Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models
Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models

Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The …

Meta’s glasses now stop recording if you cover the LED
Meta’s glasses now stop recording if you cover the LED

Meta has updated its smart glasses so the camera stops when someone covers the recording light, the second such fix in two months, and is running an ad campaign explaining what the LED means. European regulators have said the problem is not the light b…

Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign
Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign

Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that “the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording.” The company’s line of […]

Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal.

If Meta’s going down, it’s taking TikTok and YouTube with it
If Meta’s going down, it’s taking TikTok and YouTube with it

Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it’s already spinning the deal to its advantage. After years of being the national punching bag for social media harms, Meta has reached a settlement with 47 US states and several districts and […]

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

South Korea’s regulator says Meta’s teen limits should apply everywhere, not just America
South Korea’s regulator says Meta’s teen limits should apply everywhere, not just America

South Korea’s media regulator has said that Meta’s new protections for young users should ideally apply worldwide rather than only in the markets that forced them, which is a modest-sounding statement with a substantial ask inside it. The measures in q…

Poland has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M over scam ads
Poland has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M over scam ads

Poland’s deputy prime minister and digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M, roughly $291M, over scams and false advertising on Facebook and Instagram. “I also call on Meta to immediately introdu…

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.