Meta announced Monday that it's launching 'Meta Enterprise Platform,' a new initiative aimed at expanding the company's AI offerings to businesses and corporate customers. The social media giant hired Chirantan 'CJ' Desai, the CEO of database software giant MongoDB, to lead the new initiative. 'Over the coming years, AI will fundamentally redefine how organizations of all sizes innovate, grow, serve customers, and run business operations,' Desai said in a statement. 'Meta has a unique role to play because it is bringing together advanced models and leading agents with a proven track record of helping millions of advertisers and hundreds of millions of businesses scale. Meta Enterprise Platform will focus on turning its AI stack into products and services that companies can deploy for their own businesses.' MongoDB's shares dropped by more than 17% on the news of its CEO's sudden departure. The database maker said it appointed Dev Ittycheria as interim chief executive, who previously served in the role, while the board searches for Desai's permanent replacement....

Voice AI company ElevenLabs revealed new investors that are part of its $500 million Series D fundraise, which was first announced in February. The additions include institutions such as BlackRock, Wellington, D.E. Shaw, and Schroders; enterprises like Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, Santander, KPN, and Deutsche Telekom; and individual investors such as Jamie Foxx, Eva Longoria, and Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. The startup also noted that it surpassed $500 million in ARR (annual recurring revenue), after ending last year with nearly $350 million in ARR. The company's co-founder and CEO, Mati Staniszewski, said last month that ElevenLabs added $100 million in net new ARR in Q1 2026, ending the quarter at roughly $450 million in ARR. 'Voice is the highest-stakes channel for any customer interaction, and the bar for quality, latency, and security is extremely high. ElevenLabs is not just a category leader ' it is becoming a foundational enabler of Deutsche Telekom's broader Industrial AI vision. From voice-as-a-service to multilingual automation and in-network AI agents, we believe the company is uniquely positioned to reshape how businesses interact with customers across all channels,' Karine Peters, managing director at Deutsche Telekom's venture arm T.Capital, said in a statement....

When an assassin murdered Charlie Kirk in September 2025, the MAGA movement seized the moment to demand a campaign of repression. Vice President Vance called for an ambitious program to 'go after the NGO network that foments, facilitates, and engages in violence.' He named the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and The Nation magazine as examples of candidates for the retaliation he had in mind. The people who faced consequences after the killing almost universally did so for things they had written or said, not for acts of violence. In November, Reuters counted some 600 cases of people who were fired, suspended, or otherwise disciplined for their speech about Kirk's life and death. Now another gunman has attacked political targets. At the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a man discharged a firearm in the vicinity of hundreds of people from the worlds of politics, media, and business'among them, the president and vice president of the United States. Although much about the event remains unclear, the available evidence suggests that the gunman was motivated by an anti-Trump agenda. Yet this time, MAGA's immediate response to political violence has been much less aggressive. At his press conference after yesterday's attempted shooting, President Trump cited the attack as proof of the need for his wished-for White House ballroom. Social-media accounts that take their cues from the White House promptly echoed the message....

A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, according to Amnesty International, the latest case of targeting someone in civil society with powerful phone hacking software. The human rights organization published a new report Tuesday analyzing several hacking attempts against local journalist and press freedom activist Teixeira Candido, in which he was sent a series of malicious links via WhatsApp during 2024. The new research shows again that government customers of commercial surveillance vendors are increasingly using spyware used to target journalists, politicians, and other ordinary citizens, including critics. Researchers have previously found evidence of Predator abuse in Egypt, Greece, and Vietnam, where the government reportedly targeted U.S. officials by sending the spyware via links on X. Intellexa is one of the most controversial spyware makers of the last few years, operating from different jurisdictions to skirt export laws, and using an 'opaque web of corporate entities' ' as a U.S government official put it at the time ' to hide its activities....