Yann Lecun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and founding director of its Fundamental AI Research unit (FAIR), is leaving the company after 12 years. His departure follows weeks of significant layoffs affecting FAIR, the unit he created to advance artificial intelligence (AI) research.

Facebook is introducing a new content-protection tool designed to help creators safeguard their original reels across Facebook, and Instagram, according to a recent blog post by Meta.

Meta will formally incorporate "AI-driven impact" into its employee performance reviews starting in 2026, according to an internal company memo seen by Business Insider.

Meta Platforms has announced it will invest $600 billion in American infrastructure by 2028, with a focus on building "industry-leading AI data centres".

Threads, the microblogging app by Meta, has introduced a new feature called 'ghost posts' that automatically archives content 24 hours after publication.

A US court has ordered NSO Group, an Israel-based cyber intelligence firm, to cease targeting Meta Platforms' WhatsApp messaging service - a ruling that the spyware company warned could put it out of business.

Meta is monitoring employee adoption of AI tools through internal dashboards and has created a gamified system to encourage usage, according to a recent report by Business Insider.

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has recently addressed widespread speculation that social media platforms listen to private conversations to deliver targeted advertisements.

Meta has recently unveiled an update to the Meta AI app called ‘Vibes’, offering users the ability to create and share short-form AI-generated videos. 

Meta is preparing to introduce its most ambitious wearable device yet at its annual Connect conference this week, with Mark Zuckerberg expected to unveil a new pair of smart glasses equipped with a built-in digital display.

Facebook users across the world are currently unable to search for posts and photos in the platform, after what appears to be a widespread outage affecting the platform’s search function, which began earlier this week.

Instagram has officially launched a dedicated app for the iPad, responding to years of user requests for a fully optimised tablet experience. The app became available globally on Wednesday for devices running iPadOS 15.1 or later.

Apple has recently lost four AI researchers to rival technology companies, as competition for AI talent among leading tech firms continues to intensify. The employees, who were part of Apple’s AI development teams, have left to join competitors, including Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

A Reuters investigation has found that Meta created dozens of flirty social-media chatbots using the names and likenesses of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Selena Gomez without their consent.

Meta has recently partnered with Midjourney, the generative artificial intelligence startup, to license its “aesthetic technology” for use in the company’s future models and products.

Campus sat down with Hanzalah to learn how his years at BUP shaped a path to Meta.

Meta’s microblogging app Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. The figure is up from over 350 million in late April, when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg last shared user numbers.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will halt all political, electoral and social issue advertising across the European Union (EU) from early October, according to a recent report by Reuters.

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta will invest hundreds of billions to build massive AI data centres, including two named Prometheus (launching 2026) and Hyperion (scaling to 5 gigawatts). The move escalates Meta's competition with OpenAI and Google in developing advanced AI.  

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup specialising in generating human-like AI-powered voices, according to a recent report by Bloomberg.