TNB Tech Minute: Meta Rolls Out Subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram and AI Chatbot
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:29.3 | Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, May 28th. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Yomani-Mauiz for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:36.5 | Meta Platforms is rolling out subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and testing new subscriptions for its AI chatbot. |
| 0:43.9 | Facebook Plus and Instagram Plus will be priced at $3.99 per month, while WhatsApp Plus will cost $2.99 a month. |
| 0:51.2 | Subscriptions to its chatbot called MetaI will be priced at $7.99 a month for |
| 0:55.7 | the basic tier and $1999 for premium. The new subscription offerings come a week after |
| 1:01.7 | meta laid off 10% of its workforce, in part to free up funds for its planned $145 billion in capital |
| 1:08.2 | spending this year on AI infrastructure. IBM and Red Hat are committing $5 billion to a new initiative called Project Lightwell, |
| 1:16.6 | which aims to secure open-source software supply chains for businesses. |
| 1:20.6 | The companies say they will deploy a global force of 20,000 engineers to establish a trusted |
| 1:26.6 | enterprise clearinghouse that will use advanced |
| 1:28.9 | AI tools to identify, test, and fix security vulnerabilities across massive volumes of open source |
| 1:35.0 | code. IBM says more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies currently rely heavily on open source |
| 1:41.2 | software, making them vulnerable as bad actors use AI to exploit security |
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