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Instagram has quietly launched “Instants,” a new stand-alone mobile app for iOS and Android that mimics Snapchat’s disappearing photo-sharing model — expanding the company’s roster of Instagram-connected social platforms. In February, a Meta spokesperson informed Business Insider that Instagram was in the process of building “an internal prototype of a new stand-alone app for…

As Meta continues to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure, including various new data center projects, the company has said it’s also committed to finding environmentally responsible options to power its AI projects. That’s where its latest solar power project comes in. This week, Meta announced a partnership with Overview Energy for the development of…

OpenAI released an image engine for ChatGPT with “thinking capabilities” this week, as it prepares to take the necessary steps to build an advertising platform that can handle more complex queries and images. “ChatGPT Images 2.0,” announced this week, is the next step for the technology — taking on complex…

LinkedIn is looking to add another incentive to get people to verify their information, by enabling users to prioritize engagement from verified users. An updated page in LinkedIn’s Help Center outlines how users can sort comments by verified users, in order to focus on those who’ve confirmed their info. As explained…

After teasing indented replies on the Threads mobile app, the head of Meta’s Twitter-like social platform Connor Hayes highlighted an updated layout of Threads’ website, along with enhanced functionality, which Hayes states will be a point of focus in the platform’s evolution. “Web is an important part of how our most engaged users interact with…

Meta announced new price hikes for its Quest VR units, with prices for its Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S headsets going up by between $50 and $100 each. Meta attributed the change to rising hardware prices. As a result, the Meta Quest 3 unit will go from $500 to $599,…

YouTube announced new livestreaming options designed to boost community engagement, including expanded access to livestream gifts, ad-free windows based on engagement, and the ability to go live simultaneously in both vertical and horizontal formats. First, YouTube will enable viewers of horizontal-aligned livestreams to send virtual gifts during a broadcast, in addition to being able…

LinkedIn announced an expansion of its artificial intelligence-powered conversational search tools, which are designed to make it easier to find relevant members, pages and posts. LinkedIn launched its conversational search tools to LinkedIn Premium members in November, and now, it’s expanding the same capacity to all users, with improved AI matching via the…

Instagram added the ability to edit comments, a much-requested feature update that will address a key frustration in the app. The new edit option will be accessible below published comments in-stream. Tapping on the “Edit” option will open a new pop-up that essentially re-opens a comment for revision. Instagram said…

TikTok is powering up its artificial intelligence-powered generation tools for advertisers by integrating the latest Seedance 2.0 video generation model from parent company ByteDance into its TikTok Symphony ad creation toolkit. Dreamina Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance’s most advanced video generation system, able to generate realistic-looking, consistent depictions based on text prompts. As…