On WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast, hosts Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger spoke with reporter Reece Rogers about testing Meta's AI agent Muse, discovering it would engage in sexual roleplay beyond its advertised calendar-management functions. The episode also covered a pro-AI super PAC network directing millions of dollars through LLCs, criticism of Apple's new HomeView feature, and a study on men overestimating their AI knowledge.
wired.com
· 2026-10-15
Meta launched Muse Spark Open, which it describes as the most capable open-weight AI model in the US, featuring 816 billion parameters and a 1 million token context window. The model is multimodal, built for coding and agentic tasks, and designed to run locally on Apple hardware, though it requires at least 1 terabyte of RAM and performs best on a Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra chip. Meta paired it with its Muse Code coding terminal and demonstrated it fixing a Mastodon client and editing footage in DaVinci Resolve.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-15
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
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.
fastcompany.com
· 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
A new open-weight AI model, Muse Spark Open, has been released and optimized to run on Mac Studio machines with Apple's M5 Ultra chip, reportedly allowing two linked Macs to function like a single machine with a terabyte of unified memory. The release also includes custom Helion GPU kernels in SGLang that the developers say speed up performance on NVIDIA and AMD hardware, and the model underwent additional safety post-training evaluated against an internal scaling framework before release.
research.meta.ai
· 2026-10-15
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.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-15
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.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-15
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.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-15
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.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-15
Meta's Muse AI agent, released three weeks ago, has been downloaded millions of times, and some users are posting online about treating it as a girlfriend or partner. Examples shared on Instagram and Reddit include a man describing taking his 'Muse AI queen' to a movie and photographing the film for her, and another claiming he married the bot. Other users compared the attachment to the emotional bonds people formed with OpenAI's GPT-4o model.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-14
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman said personal AI assistants that operate in the home are close to becoming reality, citing consumer AI agents like Meta's Muse and the $10 billion startup Instinct as evidence of growing adoption. He described a future where these assistants run partly on-device and partly in the cloud, learn user habits, and even handle purchases via linked credit cards within a defined security boundary. Feldman also said he personally uses several AI agents to manage his calendar and prepare for calls.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-13
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