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Sanders tells three CEOs to pause, using their own promises News
Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter on August 10 asking Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg to immediately pause AI development, building his case almost entirely from the safety commitments the three companies published themselves.
Meta ships a 30B agent model that fits on one gaming GPU News
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight agent model under the permissive Apache 2.0 license that shrinks to under 20 GB once quantized, small enough to run on a single 24 GB consumer graphics card.
Meta will sell you the same model cheaper if it can read your prompts News
Meta's developer docs list a third model ID for Muse Spark 1.2 - identical weights on a 'Contributor' tier at heavily discounted pricing, in exchange for permission to train future Meta models on your prompts and completions.
Meta's AI build swallowed 98% of its cash flow in a single quarter News
Meta reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $60.80 billion, up 28%, but $31.08 billion of capital spending left just $784 million in free cash flow, and the company narrowed 2026 capex guidance upward to $130-145 billion.
Three big AI layoff stories, and what the filings actually say News
Oracle's headcount fell 21,000 in a year during an AI-linked restructuring, but its filings disclose no per-job AI attribution, Patreon's CEO explicitly denies AI replaced staff, and Meta reorganized around agents before admitting they were slower than expected.
Meta Ties Muse Spark 1.1, Muse Image, and Muse Video Into One Agentic AI Stack News
Meta's Superintelligence Labs shipped Muse Spark 1.1, a reasoning model built for agentic tasks with a 1-million-token context window, alongside Muse Image and a preview-only Muse Video, wiring all three into a single agentic system distributed through Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
26 Meta Workers Sue, Saying AI Picked Them for Layoffs While on Leave News
A group of 26 Meta employees sued the company, alleging its AI-assisted layoff-selection systems disproportionately targeted workers on medical, parental and family leave -- a first-of-its-kind test of liability for AI-driven HR decisions.
Meta pulls Muse Image's Instagram-photo training within 48 hours of launch News
Meta disabled Muse Image's default feature that pulled public Instagram photos into its new agentic image model within about 48 hours, after SAG-AFTRA and CAA backlash - the model stayed, the default data grab did not.
Meta opens its first paid model API with Muse Spark 1.1 News
Meta launched a public preview of the Meta Model API built around Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid, developer-facing model service, with a million-token context window, drop-in OpenAI-compatible access, and zero-shot support for new tools.
Meta unveils Muse Image and Muse Video, its first in-house media generators News
Meta Superintelligence Labs previewed Muse Image and Muse Video, its first homegrown media-generation models, and built 'agentic tool use' directly into the image model instead of treating generation as passive prompting.
Zuckerberg tells staff Meta's AI agents 'haven't accelerated' as expected News
Mark Zuckerberg told employees Meta's agent development has not sped up over the past four months and its restructuring bets 'haven't come to fruition,' even as the company plans to spend up to $145 billion on AI this year.
Meta caps employee AI token use after a 'Claudeonomics' leaderboard drove costs toward billions News
Meta imposed centralized quotas on employee AI usage after staff burned an estimated 73.7 trillion tokens in about a month, gamifying consumption on an internal leaderboard, with costs projected to reach billions in 2026.
Meta reads full sentences from brain waves - without surgery News
A new version of Meta's brain-to-text system decodes typed sentences from magnetic brain signals far more accurately than before, closing much of the gap with implanted electrodes.
Muse Spark 1.1 Tool
Meta Superintelligence Labs' multimodal reasoning model built for agentic work - tool and computer use, coding, a 1M-token context window, and subagent orchestration; live in the Meta AI app's Thinking mode and on meta.ai, with a Meta Model API in public preview.
Muse Image Tool
Meta's agentic image model, free for everyday creation inside Meta AI, Instagram Stories (US), and WhatsApp; it can search, write code, and self-refine rather than mapping a prompt straight to pixels, and stamps outputs with an invisible Content Seal watermark.
Muse Glimmer 30B Tool
Meta's 30-billion-parameter open-weight agent model under Apache 2.0, built for always-on local workflows with text and image input, tool use, a context window past 131,000 tokens, and a speculative decoder that drafts sixteen words at a time. Full weights, quantized builds, and the drafter are all in the release.
Meta Muse Image Tool
Meta's agentic image model that uses test-time compute - searching, coding, and iteratively refining its own output - to reach higher quality than a single-pass generator. (The default Instagram-photo training was pulled after backlash; the model remains.)
Meta Model API (Muse Spark 1.1) Tool
Meta's first paid, hosted model API, built around the Muse Spark 1.1 multimodal reasoning model -- a million-token context window with active context compaction, zero-shot tool and MCP support, and an OpenAI-compatible interface so existing code drops in with little more than an endpoint change.