https://about.fb.com/news/#meta_newsroom 2026-08-16T14:58:32.794572+00:00 Meta python-feedgen https://about.fb.com/favicon.ico https://about.fb.com/favicon.ico Meta news, engineering, and AI blogs plus Meta developer changelogs and blogs -- in one feed. https://www.meta.com/blog/vr-showcase-august-2026-recap/ 2026-08-14T21:03:46+00:00 The VR Games Showcase is back with a huge list of upcoming VR titles that are sure to keep you busy and help you beat the heat. Here’s everything that’s coming to the Meta Horizon Store. 2026-08-14T21:03:46+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/high-on-life-meta-quest-announcement/ 2026-08-13T18:48:16+00:00 Squanch Games’ High On Life is entering a new dimension on Meta Quest 3 and 3S as High On Life VR, thanks to the folks at Flat2VR Studios. 2026-08-13T18:48:16+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/the-future-is-for-everyone-free-ai-glasses-for-every-blind-and-visually-impaired-adult-vision-ireland-supports/ 2026-08-13T05:00:08+00:00 “What I really like about the glasses is the speed at which I get the information I need – instead of waiting for someone to read a letter or waiting for someone to tell me what I have in the fridge, I’ll just do it on impulse. Now I’m doing things for myself independently, that maybe before I wouldn’t have done.” — Brian Manning, Vision Ireland Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Vision Ireland, Ireland’s national sight loss charity. This is enough for every blind and visually im... 2026-08-13T05:00:08+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/metas-compliance-with-australias-social-media-ban/ 2026-08-13T04:39:21+00:00 An update on Meta's compliance with Australia's social media ban The post Meta’s compliance with Australia’s Social Media Ban appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-08-13T04:39:21+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/nabtu-and-meta-partnership-to-invest-in-skilled-trades-for-ai-era/ 2026-08-12T13:51:19+00:00 Meta and North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) are partnering to invest in skilled trades workers building America's AI infrastructure. The post NABTU and Meta Announce New Partnership to Invest In Skilled Trades for the AI Era appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-08-12T13:51:19+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/08/12/security/how-were-building-scam-alert-whatsapp/ 2026-08-12T13:00:28+00:00 WhatsApp is committed to helping people stay safe while protecting the privacy of their messages. As scam tactics evolve — from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures — we’re always evolving as well, so that our protections stay ahead of scammers while protecting people’s personal messages with end-to-end encryption. Today, we’re sharing an early [...] Read More... The post How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees app... 2026-08-12T13:00:28+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/get-into-the-groove-for-less-beat-saber-is-now-19-99/ 2026-08-11T17:00:00+00:00 Starting today, we’re dropping Beat Saber’s price to just $19.99 USD 2026-08-11T17:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/threads-is-now-available-as-a-native-vr-app-on-meta-quest/ 2026-08-11T17:00:00+00:00 Last month we launched Threads on Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and today, we’re excited to announce it’s now available as a native VR app on Meta Quest. 2026-08-11T17:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=August+11%2C+2026 2026-08-11T07:00:00+00:00 Added the user_changed_user_id system message and corrected BSUID change notification documentation — user_id_update is not a subscribable webhook field. 2026-08-11T07:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/meta-upholds-texas-governor-greg-abbotts-data-center-standards/ 2026-08-10T12:00:28+00:00 Meta supports Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s commitment to responsible data center development, and we pay the full costs of our data centers’ energy and water use so they aren’t passed on to consumers. The post Meta Upholds Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Data Center Standards appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-08-10T12:00:28+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/the-future-is-for-everyone/ 2026-08-10T10:01:23+00:00 A letter from Mark Zuckerberg on the path to a positive AI future. The post The Future is for Everyone appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-08-10T10:01:23+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/raider-legends-launch/ 2026-08-06T17:00:00+00:00 Co-op action-adventure game Raider Legends launches today on Meta Quest, and sends you into Rifts where you can complete adventures alone or with friends in short, bite-sized bursts. 2026-08-06T17:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/why-meta-builds-its-own-data-centers/ 2026-08-06T15:00:23+00:00 Developer and creator Tom Shaw sits down with Meta’s VP of Data Centers Rachel Peterson to discuss how Meta is building some of the world's largest computing facilities. The post Why Meta Builds Its Own AI Data Centers appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-08-06T15:00:23+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/08/05/ml-applications/from-user-sequences-to-scaling-laws-a-multi-stage-architecture-for-metas-ads-ranking/ 2026-08-05T19:20:20+00:00 Every day, Meta’s recommendation platforms handle billions of user interactions, generating rich temporal signals that capture individual preferences and intent across products, ads, and content. In our 2024 post on sequence learning for ads recommendations, we showed how modeling the order and timing of user actions (rather than relying on static, manually engineered sparse features) [...] Read More... The post From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ra... 2026-08-05T19:20:20+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/were-upgrading-your-whatsapp-group-chats/ 2026-08-04T14:00:24+00:00 We’re introducing new updates to WhatsApp group chats that make it even easier for you to connect with the groups you care about. The post We’re Upgrading Your WhatsApp Group Chats appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-08-04T14:00:24+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=August+4%2C+2026 2026-08-04T07:00:00+00:00 Added Standby Webhooks documentation for passively observing conversation activity when Meta Business Agent is the active handler. 2026-08-04T07:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2026/08/04/meta-ai-developer-assistant-now-available/ 2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 Meta AI Developer Assistant Now Available for Developer Support Today, we’re bringing Meta AI Developer Assistant to the developer support experience on developers.facebook.com by rolling out a revamp 2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/08/03/ml-applications/training-gem-at-llm-scale-meta-ads-recommendation-foundation-model/ 2026-08-03T18:00:17+00:00 Meta’s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), the foundation model behind ads recommendations across Instagram and Facebook, now trains at LLM scale on several thousand of the latest-generation GPUs. This post goes into the details on how we achieved: doubling end-to-end (E2E) training efficiency to 20–25% Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU) while scaling training FLOPs 4x in [...] Read More... The post GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model appeared... 2026-08-03T18:00:17+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=August+3%2C+2026 2026-08-03T07:00:00+00:00 Documented incoming product messages in the interactive messages webhook. 2026-08-03T07:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-horizon-plus-vr-subscription-service-august-wreckin-raccoon-i-expect-you-to-die-2-xbox-game-pass/ 2026-08-01T17:00:00+00:00 Meta Horizon+ offers a huge library of great games you can play whenever you want — and it just got even bigger. We’re teaming up with XBOX to bring a starter edition of XBOX Game Pass to Meta Horizon+, adding a library of 50+ titles you can play right in your headset. 2026-08-01T17:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/what-to-play-on-meta-quest-july-2026-recap/ 2026-07-31T18:00:00+00:00 Every month, we round up all the biggest new releases and content updates each month, to keep you up-to-date on what’s happening on Meta Quest and what’s pushing the envelope in VR. 2026-07-31T18:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=July+31%2C+2026 2026-07-31T07:00:00+00:00 WhatsApp Direct Send utility messaging is now generally available. 2026-07-31T07:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/gone-for-good-haywyres-exclusive-free-new-track-is-available-today-in-beat-saber/ 2026-07-30T15:00:00+00:00 Haywyre, the GRAMMY-nominated electronic-music songwriter and producer, has a brand-new track, Gone for Good, and it’s available for free today exclusively in Beat Saber. 2026-07-30T15:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=July+30%2C+2026 2026-07-30T07:00:00+00:00 Documented the Call on WhatsApp (voice call) button for Direct Send. 2026-07-30T07:00:00+00:00 https://developer.meta.com/ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-spark/ 2026-07-30T06:35:09.023152+00:00 Build with Muse Spark, now available on Meta Model API 2026-07-30T06:35:09.023152+00:00 https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/new-ai-effects-in-instagram-stories 2026-07-30T06:35:09.023152+00:00 New Effects in Stories from Meta AI 2026-07-30T06:35:09.023152+00:00 https://about.instagram.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/how-to-use-instagram-stories 2026-07-30T06:35:09.023152+00:00 How to use Instagram Stories: The complete 2026 guide 2026-07-30T06:35:09.023152+00:00 https://developers.meta.com/blog/build-for-display-glasses/ 2026-07-30T06:35:09.023152+00:00 The wait is over: Build for display glasses starting today 2026-07-30T06:35:09.023152+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/changelog#july-30-2026 2026-07-30T00:00:00+00:00 Download and copyright protections on media_url The video contains copyrighted or licensed audio, including audio added from the Instagram audio library, or it has been flagged for a copyright violation. This applies to all video media, including reels, video posts, and video stories, and applies even when the app user owns the media. The reel owner has turned off downloads for the reel, through either the account-level or per-reel Allow people to download your reels setting. This applies to... 2026-07-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2026/07/29/introducing-graph-api-v26-and-marketing-api-v26/ 2026-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 Introducing Graph API v26.0 and Marketing API v26.0 Graph API v26.0 and Marketing API v26.0 include new capabilities, deprecations, and breaking changes. Review the highlights below and visit the V26. 2026-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/whatsapp-web-calling-new-features/ 2026-07-28T14:00:38+00:00 We’re introducing new features, like calling from WhatsApp Web, call transfer, background noise suppression, and more. The post Introducing WhatsApp Web Calling, Plus More New Features appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-28T14:00:38+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/meta-is-signing-the-eu-ai-act-code-of-practice-on-transparency-of-ai-generated-content/ 2026-07-28T09:47:23+00:00 As AI-generated media becomes more photorealistic, it’s increasingly important that people have tools to help them identify it. We’ve been working to put this principle into practice at Meta since April 2024, when we announced our approach to identifying and labeling AI-generated content on our platforms. More recently, we launched a research demo of a detection tool to help people better understand if an image was made with Meta AI as part of these efforts. Signing the EU AI Act Code of Prac... 2026-07-28T09:47:23+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/meta-announces-new-venture-with-blackrock-to-develop-data-center-in-el-paso/ 2026-07-28T09:30:23+00:00 Meta and BlackRock announce a venture to finance the development and operation of a data center campus in El Paso, Texas. The post Meta Announces New Strategic Venture With BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-28T09:30:23+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-glasses-v127-muse-spark-threads/ 2026-07-27T19:00:00+00:00 This month’s update makes it easier to stay connected with Threads and upgrades your display glasses’ AI capabilities with a new version of Meta AI. 2026-07-27T19:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/ai-glasses-helping-people-work-learn-live-independently/ 2026-07-27T14:00:36+00:00 We've awarded AI Glasses Impact Grants to 30 organizations across the US using Meta AI glasses to help people work safer, learn faster, and live more independently. The post Announcing the AI Glasses Impact Grant Recipients: Helping People Work, Learn, and Live More Independently appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-27T14:00:36+00:00 https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/ 2026-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 Reimagining Independence: How Meta’s AI Models Are Helping the University of Pittsburgh Transform Assistive Robotics 2026-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/meta-ai-muse-spark-doesnt-just-think-it-acts/ 2026-07-24T17:00:55+00:00 Powered by Muse Spark 1.1, Meta AI, can now build, plan, and follow through from start to finish. The post Meta AI Doesn’t Just Think, It Acts appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-24T17:00:55+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-seller-app-facebook-marketplace/ 2026-07-24T11:00:54+00:00 We're introducing Seller, a new app that helps for Marketplace sellers streamline their activities. The post Introducing Seller, an App for Facebook Marketplace Sellers appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-24T11:00:54+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-facebook-verified/ 2026-07-24T11:00:54+00:00 We’re launching Facebook Verified, a free badge that verifies there's a real person behind a profile. The post Introducing Facebook Verified appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-24T11:00:54+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/connecting-real-people-on-facebook/ 2026-07-24T11:00:32+00:00 We're celebrating 10 years of Marketplace with new features and purpose-built apps that help real people connect on Facebook. The post Connecting Real People on Facebook appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-24T11:00:32+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/new-whatsapp-features-keep-up-with-the-way-you-actually-live/ 2026-07-22T13:30:41+00:00 We’ve introduced new features that make it easier for you to make WhatsApp part of your life. The post New WhatsApp Features Keep Up With the Way You Actually Live appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-22T13:30:41+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/new-parental-supervision-tools-coming-threads/ 2026-07-21T16:00:19+00:00 We're rolling out parental supervision on Threads, giving parents even more tools to support their teens across Meta's apps. The post New Parental Supervision Tools Coming To Threads appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-21T16:00:19+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/xbox-game-pass-meta-horizon-plus-launch/ 2026-07-21T15:00:00+00:00 We’re teaming up with XBOX again, this time bringing a starter edition of XBOX Game Pass to Meta Horizon+ and adding a rotating catalog of 50 XBOX games you can play right on your headset. 2026-07-21T15:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2026/07/21/the-case-for-webhooks/ 2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 Stop Polling, Start Pushing: The Case for Webhooks Today, API users set up “polling” to frequently request updates to ensure they have the most current data. While common, this process is inefficient 2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/ 2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 How Meta’s AI Models are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects 2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=July+20%2C+2026 2026-07-20T07:00:00+00:00 Added instructions for requesting a review of a Direct Send template flagged as marketing. 2026-07-20T07:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/the-2026-summer-of-football-a-record-breaking-moment-across-meta/ 2026-07-17T22:12:42+00:00 During the 2026 summer of soccer, engagement across Instagram, Threads, Facebook, and WhatsApp broke records. The post The 2026 Summer of Football: A Record-Breaking Moment Across Meta appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-17T22:12:42+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/keeping-parents-informed-teens-distress-conversations-meta-ai/ 2026-07-16T11:00:45+00:00 Parents using Instagram supervision tools will now be notified if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI. The post Alerting Parents if Teens Show Signs of Distress in Conversations With Meta AI appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-16T11:00:45+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2026/07/16/meta-ads-mcp-server/ 2026-07-16T00:00:00+00:00 Meta's ads MCP server is now available for developers Today, we are opening up our ads MCP server to any developer with their own Meta app. You can now connect your AI application directly to Meta's a 2026-07-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/07/15/ai-research/exploring-hierarchical-interest-representation-for-meta-ads-deep-funnel-optimization/ 2026-07-15T17:00:52+00:00 Hierarchical Interest Representation is a research area for Meta Ads. We’re exploring an upstream representation layer over the universe of Ads entities – users, advertisers, products, services – learning unified embeddings that connect users’ inferred interests with the breadth of what advertisers offer in their deep funnel ads. The innovations in Hierarchical Interest Representation are [...] Read More... The post Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optim... 2026-07-15T17:00:52+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/what-to-watch-free-meta-quest-tv-vr-film-july-2026/ 2026-07-15T17:00:00+00:00 From the latest movies, to the best in streaming, to the biggest moments in sports — all the immersive entertainment you could want is waiting for you on Meta Quest. 2026-07-15T17:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=July+15%2C+2026 2026-07-15T07:00:00+00:00 Added the Phone Number First flow to a subset of business customers in the default Embedded Signup flow. 2026-07-15T07:00:00+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/07/13/ml-applications/modernizing-the-meta-ads-service-with-an-open-source-kernel-scheduler/ 2026-07-13T16:00:50+00:00 TL; DR At Meta’s scale, a few milliseconds of latency degradation can have a significant negative impact on ads performance. When a Linux kernel upgrade risked regressing latency across Meta’s ad serving fleet, we turned to sched_ext — the upstream, BPF-based extensible scheduling framework — to build a scheduling policy customized to the Ads delivery [...] Read More... The post Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler appeared first on Engineering at Meta . 2026-07-13T16:00:50+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/teachers-local-businesses-win-as-meta-expands-louisiana-data-center/ 2026-07-13T09:30:24+00:00 We're expanding our Richland Parish, Louisiana data center to 5GW of compute capacity in a town that’s already seeing life-changing returns for teachers, local businesses, and students. The post Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-13T09:30:24+00:00 https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/ 2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/breaking-ground-on-metas-first-data-center-in-canada/ 2026-07-08T19:30:30+00:00 We’re breaking ground on a new 1GW, AI-optimized data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta — our first data center in Canada and 33rd in our global fleet. The post Breaking Ground on Meta’s First Data Center in Canada appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-08T19:30:30+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-questions-answered/ 2026-07-07T23:35:43+00:00 We’re answering frequently asked questions about our AI glasses and sharing the features we’ve built to help both the wearers of our glasses and the people around them feel comfortable. The post Meta’s AI Glasses: Your Questions Answered appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-07T23:35:43+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-muse-image-meta-ai/ 2026-07-07T18:05:34+00:00 Muse Image is the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, now available in Meta AI. The post Introducing Muse Image: Image Generation Built for Your World appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-07-07T18:05:34+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/our-work-to-fight-child-exploitation-on-our-apps/ 2026-07-07T14:58:49+00:00 Child exploitation is a horrific crime and every day, we work aggressively to fight this kind of abuse both on and off our platforms. We’re aware of recent news reports about Instagram ads in India that violated our policies against child exploitation. And we want to be clear: we take these concerns seriously, we never want this content on our platforms, and we’re committed to improving our efforts to combat it. Before these cases were brought to our attention, our enforcement systems had alr... 2026-07-07T14:58:49+00:00 https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/ 2026-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 Introducing Muse Image and Muse Video 2026-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=July+3%2C+2026 2026-07-03T07:00:00+00:00 Documented geographic availability for the In-App Signup API, including the regions where it is not available. 2026-07-03T07:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/boz-to-the-future-the-power-of-innovation-heresy-and-fighting-for-the-future-with-palantirs-shyam-sankar/ 2026-07-02T15:00:00+00:00 Welcome back to another episode of Boz to the Future. In the latest episode, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks to Shyam Sankar — CTO of Palantir Technologies. 2026-07-02T15:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-horizon-plus-vr-subscription-service-july-gun-club-vr-dragon-fist-vr-kung-fu-phantom-covert-ops/ 2026-07-01T17:00:00+00:00 July adds Gun Club VR, Dragon Fist: VR Kung Fu and Phantom: Covert Ops to the Meta Horizon+ catalog. 2026-07-01T17:00:00+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/07/01/data-infrastructure/metas-ai-storage-blueprint-at-scale/ 2026-07-01T16:00:36+00:00 Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releases has gone down from months to weeks. Reliable and fast access to storage is important to both the speed and computational cost of this AI innovation. If AI is [...] Read More... The post Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta . 2026-07-01T16:00:36+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ai-glasses-oakley-meta-hstn-oakley-meta-vanguard-18birdies-arccos/ 2026-07-01T14:00:00+00:00 Together with Oakley, we’re integrating two apps into Meta AI glasses that golfers already trust and love to help take their game to the next level: 18Birdies and Arccos. 2026-07-01T14:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/what-to-play-on-meta-quest-june-2026-recap/ 2026-06-30T20:00:00+00:00 We round up all the biggest new releases and content updates in June, to keep you up-to-date on what’s happening on Meta Quest and what’s pushing the envelope in VR 2026-06-30T20:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/discord-launch/ 2026-06-30T17:10:23+00:00 Today, Discord comes to Meta Quest, allowing you to talk with friends via text chat and voice in-headset — even while you’re playing games. 2026-06-30T17:10:23+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/06/30/open-source/10-years-of-metas-commitment-to-python/ 2026-06-30T16:00:46+00:00 This year marks Meta’s 10th consecutive year as a sponsor of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), the charitable organization dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting the open-source Python programming language and the community that sustains it. Python is one of the world’s most influential programming languages, and we use it across our engineering stack, from [...] Read More... The post 10 Years of Meta’s Commitment to Python appeared first on Engineering at Meta . 2026-06-30T16:00:46+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=June+30%2C+2026 2026-06-30T07:00:00+00:00 Added call recording and transcription for the WhatsApp Business Calling API. 2026-06-30T07:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/messenger-platform/changelog/?filter=June+30%2C+2026 2026-06-30T07:00:00+00:00 Added the image grid template for Messenger Platform — send 2 to 6 images in a grid with optional per-image tap actions. 2026-06-30T07:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/its-time-to-reserve-your-whatsapp-username/ 2026-06-29T16:00:06+00:00 We're launching usernames for WhatsApp, so you can connect with people without giving out your phone number. The post It’s Time to Reserve Your WhatsApp Username appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-29T16:00:06+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=June+29%2C+2026 2026-06-29T07:00:00+00:00 Username reservation and adoption go live June 29, 2026; BSUID message-send support and the contact-request button move to July 2026. 2026-06-29T07:00:00+00:00 https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain2qwerty-brain-ai-human-communication/ 2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00 From Brain Waves to Words: Brain2Qwerty Offers a New Path to Communication Without Surgery 2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/inside-meta-data-center/ 2026-06-26T18:28:26+00:00 See Tom Shaw's perspective on the infrastructure and technology inside one of Meta's data centers. The post Inside One of Meta’s Data Centers appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-26T18:28:26+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/peak-summer-sale-discounts-vr-games/ 2026-06-26T17:00:00+00:00 Summer is heating up, and so is your Meta Quest library, thanks to all the great new deals you can snag as part of our Peak Summer Sale. 2026-06-26T17:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=June+26%2C+2026 2026-06-26T07:00:00+00:00 Added SIP call webhooks support with call_created and terminate events for SIP-enabled numbers. 2026-06-26T07:00:00+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/06/25/security/privacy-aware-infrastructure-in-the-ai-native-era-an-asset-classification-case-study/ 2026-06-25T22:30:51+00:00 Privacy controls — systems that enforce retention, access, allowed-purpose, downstream-sharing, or anonymization policies — require a reliable understanding of data to function. Before such a control can operate effectively, it must know exactly what it is looking at. This can be complex, as demonstrated by a field simply named “age“: In one context, it might [...] Read More... The post Privacy-Aware Infrastructure in the AI-Native Era: An Asset Classification Case Study appeared first on Eng... 2026-06-25T22:30:51+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/grammy-winner-yungbluds-zombie-now-available-in-beat-saber/ 2026-06-25T15:00:00+00:00 “Zombie,” YUNGBLUD’s deeply-personal exploration of grief, is Beat Saber’s latest Shock Drop, and it’s available to play today. 2026-06-25T15:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/teens-parents-and-educators-navigate-online-safety-in-singapore/ 2026-06-25T12:12:53+00:00 We're launching an interactive experience in Singapore that gives teens, parents, and educators practical tools to have open conversations about online safety and digital wellbeing. The post Teens, Parents, and Educators Navigate Online Safety Through Real Conversations in Singapore appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-25T12:12:53+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=June+25%2C+2026 2026-06-25T07:00:00+00:00 WhatsApp Cloud API Calling voicemail is now generally available. 2026-06-25T07:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/messenger-platform/changelog/?filter=June+25%2C+2026 2026-06-25T07:00:00+00:00 Added Messenger Platform error code 10/1893063 for Pages temporarily restricted from sending messages. 2026-06-25T07:00:00+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/vr-games-showcase-june-2026-recap-every-meta-quest-vr-game-announcement/ 2026-06-23T23:15:08+00:00 We’ve rounded up every Meta Quest game in the Summer VR Games Showcase to bring you up to speed on everything that’s coming to the Meta Horizon Store. 2026-06-23T23:15:08+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/06/23/production-engineering/how-meta-built-ultra-narrow-batteries-for-ai-glasses-meta-tech-podcast/ 2026-06-23T16:00:38+00:00 Smart glasses like the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta Vanguards need to pack enough energy to power features like cameras, speakers, AI workloads, and even a display. But it all has to fit into the glasses’ temple arms. So how do you place a battery with enough power to run a pair of smart glasses [...] Read More... The post How Meta Engineered Ultra-Narrow Batteries for AI Glasses appeared first on Engineering at Meta . 2026-06-23T16:00:38+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-essilorluxottica-partner-launch-meta-glasses/ 2026-06-23T13:00:32+00:00 We're launching Meta Glasses with 26 styles across a range of colors, lenses, and frames, so there's a pair for just about any style. The post We’re Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-23T13:00:32+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/launch-of-metas-small-business-growth-academy-across-asia-pacific/ 2026-06-23T13:00:09+00:00 Meta's Small Business Growth Academy will provide practical AI tools, advertising, and cross-border growth training to help small businesses scale across Asia-Pacific. The post Launch of Meta’s Small Business Growth Academy Across Asia-Pacific to Boost AI Adoption and Digital Skills appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-23T13:00:09+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/introducing-meta-glasses-a-range-of-new-styles-from-meta-and-essilorluxottica-starting-at-299/ 2026-06-23T13:00:00+00:00 Today, in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, we’re introducing Meta Glasses. Building on all the technology and features of the world’s best-selling AI glasses, this new line features bold and timeless shapes, rich colors, and premium materials, all consciously crafted and starting at just $299. 2026-06-23T13:00:00+00:00 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/06/22/video-engineering/adopting-av1-for-real-time-communication-rtc-meta/ 2026-06-22T16:00:08+00:00 Adopting AV1 for real-time communication at Meta has been a multi-year effort spanning codec selection, device eligibility, rate control, and error resilience. We’re sharing the technical and operational challenges while deploying AV1 and expanding coverage, and how we addressed them for real-time communication. We’re presenting several technologies for improving AV1 call quality, including rate control [...] Read More... The post Adopting AV1 for Real-Time Communication (RTC) at Scale appear... 2026-06-22T16:00:08+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/instagram-for-tv-gets-bigger-with-new-ways-to-watch-together/ 2026-06-22T14:00:34+00:00 Instagram for TV will not be available on Samsung TV, plus we're testing new to make sharing and discovering even more fun. The post Instagram for TV Gets Bigger, With New Ways to Watch Together appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-22T14:00:34+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/changelog#june-22-2026 2026-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 AI Info Label POST /{ig_user_id}/media with the is_ai_generated parameter GET /{ig_media_id}?fields=is_ai_generated New Story Insights Metrics GET /{ig_media_id}/insights?metric=link_clicks 2026-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/strengthening-teen-accounts-with-new-safety-updates-on-instagram-and-facebook/ 2026-06-18T05:59:04+00:00 Meta has announced a series of updates designed to strengthen protections for teens across Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. The post Strengthening Teen Accounts with New Safety Updates on Instagram and Facebook appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-18T05:59:04+00:00 https://www.meta.com/blog/https-www-meta-com-blog-vr-showcase-june-2026-payday-aces-high-hot-dogs-horseshoes-hand-grenades-2-h3vr2/ 2026-06-17T19:38:02+00:00 Summer’s in full swing, and with a heap of new VR games on the horizon, it’s time for another VR Games Showcase to show off everything fans can look forward to coming to Meta Quest. 2026-06-17T19:38:02+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/threads-returns-to-turkiye-with-new-features/ 2026-06-17T17:40:55+00:00 This is because of a recent decision taken by the Turkish Competition Authority The post Threads Returns to Türkiye With New Features appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-17T17:40:55+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-launching-new-features-500-million-monthly-threads-users/ 2026-06-16T11:00:31+00:00 We're launching new communities features on Threads to celebrate reaching 500 million monthly active users. The post New Features to Celebrate 500 Million Monthly Users on Threads appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-16T11:00:31+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=June+16%2C+2026 2026-06-16T07:00:00+00:00 Added messaging_account_id as the preferred Cloud API parameter, with paid_messaging_account_id kept as a deprecated backward-compatible alias. 2026-06-16T07:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/iniciativas-para-manter-pais-brasileiros-informados-sobre-as-contas-de-adolescente-e-supervisao-parental-no-instagram/ 2026-06-15T17:51:32+00:00 Um dos principais objetivos do trabalho da Meta voltado à segurança dos adolescentes que utilizam nossos aplicativos é dar mais tranquilidade aos pais. Primeiro, com uma experiência desenvolvida especificamente para jovens de 13 a 17 anos que já tem configurações mais protegidas por padrão, sem que pais e responsáveis precisem fazer nada – as chamadas Contas de Adolescente; segundo, dando a esses pais informações úteis sobre como tem sido o uso de nossas plataformas por seus filhos. Assim, el... 2026-06-15T17:51:32+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/new-ai-tools-to-help-you-make-things-happen-on-facebook/ 2026-06-15T16:00:23+00:00 We’re introducing new AI-powered Facebook features to help you connect, create, and find what you’re looking for. The post New AI Tools to Help You Make Things Happen on Facebook appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-15T16:00:23+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=June+15%2C+2026 2026-06-15T07:00:00+00:00 Added Direct Send API documentation for the open beta. 2026-06-15T07:00:00+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2026/06/15/tokenless-access-to-meta-oembed-apis/ 2026-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 Introducing Tokenless Access to Meta oEmbed APIs TL;DR You can now call Meta oEmbed APIs to embed public Facebook, Threads, and Instagram content without an access token. ... Read the story 2026-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/free-ai-glasses-for-every-blind-veteran/ 2026-06-12T12:33:26+00:00 We're donating Ray-Ban Meta glasses to every blind veteran in America, giving them transformative AI technology. The post The Future Is for Everyone: Free AI Glasses for Every Blind Veteran in America appeared first on Meta Newsroom . 2026-06-12T12:33:26+00:00 https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/changelog/?filter=June+12%2C+2026 2026-06-12T07:00:00+00:00 Documented business-side message edits and revokes in the coexistence edit and revoke messages webhooks for business-scoped user IDs. 2026-06-12T07:00:00+00:00