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."…
Hackers exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts, including the Obama White House account and the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force's account, by simply asking …
Hundreds of Facebook pages with names like "Life in Texas" and "History of Wisconsin" are churning out AI-generated images that exploit local anti-data center sentiment, using fake stories of farmers …
Tabiji, an AI-generated travel-safety channel, amassed 18.1 million views across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook in 90 days by automating video production from Reddit-sourced scam stories. Th…
Meta Platforms shares traded lower Wednesday, roughly 20% below their July 2025 all-time high, despite reporting 33% year-over-year revenue growth in Q1 2026 driven by AI improvements in ad impression…
Illegal betting apps are using AI-generated reels, targeted ads, and fake news-style promotions on Instagram and Facebook to lure young users. The campaigns evade crackdowns by misusing social media p…
AI-generated influencers posing as Black small business owners are being used to sell mass-produced products from fast-fashion site Shein at inflated prices on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. The Ver…
Developer Simran Shaikh revived an abandoned GitHub issue analyzer project, BugWhisperer, after eight months by leveraging GitHub Copilot to complete the code. The tool now uses Groq's Llama 3.1 AI to…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round on Thursday, achieving a $965 billion valuation that makes it the most valuable private company in history and nearly the first trillion-dollar…
Meta is pursuing new revenue streams beyond advertising, including paid subscriptions for Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, as well as AI chatbot fees, to justify its ballooning capital expenditure, …
Meta is launching a subscription service called Meta One, offering ad-free access to Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp starting at $7.99 per month, bundled with expanded AI features. The move comes as…
Meta is launching paid add-ons for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, with prices ranging from $2.99 to $19.99 per month, as part of a strategy to reduce reliance on ad revenue and justify its massive…
Meta launched paid "Plus" subscriptions across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, alongside new subscription packages for Meta AI. The subscriptions add extra features across the company's major socia…
Meta is launching global subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp over the next few weeks, with Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus priced at $3.99 per month and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99 pe…