New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case |

4:40 AM PDT · August 7, 2026 A New Mexico Court judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay a fine of $567 million, on top…

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases |

In Brief Posted: 2:21 PM PDT · August 5, 2026 Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides…

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta…

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

Meta launched its inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT Images…

Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech

So you paid a few hundred bucks for a neat little gadget and think you’re good to go. But it turns out you’ll need to…

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving…

Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data

This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts discuss Amazon’s controversial decision to drop Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI’s Sam Altman—which reportedly did not paint him…

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

Meta is pausing a divisive employee tracking program after an internal security issue exposed potentially sensitive data collected through the initiative to other workers. “We…

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Meta left potentially sensitive information collected from employee laptops accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED and…

WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah and invests $900M in startup |

Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp’s next chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to lead the messaging app and succeed Will Cathcart, who is stepping…