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Meta
Meta is the technology company behind Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. Its business is built largely around social platforms and digital advertising, with artificial intelligence taking an increasingly prominent role.
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Meta faces EU and UK complaints over website crawling rights despite removing AI training language
Removing an explicit reference to AI training has not ended Meta's dispute with news publishers. On October 22, 2026, an advocacy group representing digital publishers and advertisers urged regulators in the European Union and United Kingdom to intervene over new commercial terms allowing automated access to websites associated with business accounts. Critics fear the language could support broad collection and commercial use of online content. Meta disputes that interpretation and says its crawling practices have not changed.
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Nasdaq plunges 2.6% as Wall Street questions the enormous cost of the AI boom
Artificial intelligence spending is no longer enough to reassure Wall Street. On Thursday, October 22, 2026, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.6%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index lost 6.7%. Meta, NVIDIA and several other companies connected to AI infrastructure faced significant selling pressure. After months of enthusiasm about data centers and computing capacity, investors are asking a more financial question: when will these investments begin generating returns large enough to justify their cost?
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Meta Muse passes 10 million sign-ups as shopping becomes a major opportunity for AI agents
Meta's personal AI agent Muse has passed 10 million sign-ups in the United States and Canada, according to figures shared by Mark Zuckerberg on October 21, 2026. Roughly a quarter of people who set up the service are using it daily, the company says. Shopping is already becoming an important activity, suggesting Meta wants its agent to do more than answer questions: it could eventually become a commercial intermediary between consumers and businesses.
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Meta prepares $145 billion investment push and non-voting shares to fund its AI expansion
Meta is preparing a new capital structure to support its increasingly expensive artificial intelligence strategy. On October 21, 2026, the company approved a non-voting Class C common stock intended for future financing, employee compensation and acquisitions. The announcement comes as Meta expects up to $145 billion in capital expenditures this year, with AI infrastructure and new products such as Muse playing a central role in its long-term plans.
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Meta's AI can make phone calls for you — with a human sometimes hiding behind it
Meta's new Muse agent promises to browse, negotiate and call businesses on a user's behalf. According to Reuters, an internal test adds an unexpected layer to that automation: human contractors can quietly handle some of those calls.
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Zuckerberg privately pushed back on a national AI regulator in a call with Trump
One of the most consequential US AI policy debates is apparently reaching the president by phone. According to reporting from Business Insider and POLITICO, Donald Trump called Mark Zuckerberg during the week of August 17 to discuss a proposed national AI oversight body. Zuckerberg told him he opposed that approach.
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Meta's trial is turning default settings into a product-design liability question
Software teams like to count shipped features. The Meta trial is examining something less flattering: whether a safety feature matters if almost nobody in the target group actually uses it.