This past week, news that AI agents were self-organizing on a social media platform called Moltbook brought forth breathless headlines about the coming robot rebellion. “A social network for AI threatens a ‘total purge’ of humanity,” cried one normally sober science website. Elon Musk declared we were witnessing “the very early stages of the singularity.”…
TikTok’s newly updated U.S. privacy policy has sparked a wave of anxiety and calls for a boycott among users after the document explicitly listed “citizenship or immigration status” among the types of sensitive information the platform may process. The panic was likely fanned in part by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recently expanded enforcement…
The Federal Trade Commission lost its antitrust case against Meta last year, but the regulator hasn’t given up on its attempts to punish the social media company for its acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. The FTC is appealing a ruling last year in which a federal judge found that the government hadn’t proven that Meta…
Meta has a lot of work to do when it comes to limiting hate speech on its platforms. Now, its Oversight Board is looking into the company’s decision to ban an account for, among other things, posting visual violent threats and harassment against a journalist — and it wants the public’s advice. In the year…
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. There’s no new date for the expansion that was originally set for early 2026. “We’ll continue to focus on fulfilling orders in the…