The UK's Advertising Standards Agency banned five adverts for "nudify" AI apps that ran on Meta platforms, ruling the ads "condoned and encouraged" the creation of illegal sexually explicit deepfakes …
Meta has agreed to report child safety matters directly to the cybercrime portal managed by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), becoming the first major technology intermediary with a di…
Capital Research Center investigative researcher Parker Thayer claimed that former Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon's viral resignation post was the start of a "VERY sophisticated and well…
The European Commission is preparing the EU Kids Act, a proposal that would bar children under 15 from social media, AI chatbots and online games, with European Commission President Ursula von der Ley…
The European Union is drafting an "EU Kids Act" that would require age verification to access online games, AI services, and social media, according to a report by Euractiv citing a copy of the draft …
A web app operator hosting roughly 50,000 statically generated public pages reported that Facebook's crawler requested the same pages over 3 million times in 2 days, part of what the operator describe…
Parents and children in Illinois and California filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Meta over its dormant "NameTag" facial recognition software for smart glasses, alleging the underlying fac…
Meta removed privacy-policy language that had barred the company from using specially protected user data — such as religious views, sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origi…
The Agentic AI Foundation announced the Model Context Protocol Associate (MCPA) certification on September 14th, calling it the first official MCP credential and tying it directly to the MCP specifica…
Meta AI surfaced personal details about Utah mother Kalie Robins' young daughters — including their names, birth information, one child's birth weight, and a photo Robins said she had deleted years ag…
Parents and children in Illinois and California filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in federal court in Chicago alleging Meta illegally used their Facebook and Instagram photos to build NameTag, an …
Meta said it has fixed the issue that caused its AI assistant to suggest invasive personal prompts, after a viral video from Instagram user Kalie Robins showed Meta AI asking "Who is the child passeng…
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said at a press briefing in Australia that only a "very vocal minority" of users prefer a chronological feed, arguing that a reverse-chronological feed gets "overwhelmed w…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws Thursday penalizing large social media companies up to $1 million per child for negligent harm, banning addictive feeds for users under 16, and re…
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that connects to email, calendars, Instagram and other services and can send messages, book travel and make purchases, in the United States on September 8, 2026…
A developer has published a walkthrough for building an AI-powered lead response system that combines the n8n automation platform with OpenAI models to process incoming leads, classify intent and qual…
Meta launched Muse on Tuesday, a personal AI agent that operates inside WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook and can autonomously message friends, plan outings and complete purchases on a user's behalf, r…
Researchers at the Tech Transparency Project found more than 250 additional ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material on Meta's platforms since early August, after Meta claimed new detec…
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter demanding the company stop allowing paid ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse content, after WIRED reported Meta ra…
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, launched its new personal AI agent named Muse and took the social media handles @Muse from the band Muse on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok, forc…