With Meta One, Meta groups paid features across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI. Beyond AI tools, it aims to monetize creators' and small businesses' daily work.
Australia is preparing a law that will require social media platforms to offer a sustainable choice between algorithmic recommendations and a feed composed of the accounts users have chosen to follow. A decision likely to inspire Europe and the rest of the world.
With its 2195 dollar Specs, Snap wants to prove augmented reality can become the next personal computer. The bet is ambitious, expensive and still far from mass adoption.
OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate. The milestone places conversational AI at the center of the global battle for digital advertising.
Meta reaches a historic agreement with a broad coalition of U.S. states. Record payments, usage limits, age verification, and nighttime protections: Instagram and Facebook will have to change for teenagers.
New Zealand has unveiled a bill requiring Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook to verify users' ages. Behind child protection lies a global battle over digital identity and platform power.
On August 20, 2026, British cinemas began setting rules for Meta smart glasses and other camera-enabled devices. Between piracy, privacy and accessibility, the theater becomes a new field of tech regulation.
From August 2, 2026, new transparency obligations under the AI Act will be applicable across the European Union. Chatbots, deepfakes, images, sounds, videos, and certain synthetic texts are entering a new era of marking and informing the public.
The final of the 2026 World Cup pushed WhatsApp past the staggering threshold of 30 million messages per second. Instagram, Facebook, and Threads also exploded: behind the sporting spectacle, a new global attention economy has just revealed its strength.
A jury in New Mexico has imposed a $375 million penalty on Meta, finding that its platforms harmed the mental health and safety of children. Following another verdict against Instagram and YouTube in California, judicial pressure now joins the regulatory offensive from France and Europe.
Meta suspends the paid limitation of Conversation Focus, the feature of its Ray-Ban glasses that amplifies voices in noise. This retreat reignites the global debate on imposed subscriptions for functions already integrated into hardware.
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