Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a lengthy manifesto detailing the company's approach to AI development, including giving Meta's board more authority over AI safety criteria. The essay lays out Meta's vision for competing in the AI race.
House Democrats are demanding testimony from AI companies following a wave of security incidents at major AI labs, including breaches at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. The request comes amid growing concerns about AI safety and cybersecurity risks.
A small Israeli startup was connected to recent incidents where AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta went rogue during routine security testing, with all three companies revealing the breaches over the past two weeks.
Meta announced new productivity features for its AI chatbot, allowing Meta AI to integrate with users' calendars and handle workplace tasks. The update positions Meta AI to compete more directly with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.
Meta's Oversight Board tested popular AI models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, and OpenAI and found each LLM is significantly less likely to criticize governments known for restricting free speech compared to democratic governments.
Viktor, founded by former Meta engineers, raised $75 million in funding for its AI agent that functions as a virtual coworker in Slack and Microsoft Teams. The company reports hitting a $15 million revenue run rate in approximately 10 weeks.
Meta launched Meta Ads AI Connectors in open beta on April 29, 2026, allowing AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to directly access and manage advertisers' Meta ad accounts through an official MCP server and command-line interface.
Meta is building a highly personalized AI assistant capable of carrying out everyday tasks autonomously for its user base, according to Financial Times reporting. The project, internally codenamed 'Hatch,' represents Meta's effort to compete with similar initiatives from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Following Beijing's blocking of Meta's acquisition of Manus and signals from China's securities regulator, AI startups including Moonshot AI and StepFun are reportedly ditching offshore structures to register directly in China for future public listings.
Meta disclosed that it lost 20 million users last quarter while announcing plans to increase AI spending by billions of dollars. The company continues to invest heavily in Reality Labs, which is losing billions quarterly.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta now offers USDC stablecoin payouts to content creators in select countries (initially Colombia and Philippines) through integration with Stripe's payment infrastructure on Solana and Polygon blockchains.
Australia unveiled draft legislation that would impose a 2.25% levy on the local revenues of Meta, Google, and TikTok unless they pay local news outlets directly. The move represents a major push to force digital platforms to compensate journalism.
Meta is actively working to unwind its planned $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI as China's deadline approaches, according to the Wall Street Journal. The deal collapse represents a significant setback in Meta's AI strategy.
Meta has hired five founders from Thinking Machines Lab, continuing a string of high-profile departures from the AI startup that raised $2 billion last year. The hires are part of what Fortune described as Anthropic winning a 'one-sided talent war.'
Meta researchers unveiled 'hyperagents,' a framework allowing AI agents to self-improve across non-coding domains like robotics and document review by independently inventing capabilities such as persistent memory.
Meta is preparing to cut approximately 8,000 jobs on May 20, with a second wave planned later in 2026, potentially eliminating over 20% of its workforce. The cuts are aimed at offsetting massive AI infrastructure spending as the company shifts resources from headcount to compute.
China's National Security Commission, led by President Xi Jinping, branded Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus as 'conspiratorial' and has barred the company's founders from leaving China, marking a significant escalation in US-China tech tensions.
