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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Meta, Robinhood & AppLovin, Circle: Trending Tickers
Catalysts host Madison Mills and Citizens JMP Securities CEO Mark Lehmann discuss some of the day's top trending stories. Meta (META) is reportedly planning a multibillion-dollar investment in artificial intelligence (AI) startup Scale AI to expand its tech edge, according to Bloomberg. Robinhood (HOOD) and AppLovin (APP) are falling after not being added to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) during the index's quarterly rebalance. Circle Internet Group's (CRCL) continues to climb since its initial public offering (IPO). To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Catalysts here. It's now time for some of today's trending tickers. We are watching meta, Robin Hood and App Lovin and Circle. First up meta and talks to make a multi-billion dollar investment into artificial intelligence startup scale AI. This according to a report from Bloomberg. Now the financing could exceed $10 billion, which would make it one of the largest private company funding events of all time. Mark is still here with me to discuss. Mark, what do you make of this deal from meta? Why does it make sense for them? Well, it's AI all the time. Uh, and I think like meta has certainly become one of the beneficiaries of that, of the publicly traded companies who have taken advantage of what they have in their core base and their uniqueness of their data. And I think we've my analyst Andrew Boon has been saying that for a very long time. We've had to stick with the winners theme at citizen for a while, and I think meta is certainly a winner there, and they want to promote, um, and accelerate what they're already doing. I think it's a great idea for them and frankly, it's a modest investment for them. It's really modest when you think about that at a big scale potential. Yeah, I think that context is really important too because it might be a big deal when it comes to the private company side, but for meta, it's not necessarily a ton of cash. All right, well, next up, let's talk about Robin Hood and App Lovin failing to gain inclusion into the S&P 500. S&P Dow Jones Indices is making no changes to the S&P 500 and it's quarterly rebalancing. Before the rebalancing, a number of analysts had named Robin Hood and App Lovin as contenders to join the index, both stocks getting hit off the back of that news, Robin Hood down nearly 7%, App Lovin down almost 6%. Were you surprised by this at all, Mark? You know, playing the add subtract game is a hard one. It's been going on for my 30 years on Wall Street. Uh, I was a little surprised. I think it's an eventuality, frankly, with Robin Hood. Uh, and Devin Ryan, who you know well, our analyst thinks the same. Uh, we also think Robin Hood, um, is really one of the prime beneficiaries of the next decade about what they're creating, something scalable, something not really replicable and unique and a great brand. So we are very bullish on Robin Hood. Playing the add game is tough. Uh, sometimes it works really wonderfully and today it's not so much, but I think it's an eventuality. It's just a reminder too to folks about the importance of these rebalancing decisions and the degree to which they weigh on the S&P. It really is, and it's a big testament to the right companies that they want to add. They take this very seriously as they should. And I think it's really important. Um, you look at the adds and subtracts over time and not only the indexes, look at what they do with the Dow over time. Think about what was in the Dow 10, 15, 20 years ago, um, and, you know, adding Salesforce when they did, a 25 year old, they added it. I think it's five, six years ago. But when they added that, think about what that was a testament to what Mark Benioff has built, and it's a 25-year-old company. So I think those kind of statements are quite important. S&P is obviously a much bigger index, and they they take this real seriously as they should. As they should, absolutely. Well, finally, here, let's talk about circle continuing to climb after its strong Nasdaq debut. The stable coin issuer soaring 168% on Thursday, raising more than $1 billion in its IPO. And you can see those climbing shares continuing here up nearly another 16%. Is this just going to keep happening every day with Circle? Probably not. Um, I've seen this movie before in 2000. Uh, I by no means I'm saying this is analogous to 2000 with some of the internet stocks that took this kind of move higher. Um, there's a scarcity value. There are very few IPOs. We just talked about that. There'll be more. Um, we launched on eToro today with when public about a month ago, that's similarly doing well, not quite as well as that, but, um, there's scarcity value and people want to play this market, and there's very few ways to play that. And I think they're benefiting from that. There's not a lot of float. Right. That's what happens. Right. Exactly. Yeah, great overview, Mark. Thank you. Inicia sesión para acceder a tu cartera de valores
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Meta delays release of flagship AI model, Behemoth: WSJ
Meta Platforms (META) shares are under pressure after The Wall Street Journal reported the tech giant is delaying the rollout of its flagship AI model, Behemoth. Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton break down the latest on Market Domination. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination here. Breaking news. Meta is delaying the rollout of its flagship AI model. That's according to the Wall Street Journal. Facebook's parent company has issued some internal concerns about the direction of its multi-billion dollar AI investments. Company engineers reportedly struggling struggling to significantly improve the capabilities of its behemoth large language model. Shares taking a leg lower on this because obviously, Meta and many of these other companies have poured enormous resources into this. In particular, Meta is planning $72 billion in CAPEX this year. A large chunk of that on data center build out and resources devoted to AI. Um and Josh, there is sort of this seeming AI arms race, right? The likes of Apple have gotten dinged because they haven't been, you know, sort of as fast enough with the the sort of AI capabilities as people wanted. Meta has gotten high marks for its its progress so far. So this feels like a setback. Yeah, I mean we've had any number of metabos who've come on and it's often the point they make is they often have high praise for Zuckerberg and meta and the way they've kind of positioned the company in this broader AI market. They've spent a lot of money to do that, as you know, 72 billion capex this year to kind of make good on Zuckerberg's hopes and dreams and ambitions for the company. Just per the journal which has this story, um they're saying Zuckerberg and other meta execs haven't publicly committed to a timeline for Behemoth, that the company they say could ultimately decide to release behemoth sooner than expected. We'll see. They doesn't sound like at this point the the company's commenting. Yes, we'll see what ends up happening. Sign in to access your portfolio
Martechvibe
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Martechvibe
Creative Optimisation Starts Where Ad Volume Ends
More ads don't mean better results. In 2025, the edge lies in emotionally intelligent, optimised creative that drives both installs and retention. What does the recent Appsflyer report reveal? True creative optimisation goes beyond surface-level tweaks like placement, colour, or copy. It dives into the emotional and psychological triggers that drive action: hooks, narratives, and motivators embedded within the creative. AI has democratised production, enabling even small teams to churn out hundreds — sometimes thousands — of ad variations at record speed. But the rapid growth in creative supply has shifted the bottleneck from production to something more elusive: meaningful optimisation. In the recent report by AppsFlyer , State of Creative Optimisation 2025, over 1.1 million ad creatives across 1,300 apps in Gaming and Non-Gaming categories were analysed. The findings shine a light on how creative strategy is changing — from mass production to measured, emotionally resonant content. 'In a crowded feed environment, creative success now hinges on fast cycles, emotional depth, and channel-specific best practices. The strategies that win are the ones that combine volume, variety, and intention,' said Simona Vilkaite-Marcinkevice, Creative Strategist at meta. Volume Is Not the Villain — But It's Not the Hero Either AI-driven tools have made it easier than ever to scale ad production. In fact, high-spending Non-Gaming apps increased their creative output by 18% year-over-year, producing an average of 2,365 variations per quarter — outpacing Gaming's growth by 80%. Still, top-tier Gaming apps lead in sheer volume, with 2,743 creatives per quarter. But that scale comes with risk: noise. Without intelligent measurement and emotional insight, more creatives just dilute impact. This is where true creative optimisation comes in — digging deeper than color changes or copy tweaks, and focusing instead on the emotional and psychological triggers that prompt user action. Guy Howland, Executive Creative Director – Performance Creative at Dentsu Creative said, 'Performance thinking is now part of the brand conversation, and vice versa. That means we're designing ideas that can flex across the full funnel – work that's strategically sharp, creatively strong, and measurable in real terms.' ALSO READ: Why Empathy will Outperform Automation From Engagement to Retention: Redefining 'Winning' Creatives Winning ads aren't just those that drive installs — they're the ones that retain attention. According to the report, creative strategies that resonate emotionally are more likely to result in high Day 7 retention. For instance: TV and Music stars outperform Movie stars in Gaming, yet receive less budget. TV personalities deliver 2x the IPM of movie stars, and influencer-led formats deliver up to 28% Day 7 retention, vs just 19% for movie-star creatives. In Gaming, ads with music artists had 50% higher Day 7 retention than those with movie stars — despite having only 10% of the celebrity budget. Similarly, the narrative structure of an ad makes a substantial difference: Failure-to-Success stories in Hypercasual Gaming drove 78% higher IPM than Pure Success stories but received 40% less spend. Challenge and competition-based narratives in Casual and Mid-core Gaming had higher retention rates — but were underutilised. Category-Specific Creative Insights: What Works, What's Underfunded Across industries, the report found a disconnect between what works and what gets budget. Here are some highlights: User-Generated Content (UGC) Tutorials and Reviews consistently outperform Testimonials across Finance, Social, and genAI apps: In Social apps, UGC tutorials saw 45% higher IPM and 17% stronger Day 7 retention, yet drew minimal budget. In Finance, tutorial-style creatives drove 37% higher retention — proof that trust-building content converts better. In Finance, ads promising instant gratification (like immediate benefits) had +17% higher Day 7 retention. In Dating, 'Serious Relationship' creatives outperformed 'Casual' ones by 15%, despite lower spend. In GenAI, 'transformation' creatives (e.g., before-and-after visuals) grabbed attention (3.68 IPM, 40% of spend), but had lowest Day 7 retention. UGC testimonials performed 36% better on retention. Storytelling Hooks in Social media were the top performers for retention (8.4% on Day 7), yet accounted for only 6% of spend. Social Proof and trend-based formats also performed well, offering a balance of strong installs and retention. Strategic Shifts: From Star Power to Storytelling Perhaps the most revealing insight is how marketers are rebalancing their investment strategies. While top-performing creatives still attract a large share of spend (53% in Gaming, 43% in Non-Gaming), there's clear movement toward broader testing and diversified storytelling. 'Marketers are not just scaling top performers — they're scaling variety,' said Adam Smart, Director of Product Gaming at AppsFlyer. 'Creative scale is no longer just for the biggest players; it's becoming a strategic imperative for everyone.' For creative optimisation, winning teams are those that can produce at scale and with emotional precision, blending high-output pipelines with data-informed storytelling. The future of mobile advertising won't be won by the loudest ad — but by the one that makes users feel something… and stick around. ALSO READ: How to Scale Retail Without Losing Brand Identity The Martechvibe team works with a staff of in-house writers and industry experts. 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It automatically collects customer feedback after Flex interactions by capturing feedback over post-call voice IVR, outbound voice IVR, conversational SMS, Web SMS, email, and web surveys. VISIT WEBSITE Trustpilot offers ML and AI-powered feedback management tools, helping marketers build trust and loyalty through customer reviews. Its AI-driven Review Insights tool enables marketers to identify growth areas from negative feedback, whereas its Image Generator tool lets them enhance social media engagement. VISIT WEBSITE Survey Monkey is a global online survey and forms tech stack provider, offering AI-fueled market research solutions to businesses. Its enterprise feedback management program provides 250+ templates with the capabilities of customisation, allowing organisations to build tailored survey forms. VISIT WEBSITE Sprinklr is a unified customer experience platform (CXM), offering AI-powered feedback management capabilities with its flagship product: Sprinklr Surveys. It integrates solicited customer feedback with unified-CXM data, enabling brands to derive meaningful, actionable insights. Utilising its genAI-powered survey builder, marketers can create conversational surveys to streamline their NPS strategies. VISIT WEBSITE Salesforce is a comprehensive customer-oriented technology provider offering a feedback management suite. Salesforce's survey responses help marketers create personalised surveys based on their existing customers' data. Some of the supported applications of its feedback management platform are genAI-powered survey form development and sentiment-insights-based survey collections. VISIT WEBSITE QuestionPro is an online feedback software provider, offering ready-made survey templates to businesses across 40+ countries. Leveraging the capabilities of its customer satisfaction templates, advertisers and marketers can create and gather tailored questions. VISIT WEBSITE Qualtrics is an all-in-one customer experience solution provider, offering website & app feedback tools for organisations to collect customer feedback efficiently. Its digital experience analytics capabilities combined with DXA integrations, bring together verbal and behavioural data for in-depth analysis of user feedback. VISIT WEBSITE HubSpot is a one-stop marketing platform, providing customer feedback software under its Service Hub offerings. Its pre-built APIs include net promote score (NPS), customer effort score (CES), and customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys, allowing marketers to strengthen their customer loyalty strategy. VISIT WEBSITE Medallia is a comprehensive platform, enabling marketers to capture feedback from all customer touch points. Some of its popular feedback management software capabilities include Sense360 for analysing consumer spending, Medallia Video to automatically extract meaningful insights from customer's feedbacks and Agile Research for creating branded surveys in real-time. VISIT WEBSITE Zeotap lets brands integrate, unify, segment and orchestrate customer data, fostering a cookieless future. It offers a 'Non-Customer Entity Data' feature that helps marketers to integrate both customer and non-customer entity data. VISIT WEBSITE Twilio provides, Twilio Segment, an AI-powered CDP, enabling marketers to streamline their personalised customer engagement journeys. It brings together clean, consented customer data for real-time insights with 450+ pre-built connectors. VISIT WEBSITE Syntasa provides data-ready CDP capabilities, equipping marketers with essential tools to prepare their customer data. It offers real-time sentiment analytics capabilities, helping enterprises derive behavioural insights from unified user profiles to foster hyper-personalised experiences. VISIT WEBSITE SAP is a company-wide customer data management platform, helping marketers improve engagement, conversion, and retention. It offers a genAI-powered data model, enabling enterprises to unify their B2B and B2C customers' profiles to reach their personalisation goals. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle is a global database management company, providing CDP solutions, under its flagship product: Oracle Unity. Its AI-powered models enable marketers to create hyper-personsalised campaigns with predictive insights by streamlining real-time customer data from heterogeneous sources. VISIT WEBSITE Growthloop is a composable CDP platform, allowing marketing and sales team to action their data at scale. It offers GrowthLoop Audience Builder, enabling marketers to initiate their lead generation functions. VISIT WEBSITE Adobe Experience Cloud offers a real-time CDP, letting users create high-value audience segments for B2C and B2B use cases across their marketing funnel. It follows a cookieless marketing approach to automatically unify customer data across various online and offline channels in real-time. VISIT WEBSITE ActionIQ is a composable CDP platform that offers audience segmentation, acquisition marketing, and Customer 360 capabilities. It integrates analytical tools, enabling marketers to collect and analyse their first-party customer data at scale. VISIT WEBSITE Zoho CRM leverages automation and comprehensive analytics to empower any sales team, fostering stronger customer loyalty. Ideal for both small businesses and enterprises, this software enables enhanced productivity and tailored solutions through predictive intelligence. VISIT WEBSITE Zendesk offers Zendesk Sell, an easy-to-deploy CRM platform that is simple to deploy and navigate, catering to businesses of any scale. Its mobile-friendly Sell app has the functionalities of geolocation, helping sales and marketing teams. Offering an all-in-one CRM platform, organisations can implement use cases like prospecting, engagement, lead generation and communication capabilities. VISIT WEBSITE SugarCRM is a global CRM software provider, helping marketing, sales, and service teams improve efficiency through automation, data, and intelligence in near real-time. It offers Sugar Market, an all-in-one marketing automation platform that helps marketers to automate their campaign with higher ROI. VISIT WEBSITE Salesforce is a one-stop sales and support CRM software that regularly updates customer records, tracks emails and calls, and creates organised support processes for quicker customer responses. Its simple and scalable infrastructure is ideal for businesses of all sizes. VISIT WEBSITE Pipedrive stands out with its emphasis on automation, tailorability, and seamless integration. Purposefully built to enhance the efficiency and productivity of sales professionals, this CRM solution has an intuitive setup and robust capabilities. It facilitates lead generation, comprehensive sales analytics, and seamless business expansion. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle NetSuite CRM, a component of Oracle's business software suite, is for all midsize and booming businesses that want a comprehensive, integrated CRM solution with ERP capabilities. Using it, customers and partners can directly interact with the platform, freeing the additional work load for their sales team. VISIT WEBSITE Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales represents a robust cloud-based CRM solution brimming with features such as pipeline assessment, relationship analytics, and conversational intelligence. It utilises AI-powered insights to provide actionable intelligence via predictive analytics, lead scoring and sentiment analysis. VISIT WEBSITE Less Annoying is a CRM software that utilises a straightforward search feature within its contact management system, making it easy to track contacts. It is ideal for small-sized businesses and offers a highly intuitive and user-friendly interface. VISIT WEBSITE Insightly offers CRM software solutions for enterprises looking to understand their audience data across various marketing functions. It integrates seamlessly with third-party apps, streamlining workflow automation, including bulk emailing and report generation. VISIT WEBSITE HubSpot's sleek dashboard with consolidated CRM tools simplify complex customer data, further transforming it into meaningful insights. Complementing typical CRM functionalities, HubSpot provides tailored options, including conversation intelligence and email monitoring. VISIT WEBSITE Apptivo delivers adaptable and web-based CRM solutions, enabling marketing and sales teams to streamline all customer service requirements across various devices and browsers. Despite its focused feature set, it encompasses over 65 interconnected applications alongside a robust sales pipeline management tool, ensuring efficient tracking of potential leads without any downtime. VISIT WEBSITE Sitecore offers composable cloud solutions with its flagship products, Sitecore Experience Platform(XP) and Sitecore Experience Manager (XM). They help marketers to overcome scalability challenges. Some of its features include intuitive visual editing, headless delivery, marketing automation, scalable personalisation, data and machine learning capabilities. VISIT WEBSITE Salesforce Experience Cloud is a platform that helps enterprises link clients, partners, and employees to securely exchange information and documents. Built on its Customer 360 platform, Salesforce's DXP ensures seamless integration with any solution in the Salesforce ecosystem. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of platform-based marketing automation solutions for personalised B2B and B2C automation campaigns. Some of its featured products are Eloqua Marketing Automation, CrowdTwist Loyalty and Engagement, and Unity Customer Data Platform. VISIT WEBSITE Optimizely is a digital experience platform (DXP) provider that offers Optimizely One, an easy-to-use and fully integrated suite. It provides a single, unified workflow with thoughtfully embedded AI and machine-learning algorithms, accelerating work across the entire marketing lifecycle. VISIT WEBSITE OpenText offers a cloud-native, scalable platform for enterprises to streamline their marketing functions. It provides fully composable content management, digital asset management, creative workflows, personalisation, targeting and customer data technologies in one place, ensuring a holistic approach to B2B, B2E and B2C experiences. VISIT WEBSITE Neptune DXP is a PaaS(Platform-as-a-Service) provider, helping marketing teams build custom apps based on modular, reusable application building blocks. The company offers flexible environments to businesses across different verticals, further providing personalised digital solutions at scale. VISIT WEBSITE Magnolia is a composable DXP that comes with no-code connector packs and low-code micro-frameworks for third-party integrations. It also offers an open-source version alongside its commercial plans enabling enterprises to build tailored use cases. VISIT WEBSITE Liferay DXP helps marketers deliver personalised and connected digital experiences across a broad range of channels, including customer portals, websites, intranets, mobile apps, and connected devices. It offers intuitive CMS, user analytics, and site management tools that businesses need to launch, test and optimise digital experiences for faster go-to-market. VISIT WEBSITE Powered by IBM Consulting, IBM iX offers a composable DXP, providing a comprehensive solution to make enterprises' systems future-ready. Utilising its data-driven insights and intelligent workflows, marketers can design and deliver human-centred experiences across the customer lifecycle. VISIT WEBSITE HCL Digital Experience (DX), forms part of a wider HCL Customer Experience (CX) product portfolio, offering core capabilities such as content management, DAM, CDP called Signals, and low-code application development. It provides services in government, life sciences, insurance, financial services, and other verticals. VISIT WEBSITE Contentstack is a headless CMS and Composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP) solution provider that helps marketers gain a competitive edge. It recently launched into Google Cloud Marketplace, and is also available on Microsoft Azure and AWS. It seamlessly enables mid-market brands to adopt its omnichannel campaign engine to drive higher conversions and sales. VISIT WEBSITE Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud provides businesses an edge with its modular capabilities: Content Management System (CMS), Discovery features for search and merchandising optimisation, and Engagement tools such as Customer Data Platforms (CDP) for personalisation and analytics. VISIT WEBSITE Adobe Experience Cloud offers a comprehensive set of services specifically designed to address the day-to-day requirements for personalised customer experience at scale. Its platform helps manage different digital content and assets to improve customer satisfaction. Some of its products include Adobe Gen Studio, Experience Manager Sites, Real-time CDP, and Marketo Engage. VISIT WEBSITE Acquia offers DXP solutions, comprising of two main elements: Acquia Drupal Cloud and Acquia Marketing Cloud. It can be accessed in both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) with additional components such as Site Factory for multisite management, digital asset management (DAM), CDP, personalisation, and Campaign Studio. VISIT WEBSITE
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tencent & Pony AI, Waymo, Meta job cuts: Trending Tickers
Brad Smith and Madison Mills take a closer look at some of today's trending tickers. Pony AI (PONY) and Tencent (TCEHY) announce a partnership on robotaxis. Alphabet-owned (GOOG, GOOGL) Waymo reported more than 250,000 paid rides a week. Meta Platforms (META) cut jobs in its Reality Labs division. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. Now time for some of today's trending tickers. We're watching Pony AI, Alphabets Waymo and meta. First up, Chinese startup Pony AI is teaming up with Tencent to develop self-driving technology. The companies will integrate Pony AI's ridehailing services into Tencent's extremely popular WeChat app and Tencent maps here. We're taking a look at Pony AI. It's up by about 10, 11% on this news with the strategic partnership they're calling it to advance autonomous driving technology and Robo taxi commercial deployment there. Yeah, a huge move to the upside. That stock up right now nearly 11%, but in other Robo taxi news, Alphabets Waymo did report over 250,000 paid Robo taxi rides per week in the United States. That's up from 200,000 in February, which was just before the company expanded in San Francisco and opened up in Austin, Texas. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says Waymo is building partnerships with Uber and other automakers to help expand its footprint even further. You can see those shares up over 2%, of course, off the back of those results, but interesting to see that amount of growth in Waymo considering that it seems like the growth pace is quickening at this point, given the fact that they were able to add on those additional 50,000 riders just over the course of about a month here. Yeah, so they're now safely serving and on the earnings call talking about safely serving over a quarter of a million paid passenger trips each week. That is actually up five times, five X from a year ago. Yeah. Also here finally meta is laying off more than 100 workers in its reality labs unit. That was first reported by the Verge. These cuts will impact the team that creates content for the company's Oculus VR headsets. And we're taking a look at shares of meta here. They're still fractionally higher on the day, especially as we're kind of waiting for even more of those tech results to come forward next week. It'll be interesting to see if we see some more head count moderation unfortunately, um, especially going into some of the employment data that's also coming forward on the econ side next week. I think it's interesting that we're not seeing Alphabet results leading to a broader lift in some of the big tech names. Obviously, the macro environment and uncertainty weigh on stocks more broadly today, but I thought that if Alphabet was going to be a lift to any other name, we were talking earlier that meta might be one of those beneficiaries because the ad revenue stories are relatively similar between the two. Yeah. Yeah, I was taking a look at it at the open and meta was up. I think it was up by about 2% at the open. So it's moved off of some of the early session highs, but still holding on to some fractional gains right now. And you're absolutely right, as we were talking about it earlier, it really comes back to how digital advertisers are thinking about where they want to place some of those marketing dollars. Uh, and this essentially has been for a long time. The dupoly has been shaken a little bit, but for meta and Alphabet or Google, they really have been that digital advertising dupoly for many, many years. It's getting shaken up a little bit. Yeah. Absolutely. It's getting shaken up. I mean, the uncertainty is of course the word of the day and you can scan the QR code to track the best and worst performing stocks with Yahoo finances trending tickers page.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Yahoo
WhatsApp has added a new AI feature and you can't get rid of it
WhatsApp says that a new AI blue circle in its app that cannot be removed or switched off is 'optional', and users do not need to use it. The blue circle has appeared in the iPhone and Android versions of WhatsApp, directly above the button users use to chat - and summons an AI chatbot which interacts with users. The new feature cannot be disabled within the menus on Whatsapp, sparking the ire of some users who do not want to interact with the new bot. Whatsapp defended the rollout of the feature, saying it was "entirely optional" for people to use. "We regularly add new features to WhatsApp - just this year we have announced Music on Status, new chat themes, new camera effects and stickers," WhatsApp told Yahoo News in a statement. "All these features, like Meta AI are entirely optional, and people can choose to use them or not. We think giving people these options is a good thing and we're always listening to feedback from our users.' The Meta AI service takes the form of a chatbot which users can chat with in the same way as a normal WhatsApp conversation. It appears as a blue circle above the icon used to start chats, in the WhatsApp phone app. Using a Large Language Model (similar to those used by ChatGPT and other services) it answers questions and 'chats' to users. The feature is only available in some countries, and is not available to all users in every country. Whatsapp says it can used for everything from settling a debate in a group chat to getting recipe suggestions. As with all AI generated content, there is no guarantee what the AI chat responds with is accurate information. The Meta AI chatbot works exactly like normal WhatsApp chats - you type a message and it responds within that chat. You can also forward messages from other WhatsApp chats to (for example) try and learn more about something that people are discussing. You can also tag Meta AI (by using @meta AI) within other chats to get an answer from the bot. Meta promises the chatbot will soon be able to create images, although this feature is not currently active. Meta says, 'Meta provides the generative AI technology that powers AI experiences available through WhatsApp. Messages from Meta AI are generated by artificial intelligence (AI), using a service from Meta, in response to the prompts and messages you send to the AI.' Meta says that the AI can only read messages directly shared with it, and has no access to data from your other chats. The data from chats with the chatbot is not used to 'train' AI, Meta promises. Users can also delete chats with the AI - and 'request' the deletion of information previously shared with the AI system, although it is not clear how this works. 'When you choose to use these features, Meta receives your prompts, the messages you share, and feedback to deliver relevant responses directly to you and to improve its AI quality," Meta says. 'Only messages that mention @Meta AI, or that people choose to share with Meta AI, can be read by Meta. Meta can't read any other messages in your personal chats. add an extra layer of protection to your chats 🔒 advanced chat privacy stops media downloads, block chat exports, and keep your messages between you and who you're talking to — WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) April 23, 2025 Meta notes that because other personal messages are protected by end-to-end encryption (meaning that only the devices the messages are sent to and from can see them), it is impossible for the AI to read other messages. "Not even WhatsApp or Meta, can read, listen to, or share them," Meta says. Meta claims that the feature is optional, in that users can simply opt not to use it - but the prominent button cannot be disabled or removed. On Reddit threads, users have complain bitterly about the feature, with one saying: 'All I want to know is how to remove it.' WhatsApp's Breckmann said in response: "You need to take an action to chat to or invoke Meta AI (it's not 'on' until you choose to use it) "Personal messages with friends and family are end-to-end encrypted – no change there. We make any chat with AI really visually distinct so it's clear they're different to personal chats "If you do talk to Meta AI, it doesn't link your personal WhatsApp account information on Facebook, Instagram, or any other apps provided by Meta." "Always remember not to message Meta AI with information you don't want it to know." But while the blue circle cannot be disabled, a new feature called Advanced Chat Privacy will allow users to stop your information being shared with Meta AI from other chats This feature does not appear to be available in the UK as yet (or at least not on the Android device Yahoo News UK tested it with), but WhatsApp promises it will be rolled out "soon". "Advanced Chat Privacy is a new setting available in both chats and groups that helps prevent others from taking content outside of WhatsApp for when you may want extra privacy," Meta said. 'When the setting is on, you can block others from exporting chats, auto-downloading media to their phone, and using messages for AI features. That way everyone in the chat has greater confidence that no one can take what is being said outside the chat.'
