Meta introduced Muse, a new personal AI agent that can independently send emails, book travel, complete web forms, and negotiate deals using a user's stored email, payment, and account information. Announced by Mark Zuckerberg via Instagram, Muse runs on Meta's new Muse Spark model and is available in the U.S. through a standalone app, WhatsApp integration, and the muse.ai website, with free basic access and paid tiers for more complex tasks. Meta also plans to bring Muse support to its AI glasses.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-08
Meta unveiled Muse, an AI assistant app built on its Muse Spark models, that can handle tasks such as booking appointments, filling out forms and watching home security feeds. The app, internally codenamed Hatch, offers a free tier alongside $20 and $100 monthly subscription options depending on usage, according to AI chief Alexandr Wang.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-08
Meta has released Muse, a personal AI agent designed to work independently once given a goal, handling tasks like drafting emails, organizing saved content, building grocery lists and booking travel. Unlike Meta's existing AI assistant, Muse can connect to third-party services such as Google Workspace, Spotify, Ticketmaster and Apple Health, and can even build its own integrations when a public API exists.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-08
Meta has remotely disabled photo and video functions on smart glasses that owners modified to hide or disable the recording indicator light. The company's wearables VP told Semafor that under 0.1% of the roughly 7 million glasses sold in 2025 were altered this way, meaning up to several thousand devices were affected. The move follows a wave of complaints about people using the glasses to secretly film others, particularly women, without consent.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-07
Veteran director Ari Kuschnir is producing hyperreal AI-generated video shorts that mimic classic late-night infomercials, but instead of selling kitchen gadgets, they cast tech and political figures like Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump as pitchmen for their own real-world visions. The shorts exaggerate their promises into absurd, dystopian sales pitches, blending satire with the manufactured urgency of traditional infomercial tropes.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-04
Meta unveiled Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio perception model, capable of transcribing over 20 speakers simultaneously while switching between more than 20 validated languages, including mid-sentence code-switching. CEO Mark Zuckerberg demoed the tool on X, noting it uses adaptive delay to balance speed and accuracy. The model is now available through Meta's Mac AI app, Muse Code, and its Model API at $3 per 1,000 audio minutes.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-01
Aaron Sorkin has written and is releasing 'The Social Reckoning' through Sony Pictures on October 9, a follow-up to his 2010 film 'The Social Network' that examines how Facebook has evolved into a driver of extremism and division. The film's trailer debuted the same week Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion in penalties tied to claims its platform harmed children.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-01
Meta reached a settlement with attorneys general from 47 states who had sued the company for allegedly manipulating children's attention through its algorithms. The deal could cost Meta as much as $17 billion, though the company admitted no wrongdoing, and the Wall Street Journal reported it spent over $2 billion on legal defense in a single quarter of 2026 alone.
newyorker.com
· 2026-08-30
A UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion dataset, highlighted by a Reddit user following Dolly Parton's death, shows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds just 8 percent favorability among Democrats and 13 percent among Republicans. That places him near Vladimir Putin in overall unpopularity, despite Zuckerberg's recent efforts to align himself politically with Donald Trump.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-28
According to Reuters, Meta executives led by Mark Zuckerberg pursued an internal initiative called Project Organization Transformation aimed at cutting entire teams by as much as 60 percent and replacing workers with AI agents. That plan followed May's layoffs of nearly 8,000 employees and was ultimately abandoned after a second wave of cuts was called off amid backlash, lawsuits, and low morale.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-28
Meta has settled a lawsuit brought by attorneys general from 29 US states over allegations it built systems exploiting minors' data while downplaying known harms to young users. The company will pay roughly $18 billion over ten years and adopt new restrictions including a two-hour daily usage cap for minors, nighttime access blocks, school-hours limits, tougher age verification, and curbs on social comparison features.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-27
Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy manifesto on Meta's website outlining his vision for AI, framing it as 'personal superintelligence' meant to be widely accessible rather than concentrated among elites. The statement follows Meta's costly retreat from its metaverse ambitions and mirrors similar declarations from rivals like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, though Zuckerberg emphasizes broad accessibility for everyday users, from entrepreneurs to children.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-27
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