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Meta's October 30 Commercial Terms: What They Let Meta Crawl, and Whether Businesses Can Opt Out
Policy & Regulation

Meta's October 30 Commercial Terms: What They Let Meta Crawl, and Whether Businesses Can Opt Out

Meta's updated commercial terms, effective October 30, let it crawl websites associated with business accounts on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and use the content to train its products, legal experts told Nieman Lab. Consent comes from continued use. Meta says the update consolidates existing permissions and that robots.txt still works.

Nadia Rao
Meta Muse Wonder: Pricing, Benchmarks and Why the Stronger Model Is Subscription Only
AI & ML

Meta Muse Wonder: Pricing, Benchmarks and Why the Stronger Model Is Subscription Only

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12. Wonder is on the API at $4 and $20 per million tokens with a 1 million token context window, while the stronger Full model is sold only through Muse Code subscriptions at $50 and $200 a month.

Maya Iverson
Meta Put Muse in a $349 Camera-Free Pair of Glasses, With a Pendant Coming in December
Hardware & Devices

Meta Put Muse in a $349 Camera-Free Pair of Glasses, With a Pendant Coming in December

At Connect, Meta built its hardware line around Muse: Ray-Ban Meta Audio at $349 shipping October 13, a palm-sized Muse Charm in December, new VR glasses, and more than 100 AI glasses styles by year end.

Maya Iverson
Meta's Muse Sent the Stock Up 11% as the Ad Company Starts Charging for AI
Big Tech

Meta's Muse Sent the Stock Up 11% as the Ad Company Starts Charging for AI

Meta shares rose about 11% on September 21 on demand for Muse, the personal AI agent it launched September 8 with $20 and $100 monthly tiers. Meta, an ad business, is charging subscriptions for its agent while OpenAI moves into ads.

Sam Whitaker
Thirty-Four States Put Instagram's Design on Trial. A Verdict Lands Around October.
Policy & Regulation

Thirty-Four States Put Instagram's Design on Trial. A Verdict Lands Around October.

A coalition of 34 states and the District of Columbia opened a federal trial against Meta on August 18, arguing infinite scroll, autoplay, and Stories were built to compel adolescent use. They are asking the court to order those features removed.

Nadia Rao
Big Tech Earnings Split: Microsoft Rewarded for AI Capex, Meta Punished for It
Big Tech

Big Tech Earnings Split: Microsoft Rewarded for AI Capex, Meta Punished for It

On the same evening, Microsoft jumped about 8% as Azure grew 43% and crossed $100 billion in annual revenue, while Meta fell 7% after an EPS miss and a raised capex floor. The market is sorting AI spenders by whether the revenue shows.

Sam Whitaker
Meta Is in Talks to Rent Anthropic $10B of Compute. It Would Be Landlord to a Rival.
Big Tech

Meta Is in Talks to Rent Anthropic $10B of Compute. It Would Be Landlord to a Rival.

Anthropic is in early talks to lease roughly $10 billion of computing power from Meta over two years, per the New York Times. It would open Meta as a cloud provider and make it infrastructure to a direct competitor.

Sam Whitaker
States Asked an Appeals Court to Reverse the FTC-Meta Antitrust Loss
Policy & Regulation

States Asked an Appeals Court to Reverse the FTC-Meta Antitrust Loss

A coalition of states and DC has asked a US appeals court to reverse the lower-court ruling that effectively ended the FTC's monopoly case against Meta.

Nadia Rao
Three Headlines in One Week That Tell You the AI Build-Out Just Hit a Cycle Marker
Markets & Money

Three Headlines in One Week That Tell You the AI Build-Out Just Hit a Cycle Marker

Nvidia beat earnings handily. Meta laid off 8,000. Samsung went on strike. Three headlines, one story: the AI cycle is rewiring real labor and real supply chains, fast.

Hank Reed
Meta Began Cutting 8,000 Roles. The AI Capex Bill Is Coming Due in Headcount.
Big Tech

Meta Began Cutting 8,000 Roles. The AI Capex Bill Is Coming Due in Headcount.

Meta started the first wave of a planned 10% workforce reduction: about 8,000 roles. The cuts arrive alongside the company's $125-145B 2026 AI capex commitment.

Sam Whitaker
Meta Added Incognito Chat to Meta AI. Privacy Is Becoming the Competitive Differentiator.
AI & ML

Meta Added Incognito Chat to Meta AI. Privacy Is Becoming the Competitive Differentiator.

Meta launched Incognito Chat for Meta AI conversations. The privacy guarantee is cryptographic, and policy is doing none of the work.

Maya Iverson
Big Tech's Q1 Split the Magnificent Seven Down the Middle
Big Tech

Big Tech's Q1 Split the Magnificent Seven Down the Middle

Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet beat. Meta tumbled 8%. The dividing line was who is getting paid for the AI capex and who is still funding it.

Sam Whitaker