2026-08-20 18:36:25
Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/meta-brings-pock…
Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/meta-brings-pock…
Meta automatically filters out ‘social topics.’ Still think that Facebook is a ‘social network?’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval…
Colour me skeptical, but #Meta potentially faces USD 1.2 trillion damages in a #California trial that could change #SocialMedia forever.
as someone who has worn knockoff raybans for decades, yet another sincere 'n' hearty "fuck you, creepizoids" to meta. https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/117123975744986279
USA: Meta wegen App-Nutzung durch Kinder erneut vor Gericht
Mehrere US-Bundesstaaten werfen dem Meta-Konzern vor, Kinder absichtlich an Facebook und Instagram gebunden zu haben. Meta weist das zurück.
https://www…
Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/meta-testing…
From #Meta, the company that brought us #CambridgeAnalytica, and algorithms that amplified damaging lies about #climate, and an
From #Meta, the company that brought us #CambridgeAnalytica, and algorithms that amplified damaging lies about #climate, and an
from my link log —
Meta garbage collection: using OCaml's GC to GC Rust tree borrows.
https://soteria-tools.com/blog/meta-garbage-collection
saved 2026-07-20
Some Instagram and Facebook users say Meta's AI moderation deleted their accounts; Meta says AI makes 13% fewer errors and finds 10% more violations than humans (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technology/meta-ai-facebook-instagra…
Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Data center leases and GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-…
Und, zückt Ihr schon die Kreditkarte für Euer Meta-Abo für Instagram, Facebookd und Whatsapp?
https://www.heise.de/news/Meta-Platforms-fuehrt-Abos-ein-Links-von-Instagram-und-mehr-KI-11455924.html
Meta is handing 15,000 camera glasses to Ireland's blind adults, and the camera is the whole product https://vr.org/articles/meta-vision-ireland-15000-ray-ban-glasses-accessibility-2026 Unfortunately Ray-Ban Meta glasses cannot run The vOICe visi…
Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/982270/meta-ai-mac-app
In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-faces-29-state-trial-that…
Meta's new Anthropic compute deal hints at a bigger strategy: rather than just bet on AI, hyperscalers are building data centers that will continue to pay off even if the AI bubble doesn't. My latest Substack https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/what-if-data-centers-aren…
Get rid of meta!
https://mukis.de/2026/07/17/meta-sind-wir-egal/
Real-time GPU-accelerated assistive navigation using Meta Aria smart glasses #Meta
Meta Platforms führt Abos ein: Links von Instagram und mehr KI
Meta Platforms führt neue kostenpflichtige Abonnements namens Meta One ein. Gleich zehn verschiedene.
https://www.h…
Sources: BlackRock leads a $12B debt sale for Meta's new El Paso data center, as Meta signs a lease for a BlackRock-backed data-center project in Pennsylvania (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/b…
Det kan godt være nogen skal til at finde alternativer til Facebook og Instagram. https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-says-us-states-are-seeking-14-trillion-penalties-august-youth-safety-trial-2026-07-07/
Documents: Meta's internal AI incubator is developing an AI model router, similar to OpenRouter's, to cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me
Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities and tools for creators like links in posts, starting at $7.99/month (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-21/me…
Dozens of Meta employees have sued the social media company over claims that it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs.
The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation
https://www.…
Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the starter pass allows 10 hours of gaming per month (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/metas-quest-game-subscribers-will-…
Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/snap-ne…
A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Mac lets any app or terminal command gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09…
Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-block…
Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year on Azure to consume trillions of AI tokens weekly, becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-top-app-store-…
A NJ teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without any payment; TikTok previously settled her claims (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-teen-drops-law…
Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (Kohei Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolo…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Australien: Techkonzerne müssen für Medieninhalte zahlen
Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be "astronomical" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attor
Intel, AMD, and Arm shares soar on potential CPU demand sparked by the popularity of Meta's Muse; INTC jumps 12% , AMD is up 8% , and ARM 15% (Adam Clark/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/intel-sto
AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/amd-helios-microsoft-ai-nvidia.html
Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot "teammates", and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
Meta ran ads for a nudify app featuring a porn video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician; Apple removed the app from the App Store (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-polit…
Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-ai-computing-power.html
Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be "astronomical" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attor
Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/meta
In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-faces-29-state-trial-that…
KI-Brillen: Strafanzeige gegen Meta, Ray-Ban und Optiker
Die Organisation HateAid hat Strafanzeige gegen Meta und mehrere Optik-Ketten eingereicht. Die Smart Glasses sollen gegen das TDDDG verstoßen.
https://www.
Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/995453/meta-one-subscriptions-ai
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Vorteil für Meta: EU-Kommission beseitigt große Hürde für Smart Glasses
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
DSGVO vs. Smart Glasses: Warum Ray-Ban-Meta-Träger haftbar gemacht werden können
Meta enters a voluntary access agreement granting the UK's Prospect trade union direct access to recruit its 5,000 UK employees, ahead of new UK employment laws (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f9ddd64e-1656-4a15-a67a-f68087cefa79
Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/shopify-to-use-metas-muse-for-agentic-checkout-d23…
Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized growth and engagement over child safety on Facebook and Instagram (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/for…
Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they "could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technol…
Federal lobbying disclosures: Anthropic spent $1.97M in Q2, up 26% QoQ, and OpenAI spent $1.2M, up 18%; Meta remained the largest spender at $5.99M, down 15% (Luke Fountain/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/openai-anthropic-ai-lobbying-spending-q2-2026.…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kein Verbot für Meta-Brillen: Behörde sieht LED-Signal als ausreichend
Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/snap-ne…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kein Verbot für Meta-Brillen: Behörde sieht LED-Signal als ausreichend
Sources: the EU Parliament plans to launch EPGenAI Hub as early as September, giving MEPs and staff access to Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-european-parliaments-answer-to-its-ai…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
DSGVO vs. Smart Glasses: Warum Ray-Ban-Meta-Träger haftbar gemacht werden können
Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/993974/meta-ai-prompt-invasive-suggestions…
A German court says Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages (Linda Pasquini/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/german-cour…
Kamerabrillen und Datenschutz: Meta beschwichtigt
Meta reagiert auf wachsende Kritik an Kamerabrillen und stellt neue Datenschutzmaßnahmen in Aussicht. Doch viele Fragen bleiben unbeantwortet.
https://www.
How a bipartisan coalition of US states fought to present a united case against Meta; Judge Rogers established a hybrid structure for the multi-week trial (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/w
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/metas-amusing-muse/
Sources: TikTok rejects ads from Meta that call on competitors to join Meta in settling with US state attorneys general in a landmark child safety lawsuit (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/11/tiktok-meta-ads-children-safety-settlement
Meta schaltet KI-Generierung aus Instagram-Stilen ab
Für einige Tage konnte „Meta Muse“ Bilder erstellen, die auf den Inhalten von fremden Instagram-Accounts basierten. Damit ist nun Schluss.
https://www.
Meta's Oversight Board says top AI models may be restricting free expression in its first evaluation of LLMs, as it seeks to expand its influence beyond Meta (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2216274/the-overs
Meta rolls out Muse Image, the first image generation model from its Superintelligence Labs, in Meta AI; it will also power new tools in Instagram and WhatsApp (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-muse-image-meta-ai/
Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1ba743f-7330-4419-bc8d-a8b5ce4420a0
The European Commission proposes exempting wearable tech from rules requiring removable batteries, clearing a hurdle for Meta's smart glasses, after US pressure (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-relaxes-rules-meta-glasses-us-pressure/
Meta says users can connect their apps to Muse to send emails, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases via Link by Stripe support, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-its-muse-ai-agent-will-cons…
SMR startup Oklo is currently building its reactor in Idaho, a step towards supplying Meta with power; there are an estimated 22 active US reactor projects (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions (Alexander Martin/The Record)
https://therecord.media/irregular-ai-hacking-model-blog
Meta says Muse Image includes an invisible watermarking system called Content Seal and previews a web tool to check whether an image was generated with Meta AI (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2210223/meta-buil
Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…
Manus says it will "soon return to operating as an independent company", implying it is close to finalizing the reversal of its acquisition by Meta (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/manus-return-independ…