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Meta AI research, Llama, and related products.
Meta shipped a WhatsApp Business Tools MCP server so Claude, Cursor, Codex, or ChatGPT can set up and manage Business messaging without hopping across consoles.
Meta One bundles expanded AI image/video tools across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—monetizing Muse after the Scale AI bet—on top of existing Plus tiers already minting app revenue.
Meta One bundles Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Plus with extra Muse/Meta AI generation — from $7.99 consumer tiers up to $499 business Max.
WIRED’s week in security centers on Anthropic’s eight-month Claude abuse report—state hacks, scam crews, influence ops, and attempted bioweapon work that the company says it cut off midstream.
Parents in Illinois and California allege Meta mined Facebook and Instagram photos for generative image models and an unreleased NameTag face system—reviving biometric privacy fights Meta has already paid dearly to settle.
After a viral Instagram video showed Meta AI asking who a child passenger was—and then digging into family posts—Meta says it missed the mark and is changing prompt suggestions.
Sensor Tower puts Meta’s new agent app Muse past 83,000 U.S. iOS downloads and into App Store No. 2—solid chart heat, still a quieter debut than Threads, Meta AI, or early ChatGPT.
Meta’s new Muse agent can clear mail and buy tank tops — and it also recited Instagram interests the reviewer couldn’t see in the app’s own ad-topics UI.
San Francisco’s city attorney ordered Meta to stop paid ads that turn minors’ images into AI sexual clips—and to explain how hundreds slipped paid review.
Prime Video's AI lip-sync for human-dubbed audio starts narrow—English Maxton Hall—but points to a streaming arms race where localization quality becomes a retention feature, not a subtitle footnote.
Meta ships Muse with Secure VM, Sentinel approvals, and Stripe Link — a late agent entry that bets privacy architecture can overcome a trust deficit.
Days after an $18 billion multistate settlement over social harms, Meta asks consumers to connect email, calendars, payments, and apps to a free-to-start agent that acts on their behalf.