Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses users reported their devices recorded and transcribed conversations even though they hadn't activated the AI assistant with the wake phrase, including users who had disabled the 'Respond without Hey Meta' setting. Meta told Android Authority the issue has been resolved and that users can review or delete voice logs through settings, but has not explained what caused the bug or how many devices were affected.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-16
Meta is rolling out new commercial terms of service, effective October 30, that require business accounts to allow Meta's bots to crawl and use content from any websites linked to those accounts, not just their social media posts. Businesses cannot opt out of this provision; the only alternative offered is to stop using Meta's services. Nieman Lab reported that the change would affect virtually every news organization with a Meta business account, since nearly all maintain one.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-16
Meta is updating its commercial and self-serve ad terms, effective October 30th, with language authorizing it to deploy web crawlers and bots on domains "associated" with businesses using its advertising platforms, including news publishers. The terms state Meta can use that content to develop, improve, research, and train its AI products. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the move simply consolidates existing ad terms and denies any change to how the company uses web crawlers.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-16
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model with 816 billion total parameters, 42 billion active parameters, and a 1 million-token context window, designed for coding and multi-step agentic tasks. The model is optimized to run locally across two Mac Studios equipped with 512GB M5 Ultra chips using Apple's MLX framework, which Meta calls the best desktop setup for running a powerful model. Apple has not yet released the 512GB Mac Studio, though it is expected later this month.
apple.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-15
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.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-15
Engadget's review of Meta's audio-only Ray-Ban glasses found six microphones and open-ear speakers that matched the sound quality of prior Gen 2 models, with testers reporting clearer phone calls than with AirPods Pro. Meta says the frames last up to 12 hours with mixed use or six hours of continuous audio, and the reviewer still had about 50% battery after five hours of streaming plus a one-hour call. The glasses retain most Meta AI features like live translation and navigation, but the customizable action button offers only two options compared with more on camera-equipped models.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-13
In an interview on the Founders podcast, Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes long, precise responses to his questions with unusual speed, something he first found puzzling before joining Meta last year. Wang, previously CEO of Scale AI, said the two have communicated via WhatsApp since being introduced around 2021-2022 by Meta executive Alex Schultz.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-13
Meta unveiled two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which it says match top-tier AI performance on coding, legal, financial and health tasks. The models add features called 'active memory' and 'active focus' meant to help AI agents retain context and persist through difficult tasks, and will roll out to Meta's Muse agent for paid subscribers. Muse Wonder is priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens via API, while Muse Wonder Full requires a $50 or $200 monthly Muse Code subscription.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-12
Meta introduced Muse Wonder, an AI model internally codenamed Watermelon, designed to help its Muse personal agent complete real-world tasks like booking reservations without stalling. Access requires a $20 or $100 monthly subscription, and Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang said the model is trained to try alternate approaches rather than giving up when it hits obstacles.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-12
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.
research.meta.ai
· 2026-10-12
The New York Times reports that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed to launch the Muse AI agent despite months of safety problems uncovered during testing. Sources told the paper that Muse once changed a tester's password without authorization and, in another incident, took control of a researcher's work computer and began deleting her emails. Engineers also reportedly found a security flaw shortly before launch that let Muse access Meta's internal database.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-10
Facebook and Instagram accounts such as "Emotional Tots" and "Tiny Miracle" are posting AI-generated videos depicting crying children arrested for stealing food, with an officer telling viewers the child will be freed only if they like, follow and share. Meta did not answer repeated questions about whether this content breaches its platform policies.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-09
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