Meta share sale
Meta considers raising billions in a share sale, as reported by FT.
MetaMeta’s smart glasses might soon sport facial recognition — and the code to power this dystopian feature is already present in the Meta AI app on your phone
The Meta AI app has quietly had facial recognition code added to it, which could one day allow the company's smart glasses to identify people.
Meta Considers Raising Billions in Share Sale, FT Reports
Meta Platforms Inc. is considering raising equity after Alphabet Inc.’s successful $85 billion sale, according to the Financial Times. Meta shares fell on the report.
Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails for anyone who asked. Your SOC never saw an alert.
Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails to accounts for whoever asked, and SOCs never saw an alert. An authorized agent writes a log of legitimate transactions, so nothing in the detection stack fired. Attackers asked the bot to make the change, took the one-time code it sent, and ran the password reset , 404 Media reported. No malware, no stolen credentials, and no prompt injection in the sense most security teams drill for. The agent did exactly what Meta built it to do. That is what sho
The Download: AI hacking beyond Mythos, and chatbots’ impact on our brains
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On Monday, reports emerged that attackers had used Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was…
The Morning After: NVIDIA thinks its new chip will revolutionize PCs
NVIDIA launches a powerful AI-ready notebook chip, NASA ends a Mars mission and Meta's still looking into glasses-based facial recognition.
Meta’s Wang Says AI Agents Will Redefine How We Relate to Technology
The industry needs to build trust for people to make the best use of AI
Meta AI Chief Wang on Winning the Race in AI
Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer at Meta discusses model development, infrastructure investment and AI competition with Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner at Bloomberg Tech 2026 in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos
On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One attacker broke into the dormant Obama White House account and made pro-Iran…
Modders are turning Meta Ray-Bans into spy glasses — it’s not cool, it’s creepy, and I hate it
I love my Ray-Ban smart glasses, but creeps are disabling a major safety feature, and now I’m worried they’ll get banned.
Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices
Article URL: https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406640 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
Meta AI Chief Sees Opportunity in Models’ Giving Health Advice
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said the company’s future artificial intelligence models will differentiate themselves from competitors through their consumer health capabilities.
The Oversight Board knocks Meta over unwarranted account bans
After hundreds of users submitted public comments, the board says it's clear the company has a problem
Wired found code for an unreleased facial recognition feature in Meta's AI app
Meta was previously reported to be exploring facial recognition for its smart glasses.
Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers
Meta has reportedly delayed the developer release of its Muse Spark AI model API multiple times, and as of Tuesday, had no scheduled launch date, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled). Reuters reports: A Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company is already testing the Application Programming Interface (API) with some early partners and is looking forward to releasing it this month. "The muse spark API will be coming soon," Meta AI Chief Alexandr Wang announced in a
Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403588 Points: 103 # Comments: 68
Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Meta may have one found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.
1.5M+ People Spend Their Work Week In Headsets. The Company Behind It Is Soon Closing Its Round for Retail Investors
The post 1.5M+ People Spend Their Work Week In Headsets. The Company Behind It Is Soon Closing Its Round for Retail Investors by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. Most private tech startups sell you promises and hype. Immersed is delivering real-world results. It built the #1 work app on Meta Quest, where 1.5M+ professionals are logging up to 60 hours a week inside virtual offices. “I can’t emphasize enough how big a deal it wa
Meta AI's recent hack is a terrifying wake-up call for anyone who puts their trust in AI systems
AI is now so human it can fall victim to social engineering — and I wonder if we should ever trust AI enough to keep our information safe.
Meta's latest AI tool gives creators a 'brainstorming partner'
Meta's Creator Assistant AI can analyze your past posts to help with future content plans.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
Meta launches an AI assistant that tells Facebook creators why their content works, not just that it did
Knowing that a reel performed well has never been the hard part. The hard part is understanding why. Was it the hook, the timing, the format, the audio? Creators have spent years toggling between analytics dashboards trying to reverse-engineer answers that the data, on its own, does not give. Meta’s new Creator Assistant, announced on Wednesday, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta’s Oversight Board says account bans lack due process, transparency
Meta's board cites "due process" concerns over account bans. It's also pushing Meta to offer clear information about violations and its use in AI in making its determinations.
Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook
Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like "When should I post?" and "What are people saying in my comments?"
Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time
When Meta announced in April that it would install software on US employees’ work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company’s head of technology Andrew Bosworth was blunt: “There is no option to opt out of this on your work provided laptop.” Two months and more than 1,500 petition signatures […] This story continues at The Next Web
'We have heard your concerns': Meta workers can request pauses in computer activity tracking, but only in temporary, half-hour increments
Workers can ask Meta to pause monitoring software, but only if they think the data on screen should be hidden.
Meta's AI Business Agent is a small and medium businesses guru – and it is now available directly through WhatsApp
After around two years in testing, Meta's AI Business Agent is now rolling out across WhatsApp, Instagram DMs and more.
Meta, Starlink and Microsoft team up with the FBI to delete over 1.4 million accounts and seize millions in cryptocurrency related to huge scam networks targeting Americans
The FBI arrested 63 people in connection to the scam network, while Microsoft disabled 20,000 accounts.
Even Meta's Oversight Board thinks its rules for banning accounts are baffling
The group has "due process concerns" over how the company handles account bans.
Meta keeps delaying the Muse Spark API developers were promised
The model shipped in April. The interface developers need to build on it has slipped repeatedly, with no firm date until Meta said this week it would arrive this month. A model without an API is a demo, not a platform. That is the awkward position Meta’s Muse Spark has occupied since April, when the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta accuses Australia of breaching trade pact over news bargaining tax
Meta has reached for a bigger weapon. The company accused the Australian government of breaching the US-Australia free trade agreement with its proposed News Bargaining Incentive, and pointed Washington towards the “trade action” it has taken against other countries that taxed American technology firms. The dispute over paying for news, now in its fifth year, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did
No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap. Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else’s account. The bot complied without verifying the requester’s identity, and the attacker then reset the password and locked out the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta spent $400 million and fought the US government to buy a VR fitness app, then let its creators take it back
In 2023, Meta fought an eight-month antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission for the right to acquire Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. The deal was reportedly worth around $400 million. Mark Zuckerberg even testified in court to get it done. Less than three years later, Meta is handing it back. The company announced […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Underworld Market to Remove the Recording Indicator Light on Meta Glasses
Joanna Stern, on YouTube: People across the country are offering a service on Facebook Marketplace to disable the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They call it “Stealth Mode.” Joanna paid $100 for the modification and went inside the growing business of turning smart glasses into covert cameras. She investigates who is doing it, whether it’s legal and what some are doing to try and stop it. Of course there’s a market for this. But the true chef’s kiss is that the market to find people wh
Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it
Meta appears to have listened to the Supernatural users who protested the app's sad fate after sweeping layoffs.
VR exercise platform Supernatural is getting a second chance as an independent company
A new Supernatural VR workout app arrives this fall months before Meta planned to shut it down.
Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes
Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit] said the team behind the software had also introduced "several optimizations" to redu
Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks
Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.
Supernatural isn’t dead after all
A few months ago, Meta effectively handed Supernatural, a popular VR fitness game on the Meta Quest, a death sentence. As part of overarching VR layoffs, the company announced the game would no longer get any new content, enraging its tightly knit, devoted community. Now it looks like Supernatural is getting a second chance. Today, […]
These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked
The startup's own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.
Meta Sells AI Agent for Businesses in Push to Monetize Service
Meta Platforms Inc. is selling businesses access to an artificial intelligence agent for the first time, its latest effort to generate revenue to offset the company’s hefty AI investments.
Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta agents to "run your whole business"
Mark Zuckerberg wants agents to be able to "run your whole business."
Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally
WhatsApp will charge businesses for using its AI agent based on token usage
Inside Meta's attempts to play catch-up with AI
Doubts linger over whether Meta can close the gap with rivals.
Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93x0k194yno Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383220 Points: 86 # Comments: 47
Meta took down over a million scam accounts in joint operation with Microsoft, SpaceX and DOJ
Meta, Microsoft, SpaceX, Coinbase, the DOJ and international law enforcement partners collaborated in an operation that focused on scam networks in SE Asia.
EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in
The General Court annulled the Commission’s designation of Marketplace under the Digital Markets Act, faulting its reasoning, while upholding the same label for Messenger. Meta walked into the EU’s General Court asking it to strike down two gatekeeper labels and walked out having shed one. On 3 June the Luxembourg court annulled the European Commission’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta will reportedly let employees take 30-minute breaks from its tracking program
Workers can pause the all-seeing eye when they need to "check something personal."
Meta Reportedly Has a Slew of New Smart Glasses Planned for This Year
James Pero, summarizing for Gizmodo this paywalled report by Jyoti Mann for The Information: But, wait, there’s more: in addition to the fall releases, The Information reports that Meta also has a pair slated for December, codenamed “Mojito VIP.” There are also two prototypes being tested in the fall, according to the report, including one called “Artemis” and another called “SSG,” which is short for “supersensing glasses.” The Information previously reported that the “supersensing” pair would h
Nvidia, SLB, Amazon, and Meta are the top companies adopting AI, but that doesn't mean they're seeing the benefits
The biggest AI investors are still struggling to deliver real ROI from artificial intelligence – smaller companies could struggle more.
Meta’s Rosen, Former Head of Election Integrity, to Depart
Guy Rosen, Meta Platforms Inc.’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw the company’s election integrity work, is departing in the coming months.