‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data
 ‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data

It takes a particular kind of dysfunction for an employee to hijack a company-wide livestream and demand the hosts pass a message to a senior executive: that he is, in not so many words, garbage. That happened inside Meta this month. According to a rec…

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Meta executive leading internal AI overhaul departs after two months
 Meta executive leading internal AI overhaul departs after two months

The memo, when it came, was about a transition rather than a departure. Emily Dalton Smith, the Meta executive who had spent barely two months running the company’s push to reorganise itself around AI agents, is leaving. She joined Meta in 2015. She is…

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A US state wants to ban smart glasses while driving, and it could open Pandora’s box

Smart glasses are rapidly evolving from niche gadgets into mainstream consumer technology. Devices from companies such as Meta, Google, Apple, and Snap are increasingly capable of displaying notifications, providing navigation, recording video, and eve…

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Social media’s next evolution: User-controlled algorithms

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

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AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong?
 AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong?

AI is pretty reliable at putting things on your calendar these days, but it hasn’t quite cracked answering the related and all-important question of “What should I do this weekend?” Meta’s new AI Mode in search could be a useful tool – if it ever learns to stop getting stuff wrong. AI Mode is a […]

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Threads makes it easier to find your community and tune out what you don’t want to see

Threads is rolling out upgrades to its Communities feature and a new feed personalization tool called Your Algo.

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Threads hits 500 million users, and adds a feed control even X doesn’t have
 Threads hits 500 million users, and adds a feed control even X doesn’t have

Meta’s Threads has crossed 500 million monthly users, the company said on Tuesday, almost exactly three years after it launched to chase Elon Musk’s X. That is 100 million more than last August, and it puts Mark Zuckerberg halfway to the 1 billion-user…

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Half a billion people are using Threads every month
 Half a billion people are using Threads every month

Threads has surpassed 500 million monthly active users, Meta announced on Tuesday, hitting the milestone just shy of the platform’s third birthday. Threads got off to a hot start in 2023, reaching 100 million users even faster than ChatGPT, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he thinks Threads could hit 1 billion users. Meta […]

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Facebook now has an answering genie for all your burning questions, just like Google Search

Meta is rolling out AI Mode on Facebook, a new feature that uses Meta AI to answer questions by pulling from public content across Meta apps, rather than returning standard search results.

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Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts
 Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta’s new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the “AI Mode” option will appear alongside the usual search modes like “People” and “Marketplace.” It’s one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto […]

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