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Everyday AI

Meta's Muse Wants to Book Your Lunch, Find You a Sofa, and Remember Everything About You

The new AI assistant app hit 900,000 downloads in its first week. Privacy advocates say the data collection is the real product.

4 min read
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Everyday AI

Meta Is Now Selling Monthly Plans That Bundle Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp With Extra AI

Starting today, Meta is selling tiered plans from $7.99 to $499 a month that combine its app subscriptions with extra AI features, including more image generation through its Muse assistant.

3 min read
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AI Security

Meta AI Was Building Profiles of a Mother's Children From Old Family Posts

A viral video showed Meta's built-in chatbot compiling details about a woman's young daughters, including a photo she thought she'd deleted years ago.

3 min read
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AI Security

Meta Took Days to Remove Ads That Used AI to Create Fake Sexual Images of Real Children

An investigation found 332 ads on Facebook and Instagram this year promoting apps that digitally strip or sexually alter photos of real minors, including images taken from children's public social media profiles.

3 min read
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Policy

Instagram's AI Labels Are Flagging Real Photos and Missing Actual AI Images

Meta's 'AI Content' tag is landing on ordinary holiday snaps while genuine AI-generated pictures sail through unchecked. Here is what is going wrong and what it means for anyone who posts photos.

5 min read
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Policy

Instagram Will Flag Fake AI Profiles and Cut Their Reach if They Hide What They Are

The platform is renaming its label for AI-generated personas and will penalise accounts that pretend to be human without disclosing it.

4 min read
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Everyday AI

Meta Brings Its AI Chatbot to the Mac With Screen Sharing and Business Tools

The new Meta AI desktop app lets you share your screen with the chatbot and connect it to your Instagram, Facebook, and Google Workspace accounts.

3 min read
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AI Security

Robin Williams' children take back his Instagram to fight AI fakes of their father

Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams have reactivated their father's dormant account, calling it their best tool against the wave of AI-generated videos and audio that put words and actions in his mouth.

3 min read
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Everyday AI

Zuckerberg Wants to Give AI to Everyone. What Could Go Wrong?

Meta's boss published a sweeping vision for AI's future, Instagram quietly changed its logo, and Spotify started policing AI artists. A busy few days in tech.

3 min read
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Everyday AI

Instagram's new logo looks like it was designed by AI on a deadline

Adam Mosseri calls the refresh 'leaner and more modern.' The rest of the internet is less convinced.

3 min read
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Policy

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $942 million total over child safety failures

A judge found Meta's platforms created a 'public nuisance' for young users and ordered sweeping changes, including nighttime notification blackouts and a monthly screen-time cap for under-18s.

4 min read
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Policy

Meta Approved and Ran Ads Showing AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Images for Nine Months

More than 50 paid advertisements containing child sexual abuse material ran across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Some reached thousands of accounts in Europe and the United States before researchers forced Meta's hand.

5 min read
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AI Business

Meta says AI is cutting the time it takes to build new apps, with more launches on the way

Mark Zuckerberg told investors AI now speeds up product development across Facebook, Instagram and gaming, and that a fresh wave of consumer apps is already in the pipeline.

3 min read
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AI Security

Meta's New AI Watermark Is Already Failing Basic Tests

Content Seal, Meta's invisible stamp on AI-generated images, can't be read by rival detection tools and failed to flag more than half the images in one real-world test. Users deserve a straight answer about what this actually catches.

4 min read
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Everyday AI

Meta Pulls Its New AI Image Tool After Users and a Hollywood Union Call It a Privacy Problem

A feature that let anyone generate images using photos from public Instagram accounts lasted just days before Meta quietly shut it down.

3 min read
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