Several companies have recently launched personal AI agents meant to act autonomously on users' behalf, including Meta's Muse, which reportedly logged about 2.8 million installs in its first 12 days, and OpenAI's Dots, released September 29 to pursue background tasks with minimal supervision. Other entrants include a well-funded startup called Instinct and SpaceXAI's Grok Bot, launched in August. The report notes that 82% of organizations already have AI agents running without IT's knowledge.
Apple and Meta announced a collaboration allowing developers to run Meta's new 816-billion-parameter open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, locally on Mac Studio computers. Users can pair two to four Mac Studios to run the model for tasks like coding and video analysis without relying on cloud servers. Executives Mark Zuckerberg and John Ternus publicly confirmed the project on social media after months of joint work.
Meta has open-sourced Muse Spark Open, an 800-billion-parameter model it calls the most capable US open-weight model yet. Running it locally requires roughly 1TB of unified memory, achievable by pairing two of Apple's upcoming M5 Ultra Mac Studios with 512GB each, or four 256GB units costing about $38,000. The weights are now downloadable from Hugging Face, and Meta says the model was built in collaboration with Apple to run on its new hardware.
Meta and Apple have struck a partnership allowing developers to run Meta's open-weight AI models locally on Mac hardware. The collaboration gives developers an alternative to relying on cloud-based computing power for running advanced AI systems.
Meta launched Muse Spark Open, a multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters (42 billion active) and a 1 million-token context window, designed for coding and agentic tasks. The model is optimized using Apple's MLX framework to run on Mac Studio with M5 Ultra chips, with Meta demonstrating two linked Mac Studios handling the full model via unified memory. Weights are now available through Hugging Face.
Multiple owners of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, including 2nd- and 3rd-generation models, told Android Authority and Reddit that the devices captured audio without being activated by the required 'Hey Meta' command. Meta told Android Authority the issue 'has been resolved' and pointed users to settings where voice logs can be reviewed or deleted.
Meta launched Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter multimodal AI model it calls the most capable US open-weight model available, and said it can run on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple's MLX framework. Apple published its own technical post on MLX and the new model, and executives from both companies publicly praised the collaboration, which Axios reported had been months in the making.
Meta's AI personal assistant Muse, downloaded millions of times since its launch last month and reaching No. 1 on Apple's App Store, prompts users to grant access to bank accounts, passwords, contacts, and chat logs. Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker warned that these permissions extend beyond the user to everyone in their contacts and communications, based on extrapolation from intimate personal data.
A Washington Post list shows six major tech firms — Apple, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta — contributed a combined $92 million toward construction of a White House ballroom. Apple and Nvidia each gave $25 million, Google gave $22 million, Microsoft and Palantir each gave $10 million, and Amazon and Meta gave $5 million apiece. Overall, tech and crypto industry donors reportedly provided more than $150 million to the project.
Ash Saulsbury, who previously worked on Meta's smart-glasses technology, is building Awear AI, a platform designed to let wearers carry their AI assistant's learned preferences and memories across different devices and brands. The effort targets a market where Meta and Google currently tie their AI assistants tightly to their own glasses hardware and services.
A verified Instagram fan account with over a million followers posted an AI-generated photo of actress Mia Goth wearing a shirt mocking her ex Shia LaBeouf, shortly after her divorce filing became public. The image gained nearly 500,000 likes before being identified as fake, and Google's AI Overview repeated the fabricated narrative as fact when users searched for the story.
Valve has stopped making its original Index VR headset and is clearing remaining stock at a 20% discount, including accessories like the tether, base station and controller. A full set of individual components now totals $741, down from $926, though the bundled package is no longer sold. The move comes shortly after Valve launched the Index's successor, the Steam Frame, starting at $1,060.
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