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The main risk Instagram faces is that as the world changes faster, the platform will fail to keep pace. Looking ahead to 2026, there is one big change: authenticity becomes infinitely reproducible. Everything that made creators important – the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked – is […]
Meta’s social network Threads is expanding the number of topics available through its newer community feature, the company announced Monday. This expansion could encourage people to use communities on Reddit and X less. The platform initially launched more than 100 communities in October, including those for basketball, television, K-pop, books and more, to better compete […]
WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app that millions of Indians rely on every day, is facing a critical moment in India as recent government guidelines threaten to disrupt the way the platform works for ordinary users and businesses. Released at the end of last month and made public Earlier this month, the guidelines asked certain app-based communications […]
Following a series of troubling mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of attorneys general have sent a letter to key companies in the AI industry, warning them to resolve “delusions” or risk violating state law. The lettersigned by dozens of AGs from US states and territories with the National Association of Attorneys General, […]
Meta made a big move to poach two prominent designers from rival tech giant Apple, and likely put them to work designing Meta’s next-generation AI hardware and the software that runs on it. Alan Dye, Apple’s former vice president of Human Interface Design, will join Meta to lead a new design studio within Meta’s Reality […]
Key Takeaways Meta eliminated an unspecified number of roles within its risk organization on Thursday. Michel Protti, Meta’s Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer of Product, explained that routine processes can now be handled by technology, reducing the need for some roles. Earlier this week, Meta also laid off 600 employees from Superintelligence Labs, its AI […]
Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user interactions with its AI products will soon be used to sell targeted advertisements on its social media platforms. The company will update its privacy policy before December 16 to display the change and will inform users in the coming days. The new policy applies worldwide, except […]
Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth went to his Instagram to explain in more technical details why multiple demos of the new Smart Glasses technology from Meta failed at Meta Connect, the company’s developer conference, this week. Meta introduced three new couples of smart glasses on Wednesday, including an improved version of its existing Ray-Ban […]
Meta Connect 2025 – the largest conference of the year of the year where it reveals smart glasses and headsets – starts on Wednesday evening. We expect that the star of Meta Connect 2025 is the new AI-driven smart glasses from the company with Ray-Ban and Oakley, but the company may have other surprises in […]
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said he is planning to investigate whether the generative AI products from Meta products are operating, misleading or damaging, after leaked internal documents demonstrated that the chatbots of the company could have ‘romantic’ and ‘sensual’ chats with children. “Is there something – something – big technology will not do for a […]
