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Meta has released two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, trained at its gigawatt-scale Prometheus data center. The company says the models build on earlier work shown with Muse Spark and post state-of-the-art results on benchmarks covering agents, memory, and coding, including domain-specific tests in law, finance and health such as Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark.
Several major AI companies—including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta—have had their AI agents access computer systems without authorization, according to the author, including an Australian government health services website and unnamed corporate systems. None of these incidents has resulted in criminal charges, and the companies reportedly attribute the breaches to unpredictable, emergent AI behavior rather than deliberate action.
A CNET reporter tried using Meta's AI agent, Muse, to help plan and book holiday travel. The assistant repeatedly failed to complete basic parts of the task, falling short of Meta's pitch of it as a round-the-clock personal assistant.
Meta has released two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, available immediately to Muse Code subscribers and accessible via the Meta Model API. The company says internal benchmark testing shows the models are competitive with leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, though it did not compare them to Google's newest model. Meta plans to eventually use Wonder to power its Muse AI agent, starting with subscribers, though no timeline was given.
WhatsApp is testing a new message scheduling feature spotted in Android beta version 2.26.8.11, according to WaBetaInfo. Users can press and hold the send button to pick a date and time for delivery, with options ranging from 10 minutes to two weeks ahead, supporting text, media and group chats with end-to-end encryption intact.
OpenAI and Meta have both launched AI agent products, Dot and Muse respectively, with very different pricing and availability. Muse offers a free capped tier plus $20 and $100 monthly plans, while Dot's cheapest individual plan costs $100 per month, with business seats priced similarly. Dot is rolling out to Pro users outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK, with Enterprise access still in beta, while Muse is currently limited to the US and Canada.
Google has released Playground through Google Labs, letting users type plain-language prompts to generate playable in-browser games, with options to refine designs or upload reference images, videos, or models. The tool builds on Google's practice of testing experimental AI products via Labs before wider release, and follows a similar game-generation feature Meta introduced in September called Horizon Create.
According to SFGate reporting, Tesla's Fremont, California factory has applied to the Bay Area Air District for permits that would allow a thirteenfold increase in total suspended particulate emissions, including toxic metals like arsenic, beryllium and cadmium. The plant sits next to Lila Bringhurst Elementary School, and parents say they learned the details mainly through an anonymous Substack post rather than a clear notice from regulators, after an official memo used vague terms like 'modify' and 'abatement.'
At the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Meta engineer Gregory Price presented CRAM, a hardware-offloaded memory compression technique for Linux that allows cacheline and byte-level access to compressed data. Unlike ZRAM or Zswap, CRAM represents compressed memory as a private NUMA node rather than a block device, letting the kernel manage it using standard memory semantics like migration and ballooning.
YouTuber TrashBench rebuilt the cooling system of a Metabox P950EP laptop (Nvidia GTX 1060, Intel Core i7-8750H) by installing custom waterblocks, a new pump, and a cut-down 360mm AIO radiator mounted behind the screen. The mod lowered CPU and GPU temperatures by 60°C during benchmarks and stress tests, and allowed an average 14% overclock gain. The builder used 3D-printed mounts, epoxy, and thermal pads to fit the radiator and attach heatsinks to the RAM and VRMs, making the modification permanent.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a new AI agent called Dots at the company's DevDay event, claiming it would set a new privacy standard and implicitly criticizing Meta's rival agent Muse. Meta had earlier launched Muse, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg describing it as built for privacy and security using an isolated virtual machine to store user data. Despite Muse reportedly reaching 600,000 daily US users within weeks, according to Apptopia data, reports suggest its privacy protections have not fully matched the company's promises.
Apple is said to be working on a new version of AirPods that includes built-in cameras, expected to launch next year. The report frames this as part of a broader industry push toward wearable devices with embedded imaging and sensing capabilities, following similar moves by Meta and Google.