Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled an AI agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, positioning the social media giant as a player in the enterprise AI market. Announced at the company’s WhatsApp-focused Conversations conference in London, the new product expands on existing business messaging services by enabling “agentic” capabilities in which the assistant…
Following a brief phase of unannounced public testing, Meta has officially launched a premium, subscription-based ecosystem across its core social platforms: Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Operating under the newly established Meta One brand, a unified division built to manage the company’s experimental monthly payment structures, these “Plus” tiers introduce exclusive analytics, advanced messaging capabilities, and…
The Meta-commissioned study highlights the growing role digital platforms play in South Africa’s SME and informal business sectors. Meta’s platforms generated an estimated R16.5 billion in annual economic value for South Africa and are helping nearly one million small businesses operate and grow, according to a new study commissioned by the social media giant. The…
Meta is implementing another round of aggressive workforce reductions, cutting roughly 10% of its total staff. According to reports from Bloomberg, the move will result in approximately 8,000 layoffs and the elimination of 6,000 vacant positions. Read: Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO and passes reigns to John Ternus In an internal memo, Janelle…
Meta has signed an agreement to deploy AWS Graviton processors at scale. The deal marks a significant expansion of a long-standing partnership between the two companies as Meta builds its next generation of AI. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260424641117/en/ The deployment starts with tens of millions of Graviton cores,…
Meta Platforms is testing a paid consumer subscription tier for WhatsApp, a significant pivot for a messaging service that has defined its global dominance through a strictly free-to-use model. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: Apple smart glasses! The new offering, titled WhatsApp Plus, was first spotted in recent Android beta builds and…
Meta is debuting its first major artificial intelligence model since the costly hiring of Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang nine months ago, as the Facebook parent aims to carve out a niche in a market that’s being dominated by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Dubbed Muse Spark and originally codenamed Avocado, the AI model announced Wednesday is…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a meeting on Capitol Hill on March 26, 2026. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images A bad week for stocks was particularly rough for tech investors, as the Nasdaq suffered its worst weekly drop since April 2025. Meta and Micron saw double-digit drops, but the pain was felt across the…
A woman has been awarded $6m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.
Meta may be preparing for one of the most significant rounds of layoffs in its history. According to a report from Reuters, the social media giant is considering cutting approximately 20% of its workforce. While the report indicates that neither a specific date nor the final headcount has been officially set, the scale of the…
