
Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide. Meta says a similar alert system for its AI chatbots is coming later this year. The new Instagram feature sends parents an alert when their child “repeatedly tries to search for terms clearly associated with […]
Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.
Many of hyperscalers have already made public commitments in to cover electricity cost increases.

President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech – and now we’re learning that the deals he promised could land next week. Trump claimed that he’s negotiated a “rate payer protection pledge” with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay […]
An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn’t launch its unwanted nudity filter until 2024.
Meta is buying billions of dollars in AMD AI chips in a multiyear deal tied to a 160 million-share warrant, deepening its push to diversify beyond Nvidia and expand data center capacity.
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a native message scheduling feature that would let users compose a text, choose a specific date and time, and have it sent automatically.
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As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible,” Mosseri lamented. “Everything that made creators matter – the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked – is now accessible to anyone with the right tools.” […]
The new Threads feature lets you share your posts — or anyone else’s — to your Instagram Story without leaving the Threads app.
Meta said it’s shifting focus for Horizon Worlds to be “almost exclusively mobile” and that it will separate its Quest VR platform from the virtual world.