- Jul 19
Facebook and Instagram down worldwide: 'Account unavailable' error hits millions, services slowly returning
Users across the globe reported being locked out of their accounts on Sunday morning, encountering an 'Account unavailable' error on Facebook and feed loading failures on Instagram. WhatsApp also saw sporadic disruptions.
- Jul 19
Global Meta outage locks users out of Facebook, Messenger and Instagram
Users worldwide, including in Poland, reported login failures and inaccessible feeds on Sunday morning, with nearly 4,000 complaints logged on DownDetector by 10:00 a.m. local time.
- Jul 18
Meta in talks to lease $10 billion in AI compute to Anthropic over two years
The social media giant is planning a cloud business to monetise excess capacity, while Anthropic races to secure chips for its Claude models.
- Jul 18
Jensen Huang's leather jacket sells for $960,000 at Sotheby's, 96 times its retail price
Forty-five collectors drove the bidding to 96 times the pre-sale estimate, with proceeds going to the Edge Institute.
- Jul 17
France blocks Polymarket website after visits hit 578,751 despite existing transaction ban
The French gambling regulator ordered internet providers to block the prediction market on Friday, adding to a 2024 transaction ban, after visits from French IPs rose to 578,751 last month.
- Jul 15
Meta employees sue, allege AI tools scored parental and medical leave against them in 8,000-person layoff
A federal lawsuit filed in Oakland, California, claims the company's internal AI systems transformed keyboard activity and token usage into productivity scores that penalised employees on protected leave when the firm cut 10% of its workforce this spring.
- Jul 10
Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1, a paid AI coding model, as it races to catch OpenAI and Anthropic
Meta on Thursday released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for coding and agentic tasks, marking the company's first paid API offering and a bid to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Jul 8
Meta launches Muse Image AI generator, automatically opts in public Instagram profiles for remixing
Meta's new AI image generator, Muse Image, automatically includes public Instagram profiles in its training data, allowing anyone to generate images using a user's likeness without explicit consent.
- Jul 3
Zuckerberg tells staff AI agent progress slower than expected, reorganization not clean in leaked town hall audio
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff that AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and that a mass restructuring has been rocky, according to a recording of an internal town hall obtained by Reuters.
- Jul 1
Meta builds cloud business to sell spare AI computing capacity, shares jump 10%
Meta is developing a cloud unit to sell excess AI computing capacity, Bloomberg reported, putting it in direct competition with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Shares climbed as much as 10%, their best intraday gain since January.
- Jun 24
Meta builds prediction market app 'Arena' to challenge Polymarket and Kalshi, starting with points not cash
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small team to build a standalone prediction market app called Arena, initially using a points system rather than real money, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
- Jun 23
Meta unveils its first own-brand AI glasses, starting at $299 with Muse Spark model and Kylie Jenner edition
The new Meta Glasses line is the company's first wearable without Ray-Ban or Oakley branding, priced $60 below the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2.
- Jun 16
Snap unveils Specs, a standalone AR glasses computer, at Augmented World Expo
Snap has introduced Specs, standalone augmented reality glasses with hand tracking, AI and a 51-degree display, priced at $2,195 and shipping to the US, UK and France this autumn, pre-empting Meta's unreleased Orion.
- Jun 15
Trump hosts UFC gala on White House lawn for 250th anniversary and his 80th birthday
Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the United States with a seven-fight UFC gala on the South Lawn, featuring title bouts, a flyover, and over 4,000 invited guests.
- Jun 12
Meta platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook suffer global outage on Friday afternoon
A severe technical failure struck Meta's core apps on 12 June 2026, preventing millions of users across several continents from sending messages, loading feeds or logging in. The company has not yet disclosed the cause or a recovery timeline.
- Jun 10
First trailer for 'The Social Reckoning' drops: Jeremy Strong is Mark Zuckerberg in Sorkin's Facebook sequel
Sony Pictures has released the debut trailer for Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning', a companion piece to 2010's 'The Social Network' that follows whistleblower Frances Haugen's 2021 leak of internal Facebook documents.
- May 28
Meta Launches Paid 'Plus' Subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Globally
Meta has officially begun the global rollout of paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, marking a major shift in its business model to diversify revenue beyond advertising.
