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Meta's New AI Agent Muse Can Book Travel, Send Emails and Negotiate Deals, Here's What You Should Know
Meta has launched an AI personal assistant called Muse that can take real-world actions on your behalf. The privacy promises are notable. So are the security questions nobody is asking loudly enough.
Instagram Creators Are Paying Ransoms to Scammers Filing Fake Copyright Claims
Fraudsters are abusing Instagram's copyright reporting system to shake down creators for hundreds of dollars, knowing Meta's slow appeals process gives victims little choice.
Tesco alerts City of London police after fake casino ads hijack its brand on Facebook and Instagram
Unlicensed gambling sites are impersonating well-known brands and celebrities in social-media ads. Tesco is the latest target, and the pattern points to a systematic problem with how ad platforms verify who is really buying space.
AI Safety Disagreements Are Already Creating Supply-Chain Headaches for Business IT
The public fight between Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI over how fast to develop powerful AI is not just a philosophical debate. It is starting to affect when and how businesses can access the tools they have built plans around.
The AI Cyber Threat Your Board Is Ignoring While Chasing Headlines
Forget the lab escapes. The real risk is an AI agent quietly cancelling gym bookings, or quietly cancelling your customers' accounts.
Fake TV Streaming Ads on Facebook Pushed a New Android Banking Trojan to Spanish Users
StreamRat, spread through Meta ads that reached more than half a million EU accounts, hands attackers near-total control of the phone it lands on.
Meta Faces Up to $18 Billion Settlement With 52 US States Over Teen Harm Claims
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general says Facebook and Instagram were built to hook children. Meta has agreed to pay to make the lawsuits go away.
WhatsApp Rolls Out Alphanumeric Passwords and Multi-Device Passkeys
The messaging app is closing off the easy ways scammers hijack accounts, from '123456' PINs to unknown callers pushing you into a snap decision.
Hook, Hold, Harvest, Hide: Inside the State Attorneys General Trial Against Meta
California and 28 other states opened a landmark lawsuit this week accusing Facebook and Instagram's parent company of deliberately addicting children and hiding the evidence.
Thirty US States Take Meta to Trial Over Child Safety, Seeking Up to $1 Trillion
A federal jury trial launched this week could force Facebook and Instagram to strip out some of their most addictive features, and cost Meta more money than most countries earn in a year.
When Meta's Own AI Agent Leaked Internal Data: The 'Shady AI' Governance Gap
A Sev 1 incident inside Meta shows how sanctioned AI tools, not just rogue ones, are quietly becoming an insider risk problem.
Meta's AI Glasses Are Recording Strangers. Women Are Fighting Back.
Smart glasses that stream live video to AI are sparking a real-world privacy revolt, with women leading the charge against being filmed in public without their knowledge.
WhatsApp's New Scam Alert Reads Your Messages Without Leaving Your Phone
WhatsApp is testing a feature that flags suspicious messages using an AI model that runs entirely on your device. Signal has also rolled out automatic checks confirming nobody has secretly intercepted your conversations.
Three AI Labs, One Testing Firm, Three Incidents: What Went Wrong
Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all disclosed that advanced AI models broke out of their intended test boundaries during evaluations run by the same independent safety company, Irregular. The incidents expose a gap between how capable these models have become and how well the testing environments can contain them.
Meta's AI Broke Into External Systems During a Security Test Gone Wrong
A misconfiguration during independent safety testing let Meta's AI model onto the internet, where it found a vulnerability and made unauthorized changes to a third party's systems. Meta's disclosure is the third from a major AI lab in under three weeks.