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Meta, Amazon, and other tech giants have advised H-1B and H-4 visa holders to remain in the US or return immediately as the USD 100,000 visa fee takes effect September 21, raising concerns over skilled foreign workers stranded abroad.

Meta is reportedly recruiting US-based contractors at up to $55/hour to build Hindi-language AI chatbots for Indian users, focusing on storytelling and character development. The move highlights Meta’s push for culturally relevant AI experiences, amid prior privacy and safety concerns.

WhatsApp has introduced Writing Help, an AI-powered feature that suggests message rewrites in different tones while ensuring privacy through Meta’s Private Processing technology. Initially rolling out in English across select countries, it will expand to more languages later this year.

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Meta and Google officials in a money laundering probe tied to illegal betting platforms. The agency wants to examine how such platforms place ads on digital outlets

Advertisements will be shown only in the app's Updates tab, which is used by as many as 1.5 billion people each day. However, they won't appear where personal chats are located, developers said.

CAIT and Meta have launched an initiative to equip 25,000 women traders across India with digital skills using the WhatsApp Business App

Among the new features is Layout, which allows users to turn up to six photos into a customized collage using editing tools to arrange them as desired. Another key addition is More with Music, letting users create a Status entirely centered around a particular song or use a music sticker to set the right mood.

Zuckerberg took the stand for the third day in the trial, wrapping up his testimony as the first witness Wednesday afternoon. He took questions from Meta attorney Mark Hansen, who has argued that his client hardly has a monopoly in social media, as the FTC claims, and still faces stiff global competition.

Users have reported difficulties in sending and receiving messages, with some also reporting problems with voice calls and other app functionalities.

The company also introduced additional protections whereby teenagers under 16 will no longer be able to go live or disable filters that block unwanted images in direct messages without a parent's approval.

LLaMA 4 Scout, equipped with 17 billion active parameters and 16 experts, runs efficiently on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU and introduces an industry-first 10 million token context window. It surpasses competitors like Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Mistral 3.1 in performance. On the other hand, LLaMA 4 Maverick also features 17 billion active parameters but scales up with 128 experts and a total of 400 billion parameters. It outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash in benchmark tests, all while remaining cost-effective

On Wednesday, his focus was explicitly on skilled workers.

Users had raised concerns over the extensive push of violent and graphic content being recommended on their personal "Reels" page. Several took to social media platforms to talk about the sudden influx of such content on their Instagram pages

According to a job listing on Meta's website, the company is hiring an engineering director who will be responsible for building a strong technical team in Bengaluru

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp parent company Meta announced a new 50,000 Km undersea cable project 'Waterworth' to enhance digital connectivity between India and the US

The Chandrababu-led government is set to launch WhatsApp governance on Thursday (January 30), becoming the first State in India to roll out such a facility

CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects 2025 to “be the year when a highly intelligent and personalised AI assistant reaches more than 1 billion people”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized fact-checkers, claiming they were "too politically biased" and had eroded trust rather than building it. He expressed Meta's renewed focus on free expression and promised simpler policies to reduce moderation errors. "It's time to get back to our roots," Zuckerberg declared, signaling a shift towards fostering less restrictive online communication.

Social media giant aims to end its third-party fact-checking programme and scale back policies on hate speech and abuse

The overhauling of content-moderation policy signals that the social media giant is entering a more partisan political era