Aankondiging • Aug 06
Meta Debuts Muse Spark 1.2 and First Coding Agent Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) debuted its latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.2, and Muse Code, the first coding agent from the company's Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), on Wednesday as the social media giant pushes to better compete with frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic . Muse Spark 1.2 is a coding-centric update to Meta's Muse Spark, which the company rolled out last month. Muse Code is the coding harness that runs Spark 1.2. Coding is one of the biggest use cases for AI agents, helping to cut down on development time. Anthropic's Claude Code coding agent helped turn the company into an AI powerhouse and drove OpenAI and others to jump into the market. While it's not a bleeding-edge frontier model, Meta does compare Muse Spark 1.2 to high-powered models like Anthropic's Opus 5, GPT 5.6 Terra, Gemini 3.6 Flash, and Grok 4.5. Meta is in the midst of rebuilding its AI efforts after its Llama models failed to impress developers last year. The company has been making steady progress on new models: In addition to Muse Spark, Spark 1.1, and Spark 1.2, the company has also debuted its Muse Image image generation model and previewed its Muse Video model. But developing those models, including standing up the data centers necessary to run them, is costing Meta billions. Aankondiging • Jul 30
Meta Platforms, Inc. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Third Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2026 Meta Platforms, Inc. provided earnings guidance for the third quarter and full fiscal year 2026. For the quarter, the company expects total revenue to be in the range of $61-64 billion.
For the full year, the company continue expect to deliver operating income this year that is above 2025 operating income. Aankondiging • Jul 15
Meta Platforms, Inc. to Report Q2, 2026 Results on Jul 29, 2026 Meta Platforms, Inc. announced that they will report Q2, 2026 results After-Market on Jul 29, 2026 Aankondiging • Jul 01
Meta Platforms, Inc. Announces Executive Changes Meta announced that its chief marketing officer Alex Schultz will become the company's first chief data officer, to better manage AI analytics globally. The Facebook-parent also promoted its vice president of consumer marketing and growth, Denise Moreno, to marketing chief. The leadership changes signal at Meta's move to deepen its focus on data-driven decision-making and AI integration across its operations. Schultz joined the company in 2007 and held responsibilities across various domains like developing Meta's brand strategy and WhatsApp privacy campaigns, according to his LinkedIn page. A 17-year veteran at Meta, Moreno began her career managing email ?marketing and growth experiments, she said in a separate post. Aankondiging • Jun 24
Meta Platforms Inc Announces Management Changes Meta Platforms Inc. had named Kunal Shah, the Indian entrepreneur, as the new head of WhatsApp, taking over from Will Cathcart, who is stepping down after nearly seven years to focus on product development within the company. Shah launched CRED in 2018 after previously creating the digital payments platform FreeCharge, and he is well-known as a startup investor. Meta is confident that his background in consumer technology and fintech will help propel WhatsApp into its next growth phase as it looks to branch out from just messaging. Aankondiging • May 29
Meta Platforms, Inc. Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend, Payable on June 25, 2026 The Meta Platforms, Inc. board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.525 per share of the company's outstanding Class A common stock and Class B common stock, payable on June 25, 2026 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 15, 2026. Aankondiging • May 28
Proxy Impact Provides Information to Shareholders of Meta On May 26, 2026, Proxy Impact, on behalf of Dr. Lisette Cooper and other investors, filed a shareholder resolution requesting that Meta Platforms, Inc.’s Board assess linking senior executive compensation to improvements in child safety, with a vote scheduled for May 27, 2026, following back to back courtroom defeats described as Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment. In addition, Proxy Impact highlights significant legal and regulatory risks, including a $375 million penalty in New Mexico for misleading safety claims and a California ruling that Company’s platforms harm young users’ mental health, alongside more than 2,400 pending lawsuits and insurers refusing to cover claims. Further, Proxy Impact also points to increasing global regulatory pressure, including potential fines of up to 6% of global revenue and restrictions on younger users, which could reduce engagement and affect advertising, the source of about 98% of Company’s revenue. Furthermore, Proxy Impact’s proposal further mentioned that Company’s executive bonus plan tied to a $9 trillion valuation target, arguing it incentivizes growth despite rising child safety risks, and asserts that linking pay to measurable safety outcomes would better align incentives and protect long term shareholder value. Aankondiging • May 21
Meta Platforms, Inc. Begins Fresh Layoffs as Zuckerberg Ramps Up AI Investments Meta Platforms Inc. is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a restructuring aimed at improving efficiency and reducing costs while investing heavily in artificial intelligence. The company began notifying workers around the world morning, starting with employees in Asian hub Singapore, who got the note at 4 a.m. local time. European and US-based staff are expected to receive word early in their time zone as well, according to an internal memo. Staff are being encouraged to work from home while the company cuts roughly 8,000 roles globally. This latest round of cuts is expected to hit Meta’s engineering and product teams in particular and additional layoffs could come later in the year, said people familiar with the company’s plans, who asked not to be named as the information is not public. Meta informed staff that some 7,000 workers have also been reassigned to newly formed teams that are focused on AI initiatives, including products and agents. The company, which has committed well in excess of $100 billion to AI capital expenditures this year, had just under 80,000 employees at the end of March, ahead of the reassignments and layoffs. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has made AI the company’s top priority, committing all resources to keeping pace with rivals like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and OpenAI. That’s led to changes to Meta’s workforce and the way it operates. The company has gone through waves of layoffs over recent years, as Zuckerberg has pushed for increased efficiency. He has encouraged engineers to use AI agents to assist with coding and other tasks, outlined plans to track employees’ devices to improve the technology, and spent time coding his own AI-powered assistant to handle some of his CEO duties, like soliciting employee feedback. These changes have left Meta employees both frustrated and anxious. More than a thousand have signed a petition addressed to Zuckerberg and other leaders of the company demanding that it refrain from collecting their data from devices — which can be as granular as gathering keystrokes, mouse movements and screen content — in the effort to train AI. Others have taken to social media to post about how the threat of layoffs has impacted their work and morale. Meta’s aggressive spending on AI has caused concern among investors, who worry that the company’s investment may not ultimately pay off. While Meta has framed the layoffs as an opportunity to “offset” the cost of some of its major AI investments, analysts at Evercore estimate the cuts will generate only about $3 billion in savings. That’s just a small portion of Meta’s projected capital expenditures this year, which could hit $145 billion, and the additional hundreds of billions that the company anticipates spending on AI infrastructure before the end of the decade. Aankondiging • May 13
Santa Clara County Counsel Files Landmark Civil Prosecution Taking on Meta Platforms, Inc.'s Role in Massive Consumer Fraud Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti filed a landmark civil prosecution against Meta Platforms, Inc. The action, which is the first brought in California and the first brought by a local civil prosecutor in the nation, alleges that Meta knowingly facilitates and profits from billions of scam advertisements on its popular Facebook and Instagram platforms that defraud seniors and families and squeeze legitimate small businesses out of fair access to consumers. The complaint, filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court, alleges that Meta is deeply aware of the scale of the problem, tracking up to 15 billion scam ads shown to users every day across its platforms and deriving an estimated $7 billion in annual “violating revenue”—Meta’s internal term for revenue resulting from fraudulent or otherwise prohibited advertisements. According to the filing, Meta’s own systems flag ads that are likely scams but, instead of stopping those ads, the company charges scammers a premium price to run them, a practice that both facilitates and monetizes deception. The lawsuit further alleges that Meta’s sophisticated artificial intelligence tools and high-tech programs actively target vulnerable consumers and contribute to creating and refining scam ads. The complaint alleges that Meta has maintained a network of thousands of “Business Partners” that help scammers post their ads. Many of these Business Partners—characterized by Meta as “trusted” experts—openly advertise their ability to post scam ads on Meta’s platforms. The scams themselves run the gamut, including fraudulent financial products, cryptocurrency schemes, purported cures for incurable diseases, ineffective nutritional supplements, and impersonations of celebrities asking for monetary contributions. Meta is accused of knowingly enabling and profiting from a vast ecosystem of scam ads, with internal documents estimating its platforms host a third of all U.S. internet scams and contributing to more than $2.5 billion in losses for Californians in 2024 alone. Seniors are hit hardest—Californians over 60 lost more than $800 million, and nationwide, older adults reported losses more than four times the average. Meta’s practices allegedly flood its ad auctions with fraudulent ads that drive up costs for legitimate small businesses, while its AI tools generate and test thousands of ad variations in ways a Reuters investigation found can make ads significantly more misleading. According to the lawsuit, Meta’s algorithms then steer these deceptive ads toward people most vulnerable to harm, including users who previously clicked on scam ads, compounding losses among those least able to bear them. Meanwhile, the company publicly touts its commitment to safety but internally prioritizes revenue, including imposing “revenue guardrails” that limit enforcement against scam ads. LoPresti is asking the Court to stop Meta’s unlawful practices through injunctive relief; to require restitution for money lost as a result of Meta’s actions; and to impose civil penalties, including enhanced penalties for violations affecting senior citizens and treble remedies available under California law to deter wrongdoing against vulnerable populations. The complaint underscores Meta’s immense scale and capacity to protect the public if it chose to prioritize safety over its own profits and comply with the law: The company reported nearly $201 billion in revenue in 2025, about 98% from advertising, and ad impressions continue to climb. The lawsuit argues that no company that large should be allowed to treat regulatory fines as a mere cost of doing business while Californians bear staggering financial and emotional losses. The action is brought by the People of the State of California, acting by and through Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti, with the assistance of outside special counsel Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP (BLB&G), Bishop Partnoy LLP, and Renne Public Law Group LLP. Aankondiging • May 02
Meta Platforms, Inc. Provides Revenue Guidance for the Second Quarter of 2026 and Earnings Guidance for the Full Year 2026 Meta Platforms, Inc. provided revenue guidance for the second quarter of 2026 and earnings guidance for the full year 2026. The company expects second quarter 2026 total revenue to be in the range of $58-61 billion. Guidance assumes foreign currency is an approximately 2% tailwind to year-over-year total revenue growth, based on current exchange rates.
The company continue to expect to deliver operating income this year that is above 2025 operating income. Aankondiging • Apr 18
Meta Platforms, Inc., Annual General Meeting, May 27, 2026 Meta Platforms, Inc., Annual General Meeting, May 27, 2026. Aankondiging • Apr 16
Hock Tan to Transition Off of Meta’s Board of Directors and into an Advisor Role for Meta Broadcom Inc. announced that given the scale of this expanded partnership, Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom Inc, will transition off of Meta’s Board of Directors and into an advisor role for Meta, where he'll provide guidance on Meta’s custom silicon roadmap and help shape the future of their infrastructure investments. Aankondiging • Apr 14
Meta Platforms, Inc. to Report Q1, 2026 Results on Apr 29, 2026 Meta Platforms, Inc. announced that they will report Q1, 2026 results After-Market on Apr 29, 2026 Aankondiging • Apr 09
Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium Publishes Four Specifications Defining In-Network Compute, Chiplets, Manageability and 200G Performance Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, the industry standards organization developing the open scale-up interconnect for next-generation AI workloads, announced the ratification of the next UALink Specification, which encompasses three major additions – In-Network Compute, Chiplet Definition, and Manageability. The new specifications support the deployment of UALink solutions in multi-workload environments, while simultaneously helping improve UALink technology efficiency, performance for AI workloads and ease of implementation. The UALink Consortium provides a standardized foundation for accelerator connectivity at scale, helping drive innovation, increase deployment flexibility and support the rapidly growing performance demands of next-generation AI workloads. The new specification update is facilitated through UALink Consortium’s open governance model, which fosters innovation while enabling a robust, multi-vendor supply chain, providing system designers and cloud providers with the necessary flexibility to deploy interoperable solutions without vendor lock-in. New UALink Specifications: UALink Common Specification 2.0 introduces In-Network Compute for UALink technology, facilitating computation and communication between accelerators. Reduces latency, saves bandwidth, and improves scaling efficiency for distributed training and inference for AI solutions for complex and multi-workload environments for UALink systems. UALink 200G Data Link and Physical Layers (DL/PL) Specification 2.0 split the DL/PL Specification from the UALink Common Specification to enable UALink to move quickly as new physical layers and speeds are needed by the industry without requiring changes to the other specifications. UALink Manageability Specification 1.0 introduces UALink as a system with centralized control and management planes. Utilizes standardized protocols, modeling and APIs like gNMI, Yang, SAI and Redfish. UALink Chiplet Specification 1.0 defines the necessary information to integrate UALink technology into chiplet-based SoCs, including interfaces, form factors, flow control and chiplet management standardization. Fully compliant with the UCIe 3.0 Specification for simplified integration into existing chiplet ecosystems. All of the UALink specifications are available for public download. 
