Meta announced Thursday it will add safety features to its AI chatbot, including parental notifications when teens discuss self-harm or suicidal intentions, with alerts sent via text, email or in-app …
Meta has introduced a new safety feature that will notify parents or guardians when their teen's conversations with Meta AI suggest self-harm or suicide, starting today for Instagram parental supervis…
Meta faced swift backlash after rolling out a default-on AI feature that let users of its AI app tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their likenesses, prompting the company to roll…
Meta's new Muse Image AI generator allows manipulation of any public Instagram user's photos, raising concerns about image-based abuse that policies fail to address. Research by Chayn in Pakistan and …
Boom AI is launching an AI coach for Instagram creators on August 1, 2026, that analyzes content and audience to provide personalized growth strategies, monetization support, and brand collaboration m…
Spotify launched a conversational AI beta for Premium users aged 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden, allowing them to control playback and explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks through voic…
Meta has removed an Instagram AI feature that let users insert people from public accounts into AI-generated images, after backlash over automatic opt-in. The feature, introduced a week earlier alongs…
Meta faces a lawsuit in federal court in California alleging its AI tools unfairly targeted employees on maternity or disability leave for layoffs during a workforce reduction of approximately 8,000 p…
Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the company, alleging it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs after they took protected leave, including maternity leave and disabilit…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the company of using AI software to target employees with disabilities and those who took medical or family leave in its Ma…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the cost of running AI tools per engineer could soon rival their salary, projecting that within a year or two, "the burn rate of a strong engineer might be the same as…
Meta is rationing AI tokens for its engineers after internal spending spiraled out of control, with Instagram chief Adam Mosseri revealing that token budgets are becoming as real as payroll. Meta empl…
Google is marking the 25th anniversary of Google Images by adding AI image generation powered by its Nano Banana model, allowing users to create images from plain-English prompts when a desired image …
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Meta may need to cap AI token budgets per engineer within a year or two, as the burn rate of a strong engineer could equal their salary. Meta shut down an internal AI …
Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said Tuesday on CNBC that CFOs may face surprise operating expenses and earnings misses as businesses encourage employees to consume more AI, a prac…
Meta abruptly removed a feature on July 10 that let users generate AI images using other people's public photos without notification, after the feature was rolled out on July 7 and faced heavy critici…
Meta has discontinued a controversial Instagram AI feature that allowed users to generate images by referencing public Instagram accounts, just days after its launch, following widespread backlash ove…
A growing number of accomplished founders and executives, including Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, former OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, and Workday CTO Pe…
Meta launched its Muse Image AI generator on Instagram by default for all public accounts on July 7, allowing strangers to scrape users' photos for AI-generated images, then killed the feature on July…
Meta has launched four privacy-eroding features in a month, including using public Instagram photos to train Meta AI, a facial recognition system in Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, a prototype that contin…