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Microsoft unveils Project Solara, a platform for agent-first devices, at Build

Microsoft has unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a chip-to-cloud platform built for devices that run AI agents rather than traditional apps, flagged by Jack Rowbotham. The platform pairs a lightweight operating system with enterprise security and management through Intune and Entra ID, and introduces "just-in-time UI," where agents experience generating and adapting their own interface to whatever device they run on, rather than requiring a redesign per form factor.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorJack Rowbotham

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Meta launches seven premium subscription tiers across its apps

Meta has launched seven premium subscription plans across nearly all of its core apps, including Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus, WhatsApp Plus, and Meta AI Premium, flagged by Matt Navarra. The tiers bundle power-user and expression features such as extra Story controls, premium reactions, more pinned chats, custom app icons, longer Stories, and additional stickers.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorMatt Navarra

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Meta launches a "Maximise leads through messages" conversion event

Meta has added a new conversion event to messaging campaigns, "Maximise the number of leads through messages," which was surfaced by Matias Axel Ramayo. Alongside the existing goal of maximising purchases through messages, advertisers can now optimise for lead generation, with a form on both Instagram and WhatsApp that people can complete and that counts as a conversion in the campaign.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorMatias Axel Ramayo

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Meta auto-adds "related media" and may swap your call-to-action

Bram Van der Hallen has flagged two auto-applied changes that can alter live Meta ads without explicit approval. In the Related media section, Meta may automatically pull in similar images from an account's ad library and attach them to a current creative; if left unreviewed, this can make an ad look outdated or off-message.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorBram Van der Hallen

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UK regulator orders Google to disclose AI search click data

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has issued Google with a conduct requirement that will force it to disclose substantial data on AI search, including clicks, flagged by Lidia Infante. Google will have to provide impressions and clicks disaggregated from other search features, surfaced in a widely available platform such as Google Search Console, with AI clicks made trackable on-site so their quality can be assessed.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorLidia Infante

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Meta takes its Business Agent global at Conversations in London

Meta has launched its Business Agent globally, announced at its Conversations conference in London and witnessed live by Lars Maat. The AI agent handles customer conversations across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, fielding inquiries, recommending products from a catalogue, scheduling appointments, qualifying leads, and completing transactions, with a handoff mechanism that escalates to a human once a conversation reaches an owner-defined point.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorLars Maat

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Google ships a free, fully local AI voice dictation app

Google has released Google AI Edge Eloquent, a free and fully open-source voice dictation app that runs on-device locally using the Gemma 4 12B model, flagged by Shubham Saboo. Unlike the paid dictation tools it competes with, it processes audio on the device so voice data never leaves it, and it offers real-time transcription that strips filler words and fixes mid-sentence restarts, plus a personal vocabulary dictionary that can learn project names and jargon.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorShubham Saboo

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Use Meta geo bid modifiers before splitting a consolidated international campaign

Curtis Howland has shared a practical tactic for managing multi-geography Meta campaigns in which one region underspends despite maintaining a good ROAS. Rather than splitting the underspending geo into its own campaign, which fragments the data and discards accumulated learnings, he applies a positive location-level bid modifier (value rule) to that geo, starting at around +20% and pushing to +50% if needed.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorCurtis Howland

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Meta adds Customer Lifecycle Strategy at the ad-set level

Govind Singh has spotted a new Customer Lifecycle Strategy option at the ad-set level in Meta Ads. Advertisers choose between two settings: get conversions from all audiences (Meta optimises for the lowest cost per result across existing and new customers) or acquire new customers (Meta targets people who have never purchased, accepting a potentially higher cost per result to grow the customer base).

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorGovind Singh

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Meta's creative-feature testing toggle resurfaces account-level audit need

Peter Quadrel has flagged the steps to stop Meta from testing AI creative features on live ads without explicit approval. The path runs through Ads Manager → All Tools → Advertising Settings → "Test new creative features," where advertisers can toggle the setting off and uncheck individual enhancements.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorPeter Quadrel

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Microsoft redesigns Copilot for a simpler, faster experience

Microsoft has redesigned Copilot to be simpler, faster, and more intuitive, announced by CEO Satya Nadella. The redesign focuses on keeping users in the flow of their work, with a streamlined interface across the Copilot experience.

SourceMicrosoft
Official SourceMicrosoft

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Google brings Preferred Sources into AI Overviews and AI Mode

Google has expanded its Preferred Sources feature into AI Overviews and AI Mode, as announced by Google Search product manager Duncan Osborn and flagged by Glenn Gabe, Leigh McKenzie, Louisa Frahm, and Barry Schwartz across the community. Links from a user's selected sources now appear with a clear label inside AI responses, mirroring how Top Stories already highlights them.

SourceSearch Engine Roundtable
First contributorGlenn Gabe +3

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Meta Pixel begins automatically collecting nine new web data signals from 30 May

Felipe Vergara Cediel has flagged that, from 30 May, the Meta Pixel automatically collects nine additional categories of web data: basic page information, multimedia content, business contact and location details, event and journey data, content classification, authorship, product and entity identification, product and entity attributes, and reviews, ratings, and prices. Matias Axel Ramayo added that Meta is also surfacing signals on how much is being wasted due to low-quality events sent through the API and Pixel.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorFelipe Vergara Cediel

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Google posts official LLMs.txt documentation on the Chrome Developers site

Chris Long has flagged that Google has officially published an LLMs.txt page on the Chrome Developers site, describing how the file helps AI agents understand a site's primary content. The documentation notes that, without the file, agents may spend more time crawling a site to understand its structure and primary content, and also describes LLMs.txt as an emerging protocol.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorChris Long +1

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Chrome Lighthouse adds an Agentic Browsing audit category

Google has added an experimental Agentic Browsing category to Chrome's Lighthouse audit tool. Instead of auditing only for human users, the new category tests whether AI agents can read a site, navigate key pages, understand actions and forms, and reliably interact with elements.

SourcePaid Media Collective newsletter
Official SourceLinkedIn

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Meta Ads adds Audience Label to Website Custom Audiences

VIVEK GUPTA has flagged a Meta Ads update that makes Audience Label available for Website Custom Audiences: previously available only for Customer List Custom Audiences. The new categories include Engaged Audiences (Qualified Leads, Disqualified Leads, App Users, Trial Users, Other Engaged Users), Customers (High Value, Low Value, At Risk, Disengaged, Customers), and Other Audiences (Other 1, Other 2, Other 3).

SourceVIVEK GUPTA
First contributorVIVEK GUPTA

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Meta adds Instagram Live as a conversion ad placement

Matias Axel Ramayo has flagged that Meta has added Instagram Live as a new conversion ad placement. Advertisers can promote an Instagram Live that's currently running or scheduled for the future, with a simple setup in the campaign placement flow.

SourceMatias Axel Ramayo
First contributorMatias Axel Ramayo

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Meta finally adds Ad Scheduling alongside Budget Scheduling

Matias Axel Ramayo has flagged that, after long providing only "budget scheduling," Meta has finally added ad scheduling: letting advertisers show ads only within business hours, which is particularly relevant for messaging campaigns to avoid low-quality 3am messages. Previously possible only via total budget configuration (tedious to set up), the new ad scheduling provides a simpler, modifiable schedule based on the fan page's operating hours.

SourceMatias Axel Ramayo
First contributorMatias Axel Ramayo

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Meta Content Features are activated by default at the account level: campaign-level opt-outs are no longer enough

Matias Axel Ramayo has surfaced a quiet but consequential Meta Ads default change, with the original spot credit going to Carolina Arjona Moyano. Content Features: the Meta setting that lets the system apply AI-driven creative improvements to image and video assets (enhancements, edits, automated variations): is now automatically activated at the account level for all advertisers.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorCarolina Arjona Moyano +1

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Meta image-asset uploads get updated handling in the refreshed interface

Bram Van der Hallen has flagged an important Meta image-asset update: when uploading multiple image assets in the refreshed Meta Ads interface, the system handles asset grouping and rotation differently than the previous interface: with implications for advertisers who have been running structured creative tests across image variants.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorBram Van der Hallen

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Instagram launches Instants for share-in-the-moment content

Meta has launched Instagram Instants, a new content surface for share-in-the-moment posts that sit between Stories and Reels in the Instagram content ecosystem. Instants are positioned as ephemeral content with a longer shelf life than Stories but shorter than Reels, designed for casual real-time sharing rather than polished content production.

SourceMeta Newsroom
Official SourceMeta

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WhatsApp launches incognito chat with Meta AI

Meta has launched incognito chat with Meta AI inside WhatsApp: letting users interact with Meta AI in a private mode that doesn't surface in chat history, doesn't influence Meta AI's memory of the user's preferences, and doesn't feed back into Meta's training data. The launch aligns with WhatsApp's broader privacy positioning and addresses user concerns about Meta AI's data handling on the messaging surface.

SourceMeta Newsroom
Official SourceMeta

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Meta Ads handling of spending-limited ad sets gets smarter

Matias Axel Ramayo has flagged a quiet but consequential Meta Ads behavioural change: when an ad within an ad set reaches its spending limit (delivery, frequency, or budget cap), Meta now redistributes the remaining budget to the higher-performing ads in the same ad set rather than splitting it equally. The change is part of Meta's broader auction-mechanic refinement and isn't formally announced.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorMatias Axel Ramayo

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Meta renames Detailed Targeting to Advantage+ Detailed Targeting

Meta has renamed the Detailed Targeting option to Advantage+ Detailed Targeting, aligning the audience-targeting feature with Meta's broader Advantage+ branding. VIVEK GUPTA has flagged the rename with its strategic framing: this aligns with Meta's broader Advantage+ direction, where the system suggests interests, behaviours, and demographics aligned with campaign goals: but advertisers retain control over the configuration.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorVIVEK GUPTA

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Meta launches dedicated Lead Nurturing section in Ads Manager

Meta has added a dedicated Lead Nurturing section to Ads Manager, surfaced by Bram Van der Hallen. The section consolidates lead-nurture workflows: follow-up sequences, retargeting setups, and lead-quality scoring: into a single Ads Manager surface, rather than scattering them across audience setup, campaign settings, and external integrations.

SourceLinkedIn
First contributorBram Van der Hallen
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