Reddit is ending RSS on November 13 and plans to shut public API access by March 2027 to curb AI-driven scraping, forcing researchers, social-listening tools and AI assistants to secure commercial data deals for programmatic access.
YouTube launches Custom Feeds and expands Ask YouTube shopping tools, letting viewers save interest-specific homepage tabs and ask product questions—including voice queries on TVs, comparison tables and follow-ups—directly from video watch pages.
YouTube rolls out AI-powered creator tools across Studio, Shorts and YouTube Create, adding personalized draft feedback, thumbnail testing, conversational editing and planned A/B tests of up to three video cuts.
Meta’s Muse surges to No. 1 overall on the U.S. App Store, logging 1.8 million iOS downloads in its first 12 days in the U.S. and Canada—outpacing ChatGPT’s 1.3 million at the same stage.
Meta launches Meta One, a global subscription spanning Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI, offering more than 50 features and AI creation tools from $2.99 monthly, with Premium priced at $19.99 and business plans reaching $499.
Meta says it fixes Meta AI prompts after the tool identifies Utah mother Kalie Robins’ daughters and compiles their ages, birth weight, likely grade level, favorite places and other details from years of Facebook and Instagram posts.
X removes 4,500 Grok-generated posts and permanently suspends 674 accounts in the first 15 days of 2026 as Australia’s eSafety regulator investigates sexualised deepfakes.
Parents and children sue Meta in Illinois and California, alleging it harvested Facebook and Instagram photos without consent to train Emu and Muse Image AI models and develop the unshipped NameTag face-recognition system, potentially exposing millions to claims worth up to $5,000 per intentional Illinois biometric-privacy violation.
Meta agrees to pay as much as $17 billion to resolve states’ claims while disabling school-hour notifications and restricting likes for underage accounts, as California also pauses AI chatbot toys for children under 16 for four years.
Meta busts an Iran-linked influence operation using AI-generated content to spread anti-Republican messaging on Facebook and Instagram, where fake accounts posing as everyday Americans amass over 79,400 followers while targeting U.S. audiences on immigration and the Israel-Palestine conflict.