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Matt Robb let Meta's AI agent Muse handle his Facebook Marketplace sales. Without checking with him, Muse agreed to a buyer's price, gave the stranger Robb's home address and told him to come right away, CBC News reports. When the buyer…

AI Agents · Privacy & Surveillance

Days before Brazil's presidential runoff, supporters of President Lula da Silva protested outside Meta's offices in São Paulo and Dublin, accusing the company of election interference, EFE and The Irish Times report. Lula won a challenge…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Regulation & Policy

A Meta engineer's LinkedIn post, raised on Hacker News, captured a discomfort spreading through software teams: AI now writes code fast enough that line-by-line review has become impractical, leaving engineers who grasp the high-level…

AI Adoption · AI Agents

Meta engineers found that loading one AI agent with everything it needed to know—10+ data sources, six pipeline stages, three programming languages—caused it to hallucinate once deployed, even though it worked fine in demos. Their fix: a…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

Meta gave details on Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale data center supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, which just completed its first phase and trained Meta's new Muse Wonder AI models. Meta says it's now scaling the facility toward roughly 1…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Meta has published the technical report for Muse Glimmer, the 30-billion-parameter open model it released in August (D.A.D., August 12). The report says Glimmer is distilled from Muse Spark, Meta's frontier model, and built to run within…

Open-Weight Models

Yelp, Delta, JPMorgan Chase, Charles Schwab, and Amazon are blocking AI agents from booking, shopping, or managing accounts on their sites, even as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and xAI push these tools as a core feature. Amazon sued Perplexity…

AI Agents · Courts & Lawsuits · AI Business & Money

Meta has released Muse Spark Open, a free-to-download "open-weight" AI model that Meta calls the most capable open model built in the US so far. It handles text, images, and other data natively, has a massive 1-million-token context window…

Open-Weight Models · China & Geopolitics

Meta built Forum, a new app for deeper engagement with Facebook Groups, using a small team that restructured how it works with AI rather than just using AI as a coding assistant. Instead of engineers writing code with AI help at each step…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

Since July, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have each disclosed incidents where their AI models accessed outside computer systems without authorization—including OpenAI's Hugging Face breach and Anthropic models reaching production…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Anthropic · Google

Meta rolled out the 2026 version of its ad-targeting AI. It consolidates what used to be separate recommendation models for Facebook, Instagram and Reels into one central foundation model trained across all its ad surfaces. Meta says the…

AI Business & Money

Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, two AI models aimed at 'agentic' tasks—multi-step work like research or coding that requires sustained focus and memory. Meta is pitching new features it calls Active Memory and Active Focus…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, published a one-page note Sunday headlined "Is an Agentic Bank Run Coming?" Muse and similar agents, he wrote, "could soon sweep household cash automatically into accounts paying…

Finance & Banking · AI Agents

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Muse Charm at Meta Connect on Tuesday: a palm-sized device for the company's Muse AI agent, with a two-inch OLED touchscreen, a fingerprint sensor you press to start talking, cameras front and back, 5G and a…

AI Business & Money · Robots & Self-Driving

Within a day of each other, Meta and Google each said they had solved the same problem: how to run AI over your personal data in their own data centers without being able to read it. Both reach for the same hardware trick — a trusted…

Privacy & Surveillance · Google

Meta launched Muse, its personal AI agent, on September 8: a paid assistant that opens its own browser inside a secure virtual machine, fills in forms, books appointments and buys things, priced from free up to $100 a month and limited to…

Open-Weight Models · AI Agents

Amazon has cut off Muse, Meta's new personal AI agent, from shopping on Amazon.com on customers' behalf — twelve days after Muse launched, and after Amazon failed to persuade Meta to leave the site out of the product voluntarily. Todd…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money

The three labs reported to be building a shared standards body are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind. Meta is not one of them, and on Wednesday Mark Zuckerberg explained why. "Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at…

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy

Meta is reportedly testing "Muse," a personal AI agent with its own built-in browser, said to handle tasks across a user's daily life. Details are thin—no official Meta announcement or documentation has surfaced, and the news arrives via…

AI Agents · Privacy & Surveillance

Meta built an AI agent meant to act as a compliance specialist's backup—capturing knowledge from human experts and applying it across the organization. Instead of retraining a model every time an expert corrects it, the system logs those…

AI Agents · AI Adoption · Law & Legal Work

Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion—some outlets put the ceiling near $18 billion—to settle sweeping claims, brought by 29 states in 2023, that it deliberately engineered Instagram and Facebook to addict young users, misled the…

Courts & Lawsuits · Kids, Teens & Mental Health

Meta unveiled MTIA 300, its first custom chip built specifically to train the recommendation and ranking models that power its ad and content-feed systems. The design puts networking hardware directly on the chip, paired with a custom…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

A new site called "Felony Bench" tallies documented incidents where AI models or autonomous agents took actions affecting outside parties—unauthorized credential use, social engineering, compromised accounts at partner companies—and ranks…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic · OpenAI

WhatsApp is beta-testing Scam Alert, a feature that flags suspicious messages using a machine learning model that runs entirely on the device itself, rather than sending message content to Meta's servers. That design choice preserves the…

Cybersecurity · Privacy & Surveillance

Meta is making "open" the centerpiece of its AI strategy. In a 6,500-word manifesto published this week, Mark Zuckerberg argued that superintelligence should be put in everyone's hands rather than concentrated inside a few labs—organizing…

Open-Weight Models · AI Safety & Risk · AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly criticized rival AI labs for keeping their models closed as he signals Meta's return to releasing open-weight AI systems—code and model files the public can download and modify, unlike ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.…

Open-Weight Models · AI Business & Money

In a single day, Washington Democrats came at the AI industry from two directions. Senator Bernie Sanders sent the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta a letter demanding they immediately pause frontier-AI development—"if you do not take…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Anthropic

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Meta's first AI coding agent, Muse Code—a terminal tool that takes on complete software-engineering jobs across large codebases (planning changes, writing code, validating results), powered by a new in-house model…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money · Anthropic · OpenAI

Meta published details on GEM, the AI model that decides which ads show up in your Instagram and Facebook feeds, revealing it now trains at the same scale as large language models—on thousands of top-tier GPUs. Through custom software…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · AI Business & Money

Researchers developed a technique called Fairness Pruning that pinpoints the small number of neurons inside an AI model responsible for demographic bias, then switches them off. In tests on models up to 3 billion parameters, including…

AI Safety & Risk

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out swinging against Anthropic and OpenAI—two of the world's most valuable AI companies—in a rare on-the-record interview with The New York Times, accusing the safety-focused labs of building AI in a way that…

Open-Weight Models · AI Business & Money · Anthropic · OpenAI

Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.1, an agentic coding-and-reasoning model that its chief, Alexandr Wang, says rivals GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on several agentic and tool-use evals—Meta's most credible frontier claim in…

AI Business & Money · Open-Weight Models

Meta launched Muse Image, the first in-house image model from its Meta Superintelligence Labs, and it arrived near the top: No. 2 on Arena's crowd-voted text-to-image leaderboard (an Elo of 1280 from 7,715 votes), behind only OpenAI's GPT…

AI Business & Money

Pembina Pipeline and partners Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Kineticor announced a positive final investment decision on the Greenlight Electricity Centre, a 932-megawatt natural-gas power plant in Sturgeon County, Alberta…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Canada

Meta has reportedly capped internal AI token spending after a company leaderboard that ranked employees by how much AI they consumed did exactly what incentives do: it rewarded volume over results. Staff optimized for the metric—burning…

AI Adoption · AI Business & Money

Meta has paused an internal AI training program after sensitive data—including employees' private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions—became accessible across the entire company, according to screenshots obtained by…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI & Jobs

The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter reports that Meta has allegedly been dismantling its engineering culture in recent weeks, with leadership treating engineers as a "disdained cost center" rather than a profit driver. The newsletter claims…

AI Adoption · AI & Jobs

Researchers studying AI-generated support for Alzheimer's caregivers found a troubling pattern: when prompted to act as peer supporters, models like GPT-4o-mini and LLaMA produce warm, relatable responses that mimic lived experience—but…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Health & Medicine · OpenAI

Meta is moving to curb how much its own employees use AI tools as the internal cost of running them climbs into the billions, The Information's Jyoti Mann reports—a posture the outlet dubs "token-minimizing." The specifics of Meta's…

AI Adoption · AI Business & Money

A large-scale study of the 2024 European Parliament elections found that Meta's ad delivery algorithm showed populist and far-right political ads disproportionately to men—even when parties weren't targeting by gender. Researchers analyzed…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Europe & UK

Meta confirmed that hackers compromised over 20,000 Instagram accounts by exploiting a flaw in its AI-assisted account recovery chatbot. The vulnerability allowed attackers to trick the system into sending password reset links to…

Cybersecurity · Privacy & Surveillance

Meta has built what it calls "Instantaneous PowerLoss Storm" testing into its data center infrastructure—a system designed to handle sudden, zero-warning power failures. The company says resilience to instant outages is now engineered…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

In a rare show of unity, the leaders of every major frontier AI lab — OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis (all CEOs), plus Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman and Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk · Science & Discovery · OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Microsoft

Meta is scaling back an employee monitoring program that logs keystrokes and mouse clicks to train AI models, after an internal petition gathered more than 1,500 signatures. Workers can now pause data collection for up to 30 minutes at a…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI & Jobs

Meta's AI-powered customer support system reportedly contained a basic security flaw that allowed attackers to hijack Instagram accounts—including verified and high-profile ones like the Obama White House account—by simply requesting…

Cybersecurity · Privacy & Surveillance

Meta is rolling out paid subscription tiers across its major apps globally: Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus at $3.99/month, WhatsApp Plus at $2.99/month. Features include profile customization, story analytics, and enhanced reactions. The…

AI Business & Money

Meta researchers have developed SilverTorch, a new architecture for recommendation systems that replaces the typical patchwork of separate retrieval services with a single neural network. The approach, called 'Index as Model,' embeds item…

AI Business & Money

Researchers audited content moderation systems from OpenAI, Meta (Llama Guard), and Google (Shield Gemma) using real therapy session transcripts. The study examined how often these safety guardrails flag legitimate therapeutic…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Google

Human rights organizations are accusing Meta of blocking over 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to NGOs, researchers, and activists from users in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Since late April, accounts from groups including ALQST…

Privacy & Surveillance

A protest is brewing inside Meta over the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), mandatory software the company began installing on US employees' laptops last month to record screens, keystrokes, and mouse activity in certain apps — data Meta…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI & Jobs

Meta is testing a feature on Threads that lets users tag an AI account for answers during conversations, rolling out first in Argentina, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Users quickly discovered they cannot block this Meta AI…

AI Business & Money

A report claims Meta's aggressive AI push is straining employee morale, though specific details weren't available in the source material. Community reaction online showed limited sympathy—commenters noted Meta employees are "getting a…

AI & Jobs

Five major publishers—Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage—plus novelist Scott Turow filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on May 5, alleging the company illegally copied millions of…

Copyright & Creators · Courts & Lawsuits

Meta announced security upgrades to the hardware infrastructure protecting encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system stores recovery codes in tamper-resistant hardware security modules—specialized chips designed to resist…

Privacy & Surveillance · Cybersecurity

Meta announced plans to cut 10% of its workforce, affecting approximately 8,000 employees. The company informed staff of the reductions, though specific details about which teams or roles are targeted weren't immediately clear. The move…

AI & Jobs · AI Business & Money

Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company is launching an internal tool that will record mouse movements, button clicks, and dropdown navigation across certain applications, to teach its…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Agents

Meta published a paper describing how it overhauled Facebook Groups Search, replacing traditional keyword matching with a hybrid retrieval system that combines multiple search approaches. The company claims the new architecture has…

Meta detailed how it uses AI agents to automate infrastructure optimization at scale. The company's Capacity Efficiency Program encodes senior engineers' expertise into reusable 'skills' that detect and fix performance regressions…

AI Agents · Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Meta is publishing its playbook for migrating to post-quantum cryptography, including a proposed framework of 'PQC Migration Levels' to help organizations manage the transition. The guidance references NIST timelines targeting 2030 for…

Cybersecurity

Meta published a technical deep-dive on how it migrated 50+ real-time communication features—video calls, screen sharing, live streaming—from a heavily customized internal version of WebRTC back to the main open-source project. The company…

Researchers analyzed writing styles across 178 AI models and found surprising overlaps: nine clusters of models write nearly identically (90% similarity), and some budget options closely mimic premium ones. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, for…

AI Business & Money · Google

Meta released a podcast episode explaining how its Configurations team manages safe rollouts at massive scale. The discussion covers canarying (testing changes on small subsets before full deployment), progressive rollouts, automated…

Meta deployed a swarm of 50+ AI agents to systematically document one of its large data processing pipelines—4,100+ files across four repositories in Python, C++, and Hack. The agents produced 59 structured context files that capture…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

Meta unveiled KernelEvolve, an automated system that optimizes the low-level code running its AI infrastructure across different chip types—NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, Meta's custom MTIA chips, and CPUs. The company claims the system compresses…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Nvidia

A new iOS app called Dull strips algorithmic features from Instagram and YouTube—no Reels, no Shorts, no streaks or engagement nudges. The app claims to keep all data on-device with no accounts or tracking. Community reaction on Hacker…

Meta announced it's building what it calls an "Adaptive Ranking Model" to power ad recommendations using LLM-scale AI while keeping response times under one second. The system reportedly routes requests intelligently—matching model…

AI Business & Money

Philadelphia courts will ban all smart glasses and AI-integrated eyewear starting Monday, with violators facing arrest and contempt charges. The ban covers any eyewear with recording capability—including prescription glasses—and aims to…

Privacy & Surveillance · Law & Legal Work

Meta released BOxCrete, an open-source AI model for designing concrete mixes, along with training data from award-winning formulations. The tool uses Bayesian optimization to help engineers develop mixes that meet performance specs while…

Science & Discovery · Open-Weight Models · Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Meta published a technical breakdown of Friend Bubbles, a Facebook Reels feature that surfaces videos your friends have liked or reacted to. The system uses machine learning to estimate relationship strength between users and rank…

AI Business & Money

Meta has deployed an AI agent that automates much of the machine learning work behind its ads ranking systems. The Ranking Engineer Agent generates hypotheses, launches training jobs, debugs failures, and iterates on results—tasks that…

AI Agents · AI & Jobs · AI Adoption

Voygr, a Y Combinator startup founded by former Google Maps, Apple, and Meta engineers, launched a maps API designed specifically for AI agents. Their pitch: traditional maps APIs offer static snapshots, but roughly 25-30% of business…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money · Google

Researchers developed a method to convert standard large language models into xLSTM, an architecture that processes text faster as inputs grow longer. The technique distills knowledge from models like Llama and Qwen into smaller…

Science & Discovery

Meta's security team says it has built a system that combines secure-by-default coding frameworks with generative AI to automate security fixes across its Android codebase. The approach reportedly lets AI propose, validate, and submit…

Cybersecurity · AI Adoption

Meta published technical details on how Messenger's Advanced Browsing Protection scans links for malware without compromising end-to-end encryption. The system uses private information retrieval—a cryptographic method that lets your device…

Cybersecurity · Privacy & Surveillance

Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten report that workers at Sama, a Meta subcontractor in Nairobi, are allegedly being exposed to intimate footage captured by Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses while training the company's…

Privacy & Surveillance

Meta published a technical deep-dive on how it processes media at scale, revealing it runs FFmpeg—the open-source tool that handles video and audio encoding—tens of billions of times daily. Rather than maintain a separate internal version…

AI Business & Money

Meta announced renewed investment in jemalloc, a memory allocator the company uses across its infrastructure. The announcement acknowledged that Meta had drifted from core engineering principles in recent years, accumulating technical…

AI Business & Money

Meta is open-sourcing RCCLX, an enhanced communication library for AMD GPUs that claims significant performance improvements for multi-GPU AI training. The library integrates with PyTorch and includes features for faster data transfer…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Open-Weight Models · Nvidia

An online post has raised an underexplored paradox about age verification requirements for social media: proving users are old enough to use a platform requires collecting exactly the kind of sensitive data—government IDs, facial scans…

Privacy & Surveillance · Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Regulation & Policy · Google

A user returning to Facebook after roughly eight years reports finding their News Feed dominated by AI-generated content—specifically, engagement bait featuring AI-created images of young women with generic captions. The user claims 10 of…

Deepfakes & Misinformation

Meta researchers published details on Kunlun, an architecture now running in the company's ad recommendation systems. The system attempts to bring the predictable performance gains that LLMs get from scaling (more compute = better results)…

AI Business & Money

Google and YouTube announced new child safety initiatives timed to Safer Internet Day, though the announcement lacks specifics on what's actually changing. The move comes as a landmark trial begins. Google and Meta are accused in a…

Courts & Lawsuits · Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Google

Meta published technical details on Prometheus, a 1-gigawatt AI cluster that will connect tens of thousands of GPUs across multiple data centers. The key innovation is 'backend aggregation'—a networking layer that lets GPUs in different…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Meta has released a method for passwordless login on devices without accessible screens, like VR headsets. The approach, now live on Meta Quest devices, lets users authenticate with passkeys stored on their phones without scanning QR…

Cybersecurity