Walmart announced an Agent Gateway, a new MCP server letting approved AI agents search its inventory and complete purchases for customers across Walmart and Sam's Club. CEO John Furner unveiled the system at the Masters of Scale Summit, building on existing integrations with Meta's Muse, ChatGPT and Gemini. The company says the gateway lets agents shop without sharing personal data or purchase history, and includes tools to flag agent-made purchases and let shoppers control agent permissions.
A court has ordered Meta's Facebook to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a New Mexico jury found nearly 44 million violations of the state's Unfair Practices Act. The case stemmed from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and challenged Facebook's statements to users about its data practices and handling of misinformation and hate speech.
A court has ruled against Meta, ordering it to pay New Mexico $25 billion after finding the company misled users about how their personal data on Facebook was handled. The judgment stems from a state lawsuit alleging Meta's privacy practices deceived consumers.
A Santa Fe district court judge reduced a potential $219.5 billion jury-calculated fine to a $25 billion penalty against Meta, following a September jury verdict finding the company liable for misleading New Mexico residents about its data collection and safeguarding practices. The jury found more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices act, and the judge set the penalty at the maximum $5,000 per violation, with 15% annual interest until paid in full.
GMO Internet Group confirmed that attackers gained unauthorized access to its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud VPS service and installed malicious programs on nearly 27,000 customer server environments. The company began shutting down affected servers on October 21, 2026, taking all Desktop Cloud plans offline with no restoration date given. GMO says payment data was stored separately and wasn't affected, but customer-stored data may have been exposed.
Meta announced in its third-quarter earnings report that it will create a new class of non-voting shares, with trading set to begin in 2027. The company said proceeds would support AI infrastructure investment, potential acquisitions, and employee compensation. Meta also raised its 2025 capital expenditure forecast to between $135 billion and $145 billion.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues companies frequently err by promoting their best individual performers into management positions without assessing whether they want or are suited for the role. The piece cites Meta's 2024 layoffs of roughly 8,000 employees, part of an 'AI native' restructuring that flattened management layers, as evidence that companies now have fewer management slots to absorb bad fits. The author, who says they coach executive teams across industries, recommends separating recognition from promotion and testing candidates with real decision-making responsibility first.
Meta disclosed in its third-quarter earnings that income from operations would have been $22.89 billion if not for a $9.89 billion charge tied to its child safety settlement with US attorneys general. The company agreed in August to pay $17.1 billion to resolve claims that its platforms were designed to be addictive to children, though $5.3 billion of that is contingent on YouTube and TikTok adopting similar safety safeguards. Despite the charge, Meta still reported $64.60 billion in quarterly revenue, up 26 percent year-over-year.
Supernatural, the VR fitness app that shut down earlier this year, has returned in early access on Meta Quest headsets under a new, smaller independent team called Supernatural Health. The relaunch restores familiar trainers, music tracks and thousands of workouts, with hand tracking planned as a future addition to initial controller support.
Supernatural, the VR workout app Meta had paused earlier this year, has relaunched on Meta headsets as an independent early access product. It costs $20 a month or $200 annually, matching its original 2020 pricing, and launches with thousands of workouts, remastered content, a new glacial-lake environment, and support for up to four users per household. Returning members keep their points, badges and streaks, with new weekly workouts promised starting at month's end.
Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a new AI agent built on Claude Opus 5.5, launching as a research preview on iOS, Android, and the web. The agent monitors connected apps, sends daily briefings, flags urgent items, and can handle tasks ranging from scheduling to building dashboards and prototypes, pausing for user approval before sensitive actions like payments. Access currently requires joining a waitlist and holding a Pro or Max Claude subscription in the US.
A New Mexico judge ruled that Meta must pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a jury found more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices law tied to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The judge calculated the maximum penalty of $5,000 per violation, totaling over $219 billion, before reducing it to $25 billion. Meta's chief legal officer C.J. Mahoney said the company plans to appeal, calling the ruling an attempt to tax speech.
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