Meta starts testing a premium subscription on Instagram
Among the premium features on Instagram is the ability to view a Story without the poster seeing that you viewed it and the option to see how many people have rewatched your Story.
Bluesky’s new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance
More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base.
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE
While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.
OpenAI shuts down Sora while Meta gets shut out in court
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but…
Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp
Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.
WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations
The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching a way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more.
Jury finds Meta and Google negligent in landmark social media addiction trial
The jury says Meta and YouTube will have to pay $3 million in damages.
Meta is cutting several hundred jobs
The cuts will impact employees in the U.S. and other international markets.
Reddit takes on the bots with new ‘human verification’ requirements for fishy behavior
Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.