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Following a 404 Media investigation into apps that advertised that they could generate non-consensual nude images, Apple has begun removing AI image-generation apps from its App Store.

The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses II, which Chris Niccolls described as impressive but ultimately a "luxury solution in search of a problem" in his review for PetaPixel, look to have found a problem to solve thanks to some fancy new AI technology.

In the latest move to respond to the influx of visuals created using artificial intelligence, social media app Snapchat announced it would add a watermark to such images.

Meta's semi-independent policy body The Oversight Board will investigate two instances of sexual AI images of women being shared on Facebook and Instagram.

Instagram users may have noticed a new colorful circular logo at the top of their messages interface lately. It is Meta's AI-powered chatbot.

Meta will add a "Made with AI” label to images and videos detected to be AI-generated across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads starting next month.

It's 2024. Couples with partners of different races and ethnicities should not be an issue. However, it is a problem for Meta's AI image generator, according to a new report and PetaPixel's testing.

WhatsApp is working on an AI-powered image editing tool that will allow users to edit photos within the app.

The Facebook page for Pictures of the Year International has been hacked with bizarre AI images being posted instead of photography -- as AI-generated content sweeps across Facebook.

Facebook and Instagram ran ads that featured a blurred deepfake nude image of an underage Jenna Ortega to promote an AI app.

Meta properties, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, all experienced a widespread outage this morning.

Meta's AI image generator Imagine has been accused of producing ahistorical pictures in much the same way Google Gemini did a couple of weeks ago.

Threads has started to test out one of its "most requested" features: an in-app camera.

WhatsApp may be working on a way to block users from screenshotting your profile picture.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city government filed a lawsuit against five social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube.

In what could be one of the most impactful changes to the algorithm, Instagram and Meta's answer to X, Threads, will no longer suggest political content to users who don't opt in.

More than 200 companies and organizations signed on to join the US AI Safety Insitute Consortium to advance responsible use of artificial intelligence.

TikTok and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are suing the European Union (EU) over a segment of the Digital Services Act that requires the companies to pay a fee to cover the cost of regulating them.

A week after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled during a Senate hearing on child safety, the company announced new protections for teens navigating sextortion scams.

Meta announced Tuesday it will begin labeling images detected to be AI-generated across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Meta's Reality Labs, the division responsible for its virtual reality endeavors, had its best quarter ever, but still lost more than $4 billion.

Social media has been a bit like the old Wild West; there are few regulations, and, as we are learning, the apps are fraught with potential danger. A pair of proposed California regulations attempt to protect minors, aiming to reduce the impact the platforms can have.

In a partnership with the Center for Open Science, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta revealed it will give data to researchers for a study.

New York City is taking a strong stance against social media and becomes the first city in the United States to designate it as a "public health hazard" and using imagery that compares it to smoking.

Meta announced Tuesday it will hide certain types of content from teen users on Facebook and Instagram, including content related to suicide and eating disorders.

Friday, Instagram announced a new update to its Stories feature allowing users to create their own "Add Yours" templates.

Instagram has introduced a new feature that will let users make artificial intelligence (AI) generated backgrounds for Stories.

Social media app Instagram announced Wednesday new safety tools aimed at protecting creators from unwanted interactions.

Instagram will let users share video statuses via its Notes feature.

Many teenagers in the U.S. can't tear themselves away from YouTube and TikTok, with over 15% saying they use the video-streaming apps “almost constantly,” according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.

Meta has launched a standalone AI image generator to compete with the likes of DALL-E and Midjourney.

Despite what seems like weekly advancements in the artificial intelligence field, some are still keeping their expectations measured. Yann LeCun, Meta's VP and chief AI scientist, for example, said at a recent event that he doesn't think AI "super intelligence" is coming anytime soon.

Meta announced Friday a list of new efforts it's making to keep kids safe on its platforms, notably after a whistleblower recently testified to Congress about the company's failure to protect children.

Social media giant Meta is suing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over monetization of children's data and to prevent regulators from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement, according to reports.

An investigation has found that the Instagram algorithm pushes suggestive footage of children and overtly sexual videos to adults on the platform who only follow children.

Defunct animated photography app Phhhoto is attempting to revive a lawsuit against Meta -- in which the company accused Instagram of copying its main feature.

Instagram announced Wednesday that it's upping its editing game by providing users with new tools.

A judge has ruled that social media companies -- including Meta, Google, Snap, and ByteDance -- must face the hundreds of lawsuits blaming them for children's addiction to its platforms.