Facebook adds new AI features, animated profile photos, and backgrounds for text posts
Facebook’s new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgrounds to text posts.
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Facebook can animate your profile pic with AI
Facebook is rolling out new AI features that let you animate your profile picture and restyle Stories and Memories. You’ll also be able to add animated backgrounds to text posts to make them pop in the feed. With the animated profile pictures, you’ll be able to give a still photo motion with some preset types […]
New Mexico goes to trial to accuse Meta of facilitating child predators
At the center of a consequential case about social media liability is a key question: did Meta lie or mislead the public about the safety of its platform, while knowing something very different? The state of New Mexico opened its case Monday arguing that public statements by Meta’s top executives regularly contradicted its own internal […]
Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize?
In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It’s a lot of money!
Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after research got it in trouble
One day after The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster story about Meta’s own dismal findings about teen girls’ mental health on Instagram, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wondered whether Meta should change how it studies its platforms’ potential harms. “Recent events have made me consider whether we should change our approach to research and analytics around […]
Why is the Trump administration really appealing its Meta loss?
After a federal judge ruled that Meta was not an illegal monopolist in a blow against the Federal Trade Commission, the agency issued what was in part a typical statement of disappointment. Another part of the statement was anything but: a political attack on the judge himself. “The deck was always stacked against us with […]
Senators ask Meta why it waited so long to make teen accounts private by default
A group of senators has written a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking why his company delayed launching key protections for users under 18. The letter, signed by Brian Schatz (D-HI), Katie Britt (R-AL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), James Lankford (R-OK), and Christopher Coons (D-DE), cites court documents unsealed late last year that revealed claims […]
India’s Supreme Court to WhatsApp: ‘You cannot play with the right to privacy’
India’s top court is investigating WhatsApp’s data-sharing model, monopoly power, and user consent.
Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better
The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.