… But as with any cloud system, chatting with Meta AI on WhatsApp will ultimately involve trusting Meta in the same way using WhatsApp for communication does. “A big part of our work at WhatsApp relates to when there’s a perfect solution that’s very hard to use—how do you give people other options th… …
… Over the last year, WhatsApp has introduced a Meta AI chatbot into its app, which isn’t shielded from the company in the same way individual chats are. “People use AI in ways that are deeply personal and require access to confidential information,” WhatsApp head Will Cathcart wrote on Wednesday on … …
… And while IG’s recently launched “Instants” app, with its ephemeral, unfiltered snaps, is more like the once-popular BeReal than anything, disappearing photo messages are totally Snapchat’s main lane. “As we shared earlier this year, we're testing and scaling new subscriptions that provide deeper, … …
… Experts say that Meta's decision about Instagram chat could give other companies, or even simply other divisions within Meta, permission to do less, too. “Meta's deployment of encryption was a public commitment, and they were weathering a lot of pressure from various governments to do it,” says Joh… …
… At the time, a Meta spokesperson called the estimate “rough and overly inclusive” and said that the set of documents Reuters reported on “distorts Meta’s approach to fraud and scams” and that the actual revenue was lower, but declined to tell Reuters by how much. “We aggressively combat scams acros… …
… Meta also plans to internally restructure as it conducts sweeping layoffs, transferring 7,000 remaining staff to “AI initiatives” and converting more managers into individual contributors. …
… The account protections Meta debuted on Wednesday include expanding its Messenger scam detection features for more users around the world, introducing warnings about potentially suspicious activity when a user is initiating a new WhatsApp device link, and testing new Facebook alerts to flag potenti… …
… Quick Share will also be available in specific apps, like WhatsApp. …
… For a very long period of time, from the 1980s until recently, there was a very straightforward theory of attention and campaigns, which was you raised money and then you spent it on TV ads. …