The data leak triggered a major internal security alert inside Meta. The data leak triggered a major internal security alert inside Meta. Fri 20 Mar 2026 02.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 20 Mar 2026 03.03 EDT An AI agent instructed an engineer to take actions that exposed a large amount of Meta's sensitive data to some of its employees, in the latest example of AI causing upheaval in a large tech company. The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented - causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.

The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privacy drawbacks to consider.

The company says humans will play a key role in important decisions. A little more than a year after ditching third-party fact checkers and rolling back much of its proactive content moderation, the company says it will further transform its approach by drastically reducing the number of human moderators in favor of AI-based systems. The company says the change will happen over the next few years, and will allow the company to catch more issues faster than its current approach. Meta didn't say how much of its contract workforce might be cut as it makes this transition. The company employs thousands of contractors around the world to review content flagged by its AI systems and user reports among other tasks.

Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR'for the Foreseeable Future' A day after saying it would shut down its metaverse, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced the service will remain available in VR--with limited support. One day after Meta announced it was shutting down Horizon Worlds in virtual reality, the company's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, announced that it's reversing course. "I have a little bit of good news for you here," Bosworth said in a video AMA on Instagram. "We have decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games, to support the fans who reached out." Meta initially sent an email to Horizon Worlds users on Tuesday saying it would end Horizon Worlds in VR on June 15 but keep the platform afloat on mobile.

Signal's Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people. Moxie Marlinspike, cofounder of the Signal Foundation, says his new privacy-focused AI platform, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. Moxie Marlinspike, the privacy advocate who created the secure communication app Signal and its widely used open source encryption protocol, said this week that his privacy-focused AI platform, Confer, will start incorporating its technology into Meta's AI systems. Every day, billions of chat messages sent through Signal, Meta's WhatsApp, and Apple's Messages are protected by end-to-end encryption .

Meta's flailing virtual reality social experience is being discontinued in June. It's part of Meta's broader moves to slim down the business that became its namesake. Pour one out from your digital bottle, because Meta is shutting down the virtual reality experience of Horizon Worlds. Meta sent an email blast to Horizon Worlds users today stating that the social VR world will officially end on its Quest VR headsets; starting March 31, Horizon Worlds will no longer be in the Quest store. Some Horizon-specific perks, including Meta Credits, avatars, and some digital clothes and in-world purchases, will also be removed.

Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said. Top executives have recently signaled the plans to other senior leaders at Meta and told them to begin planning how to pare back, two of the people said. The sources spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to disclose the cuts. Meta did not immediately comment.

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