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Zuckerberg's AI future is a motivational poster no one asked for
The Verge AI · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A man showed me his AI-generated motivational poster of a bear tightrope-walking over a canyon. The prompt was somethin...
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Meta's Muse Glimmer puts a 30B-param AI agent directly on your Mac or PC
TechCrunch AI · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta just dropped Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model that paints the clearest picture yet of Mark Zuckerberg's "persona...
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Zuckerberg’s 6,500-word AI manifesto pitches free superintelligence while dodging job loss fears
The Verge AI · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Mark Zuckerberg just dropped a 6,500-word essay that’s part utopian pitch, part regulatory wishlist, and part damage co...
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Meta’s 30B Muse Glimmer launches open-source: A 2B vision encoder meets hybrid attention
Hugging Face Blog · Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Meta dropped a genuinely interesting open-source model this week with Muse Glimmer. It’s a 30-billion-parameter vision-...
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AI designed 16 novel viruses from scratch—and one model broke containment
MIT Technology Review · Aug 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Two developments this week make the theoretical risks of AI in biology suddenly very concrete. For the first time, scie...
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Meta's new Muse Spark 1.2 undercuts rivals at 20 cents—if you hand over your data
The Decoder · Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta just dropped Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused upgrade that doubles as the company's first dedicated coding agent....
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Meta drops Muse Code: AI agent that builds 6 game features at once
TechCrunch AI · Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta just made a play that feels less like a catch-up and more like a leapfrog. The company, often seen as trailing Ope...
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Meta's AI-fueled app factory is back, and Zuckerberg says more are 'releasing soon'
TechCrunch AI · Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta is dusting off an old playbook — launching standalone apps — but with a new engine under the hood. After years of...
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Zuckerberg's WSJ op-ed sketches 'personal superintelligence,' takes aim at AI doom-sayers
AI News · Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Mark Zuckerberg published a statement of company philosophy in the Wall Street Journal this week, arguing that the arri...
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Zuckerberg bets Meta's future on a personal AI agent for 'billions' — as free cash flow tanks 91%
TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Mark Zuckerberg is selling Wall Street on a very specific vision: within five years, 'billions' of people will have a p...
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Zuckerberg eyes selling Meta's internal AI tools and compute to large enterprises
TechCrunch AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta's enterprise AI ambitions go far beyond the customer service chatbots it launched in June. On Wednesday's Q2 earni...
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Zuckerberg says Meta's next big bet is a 24/7 AI agent for your health and finances
The Verge AI · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta is preparing a major consumer push into personal AI agents that operate around the clock on your behalf, CEO Mark...
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Meta AI slides into Threads DMs globally, aiming to elbow out ChatGPT and Gemini
TechCrunch AI · Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta is done with soft launches. Starting Monday, the company is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot inside Threads direct...
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Meta, Microsoft, and 22 others tell Washington: don't lock up AI model weights
AI News · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Two dozen companies and organizations signed an open letter today urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI mode...
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EPA eyes rule change to let states hide data center gas plants from public
Ars Technica AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
The EPA is weighing a rollback that would hand states the keys to decide whether the public gets a say when new polluti...
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Meta flips on productivity, lets its AI chatbot run your calendar
The Verge AI · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
So much for "focusing on entertainment." Meta is doing a full 180 on its AI strategy, transforming its chatbot from a c...
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Meta Set Its Hopeful AI Ad to Bowie's Apocalypse Anthem and Nobody Noticed
TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta’s new ad campaign is a full-throated defense of AI’s potential to connect humanity, set to a montage of sun-drench...
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Meta built its own AI watermark, but it can't match Google's SynthID
The Verge AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta quietly launched Content Seal in July, its homegrown invisible watermarking system for AI-generated images. On the...
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Meta’s StoryKit wants to replace bedtime stories with LLM-generated scripts
TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta is piloting a new app that doesn’t just read stories to kids — it writes them. StoryKit, first spotted by 9to5Mac...
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Meta open-sources Astryx, the 8-year-old design system built for both humans and AI agents
MarkTechPost · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta didn't just release a new design system. It open-sourced the one it's been dogfooding for eight years. Astryx, now...
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Meta and Anthropic near $10B cloud deal as AI compute wars escalate
The Decoder · Jul 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta is in advanced talks to rent massive AI computing capacity to Anthropic in a deal that could reach $10 billion ove...
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Meta sued: Did AI layoff lists illegally target new parents?
The Decoder · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A new federal lawsuit claims Meta didn't just use AI to trim its workforce — it used algorithms that systematically dis...
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Lawsuit: Meta's AI layoff tools discriminated against disabled workers
Ars Technica AI · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A new lawsuit claims Meta's much-publicized layoffs of 8,000 employees weren't just brutal—they were discriminatory. Tw...
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Meta's Mosseri: AI token costs may soon rival engineer salaries
TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri dropped a sobering prediction on Lenny's Podcast: within a year or two, an engineer's AI t...
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Ex-Meta staff sue, claim AI layoff tools penalized parental leave
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta didn't just use AI to trim its workforce — it allegedly let those tools penalize employees for being on leave. A n...
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ChatGPT sneaks back onto WhatsApp, but only because the EU made Meta do it
The Decoder · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI reactivated ChatGPT on WhatsApp across the European Economic Area on July 13, 2026, roughly six months after Met...
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Lorde torches Meta's AI glasses mid-set: 'Fuck the glasses'
The Verge AI · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Lorde didn't mince words at Madrid's Real Cool Festival on Thursday. Midway through her set, the New Zealand singer pau...
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Meta quietly kills Muse's AI photo generator after backlash
The Decoder · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta yanked a feature from its new Muse Image model this week, and honestly, it's hard to see how anyone thought it was...
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ChatGPT hits 50M users on WhatsApp just as Meta pulls the plug
OpenAI Blog · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
The numbers were staggering. More than 50 million people worldwide were using ChatGPT through WhatsApp, proving that th...
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Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 Beats GLM-5.2 in Coding
The Decoder · Jul 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta just dropped an updated version of its Muse Spark model, and it's making waves in the AI coding arena. Muse Spark...
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Meta kills AI deepfake feature after backlash
The Verge AI · Jul 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta has quickly pulled the plug on a new AI image-generation feature that let users create pictures referencing any pu...
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Meta Kills AI Tool That Let Users Edit Public Instagram Photos
TechCrunch AI · Jul 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta just pulled the plug on a controversial AI feature that let users modify photos from public Instagram accounts—wit...
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EU pressures Meta over addictive Facebook, Instagram features
Ars Technica AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
The European Commission has dropped a preliminary finding that Meta's autoplay, infinite scroll, and hyper-personalized...
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Meta Launches Spark 1.1 Agentic Coding Model
TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta just released Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI designed for agentic coding tasks. It can handle complex reasoning, manag...
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Meta Speeds Up Custom AI Chip Production to Cut GPU Costs
TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is accelerating its plan to produce its latest AI chips, aiming to start manufacturing in September to reduce reli...
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Meta's AI image tool sparks privacy backlash
TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta just dropped a new AI image generator called Muse Image that lets you create or edit photos right in Instagram and...
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Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 Aims to Rival AI Coders
The Verge AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is making a big push in the AI coding space with the release of Muse Spark 1.1, now available to US developers via...
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Meta's AI glasses get anti-creep feature after privacy backlash
TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is updating its AI glasses to disable recording if the LED indicator is tampered with, acknowledging that some use...
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Meta's Muse Image: Smart but Raises Privacy Concerns
The Decoder · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta just dropped its first image model from the Superintelligence Labs, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Technically, Mu...
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Meta tests always-on AI glasses that record your day
The Decoder · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is testing a new prototype of AI glasses with a feature called "Super Sensing" that constantly records video and a...
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Meta's Muse AI lets you insert Instagram friends into photos
The Verge AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta just dropped its first AI image generation model from its elite Superintelligence Labs, called Muse Image. Now liv...
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Meta's AI Slowdown
The Decoder · Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read
Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Meta's AI agent development is progressing slower than expected, despite a major restruct...
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Meta Launches AI Gaming App
TechCrunch AI · Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta has introduced a new app called Pocket, which lets users create and share small, interactive games and apps using...
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Meta's AI Struggles
TechCrunch AI · Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta's efforts to accelerate AI development have hit a roadblock, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting that progress hasn...
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Meta Enters Cloud Market
TechCrunch AI · Jul 1, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is planning to launch a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models, which would...
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AI Brain-Text Breakthrough
The Decoder · Jul 1, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta's FAIR research team has made significant progress in developing a non-invasive brain-to-text AI, reducing the ave...
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Meta Sells Spare AI Compute
The Decoder · Jul 1, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is launching a cloud business to sell its spare AI computing power to outside customers, following a similar strat...
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Meta Tests Rival Chatbots
The Decoder · Jun 30, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of crisis prompts from a minor's perspective, spa...
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Meta Limits AI Tool Use
The Decoder · Jun 29, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is restricting its engineers' use of rival AI tools like Claude Code and Codex to prevent their outputs from being...
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Meta's AI Moderation Rollout Sparks Employee Concerns
The Decoder · Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta's rapid shift to AI moderation is raising eyebrows among employees, who claim the models still remove harmless con...
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Meta revives Facebook Creator Studio as AI-powered app
The Verge AI · Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is bringing back the Facebook Creator Studio page manager, now reimagined as a standalone AI companion app called...
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Facebook reimagines Creator Studio as AI-powered app to boost creator growth
TechCrunch AI · Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read
Facebook is revamping its Creator Studio tool into a standalone AI companion app to help creators grow their audiences....
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Meta's AI search tool gets mixed results
The Verge AI · Jun 17, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta's new AI Mode search is a complex query solver, but its accuracy is questionable. The AI draws from public posts a...
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Meta Dismantles $2 Billion Manus Acquisition Amid National Security Concerns
TechCrunch AI · Jun 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta has begun to dismantle its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Chinese-founded AI startup, due to national security...
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Meta's New AI Mode to Use Public Facebook Posts for Search Results
The Verge AI · Jun 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is introducing an AI Mode in its search feature that draws from publicly-posted content across its platforms, incl...
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Meta Unveils AI-Driven Features to Boost Engagement on Facebook
TechCrunch AI · Jun 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Meta is introducing AI features on Facebook to change how users find information, create content, and interact with the...
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Meta and Hugging Face’s OpenEnv proves AI agents still can’t handle a simple calendar
Hugging Face Blog · Feb 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta and Hugging Face have released OpenEnv, an open-source framework that hooks AI agents up to real-world tools inste...
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Meta drops Llama 4: 10M context window and a bold bet on NoPE layers
Hugging Face Blog · Apr 5, 2025 · 2 min read
Forget the slow drip of model releases. Meta just dumped two Llama 4 variants on Hugging Face—Maverick and Scout—and th...
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Meta drops Llama 3.2 Vision, but EU users are blocked from the multimodal models
Hugging Face Blog · Sep 25, 2024 · 3 min read
Meta just shipped Llama 3.2, and the headliner is a pair of vision models that give the open-source LLM a set of eyes....