Muse Image joins a growing field of AI image generation tools. Meta has begun rolling out Muse Image, an AI image generation model integrated into Meta AI that allows users to create, edit and share AI-generated images across its platforms. The launch comes as the generative AI market is projected to reach $394.66 billion in…
Meta has abruptly taken down a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to make fake images from user content on Instagram. The feature was part of a broad rollout of Muse Image, a new AI image generation tool Instagram’s parent company released on Tuesday. It allowed users of the…
A worker stands inside the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 20, 2026. Daniel Cole | Reuters Instagram and Facebook’s “addictive” designs have put Meta in breach of the European Union’s digital laws, the EU concluded Friday in a preliminary report. The tech giant violated the EU’s Digital Services Act by failing to…
Meta has quietly soft-launched a new standalone mobile application called Pocket, a text-to-game creative platform designed around the emerging development trend of “vibe coding.” The application empowers users to build, play, and share interactive mini-games and digital experiences entirely through generative AI prompts; no coding knowledge required. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday:…
Discord has officially arrived on Meta Quest headsets as a native application, fulfilling a highly anticipated crossover first announced during the Meta Connect conference. While resourceful virtual reality enthusiasts have relied on sideloading and various cobbled-together workarounds to access the platform in the interim, the official native app introduces a drastically optimized and seamless user…
Meta hosted the 2026 Youth Online Safety Summit this week. Social media company Meta has deployed a mandatory system update that automatically shifts teenage user profiles into highly restricted safety configurations. According to Meta, the backend product overhaul – known as “Teen Accounts” – structurally reshapes data visibility, privacy configurations and messaging access defaults across…
Just twenty-four hours after Wired exposed dormant facial recognition code inside Meta’s smart glasses companion app, the tech giant quietly pushed a software update to purge the software. Discovered on June 4, the internal code, dubbed “Name Tag”, was embedded within the core Meta AI application required to pair the wearable hardware to smartphones over…
The Manus logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, with the Meta logo visible in the background. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Meta Platforms has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, according to a Bloomberg report, as the tech giant moves to comply with Beijing’s unprecedented order to unwind…
Meta Platforms said on Monday it is filing a federal court contempt order against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group for violating a permanent injunction that barred it from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users. The company said its WhatsApp messaging service disrupted new spear-phishing attempts linked to NSO, an entity blacklisted by the US government…
Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled an AI agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, positioning the social media giant as a player in the enterprise AI market. Announced at the company’s WhatsApp-focused Conversations conference in London, the new product expands on existing business messaging services by enabling “agentic” capabilities in which the assistant…
