Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally
For years, WhatsApp has been a communication layer for businesses of all sizes around the world. Meta is now infusing AI into that layer in a bid to turn WhatsApp…
Meta’s top Ray-Bans gain a surprisingly useful silent texting feature
TL;DR Meta is rolling out the virtual handwriting feature to all Ray-Ban Display glasses. Live captions are coming to more apps, and walking directions are available across the US. It…
Meta President Dina Powell McCormick is traveling with President Trump on his China trip and met King Charles III, indicating she is Meta’s new global emissary (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts
Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now, watching AI reshape how people…
The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta’s child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta’s actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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China vetoes Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe
China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said on Monday it has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup founded by Chinese…
Chinese regulators block Meta’s $2B acquisition of Manus, after reviewing whether the deal violated Beijing’s investment rules; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (Arjun Neil Alim/Financial Times)
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Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines gain
Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing to open-world segmentation projects, including SAM3D. His final…
China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta’s Manus acquisition (Bloomberg)
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Meta’s lawyer disparaged tech journalists Kara Swisher and Om Malik, calling Malik a “failed blogger”, showing Meta’s long-simmering media tensions (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
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