Meta has quietly launched Forum, a Facebook Groups app that pulls community answers into a cleaner standalone space.
The app gives Groups a new home for discussions, recommendations, and replies that would normally sit inside Facebook. For anyone who has searched through years of group posts for a useful answer, Forum looks like Meta’s attempt to make that knowledge easier to reach without sending people back into the main feed.
Forum is listed on the App Store as a free iPhone app from Meta. It’s still unclear how widely the test is available beyond the U.S. listing and iPhone users.
Forum puts questions and community advice at the center of the experience. Users can search across group conversations, while posts and recommendations are organized around shared interests instead of a broader social feed.
The Reddit comparison comes from that structure. Forum is built around the kind of niche discussions, recommendations, and back-and-forth answers that already make Facebook Groups valuable, only now they sit inside a dedicated product.
AI is a major part of that setup. There’s an Ask beta that can pull answers from group conversations, summarize interests, surface relevant discussions, and help admins manage communities.
The tradeoff is trust, as Facebook Groups work because people bring lived experience, personal context, and niche expertise. If AI turns that into bland summaries, Forum loses the human texture it’s trying to organize.
Forum still depends on the parent network. The App Store listing identifies it as a Facebook app. Users sign in with an existing Facebook account, with profile details and activity carrying over.
That connection gives Meta a big head start. Forum can draw from years of group conversations, local recommendations, hobby communities, and support-style posts rather than waiting for users to rebuild those spaces from scratch.
It also limits the reset. Anyone hoping for a clean break from Facebook’s identity system and social graph probably won’t find it here.
Forum is still early. Meta is calling it a public test, and the App Store listing notes that some features may vary by country or region.
The bigger signal is where Meta sees value. Groups already hold searchable advice, local tips, hobby knowledge, and support threads, and Forum gives that material a dedicated product with AI built into discovery.
For now, treat Forum as an experiment rather than a full Reddit replacement. The next things to watch are Android availability, a wider rollout, and whether Meta can make AI speed up group search without muting the people behind the answers.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.
Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra.
OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.