Today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee alongside industry peers. The hearing focused on one of the technology industry’s most important challenges: keeping children safe online. Meta has spent more than a decade working on these issues and has developed more than 30 tools, features and resources to support teens…
WhatsApp is finally working a feature to allow users to lock their conversations on WhatsApp Web, providing them with an enhanced secure experience. The Chat Lock feature is currently in development and it will be available in a future update. Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Chat Lock Status? Under development Availability? WhatsApp is…
WhatsApp has just submitted a new stable update for iOS, available on the App Store: the build number is 24.2.75. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is widely rolling out new text formatting options and a sticker creator feature to everyone! Common questions Answers Changelog about? New text formatting options and sticker creator Status? Rolling…
Slow build times and inefficiencies in packaging and distributing execution files were costing our ML/AI engineers a significant amount of time while working on our training stack. By addressing these issues head-on, we were able to reduce this overhead by double-digit percentages. In the fast-paced world of AI/ML development, it’s crucial to ensure that our…
If you missed our stories this week about the latest updates to WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop, this is a good time to catch up thanks to our summary. Among the 8 stories and concepts we shared, the best news of the week is about the ability to share files with people nearby,…
2023 was a busy year for privacy, and it’s become even more critical to build scalable privacy practices. With that in mind, we’ve invested $5.5 billion in our privacy program since 2019, and have grown the teams focused on privacy to more than 3,000 people. In honor of Data Privacy Day, we’re looking at some…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.3.17. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a new caption that marks chats as end-to-end encrypted, and it will be available in a future update! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? End-to-end encryption…
We want teens to have safe, age-appropriate experiences on our apps. We’ve developed more than 30 tools and features to help support teens and their parents, and we’ve spent over a decade developing policies and technology to address content and behavior that breaks our rules. Earlier this month, we announced new steps to further limit…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.3.13. What’s new in this update? This is a bug-fix update that addresses a critical issue with status updates and video sharing! Common questions Answers Changelog about? Status updates and videos Status? Fixed Compatibility? WhatsApp beta for…
People using Instagram and Facebook in the EU, EEA and Switzerland will soon be offered several choices about how they would like to manage their experiences across Meta products. We are offering these choices to address the requirements of the DMA, which enter into force in March 2024. Helping People Understand the Choices They Will…
If you missed our stories this week about the latest updates to WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop, this is a good time to catch up thanks to our summary. Among the 7 stories and concepts we shared, the best news of the week is about the ability to share files with people nearby,…
AI dominated the discussion as political, business and civil society leaders gathered in Davos for the World Economic Forum this week – from the opportunities and risks AI creates, to what governments and tech companies can do to ensure it is developed responsibly and deployed in a way that benefits the most people. I attended…
WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 24.2.10.70. The version marked within WhatsApp Settings is 2.24.2.70 and the TestFlight build is 24.2.10 (557696660). What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a feature to transfer the channel ownership, and it will be available in…
At Meta, the quest for faster model training has yielded an exciting milestone: the adoption of Lazy Imports and the Python Cinder runtime. The outcome? Up to 40 percent time to first batch (TTFB) improvements, along with a 20 percent reduction in Jupyter kernel startup times. This advancement facilitates swifter experimentation capabilities and elevates the…