Meta’s Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw
Meta’s Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw

Manus’s new desktop app can read, edit, and act on files and applications directly on a user’s machine. The launch puts Meta’s AI agent ambitions in direct competition with the open-source tool that has dominated the conversation this week. OpenClaw ar…

Meta is secretly working on an AI detection tool after unleashing AI slop avalanche

Meta may soon introduce an AI detector inside Meta AI that can identify artificially generated content, even as the company’s own generative tools continue to fuel a surge of AI slop online.
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Meta commits up to $27 billion to Nebius in one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record
Meta commits up to $27 billion to Nebius in one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record

The five-year agreement expands an existing relationship between the two companies and will involve one of the first large-scale deployments of Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips. Nebius shares surged 14% in pre-market trading. Meta has signed a new long-te…

Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff
Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff

According to Reuters, Meta is looking to offset spending on AI and data centers with a massive round of layoffs. Sources familiar with the matter say the company could lay off as much as 20 percent of its staff, eliminating roughly 15,800 positions. That would be the largest series of layoffs at the company since […]

Meta reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 20% of the company

These layoffs could help Facebook’s parent company offset its aggressive spending on AI infrastructure, as well as AI-related acquisitions and hiring.

Instagram is getting rid of its most secure chatting feature

Meta says barely anyone used it. Critics say that’s not the point. Instagram’s most private feature is gone — and the timing couldn’t be more loaded.
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Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used
Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used

Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature because “very few people” were using E2EE in their DMs. Instagram has begun notifying impacted users about the change inside its app, and has also posted […]

The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google&#821…

Facebook Marketplace’s new AI ends the “is this available” nightmare

Facebook Marketplace now offers AI auto-replies that answer buyer questions instantly using your listing details, plus tools that generate listings from photos and suggest prices.
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What it was like to watch grieving parents stare down Mark Zuckerberg in court
What it was like to watch grieving parents stare down Mark Zuckerberg in court

Around a dozen parents huddled in the dim hallway outside the courtroom in February, nervously gripping paper tickets. They were glaring at a gray tote bag held by a member of the court staff – the one who’d determine, by lottery, if they made it inside. Pinned on bags and coats, butterfly clips honored children […]