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Meta AI Now Alerts Parents When Teens Discuss Self-Harm
Meta's AI chatbot now notifies parents when a teen's conversation touches on suicide or self-harm, under regulatory pressure to protect minors.
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Policy
Lawsuit Claims Meta's AI Flagged Sick Workers for Layoffs
A new lawsuit alleges Meta used an AI system to identify employees with medical conditions and route them toward layoffs, which Meta flatly denies.
Policy
Former Meta Employees Sue Over AI-Assisted Layoff Targeting
Twenty-six plaintiffs claim Meta's internal AI tools penalized workers on medical leave and disability accommodations during May's 8,000-person cut.
Policy
Lawsuit Says Meta Used AI to Pick Which 8,000 Workers to Cut
Twenty-six former employees allege Meta's layoff algorithm targeted workers with disabilities and those on protected leave.
Policy
Meta Sued Over AI That Allegedly Targeted Disabled Workers in Layoffs
Twenty-six current and former employees claim Meta's AI systems used productivity and token usage metrics to flag workers on medical leave for cuts.
Policy
EU Accuses Meta of Addictive Design on Facebook and Instagram
The European Commission says autoplay and infinite scroll on Meta's platforms break EU law, with fines of up to 6% of global revenue on the table.
AI
Meta's AI Detector Misses Its Own Images After a Crop
Reuters found Meta's AI image detection tool fails to flag Muse Image-generated photos more than half the time after a simple crop.
Security
Phishers Used Meta's Own Email System to Steal Business Credentials
Attackers exploited Meta's business-to-business email infrastructure to send convincing phishing emails that bypassed spam filters entirely.
Policy
EU Finds Meta's Addictive Design Breaks Digital Services Act
The EU Commission ruled Instagram and Facebook's addictive design violates the DSA, a key test of Europe's new platform accountability law.
AI
Meta Built an AI Agent to Write GPU Kernels So Engineers Don't Have To
KernelEvolve automates low-level kernel code generation across NVIDIA, AMD, and Meta's own AI chips, cutting development time from weeks to hours.
AI
Meta Reads Typing Intentions From Brain Signals, No Surgery Needed
Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 translates brain activity into typed text without implants, but the system trains on typing — a skill its target users lack.
AI
Meta Rethinks Recommendation Logic With Multi-Sequence AI
A new architecture from Meta breaks user history into separate interest threads, aiming to fix a core flaw in how recommendation models read behavior.
AI
Meta Paid Contractors to Pose as Teens to Probe Rival AI Chatbots
Hundreds of Meta contractors impersonated minors to test how ChatGPT and Gemini responded to questions about suicide, sex, and drugs.
AI
Meta Can Now Read Typing Thoughts - No Surgery Required
Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 translates brain signals into text without implants, a step forward for non-invasive assistive communication.
Software
WhatsApp Lets Users Reserve Usernames to Hide Phone Numbers
WhatsApp is opening username reservations today, letting its three billion users connect without exposing their phone number for the first time.
AI
Google Caps Meta's Gemini Access Over Compute Shortage
Google has rationed access to its Gemini AI models for Meta and other clients after demand for compute outstripped its available capacity.
Policy
Meta Kills the Tool That Let You Limit Its Web Tracking
The Off-Facebook Activity feature, which let users disconnect browsing data from their profiles, is reportedly going away in July 2026.
Policy
Sarah Wynn-Williams Sues Meta Over Silencing Efforts
The former Meta executive and Careless People author has flipped the legal dynamic, now suing the company that spent over a year trying to quiet her.
Hardware
Qualcomm Names Meta as First Dragonfly Data Centre Customer
Qualcomm revealed Meta as the launch customer for its C1000 data centre chip, marking its most concrete push yet into AI infrastructure.
Policy
Meta Is the Last AI Holdout on Federal Security Reviews
Every major US AI developer has agreed to federal security reviews except Meta, which the Trump administration is now pressing to comply.
Policy
EU Moves Closer to Fining Meta Over Child-Targeted Design
Brussels is preparing formal findings that Facebook and Instagram use exploitative design to hook children, a case that could cost Meta 6% of global sales.
Policy
Meta's Employee Surveillance Program Died After an Internal Leak
Meta quietly ran a program logging employee keystrokes and screen activity, then killed it after someone inside leaked details of the surveillance.
Consumer Tech
Meta Previews Three Smart Glasses Models, Ray-Ban Branding May Be Out
A hands-on preview suggests Meta could be dropping the Ray-Ban name across three new smart glasses models, including a Kylie Jenner edition.
Deals
Meta Quest 3S Drops Under $300 for Prime Day
Amazon has the Meta Quest 3S bundle at $296.79 — a $53 discount that includes 100-plus games and a three-month Meta Horizon+ trial.
AI
Meta Built an AI to Review the Code Its AIs Write
Meta's RADAR system has auto-approved 331,000 AI-generated code changes, with production incidents running at 1/50 the rate of human-reviewed diffs.
Software
WhatsApp Web Tests Group Voice and Video Calls
Meta is expanding a WhatsApp Web call test to group chats, narrowing a long-standing gap with the mobile app.
AI
Meta's CTO Calls the AI Reorg 'Atrocious' in Staff Memo
Andrew Bosworth promised employees more stability and a return of workplace perks after admitting Meta's AI restructuring left a real mess behind.
Policy
Meta Can't Shake Lawsuit Over Torrented Porn Used for AI Training
A federal judge let a copyright lawsuit proceed, finding Meta's 'personal use' explanation for torrenting 2,300-plus adult films implausible.
AI
The Lawyer Who Beat Meta in Court Used AI to Triple His Prep Speed
Mark Lanier won a $6 million social media addiction verdict against Meta and Google, and says AI compressed 30 hours of trial work into 10.
Software
Facebook and Instagram Log Users Out in Apparent Outage
A Meta executive confirmed access problems after users on both platforms reported being suddenly signed out without warning.
Software
Meta's Two Biggest Platforms Go Dark With No Fix in Sight
A Friday morning outage took down both Facebook and Instagram at once, and Meta offered no explanation or timeline for a fix.
Software
Meta Hits Another Outage, Taking Down All Four Major Apps
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger went down simultaneously just before 10 AM ET on Friday, adding to Meta's pattern of platform-wide failures.
Policy
Beijing Forces Meta to Unwind Its $2B Manus Deal
Meta has cut the Chinese-founded agentic AI startup off from its systems and is sunsetting the platform after Beijing demanded the acquisition be reversed.
Consumer Tech
WhatsApp Bumps iOS Minimum - Older iPhones Need a Patch
Meta is raising WhatsApp's iOS floor to 15.5 in November, affecting five older iPhone models that just need a software update to stay compatible.
AI
Meta's $2B Manus Acquisition Is Already Being Wound Down
Six months after buying the Chinese-founded agentic AI service, Meta has barred its own staff from using it and ordered them to shut it down.
Consumer Tech
WhatsApp Is Cutting Off Older iPhones This November
Meta will raise WhatsApp's minimum iOS and iPadOS requirements on November 30, 2026, leaving users on older software without access.
Policy
Meta Laid Off a Worker. Then Immigration Agents Showed Up
A recently laid-off Meta employee was detained by immigration enforcement agents, with colleagues discussing the incident on internal company message boards.
Policy
EU Orders Meta to Reopen WhatsApp to Rival AI Assistants
The European Commission gave Meta five working days to restore access for competing AI assistants, citing irreversible harm to competition.
Policy
Meta Is Using Your Shopping Data to Shape Your Feeds
Meta says it isn't collecting new data — it's just doing more with what retailers already hand over.
Policy
After Meta Loosened Speech Rules, Threats Against Politicians Surged
New research tracks a six-month surge in violent threats on Facebook following Meta's content moderation rollback, including threats against Trump.
Security
Meta Quietly Pulls Face-Recognition Code from Its Smart Glasses App
The company removed the capability without explanation, raising the more interesting question of why it was there at all.
Security
Instagram's AI Chatbot Bug Handed Account Resets to Hackers
A flaw in Meta AI's account-recovery flow let attackers redirect password-reset emails to themselves, exposing over 20,000 Instagram accounts.
Security
Meta AI Chatbot Flaw Let Hackers Hijack 20,000 Instagram Accounts
A verification bug in Meta's AI support chatbot let attackers reset Instagram passwords without owning the account's associated email address.
Security
Meta's Instagram AI Bot Was Used to Seize 20,000 Accounts
Hackers manipulated Meta's AI support bot into handing over roughly 20,000 Instagram accounts, including ones belonging to US government agencies.
AI
Meta Is Building Tent Data Centers Powered by Jet Engines
To cut construction timelines from years to months, Meta is erecting semi-permanent tent structures with on-site jet-engine generators across the US.
AI
Meta's Creator Assistant Explains Why Content Performs
Facebook's new AI tool goes beyond views and reach to tell creators which elements of a post actually drove its results.
Security
Meta's AI Chatbot Handed Hackers Instagram Access on Request
Attackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta's support bot to add a new email address - no phishing or malware required.
AI
Meta Buys Robotics AI Firm for Humanoid Push
The social media giant adds another piece to its ambitious AI hardware puzzle, betting that humanoid robots are the next big computing platform.
AI
Meta Acquires Robotics Startup for Humanoid AI Push
Meta is buying a robotics startup as it pushes further into physical AI systems that can interact with the real world.
Software
Instagram Will Penalize Low-Effort Content in Your Feed
Meta's Instagram is cracking down on repetitive, unoriginal posts — but automatically detecting what counts as 'original' is harder than it sounds.
Policy
Meta threatens to pull apps from New Mexico over legal demands
The company says it may exit the state if a judge grants New Mexico's requests in an ongoing privacy case.