TNB Tech Minute: Meta Unveils AI Agent For Businesses
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:26.3 | August 2025 proprietary survey among real estate professionals. Here's your afternoon, |
| 0:32.8 | TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, June 3rd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Meta launched an AI |
| 0:39.8 | agent for businesses on its WhatsApp, Instagram, and messenger services across the globe today. |
| 0:46.3 | The autonomous tool will be able to answer customer questions, book appointments, and |
| 0:50.7 | close sales, among other functions, with future plans for market research and calendar |
| 0:55.9 | management. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the agent will, quote, eventually help you run your whole |
| 1:02.1 | business. While the tool is free for now, it will later become a paid subscription. The new agent is |
| 1:09.1 | part of the company's effort to broaden beyond its core |
| 1:11.9 | consumer business as it spends aggressively on AI. The tech giant said its AI infrastructure |
| 1:17.8 | buildout will cost up to $145 billion in capital expenditures this year. We exclusively report that |
| 1:26.2 | Google Parent Alphabet sold $35 billion worth of stock this week in underwritten public offerings. |
| 1:33.5 | Those are transactions in which an institution like a bank purchases the shares and resells them. |
| 1:39.2 | The company had said it planned to sell $30 billion that way as part of its massive equity raise. |
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