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Pyrefly 1.0.0 ships on May 12, 2026 as Meta's production-grade Python type checker, checking 1.8 million lines per second and powering Instagram's codebase.

The European Commission issued preliminary findings on April 29 that Meta violated the DSA by allowing children under 13 to create accounts using false birth dates, with potential fines reaching 6% of its global turnover.

Elsevier, Hachette, and three other major publishers filed a class action in New York alleging Meta torrented pirated books to train Llama, with Zuckerberg personally approving the strategy.

GLAAD's 2026 index scores six major platforms on LGBTQ+ safety: TikTok leads at 56, while X scores 29 and YouTube drops 11 points after removing gender identity from hate speech protections.

Meta filed a judicial review challenging Ofcom's use of qualifying worldwide revenue to set fees and penalties under the UK's Online Safety Act, with a full hearing scheduled for October.

Meta acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence on May 1, 2026, folding cofounders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang into Superintelligence Labs as it tries to become the operating-system layer for the humanoid race.

Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta and the AI agent startup Manus to undo their roughly $2 billion acquisition, capping a four-month review that began in January 2026 and citing concerns over the 'Singapore-washing' of a company with deep Chinese roots.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled April 10 that Section 230 does not bar Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit against Meta over Instagram's addictive design, the first such ruling by any state's highest court.

Meta will deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores to power CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar partnership that AWS describes as one of its largest Graviton commitments to date and that extends Meta's push to diversify beyond Nvidia.

Meta's first Oklahoma data center — a 2-million-square-foot AI facility in East Tulsa — was grandfathered past a city moratorium that paused similar projects, drawing local protests.

Meta signed a reservation deal for up to 100 GWh of ultra-long-duration storage from Noon Energy, a startup whose reversible fuel cell borrows chemistry from NASA's MOXIE Mars experiment.

Meta plans to eliminate 10% of its global workforce starting May 20, restructuring around AI-driven productivity as it nearly doubles capital spending to $135 billion.