Meta announced Muse Spark 1.1, a new model powering the Meta AI app and meta.ai, enabling the assistant to plan, take actions on behalf of users, and follow through on tasks such as renovating a kitch…
Meta's new pro-AI ad campaign, launched by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, features a one-minute commercial that shows little actual AI, instead displaying nondescript footage of people and app logos. The compan…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a 45-second video titled “The Future Is for Everyone” on July 29, positioning AI as a force for human connection rather than isolation, ahead of Meta’s Q2 earnings call…
A developer argues that Android, not the desktop, is the natural home for AI agents, because phones already have the authenticated sessions and background execution primitives that real workflows need…
On June 9, 2026, the European Commission ordered Meta to restore free WhatsApp access for competing general-purpose AI assistants via the WhatsApp Business API, reversing a fee Meta introduced in Marc…
Peru's fixed internet connections are projected to reach 4.19 million by late 2025, up from 3.532 million in 2023, as the country accelerates digital transformation with growing AI adoption in busines…
Meta is reportedly developing an internal AI prompt routing platform to compete with OpenRouter, the inference aggregation startup valued at $1.3 billion after a $113 million Series B. The platform ai…
Meta's AI moderation system has wrongfully deleted over 60,000 accounts since March, when the company automated enforcement and appeals, leaving users with no human recourse. Camille Hanson lost her E…
Meta is implementing new spending controls and a real-time usage dashboard called AI Gateway to rein in AI costs after an internal memo warned roughly 6,000 employees about an 'exponential increase' i…
Ekko, a browser extension that adds post-quantum encryption to existing messengers like Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web, and Messenger, has been released as an open-source project. The extension use…
Google is rushing a fix to Android 16 devices after security researchers uncovered a bug that lets its Gemini assistant send SMS and WhatsApp messages from a locked phone without a PIN. The flaw, an a…
Indian hardware startup Lumio has launched Project Neo, an experimental AI agent that connects Google TV to WhatsApp and Instagram to solve streaming's content discovery problem, and after a week of t…
A new open-source tool called Conversation Stenography lets users hide encrypted secret messages inside innocent-looking chat text generated by a local AI model, allowing private conversations through…
AI agents like OpenClaw bridge the gap between knowing and doing by combining large language models with tools to take autonomous actions, operating in an agentic loop called the ReAct pattern. OpenCl…
Meta has launched the Meta Business Agent, an enterprise-grade autonomous AI agent that handles complex daily operations such as support tickets, lead qualification, real-time inventory checks, and ch…
A developer built a WhatsApp sales inbox for small businesses using Google Sheets and Apps Script, featuring AI replies, lead capture, and a tiered commission engine that handles rule changes and refu…
Instagram will send messages to parents if their children are having distressing conversations with its Meta AI chatbot, parent company Meta announced. The feature, built with expert input, alerts par…
Meta will alert parents if their teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot, with the feature now live for parents using Instagram parental supervision in the US, UK, Australia, and C…
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 …
A Venezuelan programmer in Buenos Aires built Desaparecidos Terremoto Venezuela, a facial-recognition missing-person site, in three hours using Claude Opus—an 8× speedup over the estimated 24 hours wi…