Mark Zuckerberg is developing a personal AI agent designed to take over key aspects of managing Meta, signaling a shift toward a more automated, AI-driven leadership model as the company accelerates its internal transformation.

Meta is offering top creators guaranteed pay and boosted reach to post Reels on Facebook. The programme rewards original content and gives access to monetisation tools.

Meta Platforms is abandoning virtual reality support for its flagship Horizon Worlds platform, pivoting to mobile just five years after betting its future on the metaverse — as mounting losses force a strategic reset.

Meta’s push to automate child safety enforcement with artificial intelligence is backfiring, according to U.S. law enforcement officials who say the company’s AI systems are overwhelming investigators with low-quality and often unusable reports.

Four years after its high-profile Libra failure, Meta is preparing a second attempt at stablecoin-powered payments — this time with a quieter, partner-led strategy designed to avoid another regulatory meltdown.

Russia is trying to block its people from accessing WhatsApp, the Meta-owned messaging platform, in what the company says is an effort to push users toward the state-backed app Max. The restriction affects tens of millions of Russians who rely on the platform for private communication.

TikTok settled a lawsuit with a 19-year-old who claimed the app caused addiction and mental health issues, just hours before her trial was set to start in Los Angeles. Snap also settled earlier, while cases against Meta and YouTube will continue.

Meta has been placed under the limelight again after a new privacy lawsuit accuses the tech giant of secretly retaining access to WhatsApp users’ private messages, igniting fresh debate over whether the world’s most popular messaging app is safe for users at all.

Reports of a potential large-scale Instagram data leak triggered concern this week after cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes claimed that millions of user records were discovered for sale on underground forums

After burning $70 billion on virtual worlds, Meta signals a dramatic retreat from the metaverse as artificial intelligence takes over the company’s future.