Meta Platforms unveiled an AI agent designed to help businesses carry out day-to-day tasks, as the social media giant looks to raise competition in the enterprise arena.

Meta Business Agent is an AI-powered tool designed to let any business, from a one-person shop to a global enterprise, respond to customers around the clock without missing a beat.

It also positions the company to better rival OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the enterprise AI market.

More than a million businesses are already using some version of the agent on WhatsApp and Messenger, but yesterday (3 June) Meta started offering it globally to businesses of all sizes.

Meta explained Business Agent can be setup up in minutes or plugged directly into an existing enterprise infrastructure.

The agent can handle conversations in business customers’ local languages and tone from the first day.

It can answer business-specific questions, recommend products from a catalogue, book appointments, qualify leads, and even close sales. When a situation calls for a human touch, users can decide exactly when a team member needs to step in.

The expansion to Instagram is also live and getting started is free. Meta stated paid subscription tiers are coming in the months ahead, with options built to fit businesses of every size.

Meta is positioning the agent as more than just a chatbot. The agent doubles as a daily partner, capable of delivering morning briefings which catch businesses up on overnight conversations while surfacing insights from customer threads.

It is rolling out the agent to a select group of businesses on WhatsApp Business, Instagram Pro, Messenger, and Meta Business Suite, with a waitlist open for others.

For businesses that want deeper customisation, Meta is also launching the Business Agent Platform, an enterprise-grade infrastructure layer which connects to hundreds of third-party systems including Shopify, Zendesk and Shopee, giving the agent the ability to take real action on a business’ behalf.

The social media giant is also making it easier for people to discover businesses powered by a Meta Business Agent directly on WhatsApp.

Soon, people on WhatsApp will be able to find businesses by searching a name or sharing a contact card in a chat, which means every new customer who reaches out gets a helpful response from the start.

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Research company Sensor Tower estimated OpenAI’s ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users (MAUs) on its app in May 2026, becoming the fastest in history to reach the number.

In its State of Mobile Report 2026, Sensor Tower found ChatGPT beat the pace set by other popular apps including Google Maps, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube in hitting the 1 billion threshold, a milestone coming three years after launch.

The number represents a win for OpenAI in the battle for AI chatbot supremacy, with ChatGPT competing with the likes of Anthropic’s Claude and X’s Grok.

In April, OpenAI revealed it hit 900 million weekly active users as of December 2025 and API usage is more than 15 billion tokens per minute. However, it has not revealed official statistics for 2026.

Claude is coming
Sensor Tower noted Claude is beginning to gain traction. As of the second quarter of 2026, Anthropic’s offering hit 56 million MAUs for its app, representing growth of 640% year-on-year. This compared to 62% growth for ChatGPT.

Sensor Tower also noted US users of ChatGPT who installed Claude in the first three months of 2026 used the former app 5% less a month after installation, compared to the average use in the prior eight months.

“Claude’s growth could be driven by significant model advancements in the past year, or rising consumer sentiment after the announcement of OpenAI’s partnership with the Department of War in Q1 2026,” Sensor Tower stated.

Anthropic filed for a US initial public offering this week, with OpenAI expected to follow imminently.

Sensor Tower found Elon Musk’s Grok had 50 million app MAUs.

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Anthropic expanded the reach of its Mythos AI model to an additional 150 companies across 15 countries but stated each will need to meet its security requirements before they gain access.

Anthropic introduced its Claude Mythos model on 7 April, under the auspices of its Project Glasswing to a limited number of technology companies including Amazon Web Services, Apple, T-Mobile US, AT&T, Nvidia and Google, instead of making it publicly available.

The company stated the new cohort features industries which were underrepresented in the first batch. It now includes power grids, water systems, healthcare networks, communications providers, and hardware manufacturers.

Anthropic stated for most of the Project Glasswing partners, a successful cyberattack on their codebases could affect more than 100 million people.

It also noted many of the new partners are vendors, companies or nonprofits that maintain codebases which are relied upon by numerous organisations around the world, including governments.

The company expects within six-to-12 months, many other AI developers will have models comparable to Mythos Preview and stated, “they could release them without safeguards that prevent misuse”.

Results from the first cohort are already in. Project Glasswing partners have collectively surfaced more than 10,000 high-or critical-severity security vulnerabilities in the first few weeks.

The AI player stated the bottleneck in cybersecurity is now verifying, disclosing, and patching the large numbers of vulnerabilities which Mythos-class models can surface.

It noted many of Project Glasswing’s partners now use the model to write patches, as well as for pre-release checks which prevent vulnerabilities from appearing in the first place.

The expansion came a day after the Anthropic stated it will start offering Mythos access to the European Union’s cybersecurity division.

It also confidentially filed its initial public offering prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of rival OpenAI.

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Integrada no Cloud and AI Development Act, que deverá ser apresentado esta quarta-feira, uma nova proposta da Comissão Europeia prevê um conjunto de critérios obrigatórios para a seleção de fornecedores de serviços na nuvem em contratos públicos considerados críticos.

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