Meta announced new AI features on Facebook, including 'AI Mode' that synthesizes answers from public posts across its platforms, and AI-powered photo presets for editing. The updates aim to boost enga…
Meta announced a suite of AI tools for Facebook, including a chatbot called AI Mode that answers questions using data from Groups and Reels, photo-editing features with collage cutouts and video monta…
The United Kingdom announced a ban on social media for under-16s, more restrictive than Australia's, including restrictions on live-streaming and AI chatbots. The ban, supported by 90% of parents in a…
Facebook rolled out new AI-powered features including AI Mode for search, AI editing tools for photos and videos, and AI-generated wardrobe changes. The tools aim to help users find answers, create co…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a ban on social media use for children under 16, targeting platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, with exceptions for messaging …
Anil Dash argues for a shift from Big AI to many small, responsible AI tools created by and for communities, citing widespread cultural pushback and ethical concerns about major AI platforms. He sugge…
A patient wakes from a nine-year coma to find the world transformed by a pandemic, political shifts, and AI-generated content. The tech industry has collapsed, making jobs scarce and the App Store ove…
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…