Instagram, FaceBook, And Other Meta Apps Facing Outage Affecting Thousands Of Users Online

In a recent development, it has been witnessed that multiple applications by Meta including Instagram, FaceBook, and Messenger have been facing heavy outages due to multiple reasons. According to the tracking app DownDetector, more than 4000 people have been facing issues on Instagram out of which 68 per cent of them are facing issues on the application, 18 per cent of them are facing issues are server connection, and 8 per cent of them are facing issues on website.Coming to Facebook, more than 600 people have raised complaints on Down Detector out of which, around 33 per cent have been facing issues on the application, 27 per cent of them are facing issued on website, and somewhere around 23 per cent of them are facing issues in comments and messaging

on the application. That's not it as Facebook Messenger has also been affected by the outage and the complaints have crossed the mark of 1500. Out of the total complaints, 69 per cent of them are related to messaging, 17 per cent of the users are facing hiccups on the application, and 8 per cent of them are unable to use the Messenger website.In a parallel piece of news, after spending much of the past year playing catch-up in the AI race, Meta seems like to have found some momentum. The tech giant's latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, has outperformed Google's flagship Gemini 3.6 Flash in select benchmark tests, giving the company a reason to celebrate. The result also prompted a playful jab from Meta's AI chief Alexandr Wang, who had just two words for Google's chatbot: "Gemini who?" Here's everything you need to know about Meta's latest AI milestone. Amidst all this, it will be more than interesting to see in the future how Meta will be able to sustain in the AI race and how capable models it is planning to launch in the market.