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Meta plans paid features on Instagram and Facebook, including hidden story views

Meta said it will test new paid subscription options on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in coming months, alongside free use, offering features such as anonymous story viewing, advanced audience management tools and new AI capabilities

Daniela Ginzburg | 01.28.26

AI pioneer warns China could outpace the West in the race for true intelligence

Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says Silicon Valley chasing an illusion with giant language models while innovative Chinese firms quietly build smarter, more efficient systems that could reshape the global tech balance

Raphael Kahan | 01.27.26

'Silicon cathedrals': How AI is reshaping landscapes and draining water

Built to feed AI’s endless appetite, massive data centers now consume nuclear-scale power, drain city-sized water supplies and create noise and traffic; this is the tech industry’s next big challenge

Israel Wullman | 01.09.26

Foreign-run social media ‘sleeper cells’ trying to sway upcoming elections, watchdog warns

FakeReporter warns that AI-powered influence networks run by hostile states are infiltrating Israeli politics through seemingly authentic accounts, after Iranian-run fan group for lawmaker stayed online despite repeated alerts to Meta, cyber officials

Raphael Kahan | 12.04.25

Google shines as Meta and Microsoft stumble in latest earnings round

Alphabet soared on strong cloud and ad revenue, while Meta and Microsoft fell after higher spending and one-time charges; Apple and Amazon now in focus, as Big Tech’s weight steers Wall Street’s next move

Dennis Bihler | 10.30.25

WhatsApp’s new upcoming feature lets anyone find you without your phone number

Messaging app rolls out a new feature allowing users to find and message others by username instead of phone number; update, currently in beta for Android, maintains end-to-end encryption and adds optional safety controls

Daniela Ginzburg | 09.01.25

WhatsApp launches AI-powered writing assistant

New AI tool offers tone, style and clarity suggestions within WhatsApp chats, using encrypted processing to preserve user privacy

Daniela Ginzburg | 08.28.25

The future is already on my face: Why Meta's Ray-Ban glasses are changing everything

Opinion: Meta's Ray-Ban collaboration delivers the future of wearable computing—imperfect battery life and all; after months of daily use, these smart glasses prove we're closer to ambient technology than we think

Hillel Fuld | 08.25.25

עשרות מסכים של סמארטפונים שמריצים הודעות

Inside human-like bot farms driving political echo chambers worldwide

Rare report reveals sophisticated bot farms using networks of real smartphones to automate social media activity, blurring the line between advertising and political manipulation

Raphael Kahan | 08.24.25

AI bubble fears grow as Silicon Valley cracks show

MIT warns 95% of AI investments bring no returns, as OpenAI faces backlash over GPT-5 and Meta cuts AI unit staff; once hailed as revolutionary, artificial intelligence is now drawing comparisons to the dot-com bubble amid rising doubts and investor jitters

Daniela Ginzburg | 08.21.25

'Facebook and Instagram violated the privacy of the victims': Meta sued for October 7 footage

Victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre and their families are suing Meta for over $1 billion, alleging the tech giant enabled livestreamed terror, exposed users to graphic violence, and continues to profit from footage of murder, trauma and captivity

Lior El-Hai, Roy Rubinstein | 08.04.25

AI-powered scam Hits Israeli investors, deepfakes and fake stocks fuel major losses

Israeli investors lost hundreds of thousands in a deepfake-fueled stock scam that used fake ads, impersonated public figures and exploited Meta’s ad tools to build trust, inflate a real NASDAQ stockb and crash it in a coordinated digital fraud campaign

Raphael Kahan | 07.07.25

מנכ"ל מטא, מארק צוקרברג, בעת הצגת Meta AI

Zuckerberg accelerates push for general AI with massive $15 billion investment

Facing intense competition from Google, OpenAI and Microsoft, Meta invests $15 billion in Scale AI to strengthen its position in race for artificial general intelligence; deal also brings Scale CEO Alexander Wang into Meta’s core leadership team

Israel Wullman | 06.12.25

US court orders NSO group to pay $168 million in damages to Meta

Lawsuit, filed in 2019, accuses Israeli cybersecurity firm of unlawfully accessing WhatsApp's servers and continuing its cyber espionage activities even after the commencement of legal proceedings

Daniel Edelson, New York | 05.07.25

מפגין פרו-פלסטיני בניו יורק אוחז שלט הקורא להתנגדות אלימה

This is what Holocaust denial looks like in 2025

New report reveals a chilling phenomenon of October 7 massacre denial on social media that is disturbingly reminiscent of traditional Holocaust denial methods; Despite stated policies, social media platforms’ algorithms not only fail to prevent the phenomenon – they sometimes even promote it

Raphael Kahan | 04.24.25

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