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Snap has launched its $2,195 augmented reality glasses.

Meta is investing further in creator marketing and live streaming. As part of IAB's newfound global creator week, the tech giant announced the launch of its Creator Marketing Hub, as well as the rollout of live video ads on Instagram.

The new offering expands paid access to AI, social-media features, and professional tools while keeping Meta’s core apps and AI experience free.

Meta launches Meta One subscription service.

All three major US stock indexes were down in late-morning trading Wednesday, as oil prices climbed,

Meta Platforms on Tuesday launched a personal AI agent app that it said will be simple to use and can help people accomplish real-world tasks. Meta stock closed regular-session trading slightly lower. The so-called Muse agent fits with a broader effort from Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to offer "personal superintelligence."

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) shares saw a choppy trading session—initially popping 1% before sliding into the red—following the reveal of Muse, a proactive personal AI agent built to execute digital chores on your behalf. Powered by Meta’s new real-world task model, Muse Spark, the agent goes far beyond standard chatbots. Muse acts as an autonomous digital proxy that can independently send emails, book travel arrangements, and complete web forms. Crucially, it doesn’t need const

The new tool, which can perform tasks such as shopping and sending email, is Meta’s latest attempt to monetize its massive AI investments.

Meta Platforms Inc. has launched Muse Spark 1.3, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date.

The company is making risky bets on artificial intelligence, but that may be undervaluing the stock.

Meta launches a $1B community fund to ease opposition to AI data centers as concerns over local impacts and benefits grow.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) released a new open-weight AI model called Muse Glimmer on August 10, a compact system built for agentic tasks that can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card. CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the launch to press Washington for lighter rules on open-source AI, arguing that Chinese developers have […]

Meta (NASDAQ:META) launched a new open-weight artificial intelligence model on Monday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for the United States to reduce barriers facing domestic developers in order to compete more effectively with Chinese rivals. The new model, called Muse Glimmer, is considerably smaller than the flagship AI systems developed by leading competitors.

Aug 10 () - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U. barriers for open-source AI models to compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model ‌on Monday.

Meta Platforms on Wednesday launched Muse Code, a coding tool powered by ‌its latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.2, designed ‌to help developers write and debug software. Muse Code can ‌write code and ⁠verify results, and has been trained to handle long, complex coding projects while also ⁠running multiple sub-agents simultaneously to speed up difficult tasks, the company said. Meta also said it trained Muse ​Spark 1.2 ​and Muse Code together ​to operate smoothly as ‌a pair.

Following the demise of its ill-fated Libra experiment, the company is offering third-party cryptocurrency options for creators and advertisers.

Miivo AI (TSX-V:MIVO) CEO Alex Damouni talked with Proactive about the company's new Customer Insights Platform and how it supports small and medium-sized businesses by improving customer engagement through AI-powered automation. Proactive: Welcome back inside our Proactive newsroom. Joining...

Meta Platforms and BlackRock announced a partnership to develop a US$14b data center campus in Texas focused on AI infrastructure. The project is structured as Meta's largest external infrastructure collaboration to date and is intended to expand AI compute capacity. The data center campus is designed to support the training and deployment of Meta's AI models for its products and services. Meta Platforms, trading on NasdaqGS:META, is moving ahead with this large AI focused buildout while...

Investing.com -- Direxion on Wednesday launched a new family of exchange-traded funds designed to generate income by writing call options on individual high-volatility stocks, expanding beyond its traditional leveraged and inverse ETF offerings.

Meta will retain a 20% interest while BlackRock-managed funds own 80% of the planned El Paso facility.

Meta Platforms (META) and BlackRock (BLK) have agreed to form a strategic venture to develop and own

Meta has launched a dedicated Seller app for Facebook Marketplace, aimed at professional sellers. The app focuses on enhanced seller tools and potentially lower fees, directly challenging eBay's core seller base. This development introduces fresh competitive pressure on eBay's marketplace model and its high-margin seller segment. eBay, traded as NasdaqGS:EBAY, now faces a new competitor targeting the same professional sellers that are central to its marketplace model. The stock trades at...

Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) and Lightspeed Commerce have launched a direct integration that syncs in-store sales data with Meta's advertising systems. The integration allows physical retailers to connect point-of-sale transactions to Meta ad campaigns, even without an ecommerce site. The move is aimed at improving attribution of Meta ads to offline purchases and expanding Meta's role in brick-and-mortar retail marketing. Meta Platforms enters this partnership with Lightspeed Commerce...

Meta Platforms is launching a dedicated app for sellers on Facebook Marketplace. Meta stock was a fraction lower early Friday while the news appeared to weigh on eBay shares. The new app will be called Seller, according to an announcement from Meta on Friday morning.

BlackRock combines GIP and HPS to finance Meta's AI data center project through a major bond sale.

The AI Materials Foundry combines data, lab access, computing power and expertise on one platform for new materials design.

Meta launched Muse Image and Muse Spark 1.1 this week while revealing plans to manufacture its first in-house AI chip in September

The Muse Spark 1.1 model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, with $20 in free credits to start

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB)’s Meta Superintelligence Labs on Thursday announced the launch of Muse Spark 1.1, an updated multimodal reasoning model designed for advanced artificial intelligence workflows, including autonomous agent tasks, coding and computer-use...

Nebius Group (NasdaqGS:NBIS) has been added to the Nasdaq-100, a shift that often draws in index-linked capital, just as the company rolls out new AI offerings and faces fresh competition from Meta Platforms. See our latest analysis for Nebius Group. The recent index inclusion and AI product launches come after a volatile stretch, with Nebius Group’s share price up 140.67% year to date and 58.79% over 90 days. Over 1 year, the total shareholder return is very large, suggesting strong but...