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Meta postponed enforcement of its revised business terms from October 30 to November 20 following objections from publishers who warned the terms could permit scraping of news sites for AI training. Meta removed explicit "training" language but critics and legal experts said the change may be insufficient, prompting industry groups and EU/UK stakeholders to urge regulators to intervene. Meta says the delay will allow it to better explain web crawler practices and the continued use of robots.txt to signal content-owner preferences. » Mere på theverge.com

Meta plans in new policies to deploy automated crawlers on the domains and URLs of commercial users and to store, search and analyze their content to develop and improve commercial products. Media associations see this as a comprehensive exploitation of editorial content and a potential violation of the Digital Markets Act, and are calling on the EU Commission to immediately review and intervene. Meta stresses the rules only concern ads and business products and no longer mentions AI training, but the associations still consider the broad claim of rights and the lack of oversight problematic. » Mere på rnd.de

ARK Invest purchased a total of 38,110 Meta shares across three funds, moderately increasing an existing position. Meta reported Q3 revenue up 26% to $64.6 billion, but the operating margin halved to 20% due to a legal settlement and high AI/infrastructure investments; free cash flow turned negative. The ARK buys are not a large long-term commitment; margins, free cash flow and the rollout of the class C non-voting shares remain decisive for the stock. » Mere på finanzen.net