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Meta AI research, Llama, and related products.
A lettering artist took a human-made design job for Meta's AI assistant and got torn apart for it. The backlash says more about how raw creative workers feel than about her choice.
Rival AI companies and two federal agencies are pooling money and data behind one nonprofit's virtual cell, a bet that biology's real bottleneck is shared data, not smarter models.
Meta's newly open-sourced Rebalancer is not a chatbot; it is the quiet math that decides where work lands, and its best feature is that it explains its choices.
Researchers pulled Muse’s own instructions: an hourly page for every person in your life — Facts, History, Open threads, Strengthening — built from whatever you plug in.
Muse, Dots and Uber’s driver assistant all speak first — MarkTechPost argues the hard problem is no longer the sentence, it’s when to interrupt and on which channel.
After Muse’s Messages scare and Meta’s “you opted in” defense, Apple is rewriting full-disk access so AI agents can’t treat FDA like a master key users never meant to hand over.
Meta open-sources Muse gadget SDKs for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi, and waitlists a Home Link box — putting the always-on agent on your workbench, screen, and light switch.
Apple says full disk access will soon require “very explicit user action” — admitting backup-era privileges weren’t built for autonomous agents that can read everything.
The Verge’s hands-on: OpenAI’s Dot is Codex-for-everyone — strong on your site and desktop, clumsy on CAPTCHAs and checkouts, and gated behind Pro-tier money.
Equity’s blunt frame: White House “super intelligence” theater and friendly agent mascots won’t fix consumer AI math if only about 2% of people are paying.
Equity covers Trump’s order to call AI “super intelligence” and a “morally binding” CEO safety pledge — branding as policy while the product fight stays in the market.
Dots vs Muse: OpenAI’s cute GPT-6 Astra agents chase Meta’s free VM — but start at ChatGPT Pro’s $100/month gate.