Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta’s AI and hardware bets.
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Mikella Schuettler / Associated Press ·
Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting to lower Democratic turnout during …
Reed Albergotti / Semafor ·
Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who gained attention for being one of the highest paid employees in tech industry, is leaving the company …
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune ·
Stablecoins have made it exceptionally easy to move money across borders instantaneously. The problem that remains for users …
Alex Heath / Sources ·
Meta's CEO joins me for an in-depth conversation on episode two of the Sources podcast.
Matt Burgess / Wired ·
Early last month, Meta deleted around 50 ads posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads that directly included child …
Wired ·
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch …
Business Insider ·
- Meta is migrating to Slack for internal communications, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says.
Meta AI Research ·
Experience Muse Voice Transcribe in real time … We're excited to introduce Muse Voice Transcribe, the first real …
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News ·
Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million …
Karissa Bell / Engadget ·
The app isn't cracking down on other kinds of AI slop, though.
New York Times ·
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant's new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
Vallari Sanzgiri / The Hindu BusinessLine ·
Debt repayment, strong cash flows underpin investor optimism around Jio IPO
Harry McCracken / Fast Company ·
Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, posted an AI manifesto to his company's website in August. The 6,537-word missive resembled similar proclamations …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·
Meta's India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker told TechCrunch.
Paresh Dave / Wired ·
The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians …
Hugh Langley / Business Insider ·
It can DJ. It can order food. It can book you a table at a restaurant. And of course, it can access your Instagram.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge ·
Under its splashy agreement with state AGs, Meta gets to flaunt the high road, while dragging its competitors.
New York Times ·
The social networking giant projected it could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropic's tools, illustrating the friend-foe relationships underlying the A.I. race.
Courtenay Brown / Axios ·
The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with major technology firms to help track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring …
Katie Paul / Reuters ·
To make its workforce "AI native," Meta explored slashing the size of many teams across the company by as much as 60% in two waves, internal documents show.
Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. and state attorneys general have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of a blockbuster case accusing …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·
WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it's launching new security features and updates to help users keep their accounts secure …
Jyoti Mann / The Information ·
Meta Platforms plans to launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent, dubbed Hatch internally, as soon as the next several weeks …
Ina Fried / Axios ·
Prominent AI researcher Luke Metz has joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Axios.
Jeffrey Kopp / CNBC ·
It's been a crazy four months for Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters ·
A teen girl whose lawsuit was a test case in litigation accusing social media companies of deliberately addicting young people …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·
Meta's experimental vibe-coding gaming app, Pocket, is now rolling out to everyone in the U.S. The app, which arrived quietly last month …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. has become one of Microsoft Corp.'s biggest AI customers, underscoring how demand for the emerging technology remains concentrated in the tech industry.
Reuters ·
A former engineering director at Meta Platforms (META.O) testified on Wednesday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture …
Emma Roth / The Verge ·
You can share your window with the new Meta AI app, as well as connect it to Google Workspace. … Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot.
Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal ·
Renewed interest in atomic energy and AI mania are colliding at the Idaho National Lab
Alexander Martin / The Record ·
The company at the center of a series of incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems during supposedly …
New York Times ·
The agency joins a growing number of workplaces and groups to ban Meta's devices, which have spurred privacy concerns.
Reuters ·
Meta Platforms (META.O) rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook …
Wired ·
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician.
Emma Roth / The Verge ·
By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram.
Financial Times ·
Investors in gigawatt-scale campuses face billions in underinsured risks as insurers balk at cost of full coverage
Wall Street Journal ·
Massive spending commitments for data-center leases and chips aren't shown on companies' balance sheets
Zijing Wu / Financial Times ·
Chief executive Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore as AI company nears resolution of Meta separation
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC ·
Reddit shares rose 11% in extended trading on Thursday on the social media company's inclusion in the S&P 500.
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. says it has removed access to more than 750,000 Instagram and Facebook accounts in Australia believed to belong …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·
Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk's X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information ·
As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs.
Jing Yang / The Information ·
AI startup Manus said on Tuesday that it will "soon return to operating as an independent company," …
New York Times ·
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in about 90 deaths.
Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. failed to obtain an emergency order pausing a landmark trial slated to begin this week involving claims …
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch ·
What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King's Cross?
Bloomberg ·
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Moore Threads Technology Co. said it plans to list in Hong Kong at an "appropriate time" …
KOB 4 ·
SANTA FE, N.M. - A Santa Fe judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million, and make changes for the user experience of juvenile accounts …
Artificial Analysis ·
Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) lands at 54, up 3 points from Muse Spark 1.1 (51) and 11 points from Muse Spark 1.0 (43, April).
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times ·
In March, a developer working on a Meta data center in El Paso applied to power the site with a gas-burning plant large enough to supply electricity to 300,000 homes.
Wired ·
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac ·
Following years of anticipation and months of preparation, WhatsApp today began rolling out username reservations worldwide …
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico ·
Meta's plea comes as it faces hundreds of lawsuits accusing the company of failing to protect kids' safety on its platforms.
Financial Times ·
Kunal Shah has experience in building transaction platforms and insights into emerging markets
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it's reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a standalone AI companion app designed …
New York Times ·
Federal officials are urging the lone major tech company holdout to allow government safety evaluations, weeks after ordering Anthropic to pull its latest model.
Julian Chokkattu / Wired ·
The new Meta-branded glasses have the same camera, microphones, and chatbot as the Ray-Bans. They come in three styles, one of which was codesigned with Kylie Jenner.
Wired ·
Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.
Kerry Flynn / Axios ·
AppsFlyer has raised more than $1 billion in Series E funding at a $2.7 billion post-money valuation, Axios has learned from sources familiar with the financing.