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Meta Platforms Inc. is gearing up to release a new version of its flagship Muse Spark artificial intelligence model. Alexandr Wang, the company’s chief AI officer, wrote on X today that the update will roll out “soon.” The announcement came a few hours after Business Insider reported that the new al
Meta officials met with India's IT Ministry following a government notice regarding WhatsApp's proposed "usernames" feature. Concerns over impersonation and misuse have prompted the government to seek a detailed explanation and halt the rollout until consultations conclude. Meta will submit its resp
Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has asked to summon Meta over child sexual abuse material on Instagram. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has reportedly directed MeitY to summon Meta executives to clarify on Instagram ads that allegedly promoted…
This comes amid growing scrutiny of social media platforms' content moderation practices and their compliance with IT Rules, which mandate strict safeguards against child exploitation material.
Mark Zuckerberg’s comments came on the same day that Meta expanded its Meta Business Agent globally for businesses on Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp.
Zuckerberg and other Meta executives have been seeking to moderate some of the organizational changes introduced earlier this year, without fundamentally changing course. The company laid off about 10% of its global workforce and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to AI-focused teams in May, mov
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall meeting that the company’s work on artificial intelligence agents hasn’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped. It’s a rare admission from the founder that not everything is going to plan as it tries to turn it
Pocket is listed in app stores but seemingly unavailable in the US.
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch: this new app lets you make and share little interactive "gizmos" built from an AI prompt, as reported by Business Insider. Meta CEO Mark Z
Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.
Meta will charge glasses users $20/month for a new Meta One Premium subscription, and one of the first features to get locked down is “Conversation Focus.”
Meta's shift to token-based pricing signals a new phase in enterprise messaging, with businesses paying for AI usage instead of message volume.
The Centre has asked Meta to pause WhatsApp's username rollout in India over concerns it could enable impersonation, phishing and fraud, and has sought a detailed explanation within three days.
Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure to sell AI computing access, competing with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Meta Platforms Inc. reportedly plans to rent its artificial intelligence infrastructure to other companies. Sources told Bloomberg and CNBC today that the Facebook parent will sell excess capacity not used by its internal workloads. The news sent Meta’s shares 8.8% higher, while AI cloud provider Co
Selling server infrastructure would put Meta in competition with Amazon and Google.
The Centre has reportedly issued a notice to Meta to pause the rollout of WhatsApp’s proposed username feature in India…
A reported plan to sell surplus computing power would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and give investors a reason to look past its spending. Meta has spent two years buying every scrap of AI computing power it can lay hands on. Now it appears to be working out how to sell […] This s
