{"id":15254955,"date":"2026-08-14T16:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/mark-zuckerberg-has-an-instagzam\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:34:10","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-has-an-instagzam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/mark-zuckerberg-has-an-instagzam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Alex Parkin \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/VRGVSST_0814_SIte.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instagram&#8217;s wordmark is iconic. Well, <em>was <\/em>iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/979583\/this-is-instagrams-new-logo\">rolled out a new one this week.<\/a> It doesn&#8217;t look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn&#8217;t even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/vergecast\">this episode of <em>The Vergecast<\/em><\/a>, David and Nilay start by discussing the new logo, the executive urge to redesign everything all the time, and whether new is always better. After that, they get into the other big Meta release of the week: Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2026\/08\/the-future-is-for-everyone\/\">many-thousand-word missive<\/a> on the future of AI. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/977395\/meta-mark-zuckerberg-superintelligent-ai-ramble\">a lot of ideas and proposals<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcast\/980367\/instagram-logo-new-zuckerberg-ai-vergecast\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcast\/980367\/instagram-logo-new-zuckerberg-ai-vergecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TECH &#8211; AI &#8211; The Verge AI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram&#8217;s wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn&#8217;t look like the old Instagram wordmark. 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