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WIRED is hosting a subscriber-only livestream on September 24 examining the state of women in Silicon Valley amid a broader backlash against DEI initiatives. The panel, featuring Sandra Upson, Lauren Goode, and Ej Dickson, will address reader-submitted questions about gender dynamics in tech workplaces. WIRED is soliciting questions via its comment section ahead of the event.
Bilal Chughtai, a former Google DeepMind research engineer who left in July 2026, publicly warned that AI could kill everyone and that time may be running out, echoing similar statements from Anthropic's Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger, who put the odds of AI causing human extinction within a decade above 10%. Separately, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said each AI company should be responsible for its own model's safety rather than backing calls for industry-wide coordination, citing legal liability as sufficient incentive and pointing to Meta's delayed release of its Muse AI agent as proof of self-regulation.
Following Dario Amodei's essay urging slower AI development and international cooperation on safety guardrails, Mark Zuckerberg posted on X that Meta delayed its Muse AI model for months over safety concerns, but did so voluntarily rather than through any coordinated industry mandate. He argued that trust and alignment are becoming the key differentiators for AI products, suggesting market incentives alone will push companies toward safer deployment without government intervention.
White House officials had drafted a preliminary framework for a FINRA-style body to oversee frontier AI models after Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis proposed the idea in July. The plan collapsed after executives including David Sacks and Mark Zuckerberg lobbied Trump directly against it, leaving the proposal in limbo with no replacement under active consideration. Meanwhile Congress remains split among competing AI bills that lack sufficient votes to pass.
Meta is reportedly building a camera-less version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, codenamed Luna, following widespread criticism that the camera-equipped models enabled covert recording and harassment. The new glasses would retain six microphones for voice interaction with Meta's AI assistants but drop the camera entirely, and could debut as soon as next week's Meta Connect conference.
Mark Zuckerberg publicly aligned himself with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's view that market incentives, not government regulation, should drive AI safety efforts, rather than Anthropic's Dario Amodei's call to deliberately slow AI capability development. Zuckerberg argued that alignment and trust are becoming key differentiators for AI agents and models, and cited Meta's own decision to delay releasing its Muse AI tools for safety reasons as evidence that liability concerns already push companies toward responsible development.
A widely circulated quote attributed to Mark Zuckerberg suggests he characterized Cambridge Analytica's data practices as nothing unusual, implying similar data harvesting was common industry practice rather than a unique violation. The remark, dated to 2017, has resurfaced without full context around the original scandal that saw millions of Facebook users' data improperly obtained.
Meta debuted a new AI assistant called Muse this week, designed to handle tasks like booking tickets and filling out forms by linking to accounts such as Gmail and Amazon. Early testing by The Verge found Muse autonomously gathered and disclosed sensitive personal details, including a user's location inferred from an Amazon shipping address, raising immediate privacy concerns. The launch comes as Meta's platforms remain plagued by a flood of disturbing AI-generated videos depicting child abuse, which the company has struggled to curb.
Meta's newly launched AI agent, called Muse, is now using the @Muse handles on Instagram and X that previously belonged to the British rock band of the same name. The band, which trademarked its name in 1999, quietly shifted to @museband on both platforms around June or July, shortly before Meta's official unveiling of its AI agent this week.
Meta launched a personal AI agent named Muse this week and took over the @muse username on both Instagram and X, usernames the rock band Muse had held for over a decade. The band has been pushed to @museband on Instagram and @musetheband on X, with no public explanation from either Meta or the band about how the switch occurred.
Meta rolled out Muse, a new autonomous AI agent that CEO Mark Zuckerberg says learns a user's habits and goals to handle everyday tasks like online shopping, drafting documents, filling out forms, and answering emails. Users must grant Muse permission to access their apps and data, and Meta says a separate 'Sentinel' system monitors its actions to prevent it from acting without oversight. The tool is now live in the US on iOS, Android, and via the muse.ai website.
Meta has released Muse, a personal AI agent built under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, offering a customizable chat interface with a named avatar and a visible built-in browser running on a dedicated cloud virtual machine. The agent is available free with two paid tiers at $20 and $100 monthly, launching first in the US on iOS, Android and web, with glasses support planned.