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Meta has launched Muse Image, its first image-generation model from the company’s Superintelligence Labs, making it available through Meta AI as well as Instagram and WhatsApp. The tool can use Instagram accounts as prompts, allowing users to incorporate other public Instagram profiles into generated images, but anyone with a public account must opt out to prevent their photos from being used by others.
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Meta has invested $900 million in the Indian fintech startup Cred, acquiring a one-fifth ownership stake. Concurrently, the company has appointed Cred founder Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp, succeeding Will Cathcart. The moves signal Meta’s strategic push into both financial services and leadership renewal for its messaging platform.
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The European Commission has ordered Meta to cease blocking third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp and to provide rival AI assistants free access to the platform within five days. This interim measure is intended to prevent harm to competition while the antitrust investigation into Meta’s WhatsApp policies continues.
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Meta has filed a federal contempt action alleging that NSO Group continues to target WhatsApp users despite a permanent injunction that bars the spyware firm from any such activity. WhatsApp confirmed it detected new spyware attacks linked to NSO, and Meta says the company has not ceased its illicit targeting, prompting the renewed court proceedings.
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WhatsApp has launched an Incognito Chat mode that uses Meta’s Private Processing technology. The new AI chat feature is designed so that Meta cannot access the conversations. The feature is positioned as the first AI mode on WhatsApp that claims to keep chats private from the platform.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it will appeal a district-court loss in its antitrust case that accuses Meta of maintaining an illegal monopoly through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta had previously prevailed in the same case in 2025, and the FTC is seeking to revive the lawsuit.
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