Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Departs for Meta
Keach Hagey / wsj - Andrew Tulloch is the latest big-name AI researcher to join the social-media giant.
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Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Jason Koebler / 404media - Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."
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Facebook Overhauls Reels With Smarter AI Recommendations and New Social Features
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Facebook is updating its Reels platform with a smarter AI-powered recommendation engine, new 'friend bubbles' for social sharing, and enhanced user controls.The post Facebook Overhauls Reels With Smarter AI Recommendations and New Social Features appeared…
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 1:21 pm / permalink 15007 / 7 stories in 4 months
Threads is getting a 'communities' feature for better conversations
Karissa Bell / engadget - Now that Threads has grown to more than 400 million users, Meta is adding more features that could help the platform establish an identity. The company is testing a new "communities" feature that creates dedicated spaces for people to chat about specific …
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Dutch court rules Meta violated European law by pushing users to profiled feeds
therecord - The decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the Dutch nonprofit Bits of Freedom, which argued that by controlling users’ feeds Meta has been improperly skewing what news consumers receive.
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Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats
Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.
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Meta inks $14.2bn deal with CoreWeave for its compute power
Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / siliconrepublic - The social media giant also plans to acquire chip start-up Rivos to strengthen its own semiconductor abilities.Read more: Meta inks $14.2bn deal with CoreWeave for its compute power
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AI Hyperscaler CoreWeave Signs $14.2 Billion Deal With Meta
PYMNTS / pymnts - Artificial intelligence hyperscaler CoreWeave announced a multibillion-dollar agreement with Meta days after reporting a deal with OpenAI. “Future AI innovations will be far bigger than they are today, so we’re building for them now,” CoreWeave said in a …
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‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - Fifteen years after "The Social Network," director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called "The Social Reckoning."
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Meta Launches Vibes, An Instagram-Like Feed For AI Video Slop
bgr - Meta's latest venture in the AI domain is a platform titled Vibes -- aimed to be an Instagram-like service where users can generate and share AI content.
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Ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram are coming to the UK – for a price
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Meta has announced that it is launching a subscription service in the UK that will let users of Facebook and Instagram pay to avoid ads. The plan has already been rejected by the European Union, but this does not affect post-Brexit UK. Separate subscripti…
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Instagram hits 3 billion monthly users
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This milestone comes almost four years after Instagram reportedly hit 2 billion monthly users in December 2021, catching up to other Meta platforms. Zuckerberg announ…
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Facebook adds an AI assistant to its dating app
Anna Washenko / engadget - Facebook Dating has added two new AI tools, because clearly a large language model is what the search for love and companionship has been missing all this time. The social media platform introduced a chatbot called dating assistant that can help find pros…
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EU moves to shut Big Tech out of Europe’s financial data
Robert Brown / implicator - EU moves to block Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon from its new financial data system despite Trump's tariff threats. In a rare lobbying defeat for Big Tech, European banks successfully argued for "digital sovereignty" over innovation promises.
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The Morning After: Meta's Ray-Ban Display is the closest thing yet to true smart glasses
Mat Smith / engadget - Revealed at Meta’s Connect 2025 conference, the Ray-Ban Display has a small, integrated display on the right lens, designed for quick, discreet glances at notifications, directions and even video calls. The clever part is its subtlety; to an onlooker, you…
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Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures
Mariella Moon / engadget - When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's latest smart glasses at the company's Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from properly demonstrating some of the devices' features. Now, Meta's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Boswor…
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3 New AI Smart Glasses Make Their Debut At Meta Connect 2025
bgr - At its Meta Connect 2025 keynote, Meta pulled back the curtain on three new AI-powered smart glasses, including one with a monocular display.
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Meta Opens Smart Glasses to Developers With New Sensor Access Toolkit
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Meta is launching the 'Wearables Device Access Toolkit,' giving third-party developers access to camera and sensor data on its smart glasses to build new hands-free apps.The post Meta Opens Smart Glasses to Developers With New Sensor Access Toolkit appear…
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Cameron and Meta bet big on 3D revival
Maria Garcia / implicator - Cameron's Meta partnership signals a bigger shift in entertainment. As box office craters and production costs soar, two camps emerge around AI: enhancement vs disruption. The winner determines if Hollywood adapts or gets replaced.
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Meta to News Companies: Help Us Train Our AI
PYMNTS / pymnts - Meta has reportedly held talks with media companies about using their articles for AI training. The tech giant has had discussions with companies including Axel Springer, Fox Corp and News Corp, about licensing their articles for use in its artificial int…
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