Users of the VR fitness service are distraught that Supernatural has had its staff cut and wont receive any more content updates. Theyre also pissed at Meta.

Wikimedia announced deals with several AI companies, including Amazon, Meta and Perplexity on Thursday

As part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary , parent company Wikimedia announced a slew of partnerships with AI-focused companies like Amazon, Meta, Perplexity, Microsoft and others

Wikipedia turns 25 today, and the online encyclopedia is celebrating that with an announcement that it has signed new licensing deals with a slate of major AI companies -- Amazon, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Perplexity and Mistral AI

Spotify came under fire late last year for running recruitment ads for ICE. It said the advertisements were part of a larger campaign by the US government that ran across platforms, including Meta and Google

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Wikipedia on Thursday unveiled partnerships with several Big Tech companies including Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, marking a major step up in the non-profit's ability to monetize tech firms' reliance on its content

Meta Compute will oversee AI infrastructure expansion, unify leadership, and plan for tens to hundreds of gigawatts over the next decade

The new appointment comes amid Airbnb's massive app redesign, which added catering and personal training

Two years ago, companies like Meta and OpenAI were united against military use of their tools

Looks like the metaverse isn't going smoothly

Meta is shutting down three acquired VR studios as part of Reality Labs layoffs and a strategic pivot away from VR content toward AI-powered smart glasses

Meta began laying off employees in its Reality Labs division focused on virtual reality and shut down several VR studios as it pushes resources towards AI.

Several of Meta's VR studios have been affected by the company's metaverse-focused layoffs

Last month, Instagram began rolling out a new set of controls that allowed users to personalize the topics recommended to them by the Reels algorithm. Now, Meta is making that feature available to all English users of the app globally, along with the ability to highlight their top topics for the coming year

Meta's VR-focused Reality Labs division suffered a huge set of layoffs on Tuesday.

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Meta and EssilorLuxottica are considering doubling the production capacity of their artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to 20 million units annually by the end of this year, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday

Andy Power, CEO of Digital Realty says data center real estate is not oversupplied as hyperscalers like Nvidia, Amazon, Google and Meta announce more projects.

As we expected , Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division, which focused on virtual reality and metaverse products, Bloomberg reports

Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division as the company redirects resources away from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearables and smartphone features

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According toThe New York Times, Meta is planning to reduce the number of employees at its metaverse division , Reality Labs

Meta kini dilaporkan sedang merancang dalam mengurangkan bilangan pekerja pada bahagian metamesta mereka, iaitu Reality Labs

Meta plans to cut roughly 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, with layoffs hitting metaverse-focused teams hardest

Meta establishes 'Meta Compute' organization to manage buildout of next-generation data centers and development of custom computing architectures that will power gigawatt-class data centers

No wonder he's going nuclear Meta has formed a new initiative called Meta Compute to oversee the planning, deployment, and operations of its growing fleet of AI datacenters.

On the heels of Mark Zuckerberg announcing that Meta's former board member, Dina Powell McCormick, would be formally joining the company as president and vice chairman, the CEO has shared new details about her purview at the company

We're a month into the social media ban in Australia, and Meta is reluctantly complying with it

Nicholas Fabiano of the University of Ottawa added that exercise triggers the release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, which he calls "Miracle-Gro for the brain." Exercise has been adopted as a first-line treatment in depression guidelines globally, though Fabiano noted it remains underutilized. The meta-analysis found that combining aerobic exercise and resistance training appeared more effective than aerobic exercise alone, and that 13 to 36 workouts led to improvements in depressive symptoms

BRUSSELS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms will exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp following an order from the country's antitrust authority, according to a notice sent to AI providers and developers seen by Reuters

Meta has appointed Dina Powell McCormick, a banking executive and former Republican White House official, as its new president and vice-chairman

PowellMcCormick will serve as a member of Meta's management team and will help guide its strategy and execution, the company said

Jan 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Monday named Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman, weeks after the former top adviser to U.S

To comply with Australia's under-16 social media ban , Meta said on Medium that it has shut down nearly 550,00 accounts

Meta highlighted that many Australian teens are circumventing its new social media ban by using alternative platforms such as Yope and Lemon8

Tech giant Meta on Thursday announced a major deal with three US nuclear power companies that is expected to add up to 6.6 gigawatts of clean energy by 2035

Meta hari ini menafikan dakwaan 17.5 juta akaun pengguna telah tertiris ke arena web selepas ramai menerima emel meminta kata laluan ditetapkan semula

PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more infosec in brief Meta has fixed a flaw in its Instagram service that allowed third parties to generate password reset emails, but denied the problem led to theft of users personal information.

If you haven't already, it's always a good idea to turn on two-factor authentication and change your password. Even better, you can review what devices are logged into your Instagram account in Meta's Accounts Center

It seems to be a worldwide issue and it affects a large number of users who didn’t request for a password recovery. It was alleged that this could be an indication that there’s a data breach at Meta where personal data […]

According to Malwarebytes, the leaked information could lead to more serious attacks, like phishing attempts or account takeovers. Meta hasn't released an official statement about the latest incident, but it's not the first time Instagram's parent company has been in hot water for data breaches

This week Meta announced several new features for "Meta Ray-Ban Display" smartglasses: - A new teleprompter feature for the smart glasses (arriving in a phased rollout) - The ability to send messages on WhatsApp and Messenger by writing with your finger on any surface

Meta has signed long-term nuclear power deals totaling more than 6 gigawatts to fuel its data centers: "one from a startup, one from a smaller energy company, and one from a larger company that already operates several nuclear reactors in the U.S," reports TechCrunch

Meta will finance Oklos purchase of uranium for its reactors

Meta's messaging app WhatsApp could soon be subject to deeper scrutiny (and punishment) under the European Commission's Digital Services Act, Reuters reports

Meta has announced three new agreements to purchase nuclear power for its AI infrastructure as well as the Prometheus supercluster , a 1-gigawatt data center being built in Ohio

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The company reportedly received $74,000 from Homeland Security for the ICE ads, but thats a tiny amount compared to what other companies received. According to a report by Rolling Stone , Google and YouTube were paid $3 million for Spanish-language ads that called for self-deportation, while Meta received $2.8 million

BRUSSELS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The European Commission is considering recategorizing Meta's WhatsApp messaging service to make it more responsible for tackling illegal and harmful content, a spokesperson for the commission said on Friday

WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms said on Friday it struck 20-year agreements to buy power from three Vistra nuclear plants in the U.S

BRUSSELS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon will not face heavy-handed regulations in Europe's digital rule overhaul despite calls from telecoms companies, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday

Lumus got a major boost in brand recognition when one of its waveguides was selected for use in the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses

When Meta first announced its display-enabled smart glasses last year, it teased a handwriting feature that allows users to send messages by tracing letters with their hands

China to probe Meta's acquisition of artificial intelligencestartupManus to assess its compliance with export control laws.

Meta dilihat berusaha menjadikan Threads lebih menarik khususnya melalui fungsi mesej peribadi (DM)

Rokids new screenless AI glasses undercut Meta on price and weight, offering a glimpse of a voice-first, post-screen future for wearable tech

It's only been a few months since Meta announced that it would open its smart glasses platform to third-party developers

Chinese regulators are worried about Manus' move to Singapore, so new parent company Meta could be in trouble

On the other hand, not going to trial means key details of the cases may never be made public. It's easy to imagine other AI companies facing similar suits, including OpenAI and Meta , viewing the settlements as a welcome development

Perhaps the most interesting is the addition of member tags, which lets users give themselves a tag that's customized for a specific group. Meta gives examples of a user assigning themself the role of a dad in one chat and a soccer goalkeeper in another

The AI pioneer talks about stepping down from Meta, limits of large language models.

The Myon is available now for $2,000, while the Muxi is expected in March for $1,700. Meta Meta's neural band in Garmin's Unified Cabin at CES 2026

Meta Ray-Ban Display dikemaskini dengan tiga ciri baharu bagi menjadikannya cermin mata pintar paling berguna di pasaran

Minggu lalu syarikat ejen AI Manus telah diambil alih oleh Meta dengan ia dilaporkan bernilai sekitar $2 bilion

Lenovo just revealed a new smartglasses concept design at CES 2026 . The appropriately-named Lenovo AI Glasses Concept promises to transform "how users interact with their surroundings and unifies their workflow." They look like a standard pair of specs and not all that different from something like Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses

Jan 6 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it has appointed C.J

Meta has been experimenting with EMG technology for years

Meta said Tuesday that it hired former Microsoft legal executive Curtis Joseph Mahoney to become its chief legal officer.

The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are so popular that their international launch is on pause

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the $799 smart glasses in September.

International buyers for Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses were told at CES that they'll have to wait.

Basic queries run locally on the device while more complex requests require a phone or PC connection. Razer's pitch centers on battery life: the wireless headset has achieved up to 36 hours on a charge during testing, according to the company, compared to the eight hours rated for Meta's second-generation Ray-Ban AI glasses

Intuitive! Should Microsoft just go ahead and rebrand Windows, the only piece of its arsenal more famous than Office, as Copilot, too? I do actually think we're not far off from that happening. Facebook rebranded itself "Meta" when it thought the metaverse would be the next big thing, so it seems just as plausible that Microsoft could name the next version of Windows something like "Windows with Copilot" or just "Windows AI." Copilot is the app for launching the other apps, but it's also a chatbot inside the apps

Jan 6 (Reuters) - Meta said on Tuesday it has decided to pause international expansion of its Ray-Ban Display glasses due to short supply and strong demand in the United States

Meta is pausing release of its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses to the UK, France, Italy and Canada due to "unprecedented demand and limited inventory," the company said on Monday at CES 2026

The new glasses feature a 12MP camera and a claimed 12-hour battery life

Video can be shot in three different aspect ratios, which Rokid says makes it easier for creators to make content for different platforms. Style can record up to 10 minutes of continuous footage, which Rokid is quick to point out exceeds the roughly three-minute limit on Meta Ray-Bans