Now you can watch Instagram Reels on your Apple TV
Now you can watch Instagram Reels on your Apple TV

Instagram is continuing its expansion into living rooms with Instagram for TV, for Apple TV. The company first started testing a version of the platform focused on Reels, live streams, and other video content, blown up for a bigger screen in December of last year. Then, in June, it launched a slew of new features […]

Meta delays its website-crawling terms after a publisher backlash
Meta delays its website-crawling terms after a publisher backlash

Meta has pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October, Reuters reported. Publishers say the terms let Meta crawl their websites for its products. The delay came a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded the terms be with…

Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping
Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping

Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms will go into effect on November 20th “to allow […]

Meta had to ask Stripe to raise limits as Muse shoppers poured in
Meta had to ask Stripe to raise limits as Muse shoppers poured in

Purchase volumes on Muse came in “above what any of us expected”, Mark Zuckerberg said. Meta had to ask Stripe to raise its credit limits. He spoke on Meta’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. More than 10 million people in the US and Canada hav…

US lawmakers press Zuckerberg over Meta’s role in Brazil’s runoff
US lawmakers press Zuckerberg over Meta’s role in Brazil’s runoff

Senator Bernie Sanders and 12 House Democrats have told Mark Zuckerberg it is “unacceptable” for a platform to favour one candidate. Their letter, sent on Thursday, asks Meta to explain its role in Brazil’s presidential race. The runoff is on Sunday. T…

Zuckerberg planned to sell his home, so Meta built him a wealth tax deal
Zuckerberg planned to sell his home, so Meta built him a wealth tax deal

Meta says Mark Zuckerberg “would effectively be paying to serve” as its chief executive if California taxes its billionaires. So it is creating new shares he can sell to cover the bill. In return, he has promised to stay in the state, an SEC filing pub…

Meta fixes Muse links that let anyone find loan files and revenue data
Meta fixes Muse links that let anyone find loan files and revenue data

Meta has switched Muse sharing back on. It paused the feature on Tuesday. That came after Ars Technica asked about research showing that anyone could find pages shared from its AI agent. David Singleton, who works on Muse at Meta, announced the fix on …

Rhode Island sues Meta, alleging it profits from scam ads
Rhode Island sues Meta, alleging it profits from scam ads

Rhode Island has sued Meta, alleging the company profited from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and helped to create some of them. Attorney General Peter Neronha filed the complaint in Providence County Superior Court on October 22. It say…

Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta

A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the “billionaire’s tax,” should the measure be voted into law.

Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say

Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge – but legal experts say these changes aren’t enough to address their concerns. “This does nothing to restrict the ‘associated with your products or services’ [language] that would let Meta scrape […]