Adam Mosseri announced that Meta will add political content recommendations to Instagram and Threads and that Threads' political content control setting will have three options.
Launch cadence accelerated in 2025 but the pattern inverted — the most important releases were infrastructure, not consumer products. Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, custom silicon from Google and Amazon, and open-weight models from Meta and Mistral reshaped what was possible. Consumer launches increasingly felt like features rather than products.