Snap Inc. beat second-quarter revenue estimates on Monday (Aug 4), with revenue jumping about 19% to US$1.6 billion, driven by increased advertising spending during the FIFA World Cup and stronger cam…
The European Union's AI Act transparency obligations took effect on August 2, 2026, requiring companies to disclose AI interactions and label AI-generated content. Providers must design AI systems to …
A developer built a Rust-based image compressor designed to survive the aggressive re-compression applied by WeChat, Instagram, and Xiaohongshu. The tool uses mozjpeg, preserves 4:4:4 chroma, and expo…
Lerobit announced the upcoming release of its MMP V1 AI social media management tool, which will create, schedule, and publish content across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. The tool, curre…
Snapchat has stopped algorithmically recommending wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight, its short-form video feed, as the company tries to direct more distribution toward videos made by people. The…
AI inbox tools now handle 60-80% of coordination work for Chiefs of Staff, according to a blog post from this+that, which highlights this+that as the best for multi-channel task automation. The post e…
This+that, an AI-powered inbox platform, consolidates Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Instagram into a single stream, automatically extracting six types of action items: reque…
Edward Loveall is seeking a human collaborator to pair-program on Photostatic, a Zig-based CLI tool that converts Instagram account exports into static websites, with a hard requirement of no LLM assi…
Meta AI has added agentic connectors for Gmail and calendar, allowing the assistant to read inboxes and manage events, catching up to similar features from OpenAI and Google. The feature works through…
Indian police have filed a criminal case against Meta India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that circulated on Facebook and Instagram, marking a sharp contra…
Hyderabad cybercrime police have registered a criminal case against Meta's India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that circulated on Facebook and Instagram, e…
StreamTek's Tim Siglin reports that cloud production tools now enable simultaneous landscape and portrait live streaming, allowing creators to meet audiences on any device without manual re-orientatio…
A wave of CTOs from major tech companies, including Workday, Instagram, Box, Super.com, and You.com, resigned between April and May to join Anthropic as individual contributors, signaling a shift towa…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted that billions of people will use AI agents to automate their lives within five years, including managing relationships, households, finances, and health. The claim c…
Meta plans to spend between $125B and $145B on AI infrastructure in 2026, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirming that AI tools now generate most of the company's code and are accelerating product develop…
Meta disclosed $278.99 billion in future lease obligations for AI data centers in its quarterly securities filing, a 53% jump from $182.88 billion three months earlier. The company added $68 billion i…
Meta's crackdown on users of its AI-powered smart glasses who film harassment has failed, as an Oligarch Watch investigation found hundreds of such videos still on Meta's platforms after the company a…
Meta Platforms reported second-quarter profit of $15.85 billion, down 14% from a year earlier, as legal expenses and severance costs weighed on results, while revenue grew 28% to $60.8 billion. The co…
Meta's Q2 earnings report showed AI spending nearly doubled to $31.1 billion, eating up free cash flow that plunged from $8.55 billion to $784 million, and investors responded by sending the stock dow…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a Q2 earnings call that Instagram has improved its algorithm by scanning every public post on the platform to provide better recommended content.…