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A coalition of four nonprofits filed suit Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court seeking a court order to halt new model development at Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI. The complaint, brought by the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and…
Meta has handed control of its artificial intelligence ambitions to Alexandr Wang, the 29-year-old founder of Scale AI, in a move that signals both a philosophical shift toward leaner research teams and a financial commitment that dwarfs its previous AI spending.
Meta eliminated roughly 8,000 roles in May — about 10% of its workforce — and scrapped plans to fill 6,000 open positions, while simultaneously earmarking $115 billion to $135 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, nearly double the $72 billion spent in 2025. The company also…
Meta's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Ember on November 9, calling it the company's smallest and most efficient model to date. The model is designed explicitly for the high-volume, repetitive work that AI agents perform: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and…
Unusual Whales, a market-data platform, has published a summary of a Guardian article reporting that several large companies are pulling back on internal AI-agent deployments after early rollouts created cleanup work and failed to deliver productivity gains. Unusual Whales…
Meta Platforms is paying for seven new natural gas-fired power plants to supply its most power-hungry data center, a move that expands fossil-fuel infrastructure even as the company says it remains committed to its climate goals.
Meta has indefinitely suspended proposed changes to its commercial terms that would have expanded its ability to crawl and use content from websites linked to business accounts on its platforms. The pause, confirmed November 5, leaves the updates on hold without a new…
Meta launched its Muse Wonder frontier model series on October 12, 2026, releasing two variants: Muse Wonder, available via API and all Muse Code plans, and Muse Wonder Full, locked to the two most expensive Muse Code subscriptions. Three weeks later, on November 6, the company…
Meta has rolled out "spaces," a new feature for its Muse AI assistant that lets users build custom interactive hubs—shopping dashboards, school planners, trivia games, and more—directly inside the Muse app. At the same time, Alex Stamos, Meta's former chief security officer,…
Meta executives say Democratic gains in the US midterm elections will make new data center construction significantly harder, while Goldman Sachs estimates that state and local moratoriums could put roughly 45% of planned US data center capacity at risk.
Meta confirmed on November 4, 2026 that it has acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform lets software engineers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel across isolated workspaces. The same day, an Axios report cited by newscord.org said OpenAI plans to acquire Pierre…
Meta Platforms has sold $15 billion of U.S. dollar-denominated bonds in a five-part offering, the latest step in a financing push that could reach $25 billion across currencies and comes alongside a planned equity raise that sources value differently. The debt sale underscores…
Children's author and illustrator Chelsea Paulus spent a week in late October fighting to keep her website online after automated traffic from Meta's AI crawlers consumed her hosting resources and threatened to take her business offline.
Meta has developed a humanoid robot prototype in collaboration with Chinese robotics startup Fourier and is already working on a successor, according to a report from The Information citing people familiar with the project.
S&P Global Ratings on Friday revised its outlook on Meta Platforms to "negative" from "stable," citing significant uncertainty around the company's capital spending and free operating cash flow. The agency affirmed Meta's AA- long-term issuer credit rating but warned that a…
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) sent a formal letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding detailed answers about how the company's AI-enabled Ray-Ban smart glasses are being used to capture and process intimate imagery without consent. The letter,…
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has launched a formal investigation into whether Meta's proposed new commercial terms for publishers and advertisers amount to an abuse of a dominant position, the regulator announced on Friday.
Three House Democratic committee leaders sent oversight letters on October 28, 2026, to five leading frontier AI companies requesting they report model misalignment and safety incidents to Congress within 48 hours of discovery—and within 24 hours if critical infrastructure…
Meta Platforms announced Monday its largest-ever equity fundraising: a $35 billion public offering launched immediately, with a further $60 billion at-the-market program planned for 2027. The combined $95 billion would fund an AI infrastructure buildout that has already pushed…
Meta reported $2.12 billion in negative free cash flow for the third quarter of 2026 — its first cash burn in more than a decade — as capital expenditures hit $34.91 billion and the company raised its full-year spending forecast to $135–145 billion. The financial strain has…