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Zuckerberg: Meta’s Enterprise AI Extends Beyond Agents

On its Q2 earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s enterprise AI strategy goes beyond the AI agent it launched in June, describing opportunities to sell APIs, business agents, compute and other services to businesses. Meta plans to initially serve its existing advertiser and small-business base with AI agents across messaging and additional channels, and may later offer internal productivity tools to external enterprise customers. Zuckerberg said Meta can sell compute at a premium but will balance short-term sales with long-term infrastructure needs. The company is pursuing agentic AI for both businesses and consumers (including personal AI agents and AI-enabled glasses) and is using large language models to rapidly build new social apps and experiments.

Google expands Play Signal age-assurance globally

Google announced it will expand its Play Signal API — an age-assurance tool for apps — to users worldwide by the end of 2026. The API, already available in Brazil, will reach Australia and Canada by mid-August before a global rollout by year-end. The technology lets Android developers receive an age range signal (shared by parents or consenting adults) without accessing personal data like exact birthdates. Parents must opt in and can manage sharing centrally through Google's Family Link parental controls. The move follows growing regulatory pressure to protect minors on app stores and mirrors similar age-verification efforts by Apple earlier in 2026.

Apple sued over App Store crypto wallet scam

Three U.S. plaintiffs have sued Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after allegedly losing about $1.8 million to a fraudulent crypto-wallet app that appeared in the App Store. The complaint says the fake apps impersonated Sparrow Wallet — which is not offered for smartphones — and alleges Apple misled consumers by marketing the App Store as secure, as well as violating consumer protection laws in California, Louisiana and Massachusetts. Plaintiffs seek to recover losses, other damages and an order forcing Apple to warn users about App Store risks. Sparrow Wallet developer Craig Raw previously alerted Apple to fake versions. Apple said impersonating apps violate its guidelines, that it will remove impersonators and terminate associated developer accounts, and it noted broader efforts to reject copied, spam and misleading app submissions.