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Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is a technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, Calif. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, among other products and services. Meta is one of the world’s most valuable companies and is among the 10 largest publicly traded corporations in the U.S. It is considered one of the Big Five, alongside Google parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.
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A Meta AI Model Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing

By Jyoti Mann · Aug 5, 2026 3:18pm PDT · 3 comments
A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest in a string of such incidents at major AI firms. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model breached the systems of a company and made changes to its internal systems,... A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing...
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How Meta Plans to Close the Gap with Anthropic and OpenAI in Coding

By Jyoti Mann · Aug 5, 2026 7:00am PDT
As Meta Platforms races to catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI, it’s asking thousands of engineers to use its in-house AI coding agent, MetaCode, in their day-to-day work in an effort to improve the coding capabilities of its AI models.Maher Saba, vice president of Meta’s Applied AI Engineering organization, last month asked engineers across the... As Meta Platforms races to catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI, it’s asking thousands of engineers...
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The Briefing

Meta Could Learn Cost Control From Microsoft

By Martin Peers · Jul 29, 2026 5:01pm PDT
Talk about a tale of two companies. Today’s June-quarter earnings reports from Meta Platforms and Microsoft showed very different approaches to cost control, a discipline that may never be more important for big tech companies. Meta, whose CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to have a you-only-live-once approach to AI investment, reported a 55% surge in... Talk about a tale of two companies. Today’s June-quarter earnings reports from Meta Platforms and...
Erin Popolo, who lost her 17-year-old daughter to suicide, speaks to the press outside the federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif. on Aug. 18 as opening arguments began in the Meta trial. Godofredo A. Vasquez/AFP/Getty Images.
The Briefing

What’s at Stake for Meta in Youth Addiction Trial

By Martin Peers · Aug 18, 2026 5:01pm PDT
You might be shocked to learn there is a world outside AI! And we got a glimpse of it in an Oakland, Calif., courtroom today, at the opening of the trial in a lawsuit brought by California and several other states against Meta Platforms over the alleged harms its social media apps have done to kids. This case, part of a deluge of such lawsuits... You might be shocked to learn there is a world outside AI! And we got a glimpse of it in an...
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Into the Metaverse

Hands Up, This Is a (Virtual) Robbery!

By Lauren Tara LaCapra · May 6, 2023 7:00am PDT · 2 comments
Until late last year, Bank of America branch staffers would learn how to handle a potential stick-up through guidebooks and online videos. Today, tellers are immersed in a 3D virtual reality environment, in which a gunman aims a weapon at them or furtively hands them a threatening note demanding money. The bank measures tellers’ reactions... Until late last year, Bank of America branch staffers would learn how to handle a potential...