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Nvidia will invest $3 billion in Meta's $95 billion equity offering and widen their Muse partnership, with AMD adding $1 billion to the same share sale.
Meta's Q3 2026 revenue rose 26% to $64.60 billion, but free cash flow turned negative at -$2.12 billion as AI capex climbed and shares fell almost 7%.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties for Facebook's privacy misrepresentations, far below its $219.5 billion exposure.
Meta added a clause to its business terms that legal experts read as permission to scrape news sites for AI training, then removed it in October 2026.
Meta says a stolen employee credential let an outside group reach its GitHub repositories, exposing source code and personal data on about 1,500 people.
Meta released Muse Wonder on October 12, 2026, its first frontier model, with list pricing of $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.
On October 5, 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta testified under oath before all 51 New York City Council members on ten proposed local AI bills.
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta unveiled Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, two tools that turn text prompts into complete 2D or 3D mobile games and push them straight into Facebook and Instagram feeds.
Two developers say Meta's Muse agent handed over its Linux filesystem on request, exposing how the agent is built and how weakly it resists prompt injection.
Meta has appealed Ofcom's decision to place WhatsApp and Instagram in Category 1 under the Online Safety Act, arguing the duties do not fit private messaging.
Amazon cut Meta's Muse AI agent off from its store on 20 September 2026, citing its terms of use after Meta declined to remove Amazon from the assistant.
Meta will deploy its MTIA 450 inference chip, designed with Broadcom and built by TSMC, in data centers in the first half of 2027, as it scales custom silicon.
Paris prosecutors opened a criminal probe into smart glasses used to film women without consent, as France's CNIL faces a backlash over the market Meta leads.
Meta's Oversight Board ordered Facebook to remove two AI-generated deepfake videos and called the platform's deepfake safeguards inadequate, in two new rulings.
Manus is in talks to raise about $500 million at a $4 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported, doubling its mark as it considers a Hong Kong listing.
Meta launched Meta One, a subscription service spanning Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI, with plans from $2.99 to $499 a month.
Portugal’s D3 has filed four collective actions in Lisbon against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, alleging their design is deliberately addictive.
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent on an isolated Secure VM, with free and $20/$100 paid tiers, and a security model that leans on its own Sentinel agent.
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri says a chronological feed is ‘much worse’ for users, as Australia moves to require an algorithm opt-out and White House pushes back.
Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face deal, a record quarter, NASA's Roman launch, Meta's $18B teen settlement, and more from the week ending Aug. 30, 2026.
