META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
NASDAQ · Technology · Internet Content & Information · US
$665.75
−2.43%Sep 17, 2026, 10:00 UTC
Meta Platforms' Oversight Board asked Meta to remove AI-generated deepfake content targeting women.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 10:00 UTC
Meta's Oversight Board published two decisions finding Meta's rules on AI-generated content 'consistently and fundamentally inadequate,' including a case involving a synthetic video of a Scottish politician.
Sep 17, 2026, 01:13 UTC
Chinese-founded AI startup Manus is raising a funding round that would double its valuation to $4 billion, its first fundraising since Beijing ordered it to split from Meta Platforms.
Sep 17, 2026, 00:09 UTC
Meta Platforms is preparing a new pair of smart glasses without a camera, according to reports, as privacy concerns mount over wearable devices.
Source: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:Sep 16, 2026, 23:30 UTC
Meta plans to showcase its Phoenix augmented-reality glasses at the Meta Connect conference, targeting a 2027 release.
Source: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:Sep 16, 2026, 21:00 UTC
The White House paused work on creating a FINRA-style AI oversight body after President Donald Trump soured on the idea, leaving the proposal in limbo.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 19:00 UTC
Meta Platforms ramped up its AI products, including smart glasses and Muse, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in calls against slowing down AI development.
Source: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: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:Sep 16, 2026, 15:54 UTC
Shares of Microsoft, Google, and Meta Platforms rose more than two percent on Monday as investors poured money into the biggest AI hyperscalers amid fears over AI's existential risks.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 15:19 UTC
India's government signalled that Meta may lose its 'simple intermediary' safe harbour status under Section 79 of the IT Act, 2000, as scrutiny grows over CSAM and deepfake content on Facebook and Instagram.
Source: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: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: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: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.
Sep 16, 2026, 11:54 UTC
India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights summoned Meta India's Managing Director and Head for a third hearing on September 16 in its inquiry into alleged advertisements linked to child sexual exploitative and abuse material on Meta's platforms.
Source: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: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:Sep 16, 2026, 10:30 UTC
Meta and Vietnam's Ministry of Culture are set to sign an unspecified agreement.
Sep 16, 2026, 10:30 UTC
Meta partnered with Noon Energy for up to 1 GW/100 GWh of ultra-long-duration energy storage, with an initial 25 MW/2.5 GWh demonstration targeted for completion in 2028.
Sep 16, 2026, 02:18 UTC
Meta plans to launch a lens-free smart glasses product codenamed Luna in fall 2026, featuring six microphones, a side button for Meta AI, and speakers.
Sep 16, 2026, 02:17 UTC
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X and other social media that AI labs not focused on alignment will fall behind, siding with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in the debate on AI safety and slowing development.
Sep 16, 2026, 00:19 UTC
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on social media that leading AI labs should focus on safety rather than improving their own technology, in an apparent jab at Anthropic.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 22:24 UTC
Meta announced it will launch a camera-free smart glasses product in autumn 2026.
Sep 15, 2026, 04:50 UTC
Meta agreed to report child sexual abuse material cases to Indian law enforcement agencies amid Indian government scrutiny of online platforms' child safety safeguards.
Sep 15, 2026, 04:08 UTC
Defensive stocks including Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Kimberly-Clark, Costco, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks rallied on Monday as Wall Street rotated out of AI infrastructure names, while Meta Platforms, Alphabet and Microsoft also advanced.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Meta announced a major expansion of its Eagle Mountain, Utah data center, including over $1 million in education funding and a 150-megawatt battery storage facility.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Meta is planning a data center investment in El Paso, Texas, and has agreed to hold eight community meetings this fall, one in each City Council district, to gather public feedback.
Source:Sep 11, 2026, 17:28 UTC
Meta unintentionally revealed images of its upcoming mixed reality headset, known as Project Phoenix, through files found in a HorizonOS app called HorizonOS Prescription Lens, which has since been removed.
Sep 2, 2026, 04:05 UTC
Meta has reportedly selected SeeYA Technology to supply OLED-on-silicon panels for its next-generation mixed-reality headset codenamed Phoenix, while BOE failed to qualify as a supplier.
Source:Sep 1, 2026, 07:42 UTC
Chinese AI startup Manus announced completion of its transition to independent management, with founding members leading the company, after Chinese firms including Tencent bought back shares from Meta.
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: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:Aug 11, 2026, 14:05 UTC
Manus announced it will soon return to operating as an independent company, implying the reversal of its acquisition by Meta is near completion.
Jun 19, 2026, 20:32 UTC
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the AI Bill of Rights and Worker Protections Act, which would require large AI companies to transfer 50 percent of their ownership stakes to the American public via a new sovereign wealth fund.
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.
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