Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a ‘ground-up overhaul’ of its AI

This is the first model Meta has released under its Superintelligence Labs, led by former ScaleAI CEO Alexandr Wang.

Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark
Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark

Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company’s AI efforts. Called Muse Spark, the model now powers the Meta AI app and the Meta AI website in the US, per the company’s announcement. In the coming weeks, Meta says, it will appear in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, […]

Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos
Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos

In short: A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing the platform’s security checks, the latest in a series of privacy and securit…

Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk
Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk

In short: Meta has suspended its collaboration with Mercor, a $10 billion AI data startup, after a supply chain attack exposed what may be the AI industry’s most closely guarded secrets: not just personal data, but the training methodologies that power…

AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.

Meta’s AI smart glasses have a creepy reputation, but they are finding a good purpose too

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have a growing privacy problem, but blind artist Clarke Reynolds is using them to do something remarkable — run a full marathon guided by strangers from around the world.

A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the landmark social media addiction trials that just resulted in two major verdicts against Big Tech. There’s one case in New Mexico against Meta, and another in California against both companies, which have said they plan to appeal. These are complicated cases with some huge repercussions for both how […]

What we can learn from Avocado: The unreleased AI Meta’s model
What we can learn from Avocado: The unreleased AI Meta’s model

In the competitive landscape of AI agents, where businesses are closing investment deals everyday to build and expand their AI infrastructure and software, the companies that seemed to be leading the race are OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Googl…

I skipped Meta’s AI glasses, but they’ve finally fixed a fundamental problem for millions other like me

Meta’s new AI glasses matter because they finally stop asking prescription wearers to compromise just to join the wearable future.

Meta’s natural gas binge could power South Dakota

Meta’s upcoming Hyperion AI data center will be powered by 10 new natural gas plants.