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Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter open-weight model distilled from Muse Spark for local agent workflows, alongside a Zuckerberg essay on open-source AI.

Meta released the beta of Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, undercutting Anthropic's pricing to compete with Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.

France's Autorité de la concurrence found Meta likely abused its dominant position and ordered it to negotiate in good faith with press publishers over unpaid neighbouring rights.

Brussels says Meta failed to assess addiction risks from infinite scroll, autoplay and recommender systems on Instagram and Facebook, exposing the company to a fine of up to 6% of global turnover.

Meta is rolling out a mandatory update that disables its smart glasses' camera if the privacy LED is tampered with, even as it reportedly tests always-on glasses that would skip the light entirely.

Meta's first in-house AI image generator let users @-mention any public Instagram account to remix their photos; CAA and SAG-AFTRA opposition forced a reversal within days.

Meta plans to start manufacturing its in-house Iris AI chip in September, aiming to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts in 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.

Bloomberg reports Meta is standing up a cloud business under its 'Meta Compute' initiative to sell spare AI capacity; CoreWeave and Nebius shares fell 10.8% and 12.4%.

At its June 24 Investor Day, Qualcomm detailed a multi-generation data center chip line built for agentic AI inference, anchored by the Dragonfly C1000 CPU and AI300 accelerator, and named Meta as a server-CPU customer.

Competition regulators in Italy and Brazil have ordered Meta to suspend its policy barring rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, widening a fight that began in the EU.

Pyrefly 1.0.0 ships on May 12, 2026 as Meta's production-grade Python type checker, checking 1.8 million lines per second and powering Instagram's codebase.

The European Commission issued preliminary findings on April 29 that Meta violated the DSA by allowing children under 13 to create accounts using false birth dates, with potential fines reaching 6% of its global turnover.