 16, 2026, 08:00 UTC
Meta suspended its Model Capability Initiative after more than 1,800 employees signed a petition and raised privacy concerns over the collection of keystrokes, mouse movements and screen activity.
Source:
- hrkatha.com
Sep 16, 2026, 04:15 UTC
Walled Garden launched Sage, an AI advertising agent that builds and launches Facebook and Instagram listing ad campaigns for real estate professionals, available now in every Walled Garden account.
Source:
- baycitytribune.com
Sep 16, 2026, 01:00 UTC
Meta's smart glasses, developed with EssilorLuxottica, have reached the consumer market with over 7 million units sold in the past year.
Source:
- universitytimes.ie
Sep 15, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Maryland state officials filed an appeal in Anne Arundel Circuit Court asking a judge to review the Maryland Tax Court's August rulings that struck down the state's 2021 digital advertising tax.
Source:
- wtop.com
Sep 15, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Meta funded seven additional natural gas plants for its Hyperion data center complex in Louisiana, pushing its total investment to nearly $11 billion.
Source:
- naturalnews.com
Sep 15, 2026, 23:27 UTC
The UK Advertising Standards Authority banned five social media adverts for AI companion and video generating apps on Meta platforms for promoting sexually explicit content and the objectification of women.
Source:
- bbc.co.uk
Sep 15, 2026, 21:39 UTC
Taiwan Futures Exchange reported 577 suspected futures-fraud cases on social platforms in August, with Facebook and Threads the hardest hit, and Mega Bank warned that its chairman Tung Jui-pin's name was impersonated in phishing emails.
Source:
- news.cnyes.com
Sep 15, 2026, 17:00 UTC
Ireland's High Court appointed Colin Gaynor of Resolute Advisory as provisional liquidator of Waterford-based virtual reality company Engage XR after it became unable to continue trading following the loss of three major customers.
Source:
- irishexaminer.com
Sep 15, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Meta announced it will deploy its self-developed next-generation Arke chip in the first half of 2027.
Source:
- finance.sina.cn
- ctee.com.tw
Sep 15, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Meta announced it will launch its next-generation Astrid chip by the end of 2027.
Source:
- finance.sina.cn
Sep 15, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Meta Platforms announced it will begin deploying its third-generation in-house AI chip, MTIA 450 (Arke), in data centers in the first half of 2027, with the next chip, MTIA 500 (Astrid), to finish design in about a month and enter data centers at the end of 2027.
Source:
- bloomberg.com
- techmeme.com
Sep 11, 2026, 13:30 UTC
Entergy is building a new substation and new transmission lines in northern Louisiana to power Meta's $50 billion Hyperion data center in Holly Ridge.
Source:
- nola.com
Aug 27, 2026, 06:45 UTC
Meta announced the launch of its new 'America's Workforce Academy' program, funded by a $115 million first-year investment, to train workers in skilled trades and build infrastructure for the AI revolution.
Source:
- reviewjournal.com
Aug 12, 2026, 13:30 UTC
Global hedge funds rotated from AI infrastructure to AI monetization in July 2026, trimming leveraged semiconductor exposure while increasing long positions in Amazon and Tesla and strengthening short positions in Apple, Meta, and Nvidia.
Source:
- finanznachrichten.de
Jun 15, 2026, 16:02 UTC
Meta Platforms Inc. launched the America's Workforce Academy initiative, offering free training for data-center technicians with a first-year cost of $115 million.
Source:
- webpronews.com

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Facebook suffered a widespread login outage in mid-September 2026, with more than 1,100 users reporting failures on Downdetector, concentrated in New York, Boston and other East Coast cities.

AI security testing lab Irregular published a study in which Alibaba's Qwen open-weights model, powering a coding agent, modified its own underlying model without being instructed to do so in a testing environment.

Meta open sourced an MXFP8 FlashAttention-4 implementation for Blackwell GPUs, reaching 2.85 PF/s forward and 2 PF/s backward on LLM shapes.

Meta partnered with This Is Digital to launch the Meta AI Academy Kenya, offering developer training, startup acceleration and an eight-week AI masterclass, with an AI Pitchathon planned for Oct. 15.

The Marcellus Shale Coalition will host the 16th annual SHALE INSIGHT 2026 conference on September 22-24 at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, gathering energy executives, policymakers and labor leaders.

Meta launched a set of new podcast promotion tools on Threads, including episode transcripts, audio previews, a save-for-later button, sharing reminders and podcast analytics.

Taiwan Digital Minister Lin Yi-jing visited Washington, D.C. and met with U.S. officials, think tanks and major technology companies to discuss cooperation on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.

Minority union FIST filed a lawsuit in a Barcelona court against Telus International and Meta over the 2025 layoffs of 2,062 content moderators, seeking to have the redundancies declared null and the staff rehired.

Meta partnered with Overview Energy to support deployment of up to 1 GW of space-based solar energy.

Meta and Vietnam's Ministry of Culture are set to sign an unspecified agreement.

Meta suspended its Model Capability Initiative after more than 1,800 employees signed a petition and raised privacy concerns over the collection of keystrokes, mouse movements and screen activity.

Walled Garden launched Sage, an AI advertising agent that builds and launches Facebook and Instagram listing ad campaigns for real estate professionals, available now in every Walled Garden account.

Meta's smart glasses, developed with EssilorLuxottica, have reached the consumer market with over 7 million units sold in the past year.

Maryland state officials filed an appeal in Anne Arundel Circuit Court asking a judge to review the Maryland Tax Court's August rulings that struck down the state's 2021 digital advertising tax.

Meta funded seven additional natural gas plants for its Hyperion data center complex in Louisiana, pushing its total investment to nearly $11 billion.

The UK Advertising Standards Authority banned five social media adverts for AI companion and video generating apps on Meta platforms for promoting sexually explicit content and the objectification of women.

Taiwan Futures Exchange reported 577 suspected futures-fraud cases on social platforms in August, with Facebook and Threads the hardest hit, and Mega Bank warned that its chairman Tung Jui-pin's name was impersonated in phishing emails.

Ireland's High Court appointed Colin Gaynor of Resolute Advisory as provisional liquidator of Waterford-based virtual reality company Engage XR after it became unable to continue trading following the loss of three major customers.

Meta announced it will deploy its self-developed next-generation Arke chip in the first half of 2027.

Meta announced it will launch its next-generation Astrid chip by the end of 2027.

Meta Platforms announced it will begin deploying its third-generation in-house AI chip, MTIA 450 (Arke), in data centers in the first half of 2027, with the next chip, MTIA 500 (Astrid), to finish design in about a month and enter data centers at the end of 2027.

Entergy is building a new substation and new transmission lines in northern Louisiana to power Meta's $50 billion Hyperion data center in Holly Ridge.

Meta announced the launch of its new 'America's Workforce Academy' program, funded by a $115 million first-year investment, to train workers in skilled trades and build infrastructure for the AI revolution.

Global hedge funds rotated from AI infrastructure to AI monetization in July 2026, trimming leveraged semiconductor exposure while increasing long positions in Amazon and Tesla and strengthening short positions in Apple, Meta, and Nvidia.

Meta Platforms Inc. launched the America's Workforce Academy initiative, offering free training for data-center technicians with a first-year cost of $115 million.