Report: Meta Revives Smartwatch Plans to Take On Apple Watch

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Meta is set to release its first smartwatch this year featuring health-tracking and built-in Meta AI, reports The Information. The smartwatch, which would compete directly with Apple Watch and other brands, is the result of a revived project that Meta can…

15 days / mashable

Meta is Rumoured to Release First Smartwatch to Rival Apple Watch

15 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Meta could launch a smartwatch in 2026, years after killing its original plans

15 days / digitaltrends

Meta reportedly plans to release a smartwatch this year

15 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Meta Platforms (META) Stock: Re-enters Wearables Market with AI-Powered “Malibu 2”

15 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Mark Zuckerberg Says Instagram Is Valuable, Not Harmful, in Social Media Addiction Trial

Eli Tan / nytimes - Meta’s chief executive said users spent a lot of time on the app because of its value, as he was grilled about child safety issues in front of a jury.

#techpolicy #meta #judiciary #zuckerberg #law #facebook #contentmoderation #instagram #litigation #safety

Internal Meta fights: experts overruled, beauty filters, youth safety (5)
Judge warns: no AI glasses; juror privacy at risk (4)
Wider legal and policy ripple: global bans, bellwether cases (2)
Zuckerberg defends Instagram as 'useful', denies engagement goals (9)
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Internal Meta fights: experts overruled, beauty filters, youth safety

Eighteen Experts Said No. Zuckerberg Said Yes.

15 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Buck-passing Zuckerberg ropes Apple into his defense in social media safety trial

15 days / appleinsider

Meta (META) Stock: Zuckerberg Discussed Youth Well-Being With Tim Cook

15 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Mark Zuckerberg overruled 18 wellbeing experts to keep beauty filters on Insta

15 days / ycombinator

Zuckerberg Called Child Safety 'Paternalistic.' This Time, a Jury Heard It.

16 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Judge warns: no AI glasses; juror privacy at risk

‘This is very serious’: Judge threatens AI glasses wearers with contempt during Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony

15 days / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Judge warns smart glasses wearers of contempt charges as Zuckerberg testifies in Meta trial

15 days / techspot

Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court

15 days / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Mark Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, No Meta Ray-Bans Allowed

16 days / gizmodo / Matt Novak

Wider legal and policy ripple: global bans, bellwether cases

From Paris to New Delhi, the Push to Ban Teens From Social Media Is Going Global

15 days / wsj / Sam Schechner

Social media on trial: tech giants face lawsuits over addiction, safety, and mental health

16 days / theverge / Verge Staff

Zuckerberg defends Instagram as 'useful', denies engagement goals

Zuckerberg Denies Meta Maximized Teen Engagement in Landmark Trial

15 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony

16 days / wired / Miles Klee

Zuckerberg grilled about Meta's strategy to target 'teens' and 'tweens'

16 days / npr / Bobby Allyn

Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be 'useful'

16 days / engadget / Karissa Bell

Mark Zuckerberg Testifies During Landmark Trial On Social Media Addiction

16 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Mark Zuckerberg in courtroom hot seat over social media dangers

16 days / mashable

Meta CEO testifies in landmark social media addiction trial

16 days / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

Mark Zuckerberg Says Instagram Is Valuable, Not Harmful, in Social Media Addiction Trial

16 days / nytimes / Eli Tan

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals, Underage Users at California Trial

16 days / wsj / Meghan Bobrowsky

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Mark Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, No Meta Ray-Bans Allowed

16 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Meta signs major Nvidia deal to power AI data centers with Blackwell and Rubin GPUs

techspot - According to separate press releases from Meta and Nvidia, the social media giant will use the chips to power its planned hyperscale data centers optimized for AI training and inference. The company will also deploy Nvidia's new Spectrum-X Ethernet switch…

#ai #cloud #semiconductors #ml #meta #nvidia #business #datacenter #cpus

The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between. www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

16 days / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Meta deal for millions of Nvidia chips is big — these 2 charts illustrate why

16 days / cnbc

Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power

16 days / wired / Lauren Goode

Meta and Nvidia Team to Bolster AI Infrastructure

16 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta signs major Nvidia deal to power AI data centers with Blackwell and Rubin GPUs

16 days / techspot

Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Gains as Meta Picks Nvidia Over Google for AI Infrastructure

16 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Nvidia lands massive Meta deal and pushes into CPU market to fend off growing competition

16 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Meta to Deploy Millions of Nvidia Chips in Multi-Billion Deal

16 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media addiction trial

techxplore - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial, summoned by lawyers representing a plaintiff who alleges Instagram and other platforms were deliberately designed to make young users addicted.

#techpolicy #meta #zuckerberg #ux #mentalhealth #law #facebook #litigation #algorithm

Families and plaintiffs converge in Los Angeles courtroom (2)
Landmark legal test: can platform design be held responsible? (3)
On the stand: Zuckerberg faces grilling from plaintiffs' lawyers (5)
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Families and plaintiffs converge in Los Angeles courtroom

Mark Zuckerberg is taking the stand as social media goes on trial

16 days / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Zuckerberg to testify in watershed child social media trial

16 days / reddit / /u/tylerthe-theatre

Landmark legal test: can platform design be held responsible?

Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify in a landmark social media addiction trial

16 days / qz / Shannon Carroll

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial

16 days / npr / Bobby Allyn

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial

16 days / npr / Steve Inskeep

On the stand: Zuckerberg faces grilling from plaintiffs' lawyers

Zuckerberg to testify in social media addiction trial

16 days / bbc

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg set to testify in LA social media safety trial

16 days / cnbc

Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial

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Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media addiction trial

16 days / techxplore

Mark Zuckerberg set to testify in watershed social media trial

16 days / abcnews

Social and community posts amplifying trial coverage

Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial

16 days / reddit / /u/Nexusyak

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial

16 days / reddit / /u/zsreport

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Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify before a Los Angeles court on Wed as the billionaire social media chief responds to claims that social media is addictive to children. Social media platforms face legal consequences from claims their products are harmful

16 days / bsky / @robertscotthorton.bsky.social / robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs

cnbc - Meta expands partnership with Nvidia in a deal likely worth tens of billions, for deploying millions of GPUs and new standalone CPUs in AI data centers

#ai #cloud #hardware #semiconductors #ml #meta #nvidia #business #datacenter #cpus

Deal reshapes competition, boosts Nvidia, pressures chip rivals (6)
Meta adopts Nvidia standalone CPUs for efficiency gains (4)
Meta's multiyear pact to buy millions of Nvidia chips (7)
Other: opinion pieces and unrelated Nvidia market stories (3)

Deal reshapes competition, boosts Nvidia, pressures chip rivals

Nvidia (NVDA) Stock: Soars as Meta Expands Multiyear AI Chip Deal Covering Blackwell and Rubin GPUs

16 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

NVIDIA Manages to Bag In One of AMD’s Biggest AI Customers, Meta, Offering Next-Gen Vera Rubin In a “Multi-Generational” Partnership

16 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

The Race for Who Has the Best AI Infrastructure Heats Up as AMD Denies Instinct MI455X Is Being Delayed, but Concerns About Large-Scale Deployment Remain

16 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Meta agrees to buy millions more AI chips for Nvidia, raising doubts about its in-house hardware

17 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Nvidia and Meta enhance partnership with social media giant to deploy “millions” of its GPUs

17 days / sherwood / Luke Kawa

Nvidia secures multibillion-dollar Meta deal as it battles chip rivals

17 days / ft

Meta adopts Nvidia standalone CPUs for efficiency gains

Meta will deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs in production, with Vera to follow — company sees perf-per-watt improvements of up to 2X in some CPU workloads

16 days / tomshardware

Meta will run AI in WhatsApp through NVIDIA's 'confidential computing'

16 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Meta already deploying Nvidia's standalone CPUs at scale

17 days / reddit / /u/-protonsandneutrons-

GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale

17 days / theregister / Tobias Mann

Meta's multiyear pact to buy millions of Nvidia chips

Meta inks deal to use millions of Nvidia’s chips in data centre build-out

16 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Meta and NVIDIA sign multi-billion dollar deal for millions of AI GPUs

16 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips

17 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Nvidia Signs Multiyear Agreement to Supply Meta with Millions of AI Chips - MLQ.ai

17 days / mlq

Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs

17 days / cnbc

Meta locks in tens of billions for Nvidia AI chips - The Tech Buzz

17 days / techbuzz

(PR) Meta Partners with NVIDIA to Deploy Millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs

17 days / techpowerup

Other: opinion pieces and unrelated Nvidia market stories

Nvidia (NVDA) Stock: Moves Higher on Indian AI Infrastructure and VC Partnership Plans

16 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Nvidia is partnering with major Indian VC firms in search for the country's next AI start-ups

17 days / cnbc

Meta and NVIDIA Join Forces: Why Personal Superintelligence is Coming to You

17 days / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Meta patented LLM that would post for users after they die

mashable - Meta recently won a patent for an LLM that would simulate users' accounts and post, like, and comment on their behalf, including for the accounts of people who have died.

#ai #techpolicy #meta #aiethics #genai #law #contentmoderation #intellectualproperty #digitalprivacy

Meta’s “After You Die” AI Just Got Patented

16 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Meta patented LLM that would post for users after they die

17 days / mashable

Meta patents AI that could continue posting on social media on behalf of deceased users

17 days / techspot

Meta patents AI that lets dead people post from the great beyond

17 days / fastcompany / Chris Morris

OpenClaw Creator Gets Big Offers to Acquire AI Sensation—Will It Stay Open Source?

Jose Antonio Lanz / decrypt - Peter Steinberger's open-source AI agent OpenClaw hit 180,000 GitHub stars and spawned MoltBook chaos. Now Meta and OpenAI want to buy it, but he's determined to keep it free.

#ai #opensource #meta #apple #openai #genai #supplychain #acquisitions #macbook #memory #openclaw

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OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator amid billion-dollar bids (15)
OpenClaw viral boom sparks Mac Unified Memory buying frenzy (2)
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Critics, geopolitics and skepticism shadow OpenClaw saga

Vienna Builds. San Francisco Hires.

18 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is all that exciting

18 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

OPINION: Europe Trained Steinberger. OpenAI Hired Him.

18 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Peter Steinberger Chose OpenAI. The Code Was Never the Point.

18 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Developer targeted by AI hit piece warns society cannot handle AI agents that decouple actions from consequences | He warns that untraceable, autonomous AI agents could undermine fundamental systems of trust by making targeted defamation scalable and near

19 days / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator amid billion-dollar bids

OpenAI hires OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger

18 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI to build AI agents

18 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Austrian creator of viral OpenClaw joins OpenAI

18 days / tech / John Reynolds

OpenAI has hired the developer behind AI agent OpenClaw

18 days / engadget / Steve Dent

OpenAI hires creator of 'OpenClaw' AI agent tool

18 days / techxplore

OpenClaw founder joins OpenAI to create next-gen personal agents

18 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Why OpenAI has recruited the founder of OpenClaw

18 days / techzine / Mels Dees

OpenAI Hires OpenClaw Creator to Spearhead Agentic AI Push

18 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

OpenAI Taps OpenClaw Founder to Lead Push Into Personal AI Agents

18 days / decrypt / Vince Dioquino

OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents

19 days / theregister / Simon Sharwood

OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger

19 days / ft

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

19 days / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger in push toward autonomous agents

19 days / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

19 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

OpenClaw Creator Gets Big Offers to Acquire AI Sensation—Will It Stay Open Source?

19 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

OpenClaw viral boom sparks Mac Unified Memory buying frenzy

Three months of OpenClaw

19 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

OpenClaw-fueled ordering frenzy creates Apple Mac shortage — delivery for high Unified Memory units now ranges from 6 days to 6 weeks

19 days / tomshardware

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"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch.

18 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

OpenAI has hired OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to develop the “next generation of personal agents”. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that personal agents will fast become one of its core offerings.

18 days / bsky / @siliconrepublic.bsky.social / siliconrepublic.bsky.social

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

19 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

The pace of all of this is increasingly insane. OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI #AI #Tech #OpenClaw techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/ope…

19 days / bsky / @warnercrocker.bsky.social / warnercrocker.bsky.social

Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition

msmash / slashdot - Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, New York Times reported Friday, five years after the social giant shut down facial recognition on Facebook and promised to find "the right balance" for the …

#ai #ar #wearables #dataprivacy #techpolicy #computervision #meta #aiethics #camera #safety

History and rivals: why Meta revived facial recognition (1)
On the ground: 'Name Tag' feature and how it works (7)
Other: podcast mention and community reposts (1)
Privacy alarm: launching while critics distracted, safety risks (4)
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History and rivals: why Meta revived facial recognition

Meta is reportedly working to bring facial recognition to its smart glasses

21 days / engadget / Matt Tate

On the ground: 'Name Tag' feature and how it works

Report: Meta to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

21 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Meta’s smart glasses could soon identify people in real time

21 days / digitaltrends

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

21 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Meta is bringing back facial recognition for its smart glasses

21 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition

21 days / slashdot / msmash

Meta Plans 'Name Tag' Facial Recognition for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

21 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

21 days / nytimes / Kashmir Hill, Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac

Other: podcast mention and community reposts

Surprise new PS5 game, Meta Ray-Ban face ID rumor, Apple Vision Pro update: The Shortcut Live Ep. 23

21 days / theshortcut / Matt Swider

Privacy alarm: launching while critics distracted, safety risks

The World Is on Fire and Meta Sees an Opportunity to Add Facial Recognition to Smart Glasses

21 days / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

Meta's Smart Glasses Could Get Face Tracking Soon. That Worries Me

21 days / cnet / Scott Stein

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted

21 days / reddit / /u/Accurate_Cry_8937

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted

21 days / theverge / Emma Roth

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The World Is on Fire and Meta Sees an Opportunity to Add Facial Recognition to Smart Glasses

21 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

The @nytimes.com report on Meta pursuing facial recognition on smart glasses, and seeing this politically chaotic time as a good window to launch, has tons of concerns. Also, my thoughts on the race for this tech, its advantages, and its need for limits.

21 days / bsky / @scottstein.bsky.social / scottstein.bsky.social

if there ever was a doubt that companies are good cool your friend not evil

21 days / bsky / @plorigo.bsky.social / plorigo.bsky.social

Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/1336235/meta-plans-to-let-smart-glasses-identify-people-through-ai-powered-facial-recognition?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&am

21 days / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Russia blocks WhatsApp as messaging app crackdown gathers pace

cnbc - WhatsApp on Thursday said Russia had attempted to "fully block" its service, with 100 million users affected. The Kremlin later confirmed the move.

#techpolicy #meta #internet #apps #russia #censorship #telecommunications #instantmessaging #encryption #digitalprivacy

Russia blocks Meta’s WhatsApp, the country’s most popular messaging app

22 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Social media platform WhatsApp has accused Russian authorities of trying to block the service as part of an effort to exert more control over the country’s internet sphere.

22 days / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

Russia seeks to block WhatsApp amid crackdown

22 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Russia blocks WhatsApp as messaging app crackdown gathers pace

22 days / cnbc

Russian soldiers criticize Telegram slowdown as Moscow blocks WhatsApp

22 days / techspot

WhatsApp is now fully blocked in Russia

22 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Russia targets WhatsApp as it pushes homegrown messenger app

22 days / politico / Eva Hartog

Russia Moves to Block WhatsApp, Pushes 100M Users to State-Controlled 'Surveillance App'

22 days / decrypt / Vismaya V

WhatsApp Basically Wiped from Russian Internet

22 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Threads now lets you personalize your feed with simple text prompts

digitaltrends - Threads is rolling out a new feature called Dear Algo that lets you temporarily adjust what appears in your feed using a simple text prompt.The post Threads now lets you personalize your feed with simple text prompts appeared first on Digital Trends.

#meta #apps #ux #technology #instagram #algorithm #threads

How the “dear algo” meme forced Meta to change its feed forever

22 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Threads ‘Dear Algo’ Feature Launches to Let You Control the Algorithm

23 days / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely

23 days / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Threads now lets you rewrite your feed without ever opening a menu

23 days / fastcompany / Emily Price

Threads now lets you personalize your feed with simple text prompts

23 days / digitaltrends

Meta launches AI algorithm personalization feature for Threads

23 days / cnbc

Meta turned Threads algorithm complaints into an official feature

23 days / engadget / Karissa Bell

Threads’ new ‘Dear Algo’ feature lets you tell the algorithm what you want to see

23 days / theverge / Jay Peters

Threads’ new ‘Dear Algo’ AI feature lets you personalize your feed

23 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Facebook Adding AI Profile Picture Animations and Story Editing Tools

Juli Clover / macrumors - Meta today announced several new AI features for popular social network Facebook. The capabilities will be available for profile pictures, photos, posts, stories, and more.Meta AI's image editing tools can be used to animate a profile picture, adding moti…

#ai #meta #genai #apps #photography #ux #facebook #animation

Facebook is getting a major AI makeover to win back younger users

23 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Facebook Adding AI Profile Picture Animations and Story Editing Tools

24 days / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Meta AI Now Lets You Animate Your Facebook Profile Picture in Seconds

24 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Facebook Adding AI Profile Picture Animations and Story Editing Tools

24 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

Meta AI can now animate your Facebook profile picture

24 days / mashable

Facebook is offering Meta AI-powered animations for profile photos

24 days / engadget / Anna Washenko

Facebook adds new AI features, animated profile photos, and backgrounds for text posts

24 days / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

Facebook can animate your profile pic with AI

24 days / theverge / Jay Peters

Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial hears

bbc - The tech giants are under scrutiny over social media addiction in a landmark jury trial in Los Angeles

#techpolicy #meta #google #youtube #psychology #ux #instagram #litigation #algorithm

How does this man think that rewiring brains works www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/t...

24 days / bsky / @caseynewton.bsky.social / caseynewton.bsky.social

In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

24 days / bsky / @mediagazer.com / mediagazer.com

YouTube rejects addiction claims in landmark social media trial

24 days / techxplore

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial

24 days / nytimes / Eli Tan and Cecilia Kang

Meta and Google Face Jury in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial

24 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

24 days / ycombinator

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

24 days / techxplore

Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial hears

24 days / bbc

Social media 'addicting the brains of children,' plaintiff's lawyer argues in landmark trial

24 days / go

Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial told

24 days / reddit / /u/Outrageous-Baker5834

EU tells Meta it has to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots

Francesca Micheletti / politico - The Commission sent the U.S. tech giant a chargesheet with preliminary concerns that it breached antitrust rules.

#ai #techpolicy #meta #antitrust #genai #instantmessaging #digitalmarketsact #eu #api #regulation

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EU Antitrust Warnings & Orders (8)
Threats of Interim Measures & Injunctions (4)
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Calls for Technical Overhaul

EU Commission targets Meta’s blockade of rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp

25 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

EU Antitrust Warnings & Orders

EU Commission Says WhatsApp Banning Other AI Chatbots May Be Anticompetitive

25 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

EU warns Meta it must open up WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots

25 days / techxplore

EU wants Meta to open up access to rival AI chatbots through WhatsApp

25 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

EU regulators say Meta AI holds unfair monopoly on WhatsApp

25 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

EU warns Meta over blocking rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp

25 days / engadget / Sarah Fielding

EU tells Meta to let rivals run AI chatbots on WhatsApp

25 days / bbc

Meta warned EU plans to impose measures on tech giant to reverse WhatsApp AI policy

25 days / cnbc

EU tells Meta it has to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots

25 days / politico / Francesca Micheletti

Threats of Interim Measures & Injunctions

EU Threatens Meta With Interim Measures Over WhatsApp AI Block

25 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

European Commission seeks injunction in WhatsApp AI probe

25 days / globalcompetitionreview / Rashid Baxter

Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout

25 days / theregister / Carly Page

EU threatens Meta with interim measure for blocking AI rivals from WhatsApp

25 days / reddit / /u/Franco1875

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The EU warned Meta over blocking rival AI assistants on WhatsApp. https://sherwood.news/tech/meta-no-reason-for-the-eu-to-intervene-in-whatsapp-ai-policy/

25 days / bsky / @sherwood.news / sherwood.news

The European Commission will ask Meta to halt new terms that prevent rival AI chatbots from using WhatsApp, acting on concerns that the U.S. company is breaching the bloc’s antitrust rules.

25 days / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

Meta Challenges Sora With Standalone Vibes App

PYMNTS / pymnts - Meta is considering making its artificial intelligence-powered short-form video feed Vibes a standalone app, TechCrunch reported Thursday (Feb. 5). The company is testing an app and positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s Sora app, according to …

#ai #mobile #meta #social #aiethics #genai #apps #media #contentmoderation #algorithm

Meta Tests Standalone Vibes App to Compete With OpenAI’s Sora

28 days / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Meta Challenges Sora With Standalone Vibes App

29 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own

29 days / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ videos

29 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers

EditorDavid / slashdot - Several security experts have "questioned the lack of technical detail" in that lawsuit alleging WhatsApp has no end-to-end encryption, reports the Washington Post:"It's pretty long on accusations and thin on any sort of evidence," Matthew Green, a crypto…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #meta #us #apps #instantmessaging #encryption #litigation #digitalprivacy

WhatsApp’s Privacy Promise Under Federal Scrutiny After Whistleblower Allegations Surface

4 wks / reddit / /u/Haunterblademoi

US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages | A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied

4 wks / reddit / /u/Hrmbee

WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

4 wks / ycombinator

China approves first batch of Nvidia H200 chip imports

J.D. Capelouto / semafor - China began allowing purchases of Nvidia’s powerful H200 chips for the first time, pointing to a nascent US-China rapprochement ahead of a planned visit by President Donald Trump in April.

#ai #innovation #vr #meta #social #genai #business #zuckerberg #technology #algorithm

AI-Powered Wearables Advancements (2)
Geopolitics & Regulatory Side Notes (2)
Meta's Deep AI Investment Drive (3)
Zuckerberg's Bold AI Social Shift (6)

AI-Powered Wearables Advancements

Meta stock price surges as Mark Zuckerberg predicts most glasses will be AI-powered in ‘several years’

5 wks / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Zuckerberg: Meta’s AI glasses are reaching a “smartphone moment”

5 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Geopolitics & Regulatory Side Notes

Italy becomes test case for Meta’s third-party AI chatbot pricing model

5 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

China approves first batch of Nvidia H200 chip imports

5 wks / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

Meta's Deep AI Investment Drive

Meta Stock: Social Media Giant Posts Earnings Beat, Plans Massive AI Buildout

5 wks / parameter / Trader Edge

Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026

5 wks / theregister / Dan Robinson

Meta to Nearly Double AI Spending

5 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Zuckerberg's Bold AI Social Shift

Meta's CTO on VR layoffs, glasses, and the next AI model

5 wks / sources / Alex Heath

Zuckerberg Thinks Meta Has an AI Advantage Because It Knows So Much About You

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Zuckerberg promises 2026 AI blitz after Meta “rebuilt the foundations”

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Meta to 'dramatically change' with AI, Zuckerberg says

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Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media

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Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026

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Meta Platforms (META) Stock: Gains Momentum on Earnings Beat as Ottawa Moves to Restore News Access

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Aggressive AI spending plans (6)
Meta vs. Microsoft showdown (4)
Regulatory & news access developments (2)
Strong earnings & record sales (4)
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Aggressive AI spending plans

Meta leans on improved ad business to fuel massive AI spending

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Zuckerberg Shrugs Off Wall Street Fears and Pledges Up to $135B for AI

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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg gets green light from Wall Street to keep pouring money into AI

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Meta crushed the quarter, then sounded a $135 billion alarm

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Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year

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Meta says spending could nearly double to $135bn in AI investment boom

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Meta vs. Microsoft showdown

Meta rises 8%, Microsoft sinks 11% as megacap tech stocks diverge after earnings

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Why Meta is ripping higher after earnings while Microsoft craters

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Meta Overshadows Microsoft by Showing AI Payoff in Ad Business

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Meta and Microsoft continue going big on AI Spending. Here's how bitcoin miners could benefit

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Regulatory & news access developments

Meta still making a motza, but ‘legal and regulatory headwinds’ will impact 2026

5 wks / mumbrella / Nathan Jolly

Meta Platforms (META) Stock: Gains Momentum on Earnings Beat as Ottawa Moves to Restore News Access

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Strong earnings & record sales

Meta’s stock surges on strong earnings, revenue and bullish guidance

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Meta Stock Jumps 4% After Q4 Revenue of $59.89B Beats Estimates

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Meta Reports Record Sales, Massive Spending Hike on AI Buildout

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Meta rises after sales, earnings beat and Q1 revenue guidance exceeds expectations

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WhatsApp introduces an advanced security mode to protect against hackers

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Meta's WhatsApp just introduced something called Strict Account Settings, a tool "that further protects your account from highly sophisticated cyber attacks." This is a one-click button in the settings that automatically initiates a series of defenses.So …

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Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

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Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption - Slashdot

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WhatsApp Adds ‘Lockdown’ Feature to Protect Against Hackers

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WhatsApp’s new ‘lockdown’ settings add another layer of protection against cyberattacks

5 wks / theverge / Emma Roth

WhatsApp introduces an advanced security mode to protect against hackers

5 wks / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

WhatsApp is rolling out a new stricter security setting to protect users from cyber attacts

5 wks / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

WhatsApp Launches Strict Account Settings for Public Figures

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Meta, TikTok and YouTube are on trial over whether their apps hurt children

Shannon Bond / npr - A trial kicking off in a Los Angeles courtroom marks the first time a jury will hear claims that social media companies knowingly hook young users and cause harm.