META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
NASDAQ · Technology · Internet Content & Information · US
$665.75
−2.43%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: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:Sep 16, 2026, 01:45 UTC
Ohio US Senator Bernie Moreno called for ending taxpayer subsidies for data center construction, saying no taxpayer dollars should support data centers.
Source: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: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: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:Sep 15, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Meta launched its new Creator Marketing hub, a platform consolidating its creator discovery and outreach tools, and announced expanded API connectivity, Meta AI business assistant integration, and Instagram live video ads.
Source: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: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: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:Sep 15, 2026, 15:00 UTC
Meta launched its Meta One subscription package globally.
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:Sep 15, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Meta announced it will launch its next-generation Astrid chip by the end of 2027.
Source: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:Sep 15, 2026, 13:59 UTC
A lawyer filed a complaint with Roskomnadzor and Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service against Russian actress and TV presenter Larisa Guzeeva over an unlabeled Instagram advertisement for tirzepatide-based weight-loss drugs.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 12:15 UTC
AI-linked semiconductor stocks fell on Monday, with Nvidia down more than 3% and Intel, AMD, and Marvell dropping 5%-6%, dragging the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down almost 6%, while Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta rose.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 11:20 UTC
US big tech shares fell in premarket trading, with Microsoft and Google down nearly 1%, Oracle down 0.56%, Meta down 0.53%, Apple and Amazon down over 0.60%, and Tesla down 0.18%.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 08:33 UTC
Yao Xingcheng, former head of pretraining for Tencent Hunyuan, joined the North American AI startup Thinking Machines Lab.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 07:54 UTC
Rajiv Aggarwal resigned as Samsung India's head of public affairs and ESG after nearly four years in the role, serving his final week at the company.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 07:00 UTC
Finnish CRM startup Zero raised a $10.3 million seed round led by Primary Venture Partners, with participation from Inception Fund, Defiant, Greens and founders of Lovable, Supercell, Langdock and Silo AI.
Sep 15, 2026, 04:28 UTC
Meta introduced ZGateway, a stateless proxy tier that sits between client applications and its ZippyDB key-value store, handling over 1 billion operations per second.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Australian independent digital media agency 100% Digital launched Bidbrain.ai, a standalone joint-venture company offering a unified AI-powered digital campaign management platform for agencies and in-house media teams.
Source: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:Sep 11, 2026, 03:55 UTC
In US after-hours trading on September 11, 2026, the Magnificent Seven tech stocks all fell, with Apple down 0.22%, Amazon down 0.15%, Nvidia down 0.27%, Alphabet down 0.39%, Tesla down 0.02%, Meta down 0.44% and Microsoft down 0.42%.
Source:Sep 9, 2026, 03:15 UTC
Ohio state lawmakers, including Democratic Representative Tristan Rader, proposed repealing the data-center sales-tax exemption and renegotiating past deals with companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google.
Source:Aug 29, 2026, 15:56 UTC
Meta announced it will start charging businesses per-message fees for service and utility messages on its WhatsApp Business Platform starting October 1, 2026.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 09:17 UTC
Meta will start charging South African businesses for service replies sent on WhatsApp from 1 October 2026, ending the free exemption that has been in place since November 2024.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 17:30 UTC
Individual tech stocks declined, with NVIDIA down 2%, Meta Platforms down 3%, Western Digital and Seagate Technology each down more than 5%, and Marvell Technology and Sandisk down over 6%.
Source:Aug 2, 2026, 23:47 UTC
Tech stocks fell sharply, with Alphabet shares down 6.9% and Tesla shares plunging 14.5%.
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