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In a post on the website for his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, Moxie Marlinspike says he’s working to “integrate Confer’s privacy technology so that it underpins Meta AI.”

The Tardis-blue Meta Lab NYC store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan is no longer a pop-up shop. Meta announced on Wednesday that the skateboarding-themed glasses store is now a “permanent flagship location,” where it will continue selling its AI smart glasses and Meta Quest headsets.

Meta announced last month it would be shifting its strategy to go “all-in on mobile” for Horizon Worlds, and today, the company shared exactly when the VR version of the app would be going away.

Just days after Meta acquired the “social” network for AI agents, the platform has updated its terms of service, stating that users must be 13 years of age or older to use the site and are “solely responsible” for actions taken by their AI agents, whether they “act autonomously or otherwise, and irrespective of whether such actions or omissions were intended.”

The company postponed its next AI model, codenamed Avocado, from this month until at least May, the NYT reports. Performance apparently falls short of rivals like Google.

The newly-launched Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) 300 chip is designed to train ranking and recommendations systems across Instagram and Facebook. And while the upcoming MTIA 400, 450, and 500 will be “capable of handling all workloads,” Meta says it will mainly use them for generative AI inference “in the near future and into 2027.”

Mark Zuckerberg famously built Facebook, and the rest of Meta, on a “move fast and break things” philosophy, but one commenter has suggested that Grammarly’s new sloppelgangers could suggest a new approach for the industry.

The move is an effort to appease antitrust regulators from the European Commission, Reuters reports. Previously, competitors’ chatbots were being blocked on WhatsApp, but now Meta says that “for a fee” it will “support general purpose AI chatbots using ​the WhatsApp Business API in Europe” for the next 12 months.

At around 5:30PM ET, Downdetector showed a recent peak of more than 11,000 user reports of problems, but reports of issues have fallen dramatically. At 5:48PM ET, NetBlocks said the platform was experiencing “international outages.” A Meta status page was showing “high disruptions” for Facebook Ads Manager, including ads creation and delivery, but that has been “resolved.”

It’s being rolled out to testers in the US to rival similar offerings found in ChatGPT and Gemini, according to Bloomberg.

If you don’t already own the game, which is still arguably one of the best VR games ever, you’ll be able to play it as part of the $7.99 per month subscription starting this month, Meta says.

As part of a test on Threads, when you type “DM me” or “message me” in a post or reply, those words will turn into a link that people can tap to start a DM conversation.

After launching on Amazon Fire TV in December, Instagram for TV is expanding to Google TV devices in the US starting Tuesday, as Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced in a post on Threads. The feature lets users view reels on their TV, arranged into “channels” for different topics and themes.

After buying millions of Nvidia’s AI chips last week, Meta has now also signed a multi-year agreement to buy six gigawatts worth of AMD processors for AI data centers. The deal could see Meta owning 10 percent of AMD’s stock, and follows a similar agreement between AMD and OpenAI.

Look, it’s never nice to laugh at someone’s misfortune. But when a Meta AI safety researcher puts on a public demonstration of AI safety risks using their personal email as collateral, I think we should all take a moment to enjoy it.

It’s rolling out Group Message History, which lets group chat admins (and members, depending on permissions) share the most recent messages with new members of a chat. That should make it easier to catch people up without blasting old messages back to the whole group.

Plaintiff attorney Rachel Lanier told Judge Carolyn Kuhl this morning that after she’d admonished against using smart glasses in the courthouse, they learned that one person was still wearing them in the hallway where jurors were present. After alerting Meta’s counsel, Lanier said they were told the glasses weren’t recording.

Amid reports that Meta is preparing to release a smartwatch later this year, one Verge commenter has already figured out what the social media giant is going to do with all that new data.