O WhatsApp está avaliando (na versão beta 26.37.10.15) a implementação do suporte ao acesso de até três contas simultâneas no mesmo dispositivo.
A opção de adicionar uma terceira conta é bem semelhante ao que já foi implementado pela Meta ao adicionar o suporte a uma segunda conta no mensageiro, exibindo a foto de perfil e o número de telefone para facilitar a identificação na hora de alternar entre os perfis.
Outro recurso que a Meta avalia implementar (na versão beta 26.37.10.16) é a possibilidade de sincronizar para todos os participantes da conversa determinadas informações, como o papel de parede (ou os temas oferecidos pelo próprio WhatsApp) importado a partir da biblioteca de fotos do aparelho, além da cor dos balões de conversa.
A definição dessa configuração para todos os participantes da conversa permite que todos os usuários visualizem as interações de um jeito semelhante, tanto para conversas individuais do WhatsApp quanto para conversas em grupo (os usuários são alertados caso qualquer alteração nesse sentido seja feita).
A sincronização desses elementos também conta com a criptografia de ponta a ponta oferecida em outros recursos do aplicativo.
No momento, ambos os recursos estão sendo testados pelo WhatsApp e estão indisponíveis inclusive para quem utiliza a versão beta do app via TestFlight.
Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X CEO Elon Musk.
When people who profit from something declare that it's dangerous and needs to be regulated, there's always reason to be skeptical. But whatever their reason, this is far from the first time AI thought leaders have sounded the alarm.
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution prompted author Samuel Butler to warn about intelligen …
Segundo as mais recentes fugas de informação, a Meta deverá lançar quatro novos modelos de óculos inteligentes, incluindo um sem câmara focado em privacidade, numa altura em que a empresa continua a lidar com as consequências da polémica em torno de gravações feitas sem consentimento.
Meta may be ready to reveal a new pair of smart glasses with no camera at all, amid a PR crisis for the company caused by the video recording capabilities of its flagship smart glasses. A new report from The Information claims the camera-free glasses, codenamed Luna, could be revealed as soon as the Meta Connect event next week.
Instead of a camera, the Luna glasses will reportedly include six microphones that allow users to chat to Meta AI and the new Muse AI agent, along with speakers for audio playback. Stripping the camera out has apparently made it possible to make the glasses' arms smaller, and closer to ordinary frames. Meta is repor …
A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.
Meta One subscription plans were announced for individual, AI power users, creators, and businesses.
Each plan is tailored for what that specific user might need, such as an enhanced profile for creators/businesses, highlighting their website, locations, and more.
Meta One subscriptions plans are available today (Sept. 15), beginning at $14.99 for creators/businesses and $7.99 for the Core plan (individual users).
We knew it was coming ever since Meta's original announcement back in May. Today (Sept. 15), Meta's latest subscription plans for its slew of apps are here.
In the company's press release, it states the Meta One subscription plans intend to "bring more value to the apps and experiences billions of people already use..." Meta One features plans intended for individuals, AI power users, creators, and businesses. The level of "expression" will depend on which subscription plan works best for you.
Meta builds on past announcements with the Core and Premium plans. It states these plans will bring more "compute-intensive AI capabilities." The Core and Premium plans are focused on assisting users with more "creative freedom" while using its AI services. More media generation is possible with Meta AI through the Core and Premium plans, as well as the availability of in-app AI features, like Restyle (on Instagram).
Here's the breakdown of the Core and Premium plans for individual and AI power users:
Core ($7.99/mo): Restyle more Stories on Instagram, use voice effects and creative tools more often, and generate more images and videos with Meta AI. Plus, express yourself in more ways with our individual app features (Instagram Plus, WhatsApp Plus, Facebook Plus)
Premium ($19.99/mo): Everything in Core, with the most room to create content with Meta AI and across our family of apps
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Users starting their small businesses, or even creators looking to grow, might opt for one of Meta One's other four plans.
The company says its creator and business plans place the tools users will need to grow and expand their reach directly in-app. These features include professional tools and AI that's integrated with your account. Meta says this removes the necessity of creating an entirely new account to manage your business.
These plans will also provide users with an "enhanced profile." This profile will place everything important to your business or creator scope front and center. Your website and location (business locations) were mentioned. However, Meta One will send follow invitations to people who interact with your content and feature a "bold follow button" on your Reels.
Meta One's subscription plans for businesses and creators begin at $14.99 a month. While you'll receive a verified badge, a verified business channel on WhatsApp, and impersonation protection, Meta One adds access to the Meta Business Agent. This agent is available through WhatsApp and is available 24/7. You can check the remaining plans' details in the gallery above.
Meta's app subscriptions
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Android Central's Take
This is certainly an interesting approach from Meta. I feel like these kinds of subscription plans only make sense for creators and businesses. If you're not doing something like that, is $4 worth it for a few animations? I'm sure we can express ourselves for free just fine. That's just me, though. It's your choice if you feel something like this is worth it.
We knew "Meta One" was coming since May. At that time, the company revealed a slew of app subscriptions for Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus, and WhatsApp Plus. Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product, detailed everything we needed to know, stating that these plans would give users more ways to "express and connect." WhatsApp Plus is the cheapest option at $2.99. Facebook and Instagram users would have to cough up a dollar more at $3.99 for Plus additions.
For Instagram Plus, more vibrant and expressive animations were highlighted early on. These animations would play when liking someone's Story, such as "Super Heart." Subscribers could also "spotlight" a Story once a week to reach for extra views.
A Meta está lançando um novo pacotão que combina suas assinaturas de aplicativos individuais com uso adicional de recursos de inteligência artificial. Chamado Meta One, esse pacote passou por testes no início deste ano, mas agora está disponível globalmente, com várias categorias para usuários individuais, criadores e empresas.
Há dois pacotes para usuários individuais: o Core, por R$32/mês (ou US$8/mês nos Estados Unidos), e o Premium, por R$97/mês (US$20/mês). Ambos incluem as assinaturas Instagram Plus, WhatsApp Plus e Facebook Plus, além de oferecerem um limite maior de geração de mídia com a Meta AI.
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As assinaturas Meta One voltadas a criadores e empresas variam de R$60/mês (US$15/mês) a R$2.000/mês (US$500/mês). Elas também incluem as assinaturas individuais dos aplicativos da Meta, além de benefícios como um botão de seguir em destaque, selo de verificação, melhor posicionamento nos resultados de busca e monitoramento contra contas falsas que se passam por você.
Eis os planos:
Essencial (R$60/mês ou US$15/mês): obtenha ferramentas para gerenciar sua presença e mais acesso ao Meta Business Agent no WhatsApp para responder a clientes 24 horas por dia, 7 dias por semana. Inclui também selo de verificação, canal verificado no aplicativo WhatsApp Business e proteção contra falsificação de identidade, para que as pessoas saibam que você é quem diz ser.
Avançado (R$200/mês ou US$50/mês): recursos avançados de publicação, como agendamento de Stories com até 30 dias de antecedência, links em posts orgânicos e Reels, relatórios de análise exportáveis e insights mais detalhados sobre o público. Permita que membros da equipe acessem sua conta sem compartilhar sua senha e obtenha mais dispositivos conectados e créditos para transmissões comerciais no WhatsApp. Inclui também um volume ainda maior de respostas do Meta Business Agent.
Expert (R$600/mês ou US$150/mês) e Máximo (R$2.000/mês ou US$500/mês): oferecem os níveis mais altos de acesso a recursos e capacidade do Meta Business Agent para equipes que operam em grande escala.
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A Meta afirma que a “experiência principal” em seus aplicativos e na Meta AI continuará gratuita, e os usuários ainda poderão adquirir as assinaturas para o Facebook, o Instagram e o WhatsApp separadamente, sem o pacote One.
A empresa também diz planejar aprimorar ainda mais as assinaturas com a inclusão de recursos de edição, óculos com IA e muito mais “ao longo do tempo”.
The public messaging surrounding Meta’s flashy smart glasses hasn’t exactly gone in the company’s favor.
The camera-equipped devices have garnered a reputation for allowing shady individuals to record strangers without their consent, garnering them the memorable pejorative of “pervert glasses.”
So when Wired revealed in June that Meta had silently added facial recognition code to the smart glasses — stoking fears that the creepy glasses could be used to identify people on the street based on biometric data — that simmering distaste grew into a major PR disaster for the company.
Meta has ever since vehemently denied that it was planning on ever releasing the tech, a feature dubbed “NameTag.” That’s despite its CTO Andrew Bosworth happily describing those plans in excruciating detail in public and arguing it would be a “great feature” — mere days after calling Wired‘s bombshell reporting “absolutely dishonest.”
Now, the company is facing a proposed class action lawsuit over the ordeal, as Wired reports, with a set of families in Illinois and California accusing the company of illegally scraping their Facebook and Instagram photos to build a massive facial recognition system for “NameTag.”
Meta told Wired in a statement that the latest “lawsuit is without merit and misrepresents our work.”
“We’ve been transparent about how we use people’s information to build and improve our AI products,” the a spokesperson told Wired. “As for NameTags, nothing has shipped to consumers and no final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything.”
The proposed class action accuses Meta of extracting biometric signatures from publicly available social media profiles. As Wired first noted in June, these “faceprints” appeared in the code for the AI companion app of its smart glasses.
A patent described the software as matching these signatures to profile photos. An AI image generator Meta released called Emu was also trained on a vast swath of user-uploaded images and text. The complainants accuse Meta of using this AI system to harvest biometric data.
The company has a long history of mishandling sensitive user data, settling a class action lawsuit in 2020 over an entirely separate facial recognition system for $650 million. In 2024, it agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle yet another facial recognition data lawsuit in Texas.
Just as I was heading into the final stretch of reviewseason, TestFlight was updated to reverse an update I wrote about in July. That update added search, which was one of my longstanding wishes for TestFlight. However, for some users, the update also changed the sorting of betas from reverse chronological order to alphabetical, including active betas alongside expired ones. As someone who reviews a lot of apps, that made TestFlight barely usable.
With the latest update, I’m happy to report that the sorting order has been restored to reverse chronological order. The most recently updated betas appear at the top of the list, and when you want to find something older, search is a great option. Returning to reverse chronological order may seem like a small thing, but it’s made a world of difference in keeping up with the apps I test.
Search was near the top of my list of TestFlight wishes for years, and its addition made a meaningful difference to the app’s usability. But I’ve had a lot of TestFlight wishes over the years that are scattered across multiple articles, so I thought I’d share what else I’d like Apple to tackle with TestFlight:
Performance. I test a lot of apps, which slows TestFlight down on every Apple platform. The issue isn’t as severe today as it was when I wrote about it in 2023, but the slowness is still bad enough to make the app hard to use. Whatever the issue is, I’d love to see the list loading time reduced and scrolling through a list of apps become as smooth as it is in the App Store.
Add filtering, sorting, and folders. Search is a step in the right direction, but allow me to sort by date, developer, category, and other metadata. I’d also like to be able to filter by installation status, so I can just see the betas I’ve installed or haven’t installed yet. User-defined folders for organization would be a nice bonus too.
Hide inactive and expired betas. I’ve thought about TestFlight’s expired betas section a lot and can’t think of a single reason it exists from a tester’s perspective. Let me hide or exclude expired and withdrawn betas.
Fix TestFlight emails and automatic updates. TestFlight email notifications can only be turned on or off on a per-beta basis. Adding a global switch would help a lot with managing these messages. Also, automatic updates of betas have never worked on my iPhone, and I’ve talked to others who have the same problem.
Restore usable betas after a device migration. Apple’s migration from one device to another has gotten much better over the years, but it still does not migrate TestFlight betas, leaving me with a bunch of broken apps on my iPhone every fall.
Indicate when a beta has been released on the App Store. This strikes me as easy to request, though I’m sure is difficult to implement, but I’d love to know when a beta has been superseded by an App Store version, so I can grab the stable release if I want and know I can publish a review about an app without having to check the App Store repeatedly myself.
The bottom line is that while TestFlight is once again usable, it could be much better. I recognize that TestFlight isn’t an app used by most people, but like Apple’s own OS beta testing program, TestFlight betas are an important part of developers’ workflow. They provide QA feedback and a promotional channel that the friction encountered by TestFlight users undermines.
I’m glad TestFlight continues to get meaningful updates. I just hope it gets more attention going forward.
The vast majority of AI labs happen to be headquartered in California, a state whose governor is now trying to get ahead of the problem — while simultaneously providing the companies with a home, in optics that are dicey at best.
On Thursday, the state’s governor Gavin Newsom signed what his office called “landmark bipartisan legislation” to protect “children online and when using artificial intelligence.”
As part of the legislation, AI companies are required to develop “crisis protocols in the case of suicidal ideation, parental controls, and notifications should a child disable safety settings.” One of the new laws was nicknamed “Adam’s Law,” in a nod to 16-year-old Adam Raine, who took his life in April 2025 after extensive conversations with ChatGPT about his intent to die.
The law “will save lives and prevent other serious harms — and hopefully lead other states to enact similar protections,” Adam’s mother Maria Raine said in a statement during the bill’s signing ceremony on Thursday.
The legislation also prohibits “social media platforms from offering addictive features to users under 16,” directing them to “expand privacy protections for children.” Addictive features under the law include “autoplay videos and algorithmic feeds based on user history and profile.”
While it’s certainly a well-intentioned move, enforcing these new rules could prove difficult. The laws require AI chatbots to verify users’ ages, which is far easier said than done. It could also expose underage users to new risks. Just this month, hackers breached what appears to have been a major ID card verification service.
It’s a serious issue. We’ve already seen more than one seemingly ChatGPT-facilitated mass shooting. Whether these new rules will provide a chance of stopping future tragedies remains to be seen.
Reactions to the latest rules varied significantly. Meta largely took issue with the new restrictions against showing underage users algorithmic feeds, saying they were necessary to allow them to “explore their interests safely,” as a spokesperson told the Associated Press. That’s despite Meta agreeing last month to pay up to $18 billion in damages after being found to have harmed children with its platforms.
Anthropic, on the other hand, officially backed Newsom’s bill, telling Politico in a statement that while “artificial intelligence holds extraordinary promise,” it “must be developed and deployed with meaningful safeguards to protect the public.”
OpenAI has also promised to improve ChatGPT safeguards, per CNBC, but didn’t expand on how.
Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves
Earlier this year, Emily Schuman, the creator of the lifestyle blog Cupcakes and Cashmere, saw a photo of herself she didn’t recognize on Instagram. In a sponsored ad, Schuman, who has more than 500,000 Instagram followers, is holding up a vial of GLP-1 drugs, advertising the telehealth company Gala. There was just one problem: Schuman had never heard of Gala and had nothing to do with the ad.
The ad was based on a digitally altered version of a selfie Schuman had taken in her car and posted on Instagram years earlier. Once her followers got wind, they flooded her inbox with questions about the sponsorship as it didn’t seem consistent with Schuman’s personal brand. Soon after, Schuman discovered this was just the beginning. There was also an Instagram post where an AI version of her with darker hair appears to apply foundation to promote a makeup brand called Meroda Cosmetics, and TikTok posts with generated images of her promoting the blood testing company Superpower.
Meta’s platforms are in a sorry state as grotesque AI slop continues to proliferate widely.
As a recent Futurism investigation found, many Facebook accounts have been flooding the platform with horrid videos depicting violent child abuse, and Meta appears to be woefully unprepared — and downright unwilling, judging by its ambiguously-phrased policies — to do anything meaningful about it.
At the same time, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company is finding plenty of new ways to creep out its user base. As part of the CEO’s lagging efforts to turn Meta into a viable competitor in the ongoing AI race, Meta launched a new AI assistant called Muse this week, and it’s already turning out to be deeply unsettling.
According to Meta’s marketing, the assistant is designed to “take the busywork off your plate,” such as booking tickets, making appointments, or filling out forms.
To actually reap any benefits, however, users have to hand over a staggering amount of trust — which, considering Meta’s catastrophic track record when it comes to protecting its users’ privacy, could easily turn out to be an absolutely terrible idea. While Meta claims the service runs on a secure “dedicated virtual machine” and that it will store login credentials in a place that cannot be accessed by the AI agent, the company has a lot of work to do to gain its users’ trust.
Perfectly illustrating the problem, as The Verge‘s Emma Roth found in her testing, Muse uncovered an “unnerving amount of information it autonomously gleaned about me.”
As part of her investigation, Roth linked both her Gmail and Amazon accounts to Muse and was immediately put off by how much personal info Muse pieced together right off the bat. It figured out the state where she was visiting her family, for instance, admitting it “pulled” data from the “shipping address on my Amazon order.”
It also listed off her “very specific interests” at a level of specificity that goes far beyond the “ad topics” section in the Instagram settings menu, which shows why certain advertisers target your account.
The experience left Roth “with an uneasy feeling about letting Muse sort through personal emails and handle my credit card.”
Meta’s creepy new AI chatbot perfectly illustrates how tech companies are continuing to push the boundaries of how much personal information we’re willing to give up just so we don’t have to complete mundane tasks — an extremely lopsided value proposition.
These same companies have repeatedly proven that they cannot be trusted with our private data. AI chatbots, which are turning out to be a surveillance-ledcybersecurity nightmare in their own right, don’t instill much more confidence, either.
O Instagram anunciou que agora será possível adicionar as publicações em que você foi marcado ao grid principal do seu perfil.
Com a novidade, é possível adicionar uma publicação com uma marcação ao seu perfil tanto a partir de uma notificação recebida por mensagem direta quando você é marcado quanto por meio da aba de Marcações. Também é possível remover a publicação do seu perfil a qualquer momento, sem excluir a sua marcação da postagem original.
Há efeitos que emulam cabines fotográficas, a estética de câmeras digitais dos anos 2000 ou transformam as pessoas em bonecos de crochê ou papel, dentre outras possibilidades. Também é possível modificar os efeitos existentes ou criar suas próprias versões.
A Apple enfim revelou ontem o iPhone Duo, e é claro que as suas rivais — em ambos os casos, fabricantes de smartphones com telas dobráveis há algum tempo — não perderiam a oportunidade de alfinetar o dobrável da Maçã.
A Samsung foi a principal fabricante a alfinetar o novo iPhone (sem mencionar o nome do aparelho, evidentemente) em uma série de posts no seu perfil no X, questionando desde o alcance e o entusiasmo causado pelo anúncio até afirmar que o dobrável da Apple é uma de suas “sobras” requentadas, em alusão à linha Galaxy Z Fold.
Was there range? No. Was it exciting? No. Did it happen? Yes.#ItsTimeToSwitch
O mundo é dos que se atrevem primeiro. Nós nos atrevemos há 7 anos.
Quem também não ficou de fora da brincadeira foi a Motorola, que aproveitou ainda a oportunidade para alertar que deverá apresentar novidades sobre esse segmento de smartphones muito em breve:
Aquela sensação de desligar a ligação e o seu razr falar tudo o que você não disse. 😉
Tem gente descobrindo agora. A gente já tá preparando o próximo nível.
O iPhone Duo custa a partir de US$2.000, com pré-vendas iniciando no dia 16 de outubro (tanto nos Estados Unidos quanto no Brasil e em Portugal), enquanto o lançamento oficial está marcado para a semana seguinte, no dia 23/10.
I have a confession. I love my social media algorithm. It is a perfectly curated window into my insane and inquiring mind. It knows precisely which videos will tickle me and which memes will gently distract me from the slow collapse of humankind.
On Tuesday the Australian government announced “world-leading” reforms that would force social media platforms to allow users to opt-out of algorithms, dubbed “my feed, my way”. On the same day, I was delighted to be confronted with a video on Instagram of a woman accidentally spilling a bucket of eels on a Chinese train. Dozens of eels slithered among the passengers, who appeared not as surprised as I would have expected.
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