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US Top News and Analysis | Meta to start testing AI subscription services, with cheapest plan at $7.99 a month AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta announced it will begin testing two paid subscription tiers for its Meta AI app and website—Meta One Plus at $7.99 a month and Meta One Premium at $19.99 a month—starting next month in Singapore, Guatemala and Bolivia. The plans give users more computing capacity, larger and more complex request limits, and advanced tools for creators and businesses, while a free version will remain available. The move is intended to create a new revenue stream beyond advertising as Meta competes with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini, following the launch of its standalone Meta AI app and the Muse Spark model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, part of the company’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. Meta shares rose roughly 4% after the announcement. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/meta-testing-ai-subscription-services-cheapest-plan-at-7point99-a-month.html #Meta #NaomiGleit #MarkZuckerberg #MuseSpark #MetaAI

BBC News | WhatsApp launches totally private 'incognito' conversations with its AI chatbot AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. WhatsApp has introduced an “incognito” mode for its AI chatbot that lets users have private conversations that are not logged or read by Meta, with messages disappearing after the chat ends; this feature aims to let people discuss sensitive topics such as health, relationships and finances without fear of their data being stored, though it is not the same as the platform’s end‑to‑end encryption. The rollout follows criticism of Meta’s AI integration and a promise from head of WhatsApp Will Cathcart that the system will initially support only text and will err on the side of caution for harmful or illegal queries. While Meta touts the mode as a breakthrough in AI privacy, cybersecurity experts warn it could create accountability gaps if AI‑generated advice leads to harm, since neither users nor Meta would have access to the vanished conversation history. The move comes amid Meta’s massive $145 billion AI infrastructure spending plan for 2026, intended to boost its advertising and commerce dominance despite investor concerns. Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99lmyr1dnxo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #WhatsApp #WillCathcart #MetaAI #incognitomode #AIinfrastructure #AlanWoodward

Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, McGraw Hill, and bestselling author Scott Turow have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/100329-publishers-file-infringement-lawsuit-against-meta-zuckerberg.html #Authors #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ClassAction #Publishers #PiratedBooks #MetaAI

#Meta stores & makes people in Kenya watch everything their users' #smartglasses record (if not opted out) supposedly even having sex, using the toilet, & changing clothes. Whatever you do, Meta sees, Meta hears, Meta knows: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom Same for #MetaAI: Meta confirmed that it “sometimes” shares content that users share with the Meta AI generative AI chatbot with contractors to review with “the purpose of improving people’s experience...” #News #Privacy #Tech #It #Technology #ars