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Meta's Muse outpaces ChatGPT's launch with 1.8 million downloads
The new AI agent reached 642,000 daily active users on iOS in 12 days, drawing more than 95 per cent of its early install base from existing Facebook accounts.
Technology
TikTok rejects Meta ads demanding shared child safety rules
The video platform classified the campaign as prohibited political content, leaving a conditional US$5.3 billion portion of Meta's recent multistate legal settlement locked.
Marketing
What Meta's 12% ad price rise costs a small advertiser
Meta's average price per ad rose 12 per cent year on year while impressions grew 14 per cent. What that actually does to a small advertiser's budget is a different calculation.
Australia
Who decides what Australians see online, and how fast it changed
X banned an Australian outlet without publishing a reason. The regulatory machinery around that decision has moved further, and faster, than most people noticed.
Meta
Meta's ad revenue rises 27% to $59bn on AI ad engine
Meta Platforms posted the strongest quarterly advertising revenue in its history, yet the share price fell before the earnings call had even ended.
Marketing
Google now shows businesses how social posts rank in Search
Google has opened Search Console platform properties to everyone, letting businesses track how their Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts perform across Search, Discover and News.
AI
Zuckerberg backs faster AI as 1,293 lab workers urge brakes
The op-ed did not arrive quietly. On 28 July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a piece arguing the US should speed up AI development, not pull back on it. "The defining question of our age isn't whether superintelligence will exist, but who will have access to it.
Iran-US War
Trump posts fake AI images of strikes on Iran's main oil terminal
Fabricated images of American strikes on Iran's main oil terminal reached millions, posted by the US president himself. None of the attacks happened.
Technology
Meta launches Muse Image with multi-photo blending
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Image on 7 July 2026, its first in-house text-to-image model, now live across the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories in the US and WhatsApp in limited countries.