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Meta is a technology company that operates social platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Horizon.
… Meta says people, not AI, made layoff decisions Meta says that people made the layoff decisions. “These claims lack merit and are not based on facts. Workforce management and organizational decisions were and are made by people, not AI,” Meta said in a statement provided to Ars today. …
… Therefore, we dismiss Meta’s and TikTok’s appeals,” judges wrote. They added in a footnote that “Meta’s emergency motion to stay trial pending resolution of this appeal is denied as moot.” Meta was the main company claiming immunity from the lawsuits. …
… The order to pay for youth mental health care is in addition to $375 million in civil penalties that a jury ordered Meta to pay earlier in the same case. New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez sued Meta in a Santa Fe County court in 2023. …
Meta today accused spyware maker NSO Group of violating a court order that barred it from targeting users of WhatsApp. “WhatsApp caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts linked to NSO, a spyware firm blacklisted by the US government,” WhatsApp owner Meta said in an announcement . …
… Meta had launched its Meta AI support assistant in March 2026 with the promise that it could “provide reliable, 24/7 support for nearly any support issue at any time.” The “minimum” architecture required to do this more safely, according to the CyberSec Guru, would include “out-of-band verification… …
… Meta has not seen the same level of success. Meta also saw a total overhaul of its AI division last year, when former Meta AI chief scientist Yann LeCun was replaced by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. …
… They said they are filing the action to “prevent WhatsApp and Meta from continuing to willfully deceive Texans by misrepresenting that their private communications were just that—private and inaccessible even to WhatsApp and Meta—when, in fact, WhatsApp and Meta have access to all WhatsApp users’ c… …
… At this stage, the EC recommended that Meta consider “disabling key addictive features such as ‘autoplay’ and ‘infinite scroll’ by default, implementing effective ‘screen time breaks,’ and adapting its recommender system to make it less engagement-oriented.” If Meta fails to make changes to comply … …
… After encouraging employees to “tokenmaxx,” Meta quietly took down its leaderboard tracking token usage and is now trying to curb use. Last week, Adam Mosseri , head of Instagram at Meta, floated the idea of capping token use per engineer at the company. …
Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company’s low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, an Amazon official said Tuesday. “They’re built, and sitting in a payload processing facility waiting for trips to orbit,” said Steve Metayer, vice pres… …
