
Meta ships a Mac app for its AI assistant with screen sharing and dictation
The desktop app lets Meta AI see your window, transcribe across apps, and connect to Instagram, Facebook, and Google Workspace.
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The desktop app lets Meta AI see your window, transcribe across apps, and connect to Instagram, Facebook, and Google Workspace.

The chatbot is now available privately inside Threads direct messages, extending Meta AI's reach across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The assistant now reads your calendar, plans events, and runs recurring tasks — a reversal of Meta's stated 'entertainment first' strategy.

Muse Image tagging launched Tuesday, drew immediate backlash, and was shut off by Friday after warnings it enabled sextortion.

The new safeguard disables the camera if the recording light is modified — but Meta's broader AI product roadmap keeps pulling more user data in.

Facebook's new AI Mode summarizes public posts, Groups, and Reels in response to plain-language questions — and joins a growing AI subscription push.

Code for an unreleased face-recognition system vanished from the smart glasses companion app one day after WIRED detailed it.

The Meta AI app's For You section generated fake articles with images of two Queen Elizabeth IIs; Meta says it will deprecate the feature.

The company is rolling out $2.99–$3.99 monthly plans while testing AI and creator tiers under a new Meta One brand.

Meta says no one — including Meta — can read the conversations, a direct contrast with retention windows at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

The new mode runs inference inside a Trusted Execution Environment and leans on WhatsApp's Private Processing infrastructure, with 3 billion users in scope.

The concession would let competing AI assistants reach WhatsApp users directly, a structural shift for Meta's messaging platform in Europe.

Threads users in five countries can tag Meta AI for answers, but the account has no block option — and the complaint trended past 1 million posts.

Public Threads users can tag @meta.ai for real-time context on news and trends; the beta is live in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore.
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