Snapchat bets on smart glasses as the future LOS ANGELES – Snap is getting ready to launch new smart glasses later this year, and the company is positioning them as a major step beyond the smartphone. I recently spoke with Snap co-found…

kinda weird framing from KTLA here but fwiw these are the same glasses Snap has been showing off for the last year and a half... they've said the new ones coming this year will look (hopefully a lot) better

Bluesky reporting some more issues today..

Bluesky has been wonky all day bc of a DDoS that they are apparently still trying to get under control

Meta isn't setting its Oversight Board free just yet The Oversight Board has taken steps to formalize its long-contemplated desire to work with other companies, but Engadget has learned Meta has thus far declined to move forward with that process.

NEW: The uncertain future facing Meta's Oversight Board isn't just about funding. The group sees a new opportunity to work w/ Gen AI companies and has even gotten some signs of interest from a few firms. But Meta needs to agree and so far, the company hasn't. www.engadget.com/social-media...

never understood the hype for Philz tbh

idk seems kinda telling that OpenAI is simultaneously saying they spent untold $$$ on TBPN to promote more "constructive" narratives about the AI industry but also they plan to let them keep editorial independence (which, lol, TBPN not exactly a hard hitting enterprise)

Some amazing details here, including SBF's parents filing a legal doc that was made to look like it was mailed by SBF from prison but was very obviously sent via FedEx (which isn't accessible in prison) in Palo Alto

a capybara sitting placidly in a tank of water with a red apple balanced atop its head

when u have a good idea

So uh Vanity Fair did a big cover story on AI and was supposed to get an interview with Dario but Anthropic blew him off so he instead.. made one up with Claude and discloses it after the made-up interview. Cool.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

Meta's latest creator push comes with $3,000 bonuses for posting on Facebook Meta is launching a new initiative aimed at popular creators who already have large followings on other platforms and offering bonuses for posting on Facebook.

NEW: Meta is offering creators who have large followings on other platforms (but who don't regularly post on Facebook) up to $3k a month in bonuses if they start posting on Facebook, it's the company's latest plan to bring higher quality content and more well-known creators to the platform.

welp the new, new Digg didn't last long. like 2 months after launching publicly they are laying off a bunch of people and bringing back Kevin Rose to... fight the bots?

Meta hit with a class action lawsuit over smart glasses' privacy claims Meta is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising related to its AI glasses following reports about the company's use of human contractors to review footage captured from users' glasses.

Meta is now facing a class action lawsuit over its smart glasses' privacy claims following reports that users' footage has been reviewed by human contractors in Kenya. www.engadget.com/social-media...

been meaning to do this but today seemed like a good day for it

X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, researchers say Researchers say that the recommendation algorithm published by X doesn't offer the kind of transparency that would actually be useful for anyone trying to understand how X works in 2026.

X recently released a new open-source version of its algorithm, but researchers say it's not exactly a win for transparency. Here's my deep dive about what we can actually learn about it from the code that was shared, and allll the parts that are still missing. www.engadget.com/social-media...

That was my first thought but the tweet stayed up for a long time and the account tagged wasn’t overtly crypto .. on second look now the tweet is gone so, yeah.

but was it a "scoop of ideas" or a "scoop of explanation" 🤔

NYT White House correspondent is on X... bragging about buying a plane?

X's head of product says the platform will soon feature "starterpacks" to make it easier for people to find other users to follow.. wonder where I've heard that before

dear god

The Meta Situation Just Got Worse. YouTube video by Gamertag VR

hmm this YouTuber claims that an unannounced “official” Harry Potter VR game (from .. Skydance) may have been one of the casualties of yesterday’s metaverse layoffs at Meta

The robots we saw at CES 2026: The lovable, the creepy and the utterly confusing From sassy humanoids, to AI-powered pets and chore-handling assistants, we sought out as many cute, strange and capable robots as we could find during CES.

Here it is, our robot recap of CES 206. We saw a bunch of cute robot “pets,” humanoids, laundry-doing robots and even a new AI robot friend from will.i.am (yes he’s at it again!) www.engadget.com/ai/the-robot...

I don't really have an opinion on pretty pics vs blurry, raw "aesthetic" shots but when the head of Instagram says creators should post "unflattering" pics to prove they are real and not AI I feel like that says a whole lot about where AI is going

Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media' Adam Mosseri offered a notably candid assessment on how AI is upending Instagram.

Instagram's top exec Adam Mosseri just published a little manifesto on the state of Instagram and AI going into 2026 and .. it's quite telling! He basically says Meta should give up trying to proactively label AI content and that camera companies should be in charge of verifying what's real.

A Facebook test makes link-sharing a paid feature for creators Meta is testing out a new scheme that effectively puts link-sharing behind a paywall for creators on Facebook.

Meta describes this as a very "limited" test but there are some pretty big implications to making link-sharing a paid feature. Lots of people already assume Meta throttles posts w/ links but this suggests there may be a wider effort to reduce links across Facebook www.engadget.com/social-media...

👋 this was reported first by me on Engadget bsky.app/profile/kari...

Reddit is starting to verify public figures Reddit is starting a "limited alpha test" of verification for public figures, who will get a familiar gray checkmark added to their username.

New exclusive from me: Reddit is starting a new verification program beginning w/ public figures and brands, though the company hopes to make it available more widely in the future. Verified accounts get a gray checkmark (this will also replace the "official" badge). More details over @engadget.com

Nearly one-third of teens use AI chatbots daily Nearly one-third of US teens report using AI chatbots daily or more, according to a new report from Pew Research.

Pew just published its first look at how teens are using AI chatbots and there are some 👀 stats here.. close to a third of US teens say they are using AI chatbots daily or more and ChatGPT is the most widely used among teens by a fairly sizable margin. More ⬇ www.engadget.com/ai/nearly-on...

Meta's Oversight Board wants to expand its powers in 2026 The Oversight Board is getting ready to tackle a new pain point for Facebook and Instagram users as it looks to expand its purview in 2026.

The Oversight Board is looking to expand its scope, starting w/ a pilot to explore account-level decisions (suspensions, etc.) which could allow it to take appeals related to account suspensions. The board also tells me it's had "very preliminary" conversations about working w/ other platforms.

That SF kinda cold is no joke 🥶

This one at a national park in Patagonia felt a bit random 🫠