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What is it, what is it for and what functions the new Meta Videos editor offers

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Let’s explain WHAT IS AND HOW EDITS WORKSthe new Instagram application. Once again, it is the classic finish movement by launching its own version of a successful application, and in this case it is its alternative of the Capcut editor. We are going to start the article explaining what this application is, so that you understand where it comes from and what it is for. Then we are going to tell you What can you do with itreviewing its main options and their functions. What is Instagram edits Edits is A video editing application created by Meta for Instagram. It is an app adapted to your mobile that will allow you to make several types of compositions, aimed at creating Reels in a more professional way. Being clear, Edits is like Capcut for Tiktokbut an own version made for Instagram reels. We could say that it is a copy, just as Instagram copied the Tiktok reels or their Snapchat stories, bringing what was working on other social networks to his. Instagram has optimized edits so that The videos uploaded from this app have the highest quality. This means that there will be a difference between creating your videos using this tool and not doing so. Edits is aimed and oriented to content creatorssince it also integrates a statistics panel. The idea is to offer everything for creators to stop using tools such as Capcut Pro, and begin to make the goal of the goal. This application is completely free, and is available In Google Play For Android, and In the App Store of iOS. To use it you will not have to create an account, since You will enter directly with your Instagram profile. It is like an extension of the social network, but with an independent app. What can you do with edits The main edits function is to allow you to edit videos to upload them to Reels. To do this, on the main screen you have a + button that serves to create a new edition. Then you just have to load the photo or video you want from your gallery and ready, you can start. When editing the videos, above you have a visualization, and downstream. In them, You can add other elementsas audios of the sources you want or images through the chamber or the gallery. When selecting a temporal line, such as your video, and to have different options. You will be able to divide the videoadjust your volume or speed. You can also add filters, or make adjustments to image quality, such as brightness, contrast, warmth, saturation, etc. When you do not have anything selected in the temporal line, below you will have the options to Add the elements you want. You can add audio, text or voice. You can also create subtitles, add overlays or sound effects, and there are even cuts or add stickers. Then you have a button Exportwhich serves to finish the creation of the video and Prepare it to send it with the highest image quality May possible. When this process ends, Edits will save your creation in the photo gallery and videos of your mobile, and will show you options to share it directly on Instagram or Facebook. Edits also have an option to See the creations of other usersas if navigating the Instagram reels themselves. The difference is that all the creations you see have been created with the app, and you will have options such as saving it, adding it as an adhesive note or using the audio for your creation. There is a section of ideas Where you can add adhesive notes with things that happen to you. You can also create content collections and see them, or see the reels and elements that you have seen in the app and saved. Another of your options is to record videos directly from the app. Thus, you will have several recording options that will not depend on the native photos of photos you have on the mobile. And finally, you have A statistics sectionwhere you can see the scope and data of all the reels of your Instagram account, even those that you have not edited or uploaded using this application. In Xataka Basics | How to prevent Instagram from using your data to train goal AI

The European Commission fine to Apple and Meta with 500 and 200 million euros. They are condemned to make changes, want or not

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The European Commission has imposed a fine to Apple and goal worth 500 and 200 million eurosrespectively. According to the authority, both companies have breached the Digital Markets Law (DMA). Both amounts reflect both the severity and the duration of the breach of the law. Apple’s case. The European Commission has determined that the company has breached its obligation not to prevent the redirection of users towards offers and purchases outside App Store. Determining a amount of 500 million euros for its sanction. All developers who distribute their apps through this store must be able to inform users about alternative offers outside it. Due to restrictions imposed by Apple, according to the commission, developers cannot benefit from the advantages offered by alternative distribution channels to App Store. Also, consumers cannot access different offers outside those offered in the store itself. The goal case. For the Zuckerberg platform, Europe determines that the obligation to offer consumers the option of using advertising service that uses less personal data is breached. Specifically, it refers to the model of ‘Consent or pay’ introduced in 2023and that was already declared illegal since its launch. The changes. The Commission has ordered Apple to eliminate technical and commercial restrictions on redirection, warning that it must refrain from continuing with similar behaviors in the future. It has a period of 60 days to apply changes, or will face periodic sanctions. “If a user rejects this consent, he must have access to a less personalized but equivalent alternative.” European Commission in 2024 Similar is the case of Facebook, who has forced its users to pay to avoid the assignment of their data. In July 2024, the European Commission warned about a possible millionaire fine in case of not offering alternatives. Fine. In March 2024, The EU was appropriate to Apple with 1,800 euros (almost 0.5% of its annual income) after the demand of Spotify. The reason was quite similar to that of the current sanction: “abusing its dominant position in the music distribution market for music streaming to iPhone and Ipad users through their App Store.” Just three days ago, France (the Authorité de la Concurrence) I fined 150 million euros for abuse of dominant position between 2021 and 2023 in the advertising segment in mobile applications. Meta is not something new either. In November The European Commission fined almost 800 million euros for violating the antimonopoolio standards of the European Union with its Facebook Marketplace service. A year earlier, he received a fine of 1,200 million euros for not complying with the General Data Protection Regulation. Image | Xataka and Meta In Xataka | Meta has a very long history by replicating rival applications to become gold. Edits is the most recent case

Meta has a very long history by replicating rival applications to become gold. Edits is the most recent case

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If you have opened Instagram throughout the day, you are likely to find reels or stories talking about Editsthe new finish line focused on short video edition. It was an expected response to Capcutmore than welcome to offer an alternative to an application that barely had rivals in the market. Beyond the app, which is still a free Capcut clone with less functions (at least in this initial easy), the key point of this launch attends to a strategy that has been running for years: copying to kill. Edits arrives at the right time. Instagram has had a lot of time to launch a video editing application. But, as usual, he has done it with him Timming more precise possible. In mid -January the government of Donald Trump Baneaba Tiktok And, next to her, Capcut. Just a few hours after the baneo, Tiktok He returned to apps stores with an extension that is still in force. But little or nothing was discussed that Capcut was never available again. It has been right now, in full uncertainty what will happen to the apps of Bytedance (company behind Tiktok and Capcut), when Meta has decided to launch edits. The goal only cares about creators. Content creators are the pillar that supports apps such as Instagram and Tiktok. And there is quite curious data in this regard, according to data from Sefici. The Nanoinfluencers (less than 10,000 followers), have a 5%participation rate, the highest. The microinfluencers (from 10,000 to 100,000 followers), 4%. The macroinfluencers, with more than 100,000 followers, are 7% in participation. Why is it important to understand this? Because in the business model of this social network there are many users consuming content (and advertising), but few creating. And it cannot be consumed if there is nothing created. And want to take them to your land. Capcut is the third more downloaded application in iOS worldwide (nine million downloads) and the ninth on Android (18 million downloads). In combined, 27 million users and the seventh application worldwide, above Telegram, Snapchat and Threads. They are barbarian figures for a video editing app. Instagram has especially optimized edits so that the videos uploaded from this app have the highest quality. Additionally, it has integrated creator statistics into the app itself so that creators have access to the panel from edits. Something very similar to what Tiktok does with Tiktok Studio. It is a shout to heaven so that creators stop using the bytedance tools (payment in the case of Capcut Pro) and begin to move towards the finish lines. Copy to kill. There is something that Meta knows how to do very well: copy functions. He did it in 2016 by launching Instagram Stories, A frontal blow (an almost accurate copy) of Snapchatbut integrated into an app with many more functions. Instagram Stories did not take Snapchat in superior active users, becoming one of the main monetization tools of the platform. Today, an ad is displayed every three stories. Next to nothing. In the case of Tiktok, Reels He has not managed to steal user base. But, again, Meta took the opportunity to copy a winning and emerging idea (the videos in short format), to get a new monetization tool. A golden opportunity. Today, Instagram is still the only real competition for Tiktok. If the app fails to survive in the United States, victory will be overwhelming (it is its second market outside of China). And there, as usual, goal will be prepared to bring all the functions and tools that were already present on the rival platform. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Instagram Reels: 21 tricks and functions to get the entire game to this alternative to Tiktok

The new Meta Model took a very good score at the benchmarks. Maybe too good

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We had been waiting for the new family calling 4 artificial intelligence models for a long time. Last weekend the company finally revealed those models and Everything seemed promising. The problem is that the way of announcing them is generating some controversy and an uncomfortable conversation: that perhaps they have cheated in the benchmarks. Call 4 seems great. As soon as they appear on the scene, the new models call 4 goal surprised by their excellent performance in Benchmarks. They were second in the ranking LMARENAonly below Gemini 2.5 pro experimental. However, suspicions soon appeared, because the flame 4 version that is available to all audiences was not the same as it was shown in that ranking. Trucada version? As indicated in the advertisement As a finish line, that flame 4 version was an “experimental” that obtained a 1,417 points in LMarenawhile Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental had obtained 1,439 points. Some experts pointed out that this experimental flame version 4 was a version that cheated and had been specifically trained with data sets used in Benchmarks to be able to score well in them. We have not cheated.Ahmad al-Dahle is the head of the generative division in the finish line, and therefore is in charge of the flame launch 4. This manager has denied sharply The rumors that point to what goal would have cheated to get better scores in the benchmarks. These rumors “are false and we would never do that,” he said. But it was “optimized”. As indicated In TechCrunchin that official announcement Meta did pointed to the experimental flame 4 model that had scored very well was “optimized for conversation.” In Lmarena They indicated What a goal should have explained better what type of model had sent to include in the ranking. The same calls 4 is not so good. Some experts who They analyzed flame performance 4 with synthetic or conventional tests They already warned that performance It didn’t seem so good As they claim in goal. The publicly available model showed a behavior that He did not adjust to the quality that pointed its score in LMarena. Not quite consistent. Al-Dahle himself confirmed that some users were seeing “different quality” results of Maverick and Scout, the two flame versions 4 available, depending on the supplier. “We hope that some days are late when public implementations are adjusted,” and added that they would continue working to correct possible errors. A rare release. What a goal this model will launch a Saturday is strange, but when asked about it Mark Zuckerberg He replied that “is when it was ready.” That also the model used in LMarena is not the same as people can use is also worrying, and it may begin to distrust us from benchmarks and companies that use them to promote their products. It is not the first time that This happens Not much less, and it will not be the last one. In Xataka | Openai is burning money as if there were no tomorrow. The question is how much can endure like this

Meta had no own app to compete with chatgpt. Mark Zuckerberg has already warned that this will change very soon

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Goal is in a strange situation in the AI ​​segment. His Open Source model, calls, is something like the Linux of the AI. From it all kinds of derived developments arise, but while the company triumphs among independent academics and developers, it barely has a presence in the commercial world. And precisely that can change soon. Meta AI Independent APP in sight. According to sources close to the aforementioned project In CNBCGoal is preparing the launch of an independent AI application during the second quarter of 2025. Goal AI is an unknown veteran. The company launched its chatbot Goal AI In September 2023, a year and a half ago. However, the company preferred Integrate it into your social networks ” It was a curious movement, but it has caused it to be a great stranger. Susan Li, CFO of Meta, indicated that Meta AI has about 700 million monthly active users (at least they have opened it once a month). Goal needs its own chatgpt. And as a goal did not offer independent chatbot – it can be webbut not in the EU – the rivals have advanced him everywhere. Chatgpt has always been the referent, but Gemini, Claude, Deepseek or Co -People are now the clear options for those who want to access these tools. All of them offer independent applications on the mobile. Even perplexity does it. Here we have A good example in perplexitywhich is not only a search engine with AI but has become a way of accessing several AI models – Open Source – from the same interface. Goal can take advantage of that same approach since its own LLM is Open Source, but a goal AI has always focused on a flame exclusively. Zuck already warned. The Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, stood out in his talk with investors in January his ambition in this area: “This is going to be the year in which a personalized assistant of high intelligence reaches more than 1,000 million people, and I hope that ai is that assistant of AI.” Did it twice. Not only said that to investors. On January 10 he answered a user who He suggested in Threads What a goal AI had its own independent application. Mark Zuckerberg’s response was an emoticon that represented that he agreed 100% with that suggestion. Subscription model in sight. In CNBC they reveal that Meta plans to collect a subscription for using Metaai, thus imitating the philosophy they have followed for example OpenAi, Google or Microsoft. The idea, as in those cases, is to offer a basic version without cost, and then more powerful, but paid versions. Image | Goal In Xataka | Mark Zuckerberg announces the new goal goal: to create a general artificial intelligence

Meta emails reveal that he downloaded 81.7 TB of books with copyright via Bittorrent to train their AI models

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In the legal process Kadrey against goal Mark Zuckerberg’s company is accused of having used works protected by copyright to train their artificial intelligence models. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Zuckerberg had approved to use pirate booksbut now new and powerful evidence of this looting arrive. Revealed emails. He “Appendix a“The case includes several mail email messages from the finish Do that data collection in October 2022. “Download with torrents from a company’s laptop does not seem a good idea”. In April 2023 Nikolay Bashlykov, one of those responsible for carrying out this data collection, joking including emojis and indicated that the company would have to be careful with the IP from which they downloaded the data. Goal knew the risks. In September of that year Bashlykov already stopped using emoticons and warned that using torrents would imply acting as “seeds” so that others also download them, and “that might not be legally legally.” These debates are proof that Meta knew that this type of activity was illegal, according to the authors who have sued the company. Erasing the footprints. In a Internal message Meta Frank Zhang researcher indicated how the company avoided using its servers by downloading this data set to “avoid” “the risk that anyone can draw the seed” and who downloaded that data. 81.7 TB of data. As they point out In Ars TechnicaThe evidence shows that Meta downloaded at least 81.7 the terabytes of data from various libraries offered by those books protected by copyright. In a New document The legal process indicated that at least 35.7 TB had been downloaded from sites such as Z-Library or Libgen (which It ended up closing last summer). Goal wants to dismiss those charges. Goal has presented a motion to dismiss those accusations indicating that there was no evidence that any book was downloaded by finishing employees through Torrent or that they were later distributed by goal. In Xataka we have contacted the company, and we will update this news if we receive comments on the case. Loot on the Internet fire. These data affect the debatable practices that AI companies are using to train their models. We saw it With Googleand of course also with Openai, who used millions of texts to train Chatgpt, and Many of them had copyright. Perplexity was in the spotlight after discovering that He skipped the bullfighter Internet rules to avoid payment walls and feed your AI model. Internet robberies are being normalized. The amazing thing about all this is that the fact that all companies are skipping the norms and violating copyright seems to be normalizing the looting of the Internet. It almost does not give time to scandal and we give it almost as a policy of consummate facts to be able to follow ours. Is this really a “fair use”? All companies are shielded in the concept of “fair use” (“Fair Use”). This concept developed in Anglo -Saxon law allows the limited use of protected material without being necessary to ask for permission to do so. Copyright rapes have not stopped arriving in the world of generative AI, but they seem to be in the background while these giants thrive. In Xataka | 5,000 “tokens” of my blog are being used to train an AI. I have not given my permission

X and Meta will continue the fight against fake news in the EU

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The inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States for the second time may represent a before and after in the technology sector. With Elon Musk in government and the prominent presence of all the great technological leaders at the ceremony, from Google’s Sundar Pichai to Apple’s Tim Cook, passing through Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, the influence of the sector in the beginning legislature is beyond any doubt. And the first thing these tech leaders want is to eliminate the policies and laws that they feel have constrained them in recent years, and that includes fighting misinformation and fake news. Elon Musk himself was the first to declare war against fact-checkersjournalists and organizations dedicated to checking errors and ‘fake news’ published on social networks. Mark Zuckerberg got on his bandwagon, making a 180-degree turn from everything he had defended in recent years and betting on ‘freedom’ and community notes; In other words, they are the users themselves decide what is true. Community notes have been praised on social network It is not a perfect system, but some users believe that it is better than leaving this work in the hands of professionals. However, In Spain we will not see any of these changesat least for now; These businessmen seem to be living a double life, in which they change their minds depending on the political leader they are talking to. In the European Union, technology companies will not only continue with the same policy against fake news as before, but they have committed to investing and betting more on the same verification of information that they now consider malicious in the United States. Both Meta and X, through Google, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn and other Internet platforms have signed a code of conduct to combat hate and illegal speech on the Internet. The interesting thing is that they have not been forced to do so: it was a voluntary measure and not a law, although it has been created by the European Commission as part of the new Digital Services Law (DSA) launched last year. Manuel Ramirez / Grok The Free Android The DSA implemented a series of requirements for platforms, especially the largest ones and those that manage a greater amount of European user data, considered ‘gatekeepers’. The new code of conduct is based on these measures and expands them, so the companies that have signed it have committed to taking more measures against disinformation and hate speech from which they are legally required. However, it must be clarified that, being a voluntary measure, companies that fail to comply will not suffer any repercussions, and They can leave the agreement at any time; In fact, that’s just what Elon Musk did with

Meta is paying content creators up to $50,000 a month to post more on Instagram and Facebook

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Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is implementing a Aggressive strategy to attract top TikTok content creators. According to recent reports, the company is offering payments of up to $50,000 per month to those who commit to actively publishing on its platforms. This movement seeks to consolidate Instagram and Facebook as attractive destinations for creators and their followers. The initiative arises in the middle of a fierce competition in the social media marketwhere platforms fight to capture users’ attention through exclusive, high-quality content. Meta, aware of the popularity of TikTok, seeks to attract the most influential creators of this platform to strengthen its offer and gain ground in a highly competitive sector. The context of uncertainty for TikTok Meta’s offer is developed in a complicated scenario for TikTokespecially in the United States, where the platform faces political and regulatory pressures that could put its operation at risk. Joe Biden’s administration passed a law forcing ByteDance, its parent company, to sell US operations from TikTok by January 19, 2025 or face an outright ban. This panorama has generated concern among content creators, who have begun to look for alternatives to ensure the continuity of their work. The uncertainty is also motivating many users to explore options on other platforms. In addition to Meta, other apps like Lemon8, Clapper, and Fanbase have emerged as potential havens for creators who want to diversify their channels and avoid relying exclusively on TikTok. However, Meta stands out for its ability to offer a massive user base, advanced tools, and now, substantial financial incentives. Meta seeks to lead with an aggressive strategy By offering up to $50,000 per month, Meta not only aims to attract creators, but also position itself as a reliable and stable option in the social media market. This approach aims to capitalize on the possible weakness of TikTok and strengthen the presence of Instagram and Facebook as competitive platforms. For creators, these types of incentives represent a unique monetization opportunity, especially in an environment where the rules for generating income on social networks can change rapidly. However, Meta’s strategy faces challenges, such as the need to ensure that creators can maintain and expand their audiences, as well as offering them tools that make it easier to engage with and monetize their content. With this maneuver, Meta is not only trying to gain ground against TikTok, but also position itself as the undisputed leader in the digital ecosystemattracting both creators and their followers with a comprehensive offer that combines visibility, stability and financial rewards. Keep reading: – “No one should go through this”: Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to families of children who have suffered harm due to social networks– TikTok Ban in US: Do VPNs Work to Maintain Access?– TikTok loses legal battle against law that seeks to prevent its operation in the US

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