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Meta buying social network for AI bots Moltbook should worry anyone who still hopes social media is for people

Meta’s purchase of Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, suggests the internet may soon contain even more bots talking to each other.

TechRadar

I wrote a book about theft and deception – and now AI scams are flooding my inbox

Authors like me are being targeted by AI-powered accounts promising exposure and fake reviews

The Guardian - AU

Cathie Wood Is Still Buying Amazon Stock. Should You?

Ark Invest added Amazon shares across funds last week, and it is easy to see why.

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Meta disables more than 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks

Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 people

The Guardian - US

Meta bought Moltbook, an almost entirely AI-populated social media platform, for we don't know how much—and we're not completely sure why yet, either

Clawing back AI talent.

PC Gamer

Activists gather at Meta London HQ to protest ‘dangerous’ social media firms

A group of young people held a protest outside the social media giant’s London headquarters as they accused its algorithms of contributing to their serious mental health problems

The Independent UK

Meta snaps up AI agent social network Moltbook - founders will join Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta has acquired Moltbook and its founders, bringing the Reddit-like AI social network under its Superintelligence Labs business.

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Oversight Board slams Meta's 'inadequate' deepfake rules — calls for a total AI overhaul

Meta is being urged to strengthen oversight of fake AI videos as deepfakes become more realistic and harder for users to detect.

Tom’s Guide

Meta just snapped up Moltbook, the ‘Reddit for AI’ — what you need to know

Meta announced it is acquiring the Reddit-style social media platform Moltbook, where AI bots interact with one another.

Tom’s Guide

Meta Acquires Moltbook to Power the Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta has added AI social media company Moltbook to its portfolio, and it is set to power its Superintelligence Labs.

International Business Times

ICE Agents Caught Wearing Meta AI Smart Glasses To Record And Monitor Communities During Immigration Raids

ICE agents are reportedly using Meta AI smart glasses to record and livestream communities during immigration raids, raising privacy concerns nationwide.

International Business Times UK

Is Instagram Down? Users Panic as 'Instagram DM Won't Send' Trends Globally

Instagram DM won't send? Users worldwide face outages and feed problems. Find out which regions are affected

International Business Times UK

Takedown orders surge on Meta amid crackdown on posts mocking Modi

The Centre has issued a spate of takedown orders for social media posts on X and Instagram that criticise or mock Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Newslaundry

Instagram outage leaves users struggling to use app

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Instagram down: Users worldwide report outages on Meta-owned social media site

Users report being unable to send messages

The Independent UK

Meta to acquire Moltbook, the social network for AI agents

Meta is acquiring Moltbook, a social network where AI agents post and chat with each other

The Independent UK

Meta acquires a social network for AI agents

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“Not Normal Behavior”: Prince Harry’s Hand Movements Spark Concern After Emotional Meeting

The meeting comes as a major lawsuit against Meta and YouTube over social media dangers heads to trial.

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The Independent UK

Meta buys AI social network Moltbook for unknown fee

The platform gained notoriety after AI bots shared posts about work, philosophy and ‘overthrowing’ humanity

Radio France Internationale

French start-up raises $1 billion to shift AI research into 'high gear'

French artificial intelligence start-up AMI said on Tuesday it had raised $1 billion (€890 billion) to develop AI systems designed to understand the physical world “in the way animals and humans do”, rather than relying on language-based models such as ChatGPT. The company expects to produce “fairly universal intelligent systems”…

Fortune

Oracle under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs

The Larry Ellison–led software giant is remaking its cloud infrastructure to rival Amazon and Microsoft.

The Conversation

Is someone watching you? Facial recognition tech is here and Canada offers little privacy protection

Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

PC Gamer

Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually

Rather than, y'know, outright theft.

Barchart

As Oracle Plans Thousands of Layoffs in Favor of AI Data Centers, How Should You Play ORCL Stock?

Down over 50% from all-time highs, Oracle stock offers significant upside potential in 2026, given consensus price targets.

The Conversation

We are in a digital version of the enclosures – like the landowners, big tech has power without responsibility

Between the middle of the 18th and 19th centuries, the English parliament passed more than 4,000 Enclosure Acts. These laws allowed the fencing of common lands where villagers had grazed livestock and planted for generations, transferring them largely into private ownership of the aristocracy or the church. Similar dramatic changes…

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