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San Francisco – – November 12, 2026 -- Meta has signed a multi-year agreement with electric truckload carrier Nevoya to buy environmental attribute certificates (EACs) supporting 25 Class 8 battery-electric trucks on Interstate 10 between San Bernardino, California, and Phoenix, Arizona.

Nevoya expects the trucks to begin operating in 2027 and to cover about 4 million freight miles a year. The deal includes bringing online charging infrastructure for the fleet, with charging matched 100% by renewable energy certificates.

Meta buys certificates, not freight capacity

The purchase is not tied to the physical transport of Meta's own goods. Companies buy EACs to address emissions in their value chains, including logistics. Meta's Head of Net Zero Strategy, Devon Lake, said freight is part of the emissions footprint of building and operating its data centers. He said multi-year commitments like this help address Meta's scope 3 emissions.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- The Ad Council elected 23 new members to its Board of Directors and elevated Nicola Mendelsohn, Head of Global Business Group at Meta, to Vice Chair.

Board adds executives from major agencies, platforms and brands

The nonprofit approved the new directors at its biannual Board meeting. The group spans agency holding companies, technology platforms, media owners, measurement firms and consumer brands. Names include Devika Bulchandani, Chief Operating Officer of WPP; Robin Callif of Omnicom Public Relations; Peter Naylor, Chief Client Officer of Nielsen; and Lin-Hua Wu, EVP and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of General Motors.

Platform and ad-tech representation includes Liza Heller of TikTok, Adrian Mulryan of Snap Inc., Kristen O'Hara of Google, Tim Perzyk of Microsoft Advertising, Ashan Khan of Uber Advertising, Megan Ramm of PubMatic and Alex Underwood of Teads.

Tehran – October 29, 2026 -- Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar have no subsea route to the outside world that avoids the Strait of Hormuz, after an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman said on October 19 that seven major internet cables run beneath the waterway and that new targets and weapons would be unveiled.

Spokesman Hossein Mohebbi told a ceremony in Tehran that the response this time would be much harsher. Earlier in October, Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei said Iran could strike U.S.-linked cables, data centers and AI facilities in a new war. In May, the IRGC said every cable crossing the strait could be placed under Iranian permits.

Europe – October 27, 2026 -- Self-hosted LLM infrastructure tends to become the cheaper option above roughly 50 million tokens processed per day, while commercial APIs usually stay more economical below 5 million, according to AppsTek's analysis of when enterprises need a sovereign LLM. The figures are illustrative and should be checked against current provider pricing and actual workload patterns.

AppsTek's third piece in its sovereign AI series argues that the model layer is now a governance decision, not only a technology choice, as generative AI moves into regulated, revenue-bearing workflows.

Mountain View – October 16, 2026 -- Cyfendo, a Silicon Valley application-security startup, has launched an AI platform that investigates software vulnerabilities and prepares tested patches for small businesses, as the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report recorded about $20.88 billion in reported losses across 1,008,597 complaints.

Cyfendo reports four critical issues per scanned codebase

According to Cyfendo's own scan data, the company finds an average of four critical-severity issues per codebase, and roughly seven in ten findings are rated high or critical. The company states these results come from projects it scanned, not a representative survey of business applications.

Washington – October 16, 2026 -- Two hundred Slovak and Slovak American professionals, entrepreneurs, scientists, technology leaders, diplomats and creatives will convene on Oct. 23 for Slovak PRO Summit 2026, which the organization calls the largest in its history.

The invitation-only event takes place at George Mason University's Mason Square in Arlington, Va. Slovak PRO is marking 25 years of its community alongside the 250th anniversary of the United States. Executive Director Jana Trnovcová Ragucci said the group aims to connect Slovaks and friends of Slovakia across generations, industries and borders.

Dallas – October 15, 2026 -- HighLevel, the AI-powered operating system for businesses, agencies and founders, has appointed Grubhub founder and former CEO Matt Maloney to its Board of Directors, adding a leader who spent 17 years scaling a technology marketplace.

Maloney led Grubhub from startup through its merger with Seamless and its multibillion-dollar acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com in 2021. He brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses.

HighLevel's three founders back Maloney's operating record

HighLevel's founding triumvirate of Shaun Clark, Varun Vairavan and Robin Alex said in a joint statement that Maloney's founder instinct and operating experience will be valuable as the company builds its technology and ecosystem. Maloney said he sees the same opportunity at HighLevel that Grubhub offered independent restaurants, but on a broader scale.

Temecula – October 14, 2026 -- Elite Academic Academy, a California public charter network for TK–12 students, is expanding teacher-led immersive learning through partnerships with Meta and Knoxlabs, according to a September 2026 cover story in The Enterprise World.

Elite runs three learning models backed by credentialed teachers

The network, founded in 2018, delivers instruction through the Homeschool Academy, the Virtual Academy and the Flex Academy. The Virtual Academy is fully online and self-paced for Grades 6–12. The Flex Academy combines live virtual sessions with offline curriculum. The Homeschool Academy partners parents with Elite educators.

All three models use California-credentialed teachers, a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and individualized academic planning. Target groups include accelerated learners, athletes and performers, English learners and socioeconomically disadvantaged students.

Chicago – – September 30, 2026 -- Kin Insurance said it will allow consumers using Meta's Muse AI agent and other AI shopping agents to obtain home insurance quotes directly through its digital platform, breaking from insurers and marketplaces that are moving to block AI agent access.

Kin opens its platform while rivals erect barriers

Kin Founder and CEO Sean Harper said the company will not block Muse, arguing that AI agents represent a shopping channel poised to grow as significantly as the web itself. Harper said many home insurers still lack online quoting capabilities, a gap that limits their ability to capture traffic from AI-driven shopping tools.

Durham, N.C. – September 30, 2026 -- Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults said they would or might let an AI shopping assistant choose brands on their behalf if it consistently saved them 20% on purchases, according to a nationwide survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by Talker Research on behalf of payments platform Spreedly.

The findings arrive as AI shopping agents, including Meta's newly launched Muse, expand from product discovery into checkout, intensifying scrutiny over how much purchasing authority consumers will cede to automated systems.

Younger consumers show the weakest brand loyalty against AI-driven savings

Thirty-four percent of Gen Z and 30% of Millennials said they would abandon brand loyalty if an AI assistant consistently found the best products at the lowest prices. Among parents with children under five, 60% said they would let AI select brands for a consistent 20% savings.