Synthetic late-night monologues are accumulating six-figure view counts, and the clearest enforcement action in NPR's reporting was triggered by a reporter's email rather than by any platform system.
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HateAid invoked a law banning recording devices disguised as everyday objects. Executives face up to two years if prosecutors take it up.
Aug 13, 2026
$567m into an abatement fund and a dedicated under-13 age-prediction model within two years. Infinite scroll and autoplay were left alone on First Amendment grounds.
Aug 9, 2026
Muse Code arrived in early beta on 5 August, running on Muse Spark 1.2. List pricing is $1.25 and $4.25 per million tokens; the Contributor tier drops that to $0.10 and $0.20 in exchange for telemetry on your work.
Aug 6, 2026
Revenue topped $60 billion. Operating margin fell from 43% to 31%, net income dropped 14%, and free cash flow — normally around $12 billion a quarter — came in at $784 million, against $24.9 billion of newly issued debt.
Jul 30, 2026
BlackRock's funds take 80% of a $14 billion campus in El Paso. Meta contributes land, manages construction, is the only tenant, and guarantees residual value of up to about $13 billion.
Jul 29, 2026
Nitin Gadkari's ₹11-crore defamation suit targets AI-generated videos claiming he profits from a fuel policy his ministry does not run. The court has cleared it to be filed — nothing more.
Jul 27, 2026
Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Nvidia and a16z signed. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind did not — the clearest public split yet between the closed labs and the open-weight camp.
Jul 25, 2026
Investors want north of 7% on the El Paso financing, against 6.6% on October's record Hyperion deal. Nobody is refusing to fund AI — they are just charging more for it.
Jul 24, 2026
Marketplace carries 430 million listings a month. Meta just built a separate app for the people creating them — and pointed it at eBay's power sellers.
Jul 24, 2026
The asset manager's GIP and HPS units own 80% of the 1 GW Texas campus vehicle, extending the off-balance-sheet playbook Meta pioneered with Hyperion in Louisiana.
Jul 21, 2026
The Wall Street Journal reports Meta is hiring the AWS senior vice president who ran Amazon's compute and machine-learning services to lead a data-center push that may end up renting AI capacity to outsiders.
Jul 18, 2026
The two-year arrangement, reported by The New York Times, would have Anthropic pay Meta monthly for computing capacity — weeks after a $45 billion, three-year deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Jul 18, 2026
Meta will scale its Richland Parish AI campus from 2 to 5 gigawatts and more than double committed spending past $50 billion, as Louisiana signs off on a 20-year sales-tax break for a site whose lifetime cost could top $250 billion.
Jul 14, 2026
A 1-gigawatt campus in Sturgeon County carries a CA$13 billion price tag and water-free cooling, becoming Meta's 33rd data center as its AI compute buildout widens.
Jul 12, 2026
Days after launching its Muse Image generator, Meta yanked a tool that let anyone @-mention a public Instagram account to build AI images of them — no notice, opt-out by default — after Hollywood objected.
Jul 11, 2026
An internal memo obtained by Reuters puts Meta's custom accelerator on the fab schedule as the company doubles compute toward 14 gigawatts — and Zuckerberg says renting that compute out 'may make sense.'
Jul 10, 2026
The first model sold through Meta's new Model API is an agentic coder priced far below OpenAI and Anthropic — and Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to claim Meta's models finally beat Google's.
Jul 10, 2026
At a July 2 town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said agent progress hadn't accelerated in four months — minutes before AI chief Alexandr Wang claimed a new model caught GPT-5.5.
Jul 6, 2026
