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Meta knüpft Mitarbeiterleistung an KI-Nutzung
Meta will ein neues Tool zur Leistungsbewertung seiner Belegschaft einführen. Das soll die Nutzung von KI besonders belohnen.
https://www.heise.de/n…

Internal memos: Meta said Avocado is its "most capable pre-trained base model" and achieves 10x compute efficiency "wins" on text tasks vs. Llama 4 Maverick (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-memo-new…

Meta Memo: New Avocado Model ‘Most Capable’ to Date
Meta Platforms is sounding an increasingly bullish note about the first major AI model expected to emerge from its new AI group. The company recently told some staffers in the group, known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, that its next generation large language model, codenamed Avocado, is “now ...

Nach Liquid Glass: Apples Interface-Design-Chef wandert zu Meta ab
Mit Alan Dye verliert Apple einen weiteren zentralen Mitarbeiter an Meta. In der vom Liquid-Glass-Design frustrierten Community sorgt das für Anklang.

Blind users of Meta glasses beware: Meta workers say they're seeing disturbing things through users' smart glasses https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-disturbing-smart-glasses

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

KI-Regeln auf WhatsApp: EU-Kommission leitet Untersuchung gegen Meta ein
Die Europäische Kommission hat eine Untersuchung gegen den WhatsApp-Mutterkonzern Meta wegen möglicher Verstöße gegen EU-Wettbewerbsrecht eingeleitet.

Sources: Meta does not plan to abandon building the metaverse, and expects to shift the savings from the layoffs into investments in its AR glasses (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/meta-cuts-metaverse-unit.html

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

Meta ändert Click Attribution – wie Klicks gezählt werden
Wer auf Metas Plattformen beruflich aktiv ist, nutzt oft die Möglichkeiten zur Analyse im Ad Manager. Dort ändert sich die Zählart.
https://www.

Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, on its iOS and Android apps (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/meta-centrali…

Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant | TechCrunch
The new support hub will connect users to security tools, account recovery options, and an AI assistant.

Sources: Meta and News Corp sign a multiyear AI content licensing deal that will pay the media company up to $50M a year; News Corp also has a deal with OpenAI (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Smart Glasses: Meta hält über achtzig Prozent Marktanteil
Der Markt für Smart Glasses wächst in hohem Tempo und wird weitgehend von Metas Produkten beherrscht. Das geht aus einer aktuellen Studie hervor.
https://…

OpenClaw goes rogue on Meta exec, deletes emails without permission https://www.thedailystar.net/tech-startup/news/openclaw-goes-rogue-meta-exec-deletes-emails-without-permission-4113741
"Nothing humbles y…

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Große Tech-Konzerne wie #Google, #Meta oder #Microsoft machen den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz zur Pflicht.
KI-Kompetenz fließt in Bewerbungen, Leis…

Wer nicht promptet, fliegt: Wie Google, Meta und Co den KI-Einsatz erzwingen
Neuer KI-Zwang in der Tech-Branche sorgt für mehr Druck und die Gewissheit, dass Konzerne auf weiteren Stellenabbau hinsteuern

“Rewrite this function to be 50,000 lines long and looking extremely complicated but it does the same thing”
They’re calling this prompt “lambo-hacking” at Meta

Hey, FTC is appealing the Meta (Facebook/Insta/WhatsApp) antitrust case: https://apnews.com/article/ftc-meta-appeal-antitrust-752463c7783ba14b00b686fe0c933f88
(Disclosure: I’m an expert witness for FTC in this litigation.)

FTC says it will appeal Meta antitrust decision
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant. The FTC said it continues to allege that, for more than a decade, Meta has illegally maintained a monopoly in social networking through anticompetitive conduct. The FTC says Meta bought the significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta prevailed over the existential challenge to its business that could have forced the…

Meta has loaded $65 million into two super PACs
to help elect state candidates it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry in California.
The two efforts
— the American Technology Excellence Project
and Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across (Meta) California
— launched last fall, promising to sink tens of millions of dollars into countering what the company cast as a flood of overly burdensome AI bills from state governments.

Beim Meta(verse) wird nach 100 Milliarden Ausgaben und wenig Einnahmen jetzt wohl mal die Ausgabenbremse aktiviert.
https://www.heise.de/news/Teures-Metaverse-Zuckerberg-will-angeblich-Investitionen-zurueckfahren-11103145.html

Meta will seine Kamera-Brillen mit Gesichtserkennung ausstatten – und verkauft das als praktisches Feature, während es faktisch ein gigantisches biometrisches Überwachungsinstrument wäre. Das hat Konsequenzen für Privatsphäre und Selbstbestimmung.
Artikel auf #BasicThinking
#Datenschutz

Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI web browser for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-0…

Mozilla want us to have content for some "study" on "Transparency"
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/demand-the-data-whats-really-going-viral/
Sorry @…

Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed content. Sign now.

@… was so into the idea of "the metaverse" only four years ago that he renamed the damn company to "Meta" and now it isn't the next big thing anymore.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115663179089382328

Bei manchen SEO Fehlern sucht man ewig nach dem Grund 😵‍💫
Hier sind LLMs wie ChatGPT oder Claude extrem stark.
Einfach mal den Quelltext einer Seite (Strg U) kopieren und in die KI werfen mit dem Prompt: "Analysiere diesen HTML-Code auf technische SEO-Fehler. Achte auf fehlende Alt-Tags, falsche Nesting von H-Tags oder kaputte Meta-Daten."
Die KI findet in Sekunden Syntax-Fehler oder offene Tags, die man selbst stundenlang übersehen hat.
Der perfekte Lektor…

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»Sammelklage—WhatsApp-Verschlüsselung angeblich unwirksam:
Eine Sammelklage gegen Meta behauptet, die Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung von WhatsApp-Nachrichten sei nur eine Fassade. Meta weist das entschieden zurück«
Ja es ist eine Fassade, da die Metadaten unverschlüsselt sind und die sagen sehr viel über einem aus. Das ist der Preis den Mensch an Meta zahlt da es nicht E2EE ist.
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Sammelklage: WhatsApp-Verschlüsselung angeblich unwirksam
Eine Sammelklage gegen Meta behauptet, die Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung von WhatsApp-Nachrichten sei nur eine Fassade. Meta weist das entschieden zurück.

Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization led by Maher Saba in its Reality Labs division to help bolster its superintelligence efforts (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-to-create

Die Frage bei Ende-Zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung ist halt immer: wer hat alles den Private-Key? #meta #whatsApp #crypt #privat

WhatsApp Privatsphäre: Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Meta - Apfelpage
WhatsApp ist der wohl meistgenutzte Messenger in Deutschland und weiten Teilen Europas. Mutterkonzern Meta verspricht durch eine Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung höchsten Datenschutz. Ein Bericht lässt nun erneut ... Weiterlesen ...

Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocki

Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

The Austrian German term for managers who push bullshit like this is "dem hams ins Hirn gschissn", which translates as "someone shat into their brain".
(This about the thinly veiled workplace surveillance stuff [they call it "bonus system" or some shit] Meta is pushing on their employees.)

Erfährt man überhaupt, ob Leute sterben, wenn man kein Facebook mehr hat? Also, so alte Freunde, mit denen man sonst nur so ein-, zweimal im Jahr Kontakt hat?
Dürften jetzt sieben Jahre sein, seit ich mich aus den Fesseln von Meta freigekämpft habe. Aber sich von den Alle-Sind-Da-Obwohl-Keiner-Sie-Mag-Plattformen freizumachen hat schon einen Preis.

This weekend l‘ll be in Frankfurt for the #WikimediaFuturesLab. I‘m really looking forward to this international gathering about the future of knowledge production.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikime…

Wikimedia Futures Lab - Meta-Wiki

Sources: Meta plans deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s…

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more;
A handful of companies monopolize the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
https://www.theg…

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

@…
Wirklich? Kein Fediverse? Kein Threema oder Signal? Warum nicht? Warum nur Meta und X wenn man eure Reportagen teilen möchte?

When you meet someone wearing #Meta Smart Glasses, do take a moment to wave a 'Hi' at the folks watching from Kenya 👋. It's only polite.
https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

Tisch wird zu Tastatur und Touchpad: Meta Quest führt „Surface Typing“ ein
Meta führt eine neue Eingabemethode für VR-Brillen ein, die physische Oberflächen in eine Tastatur und ein Touchpad verwandelt.

heise | Meta Quest ohne Meta: So installieren Sie Software per Sideloading
Das Metaverse ist tot, lang lebe die Meta Quest! So installieren Sie neue Software auf Ihrem VR-Headset – auch ohne den Horizon Store.

Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busi…

«Tech-Branche—Wer nicht promptet, fliegt - Wie Google, Meta und Co den KI-Einsatz erzwingen:
Neuer KI-Zwang in der Tech-Branche sorgt für mehr Druck und die Gewissheit, dass Konzerne auf weiteren Stellenabbau hinsteuern»
Die einen sagen dem Gewinn orientiert, die anderen sehen deren Ausbeutung von Menschen. Die KI wird nicht die Lösung sein aber ein "Argument" mehr um Menschen zu entlassen.
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Wer nicht promptet, fliegt: Wie Google, Meta und Co den KI-Einsatz erzwingen
Neuer KI-Zwang in der Tech-Branche sorgt für mehr Druck und die Gewissheit, dass Konzerne auf weiteren Stellenabbau hinsteuern

Meta says it will continue to operate and sell the Manus service, and Manus' talent will join Meta to deliver agents across Meta products, including Meta AI (Meta)
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/manus-joins-meta-accelerating-ai-in…

Manus Joins Meta: Accelerating AI Innovation for Businesses
We are excited to announce that Manus is joining Meta to bring a leading agent to billions of people and unlock opportunities for businesses across our products.

Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/a

Ottawa in talks with Meta about restoring news to Facebook
Company blocked all news from Facebook, Instagram in 2023 in response to legislation which would require it to pay for content

Yann LeCun says his unnamed AI startup will not receive financial backing from Meta, will focus on advanced AI world models, and hints it will be Paris-based (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta casht ab: Mehr User schauen mehr Werbung zu höheren Preisen
Meta Platforms hat erneut die Werbepreise erhöht und dennoch mehr verkauft. Das beflügelt Umsatz und Betriebsgewinn. Niedrigere Steuern tun ihr Übriges.

Metaverse: Meta verschiebt Fokus auf Hardware-Entwicklung
Meta hält an der VR-Sparte fest und will künftig stärker in neue Hardware investieren. Die Verkäufe von Smart Glasses haben sich derweil mehr als verdreifacht.

How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B annual run rate; Sensor Tower: users spend 27 minutes/day on Instagram Reels, 21 on YouTube Shorts, and 44 on TikTok (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-reels-revenu

Meta vor Gericht: Führungskräfte warnten vor Risiken der Verschlüsselung
Meta nahm in Kauf, dass die Verschlüsselung der eigenen Plattformen die Aufdeckung von Kindesmissbrauch und anderer Straftaten erschweren könnte.

Ray-Ban Meta: Preisfrage sorgt offenbar für Spannungen
Meta und Brillenpartner EssilorLuxottica sind Marktführer bei Smart Glasses. Hinter den Kulissen wird angeblich über den Preis der Produkte gerungen.
https://www…

Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Strikes Multibillion-Dollar AI Chip Deal With Meta, Sharpening Nvidia Rivalry
Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rentGoogle’s AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks. The multi-year deal is worth billions of dollars, said a person who was briefed about it.Meta has also been talking to Google about ...

OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M over several years (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-hires-meta…

OpenAI Hires Meta AI Researcher Who Previously Led Apple’s Models Team
OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed. Ruoming Pang, who led AI infrastructure for Meta Superintelligence Labs, which is developing new AI models, left the company last week and has joined OpenAI. Pang, who was aggressively recruited by OpenAI over several months, told

VPN-Schutz in der Virtual Reality: ExpressVPN veröffentlicht App für Meta Quest
Der VPN-Anbieter bringt eine eigenständige App für Meta Quest-Headsets heraus. Zudem wird die Browsererweiterung um neue Features ergänzt.

Auf OpenAI folgt Meta: AMD verkauft GPUs für Milliarden von US-Dollar
Meta sichert sich über Jahre hinweg mehrere Millionen KI-Beschleuniger von AMD. Der Deal ist beinahe eine 1:1-Kopie vom OpenAI-Abkommen.

Sources: the European Commission plans a new antitrust probe into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/66f20eec-1734-4eea-9ca3-7ac1d88258ab

Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to elect California state candidates, regardless of party, whom it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry (Christine Mui/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/m

Meta just bought into the enterprise market with its Manus deal, which may eventually help it expand into cloud offerings like those of its Big Tech peers (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/meta-manus-deal/

Manus: The Hands of AI Fate
Meta acquires an AI business model...

heise | Meta Ray-Ban Display im Test: Smartglasses mit Mini-Anzeige und Gestensteuerung
KI und Nachrichten direkt im Blickfeld, gesteuert über ein neuronales Armband: Wir testen die „Meta Ray-Ban Display“ auf ihre Alltagstauglichkeit.

Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred (SvD)
https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-priva…

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.

Meta plant kostenpflichtige Premiumabos für Facebook, Instagram und WhatsApp
Für Zusatzfunktionen auf Facebook, Instagram und WhatsApp plant Meta kostenpflichtige Abos. Details sind noch unbekannt und stehen wohl auch nicht fest.

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Meta says AI startup Manus to cut China ties after acquisition
US tech giant says Manus will maintain current operations as it is integrated into Meta platforms

Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-departure-lisa-jackson-k…

Apple announces departure of general counsel and policy chief
The two executives previously reported to Apple CEO Tim Cook and represent the latest sign that Apple's senior leadership is seeing a slew of exits.

A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com…

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but sever…

Meta SAM 3 und 3D als offene Modelle verfügbar
SAM segmentiert Objekte auf Bildern und in Videos, sogar Audio ist per Prompt separierbar: Das KI-Modell ist frei verfügbar.
https://www.heise.de/…

Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/thinking-machines-lab-loses-2-fo…

Thinking Machines Lab loses 2 founding members to Meta
Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, sees key members depart to Meta, highlighting talent retention challenges.

KI-Update kompakt: Firefox, Pentagon vs. Anthropic, Meta AMD, Passwörter
Das „KI-Update“ liefert dreimal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Meta schaltet KI-Charaktere für Teenager ab, zumindest vorerst
Teenager sollen in den kommenden Wochen in den Meta-Apps keinen Zugriff auf KI-Charaktere bekommen. Der Konzert steht vor gerichtlichen Auseinandersetzungen.

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has a higher retention than OpenAI, emphasizing its "mission" as a way to reinforce staff loyalty and fend off competitors' offers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/anthropic…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says ‘Mission’ Helps Fend Off Rivals
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday touted the company’s ability to fend off its competitors from recruiting its staff and stressed the company’s interest in expanding areas like healthcare through partnerships. Amodei told attendees at an investment conference put on by Morgan Stanley in San Francisco that Anthropic generally counters offers from rivals such as Meta, but wouldn’t spend 10

Ray-Ban Meta: Milliardenklage wegen Patentverletzung
Der Smart-Glasses-Hersteller Solos verklagt Meta, EssilorLuxottica und Oakley wegen angeblicher Patentverletzung und fordert Schadenersatz in Milliardenhöhe.
https://…

Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals (The Atlantic)
https://www.

How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes
For years, employees acknowledged a problem with potential child groomers, but prioritized growth over fixes.

Sammelklage: WhatsApp-Verschlüsselung angeblich unwirksam
Eine Sammelklage gegen Meta behauptet, die Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung von WhatsApp-Nachrichten sei nur eine Fassade. Meta weist das entschieden zurück.
h…

Social media addiction trial: 20-year-old plaintiff KGM testifies her social media use, which began in childhood, exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-faceboo…

Young woman testifies against social media giants over technology addiction
A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. She began using the platforms as a young child and claims her early use of social media addicted her to the technology and exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts. Meta and YouTube are the two remaining defendants in the case, which TikTok and Snap settled. The woman, who has been identified by her first name, Kaley, and initials, KGM, has testified before a jury in the …

Meta stellt eigene Messenger-Webseite ein, verweist auf Facebook und Mobil-App
Nach den Apps für Windows und Mac streicht Meta auch messenger.com als Plattform des eigenen Messengers. Nutzer werden auf Facebook und die Mobil-App verwiesen.

Meta blocks users from sharing links to ICE List, which compiles names of DHS staffers; Meta cites a policy against "asking for personally identifiable" info (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocking-links-t…

Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

Donnerstag: Chinas Ausnahmen für Nvidia-KI, Gewinnanstieg bei Meta und Microsoft
China-Import von KI-Chips Metas Reklame-Wachstum Microsofts Cloud-Wachstum Bußgeld-Fehler gegen Telegram Pornhub gegen UK-Alterskontrolle #heiseshow

Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/meta-to-test-premium…

Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp | TechCrunch
In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free. 

Meta bestellt für dutzende Milliarden US-Dollar Chips bei Nvidia
Nvidia und Meta haben eine Partnerschaft vereinbart, der Facebook-Konzern bekommt GPUs und CPUs verschiedener Generationen für dutzende Milliarden US-Dollar.

New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/…

Meta-Scraping-Urteil: OLG München stärkt Nutzerrechte bei „Kontrollverlust“
In einem Urteil gegen die Facebook-Mutter Meta hat das OLG München betont, dass Plattformbetreiber für Sicherheitslücken beim Massenabgriff von Daten haften.

Meta agrees to acquire up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs in a deal valued at $100B that could see Meta own up to 10% of AMD; Meta plans to deploy 1GW in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-and-amd-a…

Meta Quest: Offizielle VR-Büro-App und B2B-Programm eingestellt
Meta gibt seine VR-App für virtuelle Büros und Meetings auf und kappt das B2B-Programm für Meta Quest.
https://www.

VR-Laufband Omni One wird offizielles Meta-Quest-Zubehör
Das VR-Laufband Omni One wird künftig Meta Quest unterstützen. Am hohen Anschaffungspreis dürfte sich wenig ändern.
https://www.

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technol…

Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers
The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.

Meta has agreed to acquire AI startup Manus; the Singapore-based startup said in December that its annual revenue run rate is over $125M (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/meta-acquires-startup-manu…

Disney für Meta Quest startet in Deutschland
Disney ist jetzt als eigene App für Meta Quest in Deutschland erhältlich. 3D-Content fehlt allerdings noch.
https://www.heise.de/news/Disney-fuer-Me…

Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B , after approaching the startup during a fundraising at a $2B valuation; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Javier Olivan (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-buys-ai-s

Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/a

Ottawa in talks with Meta about restoring news to Facebook
Company blocked all news from Facebook, Instagram in 2023 in response to legislation which would require it to pay for content

Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2026/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results/default.aspx

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Meta-Scraping-Urteil: OLG München stärkt Nutzerrechte bei „Kontrollverlust“

Nvidia-Konkurrenz: Google will sein TPU-Geschäft angeblich groß aufziehen
Google und Meta sollen bereits einen Milliarden-Deal für KI-Chips abgeschlossen haben. Neue Joint-Ventures könnten zudem TPUs leasen.

Microsoft: Aktienkurs wegen des schwächeren Cloud-Ausblicks abgeschmiert
Während die Aktien von Meta eine regelrechte Rallye hingelegt haben, war Donnerstag für Microsoft der schwärzeste Börsentag seit 2020. Schuld hat die Cloud.

Corning says Meta committed to paying up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, and it plans to expand its Hickory, NC, factory (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/apple-supplier-corning-win…

Meta inks deal to pay Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables in AI data centers
Corning, a 175-year-old glassmaker known for supplying iPhone glass, is now at the center of the AI infrastructure boom with a new type of fiber-optic cable

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning stablecoin comeback in the second half amid U.S. regulatory shift
The Facebook owner’s stablecoin integration involves planning a third party vendor to help administer stablecoin-based payments and a new wallet to be implemented, sources said.

Freitag: Meta streicht Messenger-Plattform, Robotaxis in New York ausgebremst
Messenger ohne messenger.com Rückschlag für Waymo-Expansion Milliarden für digitalen Euro Sony-Rückzieher nach Spielstudio-Übernahme Datenschutz-Podcast

Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads "not findable" for regulators and others (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/met

Sources: Meta last week scrapped the most advanced AI chip it was developing, after struggling with the design, and shifted its focus to a less complicated chip (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/metas-internal-chip-design-effo…

Meta’s Internal Chip Design Efforts Hit Roadblocks
As Meta Platforms strikes new chip supply deals with AMD and Nvidia, it has been running into problems with AI chips it is designing internally, according to six people with direct knowledge of the matter. Meta last week scrapped the most advanced chip it was developing for training AI models, ...

Meta Quest: Preiserhöhung und längere Release-Zyklen geplant
Meta will sein VR-Geschäft nachhaltiger ausrichten und plant, Meta Quest teurer zu machen sowie größere Pausen zwischen neuen Gerätegenerationen einzulegen.

Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/meta-pau…

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters as it develops a specially tailored version | TechCrunch
Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses

Oracle is selling $25B of bonds to help finance its AI buildout, in what is set to be the biggest high-grade US offering since Meta's $30B bond sale last year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02…

Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/885110/meta-instagram-parent-alert-teen-…

Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics
Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide.

Court docs: the IRS seeks $16B in back taxes and penalties from Meta, arguing it failed to report ~$54B in overseas profits; in December 2025, Meta sued the IRS (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/business/irs-meta-corporate-taxes.html

In opening statements in New Mexico's suit against Meta, state prosecutors argue Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms, as Meta's attorney pushes back (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-new-mexi…

Meta accused in New Mexico trial of failing to protect children online
Meta is on trial in New Mexico to answer allegations that its social media platforms enable predators to target children for sexual exploitation. The case is one of a series of lawsuits nationwide accusing social media companies of not doing enough to protect children online. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Meta in 2023 alleging its platforms enable predators to target children for sexual exploitation. Meta denies the allegation and accuses prosecutors of taking a “sensationalis…

Sources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-revives-plan-smart-…

Meta Revives Plan for Smart Watch, Targets 2026 Launch
Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meta’s plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved ...

Meta reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $59.9B, net income up 9% YoY to $22.8B, and family DAP up 7% YoY to 3.58B for December (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2026/Me…