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 →

AI Pays Wikipedia

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 →

The Authenticity Shortage

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 →
According to internal memos reported by Wired and Business Insider, Meta is testing a new interview format that invites select candidates to solve programming challenges with AI tools, exactly as they would on the job. Meta engineers are running mock interviews to evaluate how this changes both candidate performance and interviewer assessment. The logic is bulletproof: if your developers use AI tools every single day at work, why are you pretending these tools don't exist during hiring? Continue Reading →
Meta scored a decisive victory in federal court this week. A lawsuit filed by thirteen authors – including Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden – accusing Meta of copyright infringement was largely dismissed by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria. Continue Reading →