[Meta Acquires AI Programming Startup Conductor] According to a TechCrunch report on November 5th, Meta has acquired AI programming startup Conductor. Meta confirmed the deal to the media but did not provide further details. Conductor's tools allow users to deploy multiple agents to process different parts of a software project in a parallel workspace. The agents used come from companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI. Founder and CEO Charlie Holtz stated that the company plans to launch new products early next year. Conductor's cloud service will be shut down on November 20th, after which user cloud data will be deleted.