A lost essay from 2004 by a former Amazon engineer, recovered in 2024, argues that Amazon's internal service architecture solved the 2-tier database problem but created new complexity for application …
Ivan Pepelnjak of ipSpace.net flagged a December 3, 2025 podcast episode on the 0x02 Jeffs networking show, where Petr Lapukhov, co-author of RFC 7938 and former Facebook engineer now at NVIDIA, discu…
A federal court ruled that Section 230 immunity does not apply to Meta's generative AI enhancements to ad copy, but dismissed the lawsuit anyway because the claims were preempted by federal securities…
Meta launched Muse Spark on April 8, a new AI model with selectable operational modes for different cognitive demands, marking its first major release from the Muse family and a strategic shift from o…
SpaceX will pay its underwriters a gross spread of just 0.75% for the largest initial public offering in history, matching the lowest percentage on record for a conventional U.S. IPO. Despite the reco…
Meta is adding an AI assistant and a desktop version to Edits, its video-editing app that competes with ByteDance's CapCut. The AI assistant analyzes a creator's Instagram performance data to suggest …
Meta realizou no Brasil o evento Meta Conversations, anunciando novidades no WhatsApp para empresas, incluindo um agente de IA para SAC e a API Marketing Message com otimização inteligente de entrega.…
Meta confirmed yesterday that a bug in its Meta AI chatbot allowed attackers to hijack at least 20,225 Instagram accounts between April 17 and early June 2026. The vulnerability enabled the chatbot to…
A wave of low-quality, AI-generated content, described as "AI slop," has proliferated across sports coverage, producing fabricated quotes attributed to players and personalities. Last fall, 49ers tigh…
Sriram Krishnan, a senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence at the White House, is leaving the Trump administration at the end of June. Krishnan, a former tech executive and venture capitalis…
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed legislation to impose a 50% "ownership tax" on the nation's largest artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, effectively confisc…
Meta launched paid subscription tiers for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp on June 6, 2026, offering features like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights for $3.99 per month for I…
The June 5, 2026 episode of the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast, "Generous To A Default," covered Meta's global rollout of new content settings for teen accounts, a Krebs on Security report detailing attacker…
Meta is shifting its business model to aggressively pursue subscription revenue, launching paid plans across its apps and AI services to help fund a projected $145 billion AI capital expenditure budge…
Platforms like Gmail, Meta, and payment networks like Visa and Mastercard routinely analyze user data for advertising, AI training, and fraud detection, often buried in lengthy terms of service agreem…
Meta launched Creator Assistant, a conversational AI tool built into Facebook’s creator dashboard that analyzes performance data and explains why content succeeds, rolling out to creators in the US, C…
Meta launched a new AI creator assistant on Facebook on Thursday, providing personalized recommendations on posting times, content ideas, and performance analysis based on individual creator data. The…
Meta launched Creator Assistant, an AI-powered tool integrated into Facebook’s creator dashboard that provides personalized insights on audience trends and performance, helping creators understand why…
Meta's Oversight Board found that the company's rules for banning accounts are confusing and raise "due process concerns," particularly due to inconsistent penalties between Facebook and Instagram. Th…
Venture capitalist Jesse Walden has raised $222 million for Variant 4, a new early-stage fund that expands his firm's investment thesis beyond crypto to include artificial intelligence and "autonomy."…