Meta suffered its most embarrassing outage ever when a bug allowed users to change any account's email by simply asking the Meta AI bot, leading to high-profile account takeovers. Engineers attributed…
New York City voters head to the polls on election day, with a reminder that registered Democrats in NY-12 can vote for Alex Bores for Congress, a race argued to be crucial for sensible AI policy. The…
The Oversight Board overturned Meta's decision to keep an AI-generated sexualized deepfake video on Instagram, ruling it violates the company's policy against non-consensual intimate imagery. The Boar…
Meta's Oversight Board has called on the company to strengthen protections for ordinary people targeted by sexualized deepfakes, recommending that AI-generated impersonations be added to its Adult Sex…
Google's Preferred Sources, Search Profiles, and Subscription Linking features allow users to prioritize content from selected publishers, creating a user-directed filter bubble that hinders discovery…
A Singaporean man, identified only as Luke, filed a police report after discovering a former schoolmate used AI to generate fake photos depicting them as a family, including images of a pregnancy and …
Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated Meta's decade-long effort to replace smartphones with holographic glasses, including the Orion prototype with a 70-degree field of view. The glasses aim to combat declinin…
Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority launched a S$48 million Digital Content and Capability Development programme on June 18 to help local media firms create AI-enhanced content for platfo…
Brands are increasingly using AI-generated influencers on social media to promote products without disclosing the artificial nature of the content, an investigation by The Guardian has found. The prac…
The team behind neural frames launched a free MP3 to MP4 converter that allows users to create static videos with album art or images, supporting files up to 100MB and 10 minutes. The tool processes f…
Two former OpenAI founders, Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, launched In the Weights, a free tool that measures how strongly AI models like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 can identify and describe a person …
Meta Platforms reported $56.31 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, a 33% year-over-year increase, but shares fell up to 10% after hours after the company raised its 2026 capital expenditure guidance to as muc…
Lindsey Vonn returned to the gym without a brace just four months after a horrific leg injury at the Milano Cortina Olympics, posting a video of her workout on Instagram. The 41-year-old skier suffere…
A new report by Kapwing reveals that nearly 60% of videos on TikTok's For You page for new users are AI-generated slop, with the Kids category being the most affected. Experts warn that exposure to su…
A solo founder launched LaunchReel, a tool that converts landing page URLs into platform-optimized social media videos using vision APIs and LLMs to extract content, write captions, and assemble video…
Meta launched Meta Business Agent on June 3, 2026, an AI service enabling businesses to automate customer interactions across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, including booking appointments and com…
Lee Andrews, husband of Katie Price, posted a video from a Dubai barber shop showing his 'new hair' just six days after being released from prison with a buzzcut, claiming it grew remarkably quickly. …
Meta's Applied AI unit, a 6,500-person team created to power CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI ambitions, is in turmoil after elite engineers were forcibly reassigned to data-labeling tasks, with employees des…
Jonathan Laramy built Chloe vs. History, a viral AI-powered history channel featuring an AI-generated character named Chloe, attracting millions of views on Instagram and YouTube. Despite having no fi…
Meta announced new safety updates for teen accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including 13+ content settings, AI-powered age detection, and parental alerts for suicide or self-harm search…