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Zuckerberg: Meta-KI soll Tag und Nacht für Nutzer arbeiten
Der Facebook-Konzern Meta will Nutzern Künstliche Intelligenz an die Hand geben, die rund um die Uhr für sie aktiv sein soll. Das geht enorm ins Geld.
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Zuckerberg: Meta-KI soll Tag und Nacht für Nutzer arbeiten
Der Facebook-Konzern Meta will Nutzern Künstliche Intelligenz an die Hand geben, die rund um die Uhr für sie aktiv sein soll. Das geht enorm ins Geld.

Meta unveils the $499 Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, offering slimmer frames, swappable nosepads, and adjustable temple tips, on sale April 14 (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/wearables/the-lat

The latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are more customizable and expensive
The latest iteration of Meta's smart glasses has arrived and, as rumored, they are more customizable, particularly for people who need prescription lenses.

Meta introduces Meta Ads AI connectors in open beta, letting advertisers use their preferred third-party AI tools to create, manage, and analyze campaigns (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/meta-opens-its-ad-ecosystem-to-third-party-ai-…

Meta opens its ad ecosystem to third-party AI tools
The platform is introducing Meta ads AI connectors, as part of its broader AI push to make campaign management easier.

Meta Employees react to looming layoffs
28 Days later
https://www.businessinsider.com/employees-react-to-looming-meta-layoffs-2026-4

Employees react to looming Meta layoffs
Inside Meta, employees are facing 28 days of uncertainty before layoffs hit.

As soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Perplexity AI Machine Accused of Sharing Data With Meta, Google
Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in violation of California privacy laws.

OpenClaw goes rogue on Meta exec, deletes emails without permission https://www.thedailystar.net/tech-startup/news/openclaw-goes-rogue-meta-exec-deletes-emails-without-permission-4113741
"Nothing humbles y…

Wikimedia Board of Trustees approves closure of all #Wikinews projects by May 4. You may have never heard of Wikinews or haven’t visited the site in a long time which is part of the reason for the closure.

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Große Tech-Konzerne wie #Google, #Meta oder #Microsoft machen den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz zur Pflicht.
KI-Kompetenz fließt in Bewerbungen, Leis…

Wer nicht promptet, fliegt: Wie Google, Meta und Co den KI-Einsatz erzwingen
Neuer KI-Zwang in der Tech-Branche sorgt für mehr Druck und die Gewissheit, dass Konzerne auf weiteren Stellenabbau hinsteuern

Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/meta-q1-earnings-report-2026.html

Meta stock drops as capex, user growth numbers come in below Wall Street estimates
Meta beat on revenue, but showed disappointing user numbers and its capital expenditures were below estimates.

Analysis: in 2025, total UK ad spend grew 6.4% YoY to £46.7B; of that, £31B went to Google, Meta, and Amazon, and £1.6B went to magazines and news, down 5.1% (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/uk-adspend-google-meta-amazon/

Google, Meta and Amazon took two thirds of £46bn UK 2025 adspend
The vast UK adspend with Google, Meta and Amazon for 2025 has been revealed in new Press Gazette research which shows they dominate market.

«"We see everything - from living rooms to naked bodies," one worker reportedly said.»
Look, don't tell?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o

Meta quietly rolled out USDC stablecoin payouts on Solana and Polygon for select creators in Colombia and the Philippines (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/29/meta-stablecoins-crypto-usdc-polygon-solana/

Meta quietly rolls out stablecoin payments four years after demise of controversial Libra project
Creators can receive payouts in the stablecoin USDC on the Solana and Polygon blockchains, according to a new page on Meta’s website.

Apples KI-Strategie: Spielt Tim Cook „3D-Schach”?
Abermilliarden setzen Firmen wie Google, Meta oder Microsoft in Hyperscaler, während Apple extrem knausrig ist. Ist Tim Cooks Zurückhaltung klug?
https://www.

Apples KI-Strategie: Spielt Tim Cook „3D-Schach”?
Abermilliarden setzen Firmen wie Google, Meta oder Microsoft in Hyperscaler, während Apple extrem knausrig ist. Ist Tim Cooks Zurückhaltung klug?

Ich habe mich der Verbandsklage gegen Facebook angeschlossen, da meine Daten, trotz ablehnen, gesammelt und verkauft wurden!
🔗 https://www.meta-klage.de/
Macht gerne mit. :facebook:

Verbandsklage gegen Meta
Instagram- und Facebook-Nutzer: Kostenfrei bei der Verbandsklage gegen Meta anmelden und Unterlassung und 5.000 Euro Schadenersatz fordern

«Tech-Branche—Wer nicht promptet, fliegt - Wie Google, Meta und Co den KI-Einsatz erzwingen:
Neuer KI-Zwang in der Tech-Branche sorgt für mehr Druck und die Gewissheit, dass Konzerne auf weiteren Stellenabbau hinsteuern»
Die einen sagen dem Gewinn orientiert, die anderen sehen deren Ausbeutung von Menschen. Die KI wird nicht die Lösung sein aber ein "Argument" mehr um Menschen zu entlassen.
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Wer nicht promptet, fliegt: Wie Google, Meta und Co den KI-Einsatz erzwingen
Neuer KI-Zwang in der Tech-Branche sorgt für mehr Druck und die Gewissheit, dass Konzerne auf weiteren Stellenabbau hinsteuern

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more;
A handful of companies monopolize the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
https://www.theg…

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

Ray-Ban Meta: Preisfrage sorgt offenbar für Spannungen
Meta und Brillenpartner EssilorLuxottica sind Marktführer bei Smart Glasses. Hinter den Kulissen wird angeblich über den Preis der Produkte gerungen.
https://www…

„Wir hätten ihnen vorgeschlagen: 200 Euro“, sagte der Vorsitzende Richter. Davon könnten alle „schön abends essen gehen, schöne Flasche Wein dazu“.
Soviel sind am OLG Hamburg offenbar Daten wert, die bei einem Hack von Unternehmen geklaut wurden.
https://www.heise.…

Ui, digitale Unabhängigkeit nimmt auch woanders Fahrt auf!
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/how-to-replac…

Meta reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $56.31B, net income up 61% to $26.77B, and family DAP up 4% to 3.56B on average for March; META drops 6% after hours (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release…

Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals (The Atlantic)
https://www.

How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes
For years, employees acknowledged a problem with potential child groomers, but prioritized growth over fixes.

Dana White is on the board of Meta, so, not surprising!!! 🤬🤢 https://kotaku.com/ufc-boss-tells-fans-to-shut-the-fk-up-about-ai-slop-ads-and-just-watch-the-fights-2000683199

Meta sichert sich Solarstrom aus dem All
Meta will seinen Strombedarf künftig mit Solarstrom aus dem All decken. Der Facebook-Konzern hat eine entsprechende Vereinbarung mit Overview Energy getroffen.
https://www.

Meta sichert sich Solarstrom aus dem All
Meta will seinen Strombedarf künftig mit Solarstrom aus dem All decken. Der Facebook-Konzern hat eine entsprechende Vereinbarung mit Overview Energy getroffen.

Meta reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $56.31B, net income up 61% to $26.77B, and family DAP up 4% to 3.56B on average for March; META drops 6% after hours (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release…

Commission preliminarily finds Meta in breach of Digital Services Act for failing to prevent minors under 13 from using Instagram and Facebook (European Commission)
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_920
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p103#a260429p103

Australia unveils laws that could tax tech giants like Google and Meta for publishing news | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/australia-news-publishing-meta-google-tax-b2966096.html

'Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue..., had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes'
https://www.

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

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The race to secure electricity for AI models has reached new heights:
Meta has signed an agreement with the startup Overview Energy that could see a thousand satellites beam infrared light to solar farms that power data centers at night.
(Haven't they seen RoboCop?)
In 2024, Meta’s data centers used more than 18,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity
— roughly enough to power more than 1.7 million American homesfor a year
— and its need for compute power is only…

Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space | TechCrunch
Overview Energy's first contract with Meta is a small step toward a future of space-based solar power.

Nvidia-Konkurrenz: Google will sein TPU-Geschäft angeblich groß aufziehen
Google und Meta sollen bereits einen Milliarden-Deal für KI-Chips abgeschlossen haben. Neue Joint-Ventures könnten zudem TPUs leasen.

Meta reports Q1 family DAP up 4% YoY but down 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/meta-q1-earnings-report-2026.html

«Warum Google, Meta und Microsoft Ihren Datenschutz-Wunsch ignorieren:
Marktführende Online-Werbedienste ignorieren rechtlich bindende Opt-out-Signale fast flächendeckend. Trotz klarer gesetzlicher Vorgaben […] Tracking-Cookies gegen den expliziten Willen der Nutzer. Die geschätzte Haftungssumme für die Branche beläuft sich auf 5,8 Milliarden US-Dollar»
Die User sind ihr Produkt nicht das Web.
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Warum Google, Meta und Microsoft Ihren Datenschutz-Wunsch ignorieren
Trotz klarer gesetzlicher Vorgaben setzen Google, Microsoft und Meta weiterhin Tracking-Cookies gegen den expliziten Willen der Nutzer.

Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Strikes Multibillion-Dollar AI Chip Deal With Meta, Sharpening Nvidia Rivalry
Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rentGoogle’s AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks. The multi-year deal is worth billions of dollars, said a person who was briefed about it.Meta has also been talking to Google about ...

Australien: Meta, Google und TikTok sollen Medien an Umsätzen beteiligen
Nachdem ein Plan zur Beteiligung der Presse an Einnahmen von Meta, Google & Co. weitgehend gescheitert ist, gibt es einen neuen. Der wurde jetzt vorgestellt.

Australien: Meta, Google und TikTok sollen Medien an Umsätzen beteiligen
Nachdem ein Plan zur Beteiligung der Presse an Einnahmen von Meta, Google & Co. weitgehend gescheitert ist, gibt es einen neuen. Der wurde jetzt vorgestellt.

Instagram reaches an agreement with the MPA to cease using the PG-13 trademark in its Teen Accounts marketing, after a C&D letter, and will add a disclaimer (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/arts/instagram-pg-13-rating-mpa-meta-t…

How Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Branding for Teens Unraveled
The social media giant, under legal pressure from the Motion Picture Association, has retreated from its use of the movie rating in its marketing.

Instagram reaches an agreement with the MPA to cease using the PG-13 trademark in its Teen Accounts marketing, after a C&D letter, and will add a disclaimer (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/arts/instagram-pg-13-rating-mpa-meta-t…

How Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Branding for Teens Unraveled
The social media giant, under legal pressure from the Motion Picture Association, has retreated from its use of the movie rating in its marketing.

Meta vor Gericht: Führungskräfte warnten vor Risiken der Verschlüsselung
Meta nahm in Kauf, dass die Verschlüsselung der eigenen Plattformen die Aufdeckung von Kindesmissbrauch und anderer Straftaten erschweren könnte.

Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/thinking-machines-lab-loses-2-fo…

Thinking Machines Lab loses 2 founding members to Meta
Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, sees key members depart to Meta, highlighting talent retention challenges.

By using a wide, infrared beam to power existing terrestrial solar infrastructure,
Overview Energy thinks it can sidestep the technological challenges and safety and regulatory issues that bedevil plans to transmit power to Earth through high-power lasers or microwave beams.
CEO Marc Berte says you’ll be able to stare right into his satellite’s beam with no ill effects.
The technology would increase the return on investment from building solar farms and reduce reliance on …

Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space | TechCrunch
Overview Energy's first contract with Meta is a small step toward a future of space-based solar power.

Sammelklage: Meta und Verbraucherzentralen prüfen Vergleich
Der vzbv klagt für Zehntausende Nutzer gegen Meta. Hintergrund ist eine ältere Datenpanne. Das Gericht macht einen Vergleichsvorschlag.
https://www.

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-ad-boom.…

A.I. Helps Online Ad Businesses Boom
Google and Meta are enjoying a digital ad boom, as artificial intelligence automates marketing and drives record sales.

OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M over several years (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-hires-meta…

OpenAI Hires Meta AI Researcher Who Previously Led Apple’s Models Team
OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed. Ruoming Pang, who led AI infrastructure for Meta Superintelligence Labs, which is developing new AI models, left the company last week and has joined OpenAI. Pang, who was aggressively recruited by OpenAI over several months, told

Auf OpenAI folgt Meta: AMD verkauft GPUs für Milliarden von US-Dollar
Meta sichert sich über Jahre hinweg mehrere Millionen KI-Beschleuniger von AMD. Der Deal ist beinahe eine 1:1-Kopie vom OpenAI-Abkommen.

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Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of $402M, vs. $488.8M est., and a $4.03B operating loss, vs. $4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B in losses since late 2020 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/metas-reality-labs-lost-over-4-b…

Meta’s Reality Labs lost over $4 billion in first quarter
In Meta's first-quarter earnings report, the company said Reality Labs recorded an operating loss of over $4 billion while bringing in $402 million in sales.

VPN-Schutz in der Virtual Reality: ExpressVPN veröffentlicht App für Meta Quest
Der VPN-Anbieter bringt eine eigenständige App für Meta Quest-Headsets heraus. Zudem wird die Browsererweiterung um neue Features ergänzt.

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-ad-boom.…

A.I. Helps Online Ad Businesses Boom
Google and Meta are enjoying a digital ad boom, as artificial intelligence automates marketing and drives record sales.

KI-Tool: China untersagt Milliardenübernahme von Manus durch Meta
Meta wollte angeblich zwei Milliarden US-Dollar für das chinesische KI-Start-up Manus bezahlen. Nach einer aufsehenerregenden Prüfung unterbindet China das nun.

KI-Tool: China untersagt Milliardenübernahme von Manus durch Meta
Meta wollte angeblich zwei Milliarden US-Dollar für das chinesische KI-Start-up Manus bezahlen. Nach einer aufsehenerregenden Prüfung unterbindet China das nun.

Meta raises its 2026 capital expenditures to between $125B and $145B, far exceeding analysts' estimates, after previously forecasting $115B to $135B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-…

KI-Update kompakt: Firefox, Pentagon vs. Anthropic, Meta AMD, Passwörter
Das „KI-Update“ liefert dreimal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla in the Middle East starting 8PM local time on April 1 (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5809104-iran-irgc-apple…

Social media addiction trial: 20-year-old plaintiff KGM testifies her social media use, which began in childhood, exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-faceboo…

Young woman testifies against social media giants over technology addiction
A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. She began using the platforms as a young child and claims her early use of social media addicted her to the technology and exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts. Meta and YouTube are the two remaining defendants in the case, which TikTok and Snap settled. The woman, who has been identified by her first name, Kaley, and initials, KGM, has testified before a jury in the …

Meta FAIR: KI-Zwilling für menschliche Neuronen
TRImodal Brain Encoder in zweiter Version veröffentlicht. Meta FAIR kann damit vorhersagen, wie das menschliche Gehirn reagiert.
https://www.heis…

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses: Zwei neue Modelle in den Startlöchern
Meta bereitet offenbar die Einführung zweier neuer Smart Glasses vor. Darauf deuten Prüfdokumente der US-Telekommunikationsbehörde FCC.
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Tech stocks suffer their worst week in almost a year, driven by the Iran war and Meta's legal defeats; Meta fell 11%, Alphabet fell ~9%, and Microsoft fell ~7% (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/27/tech-stocks-iran-war-meta-verdict.html

Tech stocks suffer worst week in nearly a year, driven down by war worries, Meta legal woes
Meta's twin legal defeats this week and a big selloff in Micron spurred a drop in technology stocks, which were broadly hit by rising oil prices.

Meta gibt Eltern Einblick in die KI-Chats ihrer Kinder
Meta führt eine neue Funktion für Teen-Konten ein, die Eltern Einsicht in Themen geben, über die ihre Kinder mit Meta AI gesprochen haben.
https://www.

Source: Meta has a system in India to "automatically restrict content, at scale" to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers (Aroon Deep/The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technolo

Meta sets up automatic blocking for govt., police-referred content
Meta introduces automatic content blocking in India, granting police and government extensive censorship powers under local laws.

Sources: Meta last week scrapped the most advanced AI chip it was developing, after struggling with the design, and shifted its focus to a less complicated chip (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/metas-internal-chip-design-effo…

Meta’s Internal Chip Design Efforts Hit Roadblocks
As Meta Platforms strikes new chip supply deals with AMD and Nvidia, it has been running into problems with AI chips it is designing internally, according to six people with direct knowledge of the matter. Meta last week scrapped the most advanced chip it was developing for training AI models, ...

Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/885110/meta-instagram-parent-alert-teen-…

Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics
Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide.

New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/…

Meta erhöht Preise für Meta Quest
Die Speicherkrise erreicht VR-Brillen: Meta erhöht noch diese Woche die Preise von Meta Quest 3S und 3.
https://www.heise.de/news/Meta-erhoeht-Pre

Betrug über Telegram steigt um 233 Prozent – Fake-Jobs sind das größte Problem
Trotz vieler Betrugsversuche auf Meta-Plattformen ist die am schnellsten wachsende Quelle für Scams Telegram. Besonders der Betrug mit Fake-Jobs boomt.

Schlappe für WhatsApp: Landgericht Berlin verbietet Datentransfer an Facebook
Das Landgericht Berlin hat der Weitergabe von WhatsApp-Nutzerdaten an den Mutterkonzern Meta enge Grenzen gesetzt und die Einwilligungspraxis von 2016 gerügt.

China's broadening Manus review raises doubts about the "Singapore-washing" model; sources: Meta moved 100 Manus employees to Singapore in early March (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/27/meta-manus-china-review-sin…

Beijing's surprise intervention on Meta's Manus rattles tech founders, VCs eyeing 'China shedding' 
Beijing's review has fueled concerns and confusion among Chinese tech founders and investors that had quietly embraced the so-called "Singapore-washing" model.

Meta Ray-Ban Display: EU-Regeln bremsen Marktstart
Meta Ray-Ban Display erscheint vorerst nicht in Europa. Neben Lieferengpässen verhindern auch EU-Regeln zu Batterien und KI die Markteinführung.
https://www.

Meta agrees to acquire up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs in a deal valued at $100B that could see Meta own up to 10% of AMD; Meta plans to deploy 1GW in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-and-amd-a…

Geld für KI: Meta Platforms kündigt jedem zehnten Mitarbeiter
Meta Platforms braucht Geld für KI. 8.000 Kollegen müssen gehen, 6.000 offene Stellen nicht besetzt.
https://www.hei…

Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record $130B in Q1 and is projected to reach $725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/6b9bc764-dc68-4f…

The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-trials-230-content-design/

Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech

Source: China's leverage against Meta in the Manus deal could include 10% of its global revenue from Chinese ads and Goertek in Meta AI glasses' supply chain (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a71a1ecf-a238-4827-800b-ee486f07d409

Meta stellt eigene Messenger-Webseite ein, verweist auf Facebook und Mobil-App
Nach den Apps für Windows und Mac streicht Meta auch messenger.com als Plattform des eigenen Messengers. Nutzer werden auf Facebook und die Mobil-App verwiesen.

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning stablecoin comeback in the second half amid U.S. regulatory shift
The Facebook owner’s stablecoin integration involves planning a third party vendor to help administer stablecoin-based payments and a new wallet to be implemented, sources said.

How Chinese regulators killed Manus by blocking Meta's $2B takeover in a 54-character decree, creating an uncertain era for the country's expanding AI industry (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/…

Prozess um Social-Media-Sucht: US-Jury spricht Meta und Google schuldig
Instagram und YouTube haften für Schäden wegen Social-Media-Sucht. Das Urteil vom Mittwoch gilt als Präzedenzfall für Tausende ähnliche Verfahren.

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/meta-youtube-los-angeles-california-verdict.html

Jury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trial
A jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Meta erfasst Mausbewegungen und Tastenanschläge von Mitarbeitern für KI-Training

The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Meta erfasst Mausbewegungen und Tastenanschläge von Mitarbeitern für KI-Training

Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-is-p…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Undercover auf Facebook und Instagram ermittelt: Geldstrafe gegen Meta verhängt

Court docs: the IRS seeks $16B in back taxes and penalties from Meta, arguing it failed to report ~$54B in overseas profits; in December 2025, Meta sued the IRS (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/business/irs-meta-corporate-taxes.html

Freitag: Meta-Entlassungen wegen KI, Intel-Aktiensprung trotz Milliarden-Minus
KI statt Mitarbeiter Intel-Prognose belebt Börse Datenraub französischer Ausweise China gegen Scam Verbot personalisierter Preise Wärmepumpen-Podcast

Meta confirms plans to lay off staff; sources say it impacts a few hundred people across Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting, and some sales roles (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-platforms-lay-hundreds

Meta Platforms to Lay Off Hundreds
Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, part of a broader effort to overhaul the company for work in the AI age. The cuts will affect staffers in Reality Labs — the division behind its hardware platforms ...

VR-Laufband Omni One wird offizielles Meta-Quest-Zubehör
Das VR-Laufband Omni One wird künftig Meta Quest unterstützen. Am hohen Anschaffungspreis dürfte sich wenig ändern.
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Meta announces a deal to use "tens of millions" of Amazon's Graviton chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models, amid a shortage of Nvidia chips (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/24/meta-deal-amazon-chips

Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips
The move comes as the leading cloud providers aim to increase adoption of their homegrown chips amid an industrywide shortage of Nvidia graphics chips.

Jury deliberations begin in New Mexico's lawsuit against Meta over children's safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-trial-child-sexual-exploitation-5ad9…

New Mexico trial nears end over children's safety risks on Meta
Closing arguments are underway in a landmark trial where New Mexico prosecutors are accusing social media conglomerate Meta of misleading people about the safety of its platforms for children. Meta denies violating state consumer protection laws. Nationwide, social media companies are contending with lawsuits that allege the platforms harm children. Closing arguments in the New Mexico case were being delivered Monday after six weeks of testimony from scores of witnesses that included teachers, …

Meta bestellt für dutzende Milliarden US-Dollar Chips bei Nvidia
Nvidia und Meta haben eine Partnerschaft vereinbart, der Facebook-Konzern bekommt GPUs und CPUs verschiedener Generationen für dutzende Milliarden US-Dollar.

Memo: Mark Zuckerberg launches Meta Small Business, a company-wide priority to support entrepreneurship and drive AI use, led by Dina Powell McCormick and more (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/exclusive-zuckerberg-launches-meta-small-business…

Exclusive: Zuckerberg launches Meta Small Business
The plan taps Meta's biggest edge in the AI wars.

Undercover auf Facebook und Instagram ermittelt: Geldstrafe gegen Meta verhängt
New Mexico hat verdeckt auf Facebook und Instagram zum Jugendschutz ermittelt, die Ergebnisse verstören. Nun hat eine Jury eine Geldstrafe verhängt.

A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/jury-reaches-verdict-in-meta-child-…

Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law in child exploitation case, jury rules
Jury reaches a verdict in New Mexico trial in which the state's attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators.

Europäische Meta-Quest-Alternative vor dem Aus: Lynx droht Abwicklung
Die offene VR-Brille Lynx-R2 könnte nie erscheinen. Ein französisches Gericht hat wegen Zahlungsunfähigkeit die Liquidation des Start-ups angeordnet.

Meta geht offenbar gegen VR-Piraterie vor: Raubkopierplattform geht offline
Die größte Raubkopierplattform für Quest-Spiele hat ihre Tätigkeit eingestellt. Auslöser soll eine DMCA-Beschwerde seitens Meta gewesen sein.

Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infrastructure for its Louisiana data center, including seven natural gas power plants (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-agrees-to-fund-loca…

In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom $2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/meta-paid-broadcom-2-3-billion-2025…

Meta Paid Broadcom $2.3 Billion in 2025
Meta Platforms paid Broadcom $2.3 billion in 2025, Meta disclosed in a securities filing, a rare disclosure of how much tech firms pay Broadcom for help designing their AI chips. Meta, like Google, uses Broadcom to help design special AI chips. Earlier this week, Meta and Broadcom announced an expansion of their relationship, under which Broadcom will co-develop Meta’s next generations of AI

Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is "simply wrong" (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/28/alb…

Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing staff into AI-native "pods" focused on specific outcomes, flattening the organization's leadership structure (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/metas-real

Inside Meta's push to turn employees into "AI builders" and reorganize teams around small pods
Meta Reality Labs is reorganizing to be 'AI-native,' forming pods of 'AI builders.' The change aims to boost productivity at Meta.

The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram (Maddy Varner/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-sued-over-scam-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram/

Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

Meta and Amazon reach a multi-billion, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI efforts (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/meta-inks-mu…

LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/metas-loss-is-thinking-machines-gain/

Meta's loss is Thinking Machines' gain | TechCrunch
Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.