After a long week at work, the perfect Saturday for some people involves grabbing coffee with friends and walking around, spending the hard-earned money they toiled all week to earn. Shopping can be a form of therapy—it’s something even Cher Horowitz understood in Clueless. But Silicon Valley has a different idea: Shopping is a chore
This seems to be the year of AI agents, and Meta is diving into the game. The company on Tuesday announced a new agent program called Muse, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes as a “personal agent” that understands your habits and goals. It’s available now in the US. Introducing Muse, the personal agent that understands
The fallout of an $18 billion lawsuit against Meta, announced on Wednesday, is already here. A new announcement from Meta is designed to meet the terms of the settled lawsuit while helping to prevent teen social media addiction. In its post, Meta outlined a series of changes to both Instagram and Facebook that will apply
Meta has agreed to pay up to US$17 billion over 10 years to settle claims brought by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general. The states argued that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to hook children into using its apps, misled the public about the harm and improperly collected data from children under
Under a legal settlement, teenagers in the United States will have time limits put on their use of certain social-media platforms. Credit: Anna Barclay/Getty Social-media giant Meta has agreed to pay up to US$18 billion to US states and make changes to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, settling a legal case about whether its technology
For Elizabeth Cardner, a mother of two girls in Houston, Texas, Meta’s new limits on how teenagers can use its platforms are a welcome sign that more people are aware of social media’s potential dangers. But, she tells the BBC, they probably won’t help much in the long-term. “It will save a few arguments at
