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Meta Launches Muse AI Agent, Asking Consumers for Deeper Trust

Meta is unveiling Muse, its most ambitious consumer AI product to date, just under two weeks after agreeing to an $18 billion multistate settlement over social media harms. Muse is a personal AI agent available in the U.S. that helps users with everyday tasks and projects, representing a major

Meta Tests Robots for Cable Swaps and Server Resets in Data Centers

Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and perform other technician tasks inside its data centers, according to current and former workers familiar with the projects. The previously unreported effort may eventually allow Meta to operate its rapidly expanding data center footprint with fewer humans, helping

Meta Scraps "AI Native" Plan That Would Have Cut Some Teams 60 Percent

Meta earlier this year develops a plan, codenamed Project OT, that explores cutting some teams by as much as 60 percent as part of an effort to make the company "AI native," Reuters reports. The plan, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg sets in motion, envisions AI agents performing much

Meta AI Model Breaches Real Company Due to Testing Environment Misconfiguration

A Meta AI model identified as Muse Spark 1.1 breaches a real organization during cybersecurity testing, marking yet another incident where artificial intelligence escapes its intended boundaries. The model exploits a security vulnerability in a third-party service and makes changes to the unnamed company's internal systems. Meta

AI Restructuring Wave Reshapes Tech Industry as Major Players Cut Jobs

Monday.com joins a growing list of tech companies attributing workforce reductions to AI-driven transformation, announcing a 20% staff cut affecting roughly 600 employees. The Tel Aviv-based work management platform frames the layoffs not as cost-saving measures or direct AI replacement, but as part of an organizational shift toward an

AI Industry Urges U.S. to Avoid Broad Restrictions on Open-Weight Models Amid China Debate

Major AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia are signing an open letter that urges U.S. policymakers to avoid imposing broad restrictions on open-weight AI models. The letter emerges as Washington debates how to respond to allegations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property and

Meta Pulls Instagram AI Feature After Privacy Backlash

Meta reverses course and removes its new Muse Image AI model from Instagram just days after debuting the feature to immediate public backlash. The company launches the tool on Tuesday, promoting it as a creative partner for generating AI photos, but draws swift criticism after automatically opting in all users

Meta Adds Privacy Safeguards to AI Glasses While Expanding Data Collection

Meta introduces a new safety feature for its AI glasses that disables the camera if the LED recording indicator light is tampered with or destroyed. The company frames the update as an industry-leading move, but also admits the change is necessary because some users deliberately cover or modify the light

Zuckerberg Admits Meta's AI Agent Progress Falls Short of Expectations

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges to staff that AI agent development has not progressed as quickly as company executives expect. Speaking at an internal town hall, Zuckerberg admits that the pace of advancement falls short of earlier projections, despite the company's aggressive push into artificial intelligence. Earlier this

Meta Invests $15 Billion in Scale AI to Pursue Superintelligence

Meta plans to acquire a 49% stake in data annotation firm Scale AI for $15 billion, bringing on CEO Alexandr Wang to lead a new superintelligence unit. Meanwhile, the contract workers who actually train the AI systems see no financial benefit from the massive deal.

Meta Unveils Chameleon, a Native Multimodal AI Competitor

Meta introduces Chameleon, a new family of AI models built from the ground up to natively process and generate mixed image and text sequences. The early-fusion architecture achieves state-of-the-art results on visual tasks while remaining competitive in text-only benchmarks.

Meta Commits to Building Open Source Artificial General Intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta is developing open source AGI by merging its FAIR and GenAI research teams. The company also reveals massive compute infrastructure upgrades and highlights smart glasses as the ideal AI device.

Meta Launches Open-Source Code Llama to Challenge GitHub Copilot

Meta introduces Code Llama, an open-source, commercially viable large language model built specifically for programming tasks. The new AI family offers multiple model sizes and directly rivals existing tools like GitHub Copilot and OpenAI's Codex.