The European Commission ordered Meta to restore rival AI chatbots' access to the WhatsApp Business API under pre-ban terms within five days. The move escalates an antitrust investigation into whether Meta abused its dominance by reserving AI features for itself, with potential fines up to 10% of global revenue.
She stated that in rapidly evolving markets, competition can be lost long before a final decision is adopted.
Grok was the worst offender, with guest conversations public by default and TikTok's tracker receiving webcam image metadata.
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Meta says it will create a new class of non-voting Class C shares to fund AI investment, acquisitions and employee compensation, effective in January 2027. The company also narrowed its 2026 capital expenditure outlook to $135 billion to $145 billion, raising the low end.
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion penalty after a jury found more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices act in a data privacy case tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The judge reduced a $219.5 billion statutory maximum to $25 billion, plus 15% annual interest. Meta's chief legal officer, C.J. Mahoney, said the company is confident it will prevail on appeal.
Meta has unveiled Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight multimodal model optimized for the M5 Ultra Mac Studio. The model supports on-device agentic coding and reasoning workflows through Apple’s MLX framework.
WhatsApp now lets non-account holders join calls through a shared link. The update covers one-on-one and group calls of up to 32 people and preserves end-to-end encryption along with core features.
Meta's Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses went on sale October 13 starting at $349 USD, according to Meta. Meta calls them its first audio glasses and its lightest AI glasses yet at 43 grams, with up to 12 hours of battery life and prescription lenses on every style.
