Meta Platforms is rolling out consumer subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, including new AI-focused tiers under the Meta One brand, with "Plus" plans starting at $3.99 per month …
On 13 May 2026, Meta launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI for WhatsApp, processing conversations inside a hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environment to prevent Meta from reading chat contents. The …
Meta shares rose nearly 3% Wednesday after the company announced Meta One, a suite of paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, priced at $3.99 and $2.99 per month respectively, alongs…
Meta launched global consumer subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp on Wednesday, offering plans from $2.99 to $3.99 per month for extra features like profile customization and story ins…
A new wave of consumer startups, including Hermo, Molo, and Poppy, is building AI-driven tools to automate parenting logistics such as scheduling and reminders. Hermo, founded by Jenna Blaicher-Brown …
A developer built a helmet detection system using an ESP32-CAM and the CircuitDigest Cloud, where the camera captures images and uploads them to a cloud AI service for analysis instead of running heav…
The LoopLearnX team built a custom WhatsApp AI bot using the `@whiskeysockets/baileys` library and Next.js, hosted on an Oracle Cloud VPS, to enable frictionless homework submissions for CBSE students…
WhatsApp is rolling out a feature that allows iPhone users to send documents directly to Meta AI from the in-chat attachment menu, with the update appearing in WhatsApp beta for iOS 26.20.10.72. The c…
The article announces the release of a Python SDK for the Tell A Bot API, which provides temporary US phone numbers to receive SMS messages and OTP codes for over 700 services. The SDK allows develope…
Here is a factual summary of the article: The article describes the architecture and development of a full-stack AI chatbot platform built for IFDA, an Indian educational institute, using a Next.js 1…
OpenWA offers a self-hosted WhatsApp gateway that gives SaaS companies greater control, visibility, and ownership of logs compared to managed vendor solutions. However, for CTOs, this choice requires …
In 2026, two leading open-source AI agent frameworks, Hermes and OpenClaw, dominate GitHub, each embodying a distinct philosophy for personal AI assistants. Hermes focuses on a self-improving, closed-…
The article describes the author's experience with chaotic client feedback processes for WordPress sites, involving scattered messages across WhatsApp, email, and Slack. To solve this, the author crea…
A self-taught 19-year-old developer in Nigeria tested Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 E2B model on an 8GB RAM laptop without a GPU. He fed the model a degraded, double-compressed WhatsApp screenshot of code…
The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging that WhatsApp does not provide the end-to-end encryption it has publicly claimed since 2016, and that Meta can and does read users…
The article outlines a four-level framework for scaling AI agent usage, starting with a single Hermes Agent instance for prototyping and workflow refinement. It warns against prematurely adopting comp…
Hermes Agent, an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research, can function as a persistent "AI Ops Employee" for small SaaS products or indie developers. Unlike standard chatbots, Hermes ope…
A self-hosted AI agent built by an engineering manager to automate invoice data extraction from photos sent via WhatsApp. The system uses a workflow orchestration tool (n8n) to receive images, pass th…
Author's experience building an AI assistant using Gemma 4 to help Cameroonian applicants avoid mistakes on Canadian Express Entry immigration forms. Initial tests revealed that Gemma 4 gave incorrect…
Meta laid off approximately 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, in May as part of a major reorganization to shift its focus toward artificial intelligence. Additionally, around 7,000 other…