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05 Sep 2025
Facebook

Remember Facebook's Poke? It's back with Snap-style streaks

Facebook has revived its classic "Poke" feature, a digital nudge that was once the hallmark of the platform.

05 Sep 2025
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta… and it's not who you think

Mark Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy attorney from Indiana, is suing Meta over repeated confusion with CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

04 Sep 2025
Delhi

Uber turns driver partners in India into AI data-labeling workforce

Uber is turning its 1.4 million driver partners in India into a workforce for its latest venture: AI data labeling.

04 Sep 2025
OpenAI

Switzerland releases open-source AI model trained only on public data

Switzerland has launched an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model called 'Apertus.'

04 Sep 2025
Android

After 15 years, Instagram launches iPad app: Check features

Instagram has launched a dedicated app for Apple's iPad, 15 years after the tablet's debut.

03 Sep 2025
Technology

Why this millionaire Meta engineer wants to become a teacher

A Meta engineer, who has been in the tech industry for two decades and has a net worth of $7 million, is considering leaving his job at the company.

03 Sep 2025
Apple

Talent exodus: Apple's lead robotics AI researcher has joined Meta 

Apple's lead artificial intelligence (AI) researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, has left the company to join Meta. The move is part of a larger trend of talent departures from Apple.

03 Sep 2025
Instagram

You could soon watch Instagram Reels while using other apps

Instagram is testing a new Picture-in-Picture (PiP) feature for its Reels, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch.

01 Sep 2025
Amazon

Big Tech added 30,000 jobs in India despite trade tensions

Major US tech firms, including Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google, have hired over 30,000 employees in India in the last one year.

01 Sep 2025
WhatsApp

WhatsApp: You can soon share statuses only with close friends

WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will let users share their status updates with a select group of close friends.

31 Aug 2025
Scarlett Johansson

Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor, Scarlett without consent: Report

Meta has used the names and likenesses of several celebrities, including Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Taylor Swift and Scarlett Johansson, to create flirty social media chatbots without their consent.

30 Aug 2025
Apple

WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' flaw that targeted Apple users

WhatsApp has fixed a critical security flaw in its iOS and Mac apps, which was being exploited in a spyware campaign.

30 Aug 2025
Technology

Meta's AI chatbots won't discuss sensitive topics with teens anymore

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is revamping its AI chatbot training protocols to prioritize the safety of teenagers.

30 Aug 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

Meta's $14.3B deal with Scale AI showing signs of strain

Meta's $14.3 billion investment in data vendor Scale AI and the subsequent appointment of CEO Alexandr Wang to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) is already showing cracks.

30 Aug 2025
Google

Meta might use OpenAI, Google's AI models in its apps

Meta Platforms is considering collaborations with industry rivals Google and OpenAI to boost the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities of its apps.

29 Aug 2025
Google

Reliance announces new AI company with Google, Meta as partners

At the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Annual General Meeting (AGM), Mukesh Ambani announced the launch of Reliance Intelligence, a new subsidiary dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI).

29 Aug 2025
Amazon

Australian bank orders staff: Work in-office or face pay cuts

ANZ Group, one of Australia's largest banks, has clarified its policy regarding office attendance.

28 Aug 2025
China

TikTok owner ByteDance's valuation tops $330B via employee share buyback

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is gearing up for a new employee share buyback. The move would value the Chinese tech giant at over $330 billion.

28 Aug 2025
WhatsApp

WhatsApp's new AI feature helps rephrase and adjust message tone

WhatsApp has introduced a new AI-powered feature called 'Writing Help.'

Bad grammar can make AI ignore safety measures, warns study

A recent study by security experts from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 has revealed that a single poorly-structured, run-on sentence can trick large language model (LLM) chatbots into ignoring their safety protocols.

27 Aug 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

Meta's Superintelligence AI lab is losing researchers to OpenAI

Just two months after its launch, Meta's new Superintelligence lab is already witnessing a major exodus.

27 Aug 2025
California

Meta's new PAC to back candidates favoring lenient AI regulation

Meta, the tech giant owned by Mark Zuckerberg, is planning to launch a super PAC (Political Action Committee) to back candidates in California who favor a lenient approach toward artificial intelligence (AI) regulation.

27 Aug 2025
ChatGPT

Google's 'banana' image model enhances Gemini AI's editing capabilities

Google has updated its Gemini chatbot with a new artificial intelligence (AI) image model, dubbed Gemini 2.5 Flash Image.

26 Aug 2025
Google

Why AI companies have been warned by US Attorneys General

A group of 44 US Attorneys General has issued a stern warning to the CEOs of leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies.

26 Aug 2025
China

India's digital ad market to hit $19B by 2029: Bain

India's digital advertising sector is set for a major boom in the next five years, according to a report by Bain & Company.

26 Aug 2025
Amazon

NVIDIA's new 'robot brain' brings real-time AI reasoning

NVIDIA has unveiled its latest innovation in robotics, the Jetson Thor. This supercomputer is designed for real-time AI computation on humanoid robots and smart machines.

26 Aug 2025
Amazon

Trump threatens tariffs, chip restrictions on countries imposing digital taxes

US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose "substantial" new tariffs and restrict exports of US chips to countries that do not remove their digital taxes and related regulations.

23 Aug 2025
Bollywood

Sushant Singh Rajput's family opposes 'insensitive' AI tool mimicking actor

Fans of late Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput have been "interacting" with an artificial intelligence (AI) tool on Instagram designed to imitate his voice and conversational style.

23 Aug 2025
Technology

What we know about Meta's 1st smart glasses with display

Meta is gearing up to launch its first consumer-ready smart glasses, Hypernova, at the Connect conference next month.

23 Aug 2025
Facebook

Meta could soon flood your feed with Midjourney AI images

Meta, the tech giant led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has announced a partnership with Midjourney, an AI start-up.

23 Aug 2025
Apple

Meta signs $10B cloud computing deal with Google

Meta has signed a six-year cloud computing contract with Google, worth over $10 billion.

22 Aug 2025
Apple

Apple loses another AI executive to Meta, 6th in row

Apple has lost another top artificial intelligence (AI) executive, Frank Chu, to Meta Platforms, according to Bloomberg.

Why Meta has paused hiring for its AI division

Meta has paused hiring for its artificial intelligence (AI) division after offering pay packages with a value of up to $100 million to top talent, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

20 Aug 2025
Facebook

Meta's AI can now dub your Instagram reels

Meta has announced the global rollout of an AI-powered voice translation feature for Facebook and Instagram users.

20 Aug 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

Meta reorganizes AI group into 4 teams to pursue 'Superintelligence'

Meta Platforms Inc has announced the restructuring of its artificial intelligence (AI) group into four separate teams.

19 Aug 2025
Brazil

Meta under scrutiny as Brazil flags sexually explicit AI bots

Brazil's government has demanded that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, remove its generative artificial intelligence (AI) bots that can imitate children and engage in sexually explicit conversations.

19 Aug 2025
Paytm

Can WhatsApp AI secretly read your chats? Here's the truth

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has raised concerns over WhatsApp's latest update, claiming it allows artificial intelligence (AI) to access user chats.

18 Aug 2025
Facebook

Why Meta's AI chatbots are now under fire

Meta, the tech giant led by Mark Zuckerberg, is facing backlash over its sexualized AI chatbots.

18 Aug 2025
Android

Meta's first smart glasses with built-in display could cost $800

Meta is reportedly gearing up to launch its next-generation smart glasses, codenamed "Hypernova," later this year.

16 Aug 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

Meta to split Superintelligence Labs into 4 teams

Meta is preparing for its fourth major overhaul of artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives in the last six months, The Information reported.

15 Aug 2025
Technology

Meta's AI guidelines allowed chatbots to flirt with minor

Meta's internal guidelines have been found to permit its AI chatbots to engage in romantic conversations with minors, Reuters reported.

14 Aug 2025
Facebook

Facebook down for thousands of users globally

Facebook is currently facing a major outage, affecting thousands of users globally.

13 Aug 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

Why Mark Zuckerberg's neighbors in California are miffed

For over a decade, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been quietly transforming the Crescent Park neighborhood in Palo Alto, California.

13 Aug 2025
Threads

Threads now has over 400M active users every month

Meta's microblogging platform, Threads, has crossed the milestone of 400 million monthly active users (MAUs) in just two years.

13 Aug 2025
Microsoft

Microsoft's secret spreadsheet reveals AI talent it's targeting from Meta

Microsoft is on a talent acquisition spree, especially targeting Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) workforce.

12 Aug 2025
GitHub

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns, plans return to start-up life

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced he will step down by the end of 2025, choosing to return to his entrepreneurial roots to launch a start-up.

11 Aug 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

PhDs, elite lab experience: How Zuckerberg recruits for Superintelligence program

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, is on a mission to build an artificial intelligence (AI) Superintelligence lab.

Meta acquires yet another AI audio start-up

Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a start-up that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and replicate emotions in audio.

07 Aug 2025
Lawsuits

Meta found guilty of illegally harvesting women's period data

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been found guilty of illegally harvesting sensitive information about women's menstrual cycles and fertility through the popular Flo period-tracking app.

06 Aug 2025
OpenAI

WhatsApp bans over 6.8M accounts in latest crackdown on scams

WhatsApp has removed over 6.8 million accounts associated with global scam operations in the first half of 2025, Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, has announced.

02 Aug 2025
Amazon

Tech giants pour $155B into AI, outspending US welfare budget

In a major development, US tech giants have spent more on artificial intelligence (AI) than the federal government has spent on education, training, employment, and social services in 2025.

02 Aug 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

Meta selling $2B in data center assets for AI funding

Meta Platforms is looking for external partners to share the financial burden of its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

02 Aug 2025
Instagram

You now need minimum 1,000 followers to use Instagram Live

Instagram is raising the bar for its live-streaming feature. The social media platform now requires users to have a public account with at least 1,000 followers to access this feature.

31 Jul 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

Meta is close to achieving 'Superintelligence': Mark Zuckerberg

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company is getting closer to achieving "superintelligence."

31 Jul 2025
Ohio

Meta to spend $72B on AI infrastructure this year

Meta, the tech giant led by Mark Zuckerberg, has announced its plan to invest heavily in artificial intelligence (AI).

30 Jul 2025
Google

Google signing EU's AI code: What it means for users

Google has announced its intention to sign the European Union's (EU) general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) code of practice.

Why Mira Murati's start-up refused to join Meta's AI team

Meta, the tech giant led by Mark Zuckerberg, has been on a mission to build its Superintelligence unit.

30 Jul 2025
WhatsApp

Why Meta is facing an antitrust probe in Italy

Italy's competition authority has launched an investigation into Meta Platforms over the alleged abuse of its dominant market position.

30 Jul 2025
Mark Zuckerberg

You can now use AI during job interviews at Meta

Meta, the tech giant owned by Mark Zuckerberg, is changing its interview process for coding jobs.

30 Jul 2025
Apple

Apple loses fourth AI expert to Meta within a month

Apple has suffered another blow to its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions, with the departure of Bowen Zhang, a key multimodal AI researcher.

Why Google's representatives deposed before ED today

Representatives from tech giant Google appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today.

28 Jul 2025
Intel

80,000+ tech layoffs in 2025—How much is AI to blame?

Several global technology companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Microsoft, Intel, Meta, and Panasonic, are laying off thousands of employees this year.

26 Jul 2025
Google

Why Meta is banning political ads in EU from October

Meta Platforms has announced that it will stop political, electoral, and social issue advertising on its platforms in the European Union (EU) from early October.

26 Jul 2025
ChatGPT

Meet Shengjia Zhao, Meta's chief scientist of Superintelligence AI group

Meta Platforms has hired Shengjia Zhao, an ex-OpenAI researcher and co-author of the original ChatGPT paper, as the Chief Scientist of the new Superintelligence AI group.

24 Jul 2025
GitHub

GitHub Spark lets you build apps just by chatting 

GitHub has unveiled a new tool called Spark, which aims to simplify app development by letting users describe their ideas in plain English.

24 Jul 2025
Technology

Meta's new wristband lets you control your computer with gestures

Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram, has unveiled a prototype wristband that can control computers with hand gestures.

23 Jul 2025
Threads

Threads will now show you how your posts are performing

Meta has launched an advanced analytics dashboard on Threads, its microblogging platform.

23 Jul 2025
Technology

Meta introduces new safety measures for child-centric accounts on Instagram

Meta has announced new safety measures for Instagram accounts that are primarily focused on children.

23 Jul 2025
Amazon

Why Amazon is shutting down its AI lab in China

Amazon is closing its artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Shanghai, The Financial Times has reported.

Meta's Superintelligence team has 44 members—only two of Indian origin

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has formed a new Superintelligence team.

20 Jul 2025
Telegram

Russia may ban WhatsApp, Telegram, and other foreign apps

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a crackdown on foreign messaging apps and software.

Why ED has summoned Google, Meta on July 21

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Google and Meta as part of its investigation into alleged money laundering, linked to illegal betting apps.

19 Jul 2025
Europe

Why Meta refused to sign EU's AI code of practice

Meta has refused to sign the European Union's (EU) code of practice for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act.