AI-generated user accounts are the new normal for Instagram and Facebook parent, Meta. Here's how AI influencers and artificial accounts are evolving.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.

Despite nudify apps being against Facebook and Instagram policy, one app company keeps advertising on Meta's platforms.

Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta), that will be responsible for building fundamental AI technologies and tools for the company.

With Meta's new content moderation policies, the company is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women — even as it plans to move forward with AI "characters" that mimic them. In a new editorial,

You’ll find Meta AI front and center in Meta’s apps: In the Facebook Messenger app, for example, tap Chats and you’ll see a Meta AI input box right at the top, above your real life friends and family members. Tap inside that box, and you can start chatting about whatever topic you like. You can also tap Meta AI on the tab bar at the bottom.

The Core AI group, run by Jay Parikh, will focus on AI, and AI agents in particular. Satya Nadella sees this technology as transforming applications.

Meta Platforms is deleting AI-powered profiles introduced on Facebook and Instagram in 2023, reports say. This decision follows a social media backlash triggered by a Meta executive's interview that brought renewed attention to these AI profiles. Stocks rise, but weekly losses loom as Wall Street looks likely to skip 'Santa Claus' rally

An Instagram user was scrolling through his feed only to stumble upon AI-generated photos of himself shared by Meta AI. But there’s a way to turn off this feature.

Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. "I've never been interested in joining a board of directors until I got the offer to join Meta's board. Iam a huge believer that social media and AI are the future," said White.

Trading at 24 times forward earnings, Meta is cheaper than many of its big tech counterparts despite growing at a faster pace. Stocks in the Nasdaq-100 average a forward P/E of 26.4. Given its reasonable valuation and its potential for above-average growth, I wouldn't be surprised if Meta has another strong year in 2025.

What Fresh on the heels of Meta-formerly-Facebook issuing a sweeping — and in many ways, both inexplicable and all-around awful — series of changes to its "hateful conduct" standards allowing for a much-expanded array of hateful speech,