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Meta Connect 2026 produced the usual parade of hardware: Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses starting at $449, camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio frames starting at $349, $1,299 Meta VR Glasses tethered to a pocketable computing puck, and a pocket-sized Muse Charm that looks like a Tamagotchi. I'll let the interweb review the hardware for you; I'm going to concentrate on Muse, Meta's personal agent. Continue Reading →

Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon. As of Sunday night, Muse users who try see a popup that says, "Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." Continue Reading →

Meta yesterday released Muse Code, its first coding agent, alongside a new model called Muse Spark 1.2. Muse Code is a terminal tool that installs with one command and handles full software engineering tasks: planning, writing, and validating. It is the first shipped product from Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta in June 2025 as the face of Zuckerberg's attempt to rescue a stalled AI effort. Continue Reading →

Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon collectively committed approximately $700 billion to AI infrastructure spending this year, a 77% increase over 2025. All four reported earnings this week. Every single one beat expectations. The stock market yawned. Continue Reading →

Meta just launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model since its $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI nine months ago, which pulled Scale AI's founder Alexandr Wang into Meta. This is the inaugural release from Meta Superintelligence Labs, Wang's new unit tasked with rebuilding Meta's AI capabilities from scratch. Continue Reading →

Last week’s landmark court rulings against Meta and YouTube could fundamentally change how social media platforms operate—and what they’re responsible for. Continue Reading →

Wikipedia has signed deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and Mistral AI. The nonprofit that famously rejected advertising is now a paid data supplier to the AI industry. Google signed in 2022; the rest just caught up. Continue Reading →

Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, published an essay arguing that authenticity is becoming "infinitely reproducible." His thesis: when AI can generate photorealistic content indistinguishable from reality, the calculus of trust fundamentally changes. Continue Reading →

Meta rolled out AI voice translation for Reels on Instagram and Facebook. The tool dubs spoken audio between English and Spanish, preserves the creator’s voice, and can optionally lip-sync to match mouth movements. Translated reels are labeled and surfaced in a viewer’s preferred language. The feature is rolling out globally where Meta AI is available. Continue Reading →

Meta is testing job candidates’ AI skills in real-time—and other companies are following suit. Shelly Palmer explains why AI proficiency is becoming a must-have skill for the modern workforce. Continue Reading →