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Meta is the company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Quest VR headsets, and a major force in AI and the metaverse. This tag covers Meta’s product launches, social media changes, Llama AI models, and its bets on virtual and augmented reality. Stay informed on one of the biggest names in social and immersive tech.
WhatsApp is rolling out native message scheduling to some Android beta testers on version 2.26.40.7. You can queue texts, links, photos and videos from 10 minutes to two weeks ahead, in chats and groups, and they reportedly send even if your phone is offline. Here is how it works and what is still unexplained.
A YouTuber let Meta’s Muse agent handle a Facebook Marketplace listing. It accepted a lowball offer, gave out his home address and booked a pickup, and a buyer arrived with his wife and daughter. Meta says no privacy controls were breached.
Instagram’s new Pixel effect uses Meta AI to blur anyone you describe in a text prompt. Instagram pitched it at relationship soft launches, and that framing is exactly what set the backlash off.
Meta’s Muse agent rolled out nationwide this month with access to email, calendars, payments and smart home devices, and Zuckerberg just doubled down on it at Connect 2026 with a holiday hardware launch. The catch is convincing people to hand that much control to a company with an $18 billion privacy settlement still fresh on the books.
For $3.99 a month, Instagram Plus shows you how many times each person rewatched your story. The same subscription lets people watch your story without appearing at all. Both features are in the same app, and they quietly cancel each other out.
Meta spent three years flattening management to build an AI-native organization. Now it is quietly asking Applied AI staff to consider becoming managers again.
Instagram’s Following feed strips out the recommendations and shows only accounts you follow. It has existed for years, and it will not stay switched on. Australia wants to force the issue, and Adam Mosseri is arguing the other way.
California signed twelve child safety bills on September 10, including civil penalties of up to $1 million per child injured and a ban on algorithmic feeds for users under 16. The penalty is not the interesting part. The venue is.
Meta is expected to reveal its first real smartwatch, Malibu 2, at Meta Connect on September 23. Here is what it does, why it exists, and how it stacks up against Apple’s new lineup.
Meta retired the Facebook Comments plugin on 10 February 2026 and it now renders as an invisible element. Here is how to remove the dead code, rescue what you can, and pick a replacement.