<p>A list of AT Protocol-based, consumer-facing apps that are either built on top of Bluesky or its underlying protocol, allowing users to take back control over their social networking experiences and personal data. </p>

<p>Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.</p>

<p>Not only is Bluesky more than just a Twitter/X alternative, it&#8217;s just one app in a wider social ecosystem built on open technology.</p>

<p>Meta is the latest tech company to warm to geothermal energy, announcing on Thursday a deal with startup XGS Energy to develop a 150 megawatt geothermal power plant in New Mexico. </p>

<p>Snapchat is introducing a suite of new tools and features to make it easier for creators to post and share content on its platform.</p>

<p>Instagram is finally going to let users rearrange their grid and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users&#8217; feeds.</p>

<p>WordPress.com owner Automattic has added another communication-focused startup to its lineup: relationship-management app Clay.</p>

<p>Snapchat is launching a new Snapchat+ tier called &#8220;Lens+,&#8221; the company announced on Wednesday, which is centered around giving users access to exclusive Lenses and AR experiences.</p>

<p>Meta&#8217;s head of public policy in India, Shivnath Thukral, is leaving the social networking company, nearly three and a half years after joining and just months after his counterpart at Google stepped down.</p>

<p>YouTube&#8217;s impact report shows that the creator economy has continued to grow, despite less interest from venture capitalists.</p>

<p>Meta is discussing a multi-billion dollar investment in Scale AI, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the deal value could reportedly exceed $10 billion, making it the largest external AI investment for the Facebook parent company and one of the largest funding events ever for a private company.</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review! Got lots for you today, including why Windsurf lost access to Claude, ChatGPT&#8217;s new features, WWDC 2025, Elon Musk&#8217;s fight with Donald Trump, and lots more. Have a great weekend! Duh: During an interview at TC Sessions: AI 2025, Anthropic&#8217;s co-founder had a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While the online feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump seemed to drive traffic to Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), it could also create issues for the platform’s parent company xAI.</p>

<p>The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts.</p>

<p>Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack-talking each other into their own echo chambers.</p>

<p>Bonfire&#8217;s mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.</p>

<p>The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.</p>

<p>Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site&#8217;s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic&#8217;s unauthorized use of the site&#8217;s data for commercial purposes was unlawful, and alleges the AI startup violated [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reddit says it&#8217;s rolling out an update that will introduce a &#8220;Content and Activity&#8221; setting that allows users to decide which content from the subreddits they participate in will appear on their profiles. This includes both their posting and commenting history.</p>

<p>Meta and Constellation Energy said the deal would help keep the Clinton Clean Energy Center running through 2047 without ratepayer support.</p>