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Meta will use AI chatbot conversations to target Instagram and Facebook ads
“Meta has basically announced that, yeah, we're going to take everything you say to an AI chat bot and we are going to Basically have it affect the kind of ads that you see on Instagram and Facebook. Of course there are some exceptions if you are talking about …”
Max Zeff Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 32:26 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
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Kantrowitz: Meta Agrees to $18B Settlement Over Youth Addiction Claims
“Meta agrees to pay eighteen billion to settle U.S. Lawsuits over children's social media addiction, and it's going to pay it over the next decade, and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly all U.S. States to res…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 34:33 Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
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Kantrowitz: Zuckerberg Testified Only 17% of Facebook Time Goes to Friends' Posts
“Only 17% of Facebook and seven percent of Instagram time are spent with friends posts.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 33:17 Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
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Krieger: Instagram had 13 employees at sale and 16 at close
“We're 13 at sale and 16 at close.”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 25:20 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
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OpenAI and Anthropic consumer product leaders hail from Instagram and Facebook
“Head of product at Anthropic, Instagram founder, head of product at OpenAI, former head of product at Instagram, person who's running what all consumer applications at OpenAI is also someone who's come from Facebook.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 17:33 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
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Kantrowitz: Former Instagram Executives Now Lead Product at OpenAI and Anthropic
“At Anthropic, it is Mike Krieger. The co-founder of Instagram. Yep. At OpenAI, it's Kevin Wheel, the former head of product, At Instagram.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 41:14 Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
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