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The latest news, analysis and opinion on Meta Platforms. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.

Chairman / President

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO / Managing Director

Mark Zuckerberg

CFO / Finance Director

Susan Li

Industry

Technology, Social Media

Website

meta.com

Headquarters address

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Stock Code

NASDAQ:META

Year founded

2004

last updated:

30 September, 2024

People take photos in front of a Meta sign at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Photo: EPA-EFE

Donald Trump

Meta abandons racial diversity programmes as Zuckerberg woos Trump

The changes come soon after the platform dropped fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US, and mark a further right-wing shift.

11 Jan 2025 - 11:58AM

Mark Zuckerberg

Regulating online hate speech ‘not censorship’: UN rights chief

10 Jan 2025 - 8:54PM

Social media

Meta studying EU impact of end to fact checking: French minister

9 Jan 2025 - 10:14AM

Donald Trump

Meta taps US Republican Joel Kaplan for global policy team as Nick Clegg leaves

Former UK deputy prime minister Clegg ceded his job to Kaplan, who served as deputy chief of staff for policy under George W Bush.

4 Jan 2025 - 5:57AM

Joel Kaplan has been tapped by Meta to lead its global policy team. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Meet DeepSeek: the Chinese start-up that is changing how AI models are trained

Hangzhou-based DeepSeek is 2025’s ‘biggest dark horse’ in open-source large language models, Nvidia research scientist Jim Fan says.

1 Jan 2025 - 9:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model outperforms Meta, OpenAI products

DeepSeek’s V3 model was trained for two months at a cost of US$5.58 million, using significantly fewer computing resources than its rivals.

27 Dec 2024 - 6:45PMvideocam

Facebook

Facebook and Instagram down for thousands of users, WhatsApp also affected

WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging application, was also down for more than 1,000 users.

12 Dec 2024 - 3:31AM

Some Facebook and Instagram users posted that they were encountering an error that said “something went wrong” and that Meta was working to get it fixed. Photo illustration: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI, defence tech firm Anduril team up to build AI for anti-drone systems

The partnership comes at a pivotal period in the accelerating race between the US and China to dominate AI for military purposes.

5 Dec 2024 - 4:27PM

Social media

Tech giants Meta, TikTok, Google slam Australia’s under-16 social media ban

The proposed law will hold social-media platforms responsible for policing the ban, under threat of fines of up to US$32.5 million.

26 Nov 2024 - 7:18PM

Facebook

Meta faces April trial in FTC case seeking to unwind Instagram merger

The FTC sued in 2020, during the Trump administration, alleging the company acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on personal social networks.

26 Nov 2024 - 10:37AM

The Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp apps are seen on a smartphone screen in this arranged photo taken May 16, 2024. Photo: dpa

Apple

Apple explores smart glasses, following Meta’s lead

An internal study is under way to gather feedback from Apple employees on smart glasses, sources say.

5 Nov 2024 - 11:00AM

Apple is looking into developing smart glasses, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Photo: AFP via Getty Images/TNS

Cybersecurity

US tech firms warn Vietnam’s planned law to hamper social media, data centres

The draft law, being discussed in Vietnam’s parliament, aims to tighten information-protection rules and limit data transfers abroad.

4 Nov 2024 - 4:56PM

Alibaba

Alibaba cuts ‘dozens of employees’ at metaverse unit as sector’s hype cools down

The lay-offs affected Alibaba metaverse unit Yuanjing’s operations in Shanghai and Hangzhou, according to a report.

3 Nov 2024 - 7:00AMvideocam

Malaysia

The Minister vs Meta: battle over Malaysia’s social media licence heats up

Communications chief Fahmi Fadzil accuses technology giant of ‘giving more time to scammers and paedophiles’.

1 Nov 2024 - 12:14PM

Social media companies warn that the strict regulation imposed by Malaysia will stifle innovation and businesses. Photo: dpa

VR and AR

Meta Platforms will produce virtual reality headsets in Vietnam

Facebook parent Meta said it will produce its next-generation virtual and augmented reality headsets in Vietnam, creating 1,000 jobs.

1 Oct 2024 - 3:04PM

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents Orion AR glasses at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, September 25, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

US FTC slams TikTok, Meta and Twitch over data used by AI

YouTube, social media platform X, Snap, Discord and Reddit were also included in the FTC report.

20 Sep 2024 - 11:48AMvideocam

Malaysia

Malaysia urged by tech giants to pause ‘unworkable’ social media licensing plan

The Asia Internet Coalition, which includes Google, Meta and X, urged Malaysia to halt its social media licensing plan, citing unclear regulations and potential innovation hindrance.

27 Aug 2024 - 12:33AM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba launches maths-specific AI models said to outperform OpenAI, Google LLMs

The new Qwen2-Math large language models are expected to help solve complex maths problems.

10 Aug 2024 - 9:30AM

Alibaba Group Holding’s maths-specific large language models further burnish the company’s artificial intelligence credentials. Photo: Shutterstock

Social media

With Instagram blocked in Turkey, Erdogan slams social media’s ‘digital fascism’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s accusations were for allegedly censoring photographs of Palestinian ‘martyrs’.

6 Aug 2024 - 3:02AM

Artificial intelligence

Meta’s Zuckerberg puts faith in open-source AI to maintain US lead over China

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company runs the world’s largest open-source LLM, said AI based on open-source technology will help the US maintain a lead over China.

25 Jul 2024 - 5:30PM

Alibaba

Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI platform Hugging Face

Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen family of AI models have already been adopted by more than 90,000 corporate clients.

28 Jun 2024 - 7:00AM

The lofty recognition given to Alibaba Group Holding’s family of large language models shows the company’s rapid progress in artificial intelligence. Photo: Shutterstock

Apple

Apple and Meta have discussed AI partnership: report

Facebook parent Meta Platforms has discussed integrating its generative AI model into Apple’s recently announced AI system for iPhones, the Wall Street Journal.

24 Jun 2024 - 11:03AM

The report comes after Apple also struck a deal with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Photo: Bloomberg

WeChat

Chinese super app WeChat requires disclosure of AI-generated content

WeChat’s updated content-moderation policy forms part of a broader industry effort to promote greater transparency of artificial intelligence-generated content.

6 Jun 2024 - 5:30PM

Amazon

Amazon commits US$9 billion outlay in Singapore to expand cloud infrastructure

The outlay, to be done over the next four years, doubles the investment of subsidiary Amazon Web Services in the city state.

7 May 2024 - 2:22PM

Microsoft

Microsoft CEO unveils US$1.7 billion outlay in Indonesia for AI, cloud expansion

Indonesia has offered the island of Bali and the nation’s new capital Nusantara as potential locations for Microsoft’s new research facility and data centre.

30 Apr 2024 - 5:12PM

Microsoft Corp chief executive Satya Nadella delivers a speech at the Microsoft Build: AI Day event in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Photo: Agence France-Presse

Apple

Apple removes Meta’s WhatsApp and Threads services from China App Store

Chinese regulatory authorities had ordered the removal of those two apps over national security concerns, according to Apple.

19 Apr 2024 - 5:00PM

Apple’s App Store icon seen on an iPad screen. Photo: Shutterstock

Alibaba

Alibaba strengthens commitment to open-source development of AI model

The company’s latest AI push could fuel further debate on whether China can continue relying on open-source development, instead of bolstering its own tech ecosystem.

16 Apr 2024 - 7:34PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Meta debuts new AI chip, aiming to decrease reliance on Nvidia

Meta Platforms is deploying a new home-grown chip to help power its artificial intelligence services, aiming to decrease its reliance on semiconductors from Nvidia and other outside companies.

11 Apr 2024 - 10:22AM

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