in this episode of mysterious valleyOur hosts look at Threads as it recently hit 500 million monthly users, putting it on par with X, but is it really competing or just filling a different niche? Meanwhile, reviews have been coming in for the Trump-branded T1 phone in recent weeks as it finally started shipping after
On May 31, Sarah Wynn-Williams took to the stage as a panelist at the prestigious Hay Festival, alongside law professor Tim Wu and journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Before she said a word, she was greeted with applause. She never said a word, sitting silently as the other two panelists discussed the evils of Big Tech. Yet
The EU announced on Friday that Meta must review the addictive design features of Facebook and Instagram or face a fine. The tech giant breaches the Digital Services Act by targeting features such as infinite scrolling, autoplay, push notifications and highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said. The Commission says these features feed the
Meta has abruptly removed a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to create fake images from user content on Instagram. The feature was part of a broad rollout of Muse Image, a new AI imaging tool that Meta launched Tuesday as part of Meta AI, the company’s chatbot. It
Meta has removed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI. The feature, which launched earlier this week along with a batch of other AI tools, “failed” and is no longer available, according to the company. Earlier this week, Meta announced Muse Image, a new AI image generator
Meta publicly released a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agent coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April, can engage in multi-step reasoning and handle complex processes, manage digital workflows, and