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- 3d ago
Meta launches Seller app to professionalize Facebook Marketplace, adds free user verification
The separate app gives frequent sellers AI-powered listing tools, a unified inbox, and performance insights, while Meta also launches Facebook Verified for user authenticity.
- Jul 18
Meta in talks to lease $10 billion in AI compute to Anthropic over two years
The social media giant is planning a cloud business to monetise excess capacity, while Anthropic races to secure chips for its Claude models.
- Jul 10
Meta kills Instagram AI image feature after four-day backlash over privacy and consent
The Muse Image tool, which let users generate AI deepfakes from any public Instagram account without permission, was disabled late Friday after criticism from SAG-AFTRA, CAA, and thousands of users.
- Jul 10
Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1, a paid AI coding model, as it races to catch OpenAI and Anthropic
Meta on Thursday released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for coding and agentic tasks, marking the company's first paid API offering and a bid to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Jul 8
Meta launches Muse Image AI generator, automatically opts in public Instagram profiles for remixing
Meta's new AI image generator, Muse Image, automatically includes public Instagram profiles in its training data, allowing anyone to generate images using a user's likeness without explicit consent.
- Jun 29
WhatsApp opens username reservations for its 3 billion users, letting them chat without sharing a phone number
WhatsApp began accepting username reservations on Monday, a first step toward letting its 3 billion users connect without sharing their phone numbers. The long-requested privacy feature is expected to roll out gradually in the coming months.
- Jun 12
Meta's Facebook and Instagram go offline in major disruption across Europe and the US, services restored by late afternoon
Thousands of users in the United States and Europe were unable to access Facebook and Instagram on Friday afternoon. Meta said it was working on a fix, and the services were back online by late in the day.
- May 28
Meta Launches Paid 'Plus' Subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Globally
Meta has officially begun the global rollout of paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, marking a major shift in its business model to diversify revenue beyond advertising.
