<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[social media news - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest social media news news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:26:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety]]></title><description><![CDATA[Days after a phone call with Pope Leo XIV about the moral stakes of artificial intelligence, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Toronto on Thursday and announced precisely the kind of national framework the pontiff had demanded. The strategy, branded &ldquo;AI for All,&rdquo; commits more than&nbsp;$2.3 billion&nbsp;in spending over five years. It is Canada&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/canada-unveils-23bn-ai-strategy-as-carney-takes-cues-from-pope-leo-on-safety/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/canada-unveils-23bn-ai-strategy-as-carney-takes-cues-from-pope-leo-on-safety/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publishing professionals are becoming prime targets for impersonation]]></title><description><![CDATA[An aspiring author receives an email from a &ldquo;literary agent&rdquo; expressing enthusiasm about their manuscript. The message is polished, personalized, and professional. The sender references recent bestsellers, adaptation potential, and submission strategy. The agency website looks legitimate, the LinkedIn profile appears credible, and the tone sounds authoritative and reassuring. Then comes the catch with one [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/publishing-professionals-are-becoming-prime-targets-for-impersonation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/publishing-professionals-are-becoming-prime-targets-for-impersonation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta launches an AI assistant that tells Facebook creators why their content works, not just that it did]]></title><description><![CDATA[Knowing that a reel performed well has never been the hard part. The hard part is understanding why. Was it the hook, the timing, the format, the audio? Creators have spent years toggling between analytics dashboards trying to reverse-engineer answers that the data, on its own, does not give. Meta&rsquo;s new Creator Assistant,&nbsp;announced on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/meta-launches-an-ai-assistant-that-tells-facebook-creators-why-their-content-works-not-just-that-it-did/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/meta-launches-an-ai-assistant-that-tells-facebook-creators-why-their-content-works-not-just-that-it-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single GitHub issue could have hijacked Anthropic’s own Claude Code action and poisoned every project that uses it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The attack starts with a GitHub issue. Not a sophisticated one. Just an issue opened by a bot account with a carefully worded body that looks like an error message. When Claude Code&rsquo;s GitHub Action picks it up for triage, it follows the instructions hidden inside, reads the process&rsquo;s environment variables, and writes them back [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/a-single-github-issue-could-have-hijacked-anthropics-own-claude-code-action-and-poisoned-every-project-that-uses-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/a-single-github-issue-could-have-hijacked-anthropics-own-claude-code-action-and-poisoned-every-project-that-uses-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion.&nbsp;SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June&nbsp;at a $1.77 trillion valuation, selling 555.6 million shares at a fixed price of $135 each in what will be the largest IPO in history.&nbsp;Anthropic has filed at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/databricks-ceo-calls-2026-a-terrible-year-to-go-public-as-spacex-anthropic-and-openai-prepare-to-absorb-200-billion-in-ipo-capital/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/databricks-ceo-calls-2026-a-terrible-year-to-go-public-as-spacex-anthropic-and-openai-prepare-to-absorb-200-billion-in-ipo-capital/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Meta&nbsp;announced in April&nbsp;that it would install software on US employees&rsquo; work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company&rsquo;s head of technology Andrew Bosworth was blunt: &ldquo;There is no option to opt out of this on your work provided laptop.&rdquo; Two months and more than 1,500 petition signatures [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/meta-will-let-employees-stop-being-tracked-for-30-minutes-at-a-time/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/meta-will-let-employees-stop-being-tracked-for-30-minutes-at-a-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mile-long nuclear-powered ship for 80,000 people has been “about to break ground” for three decades]]></title><description><![CDATA[The renderings are gorgeous. A mile-long vessel, 800 feet wide, 30 decks high, gliding across the open ocean with parks, schools, a 15,000-seat sports stadium, and enough residential space for 50,000 permanent inhabitants. Nuclear-powered, perpetually circumnavigating the globe, never docking in port. A floating city, in the most literal sense. The Freedom Ship has been [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/a-mile-long-nuclear-powered-ship-for-80000-people-has-been-about-to-break-ground-for-three-decades/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/a-mile-long-nuclear-powered-ship-for-80000-people-has-been-about-to-break-ground-for-three-decades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Ramp was a $7.65 billion corporate card company. On Wednesday, it announced a $750 million Series F that values it at $44 billion, a nearly six-fold increase that makes it one of the most valuable private fintech companies in the world. The round was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers&rsquo; Pension [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/ramp-hits-44-billion-valuation-in-750-million-raise-as-it-bets-that-ai-token-spending-is-the-next-corporate-expense-to-tame/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/ramp-hits-44-billion-valuation-in-750-million-raise-as-it-bets-that-ai-token-spending-is-the-next-corporate-expense-to-tame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking]]></title><description><![CDATA[For months, publishers have faced a binary choice with Google: let AI Overviews summarise your content at the top of the search page, sending less traffic to your site, or disappear from Google entirely. As of Wednesday, that choice no longer applies in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority has&nbsp;ordered Google to give publishers&nbsp;the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/uk-forces-google-to-let-publishers-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-without-losing-their-ranking/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/uk-forces-google-to-let-publishers-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-without-losing-their-ranking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut’s co-founder and first employee steps down as CTO ahead of the company’s march toward a $200 billion IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vlad Yatsenko was Revolut&rsquo;s first employee. He joined before CEO Nik Storonsky had even launched the company. Storonsky later gave him the title of co-founder, not because he had co-founded the business in the conventional sense, but because, as Storonsky&nbsp;told David Rubenstein&nbsp;earlier this year, &ldquo;it was easier for him to recruit engineers if he had [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/revoluts-co-founder-and-first-employee-steps-down-as-cto-ahead-of-the-companys-march-toward-a-200-billion-ipo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/revoluts-co-founder-and-first-employee-steps-down-as-cto-ahead-of-the-companys-march-toward-a-200-billion-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft’s AI chief says the company wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mustafa Suleyman has identified Microsoft&rsquo;s biggest AI competitor, and it is not OpenAI. &ldquo;Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,&rdquo; the head of Microsoft&rsquo;s in-house model effort&nbsp;told Bloomberg&nbsp;in an interview. The statement is more than competitive positioning. It is a declaration of intent. &ldquo;We pay a lot of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/microsofts-ai-chief-says-the-company-wants-to-eliminate-what-it-pays-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/microsofts-ai-chief-says-the-company-wants-to-eliminate-what-it-pays-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than a year after Belgian prosecutors asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of four lawmakers suspected of taking bribes from Huawei lobbyists, the Parliament has voted to keep those protections in place,&nbsp;Politico reported. The decision shields the accused MEPs from questioning by Belgian investigators, who cannot compel testimony or gather key evidence [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/eu-lawmakers-voted-to-shield-colleagues-from-belgiums-huawei-corruption-probe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/eu-lawmakers-voted-to-shield-colleagues-from-belgiums-huawei-corruption-probe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pitch deck for every AI sales tool tells the same story: more signals, better insights, smarter forecasting. What they leave out is that most of those insights end up ignored. Reps drown in dashboards. CRM records go stale. The deal that should have closed last week slips because nobody acted on the intent signal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/ex-deepmind-duo-raise-20-million-to-close-the-gap-between-what-sales-teams-know-and-what-they-actually-do/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/ex-deepmind-duo-raise-20-million-to-close-the-gap-between-what-sales-teams-know-and-what-they-actually-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court&rsquo;s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was also, for European policymakers, clarifying. If a single American company could cut off a senior international official&rsquo;s communications at the stroke of a pen, what else could be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/europe-wants-to-make-sure-no-one-has-a-kill-switch-over-its-technology/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/europe-wants-to-make-sure-no-one-has-a-kill-switch-over-its-technology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside the mind of a viral indie hacker]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the 29-year-old Samuel Rizzon is asked what he does, he answers with a single word: &ldquo;developer.&rdquo; While accurate, it&rsquo;s a modest label for someone whose work has stretched well beyond writing code. At an age when many engineers are still settling into a single specialty, Rizzon has built products embraced by large enterprises, online [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/inside-the-mind-of-a-viral-indie-hacker/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/inside-the-mind-of-a-viral-indie-hacker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perk, the corporate travel and spend management group that until last year traded as TravelPerk, has closed a $300 million private credit facility, money raised as debt rather than equity and at a scale the company says few technology firms have reached in the current market. The facility is led by&nbsp;Neuberger Specialty Finance, the private-credit [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/perk-lands-300m-credit-facility-to-push-its-ai-platform-into-the-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/perk-lands-300m-credit-facility-to-push-its-ai-platform-into-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is entering the late stage of its hype cycle. Not a collapse. A correction. For the past two years,&nbsp;AI has dominated venture capital flows, with capital pouring into the sector at unprecedented scale and startups multiplying rapidly as funding concentrates around AI-driven businesses. What began as acceleration has now started to show the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/the-ai-hype-cycle-will-slow-down-whats-next-decides-the-winners/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/the-ai-hype-cycle-will-slow-down-whats-next-decides-the-winners/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synthesia partners with Cinder to scale moderation before a frame renders]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI video company is adding moderation infrastructure built for AI-generated content, doubling down on a screen-at-creation model it has run since 2017. Synthesia decides whether a video is allowed before it exists. The London AI video company, which lets users generate avatar-led clips&nbsp;from a script, announced on 4 June that it is extending its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/synthesia-partners-with-cinder-to-scale-moderation-before-a-frame-renders/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/synthesia-partners-with-cinder-to-scale-moderation-before-a-frame-renders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s new Proteus robot takes plain-language orders, headed to Europe in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pitch for Amazon&rsquo;s new warehouse robot is that you talk to it. At its &ldquo;Delivering the Future&rdquo; event at the Dartford fulfilment centre east of London on 4 June, Amazon unveiled a next-generation Proteus that takes instructions in plain language, no technical commands and no programming interface, alongside a plan to invest more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/amazons-new-proteus-robot-takes-plain-language-orders-headed-to-europe-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/amazons-new-proteus-robot-takes-plain-language-orders-headed-to-europe-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta keeps delaying the Muse Spark API developers were promised]]></title><description><![CDATA[The model shipped in April. The interface developers need to build on it has slipped repeatedly, with no firm date until Meta said this week it would arrive this month. A model without an API is a demo, not a platform. That is the awkward position Meta&rsquo;s Muse Spark has occupied since April, when the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/meta-keeps-delaying-the-muse-spark-api-developers-were-promised/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/meta-keeps-delaying-the-muse-spark-api-developers-were-promised/</guid></item></channel></rss>