WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will launch “later this year,” in a move to make the communications platform “even more private,” allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from people who aren’t already in your contacts. Usernames are available […]
Google has placed limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models because it cannot provide as much computing capacity as the social media company wanted, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The restrictions have affected several Google clients, with …
Instagram head Adam Mosseri previewed new ways to surface Your Algorithm, the feature that lets users specify which topics they want to see more or less of. In an Instagram post this week, Mosseri said the goal is to evolve the tool “from a setting to …
Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who believe global surveillance is a good idea, writing on X this week that “humans behave better when they’re being watched.” In a Substack essay titled “Visibility…
Meta is, by and large, a company built on other companies’ ideas. It has almost perfected the strategy: wait for a new platform or social mechanic to take off, then either buy or clone it, put it next to Meta’s unmatched user base and advertising engine, and watch the money pile up. Well, the next […]
This week, Instagram launched a series of new features for its smart TV app that are all designed to get people to spend more time on the platform through the biggest screens in their homes. In addition to vertical Reels, Instagram for TV – which is currently available for Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and […]
For more than a year, the legal action in the Sarah Wynn-Williams affair ran one way: Meta against its former executive. That has now reversed. Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of the Meta memoir Careless People, is suing the company over its efforts to…
Meta is bringing back the Facebook Creator Studio page manager, now “reimagined” as a standalone AI companion app. The new app aims to make it easier for creators to connect with their audiences and show them “exactly how to grow on Facebook,” according to Meta’s announcement. Meta’s AI Creator Assistant is a central focus of […]