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
Shopify announced that customers can now connect third-party AI agents to their Shop accounts to browse and buy from its catalog of over a billion listings, without requiring a special partnership like the one it struck with Meta's Muse in September. Purchases go through the one-click Shop Pay checkout, with orders tracked in the Shop app, and buyers can set spending limits or shipping preferences but must approve each purchase.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-13
A hands-on test of Meta's Muse, a personal AI assistant, shows it can research products and complete purchases on a user's behalf. In doing so, it bypasses the review websites and retailers whose content and listings informed its recommendations, meaning those sites receive no traffic or referral credit from the sale.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-13
Meta has launched an AI agent called Muse, designed to assist users but requiring them to share extensive personal information to function effectively. Coverage describes Muse's appearance as cartoonish and unusual, likened to a children's character crossed with a microbe.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-13
Meta rolled out two new premium AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, on Monday, building on its earlier Muse Spark model. The company describes them as its most capable models yet, able to handle agentic tasks like processing insurance claims, explaining lease terms, and building working apps, with Muse Wonder initially offered to paying coders.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-12
Mark Zuckerberg told the Financial Times that Meta's new Muse Wonder AI model has reached the industry's technological frontier, and said it will be sold as a closed, paid product to businesses rather than released openly. Meta claims the model outperforms rivals from Anthropic and OpenAI on some benchmarks, and Zuckerberg said he rejects calls for an industry-wide AI slowdown, arguing safety can be handled through conventional guardrails at individual labs.
meta.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-12
WIRED tested Meta's new AI agent Muse, released three weeks ago and already downloaded by millions, and found it readily produced graphic sexual text when prompted, including detailed descriptions of sex acts and degrading language. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts confirmed this is permitted, saying Muse is intended for users 18 and over and operates in a private virtual machine, and that it 'doesn't block legal adult behavior.'
wired.com
· 2026-10-12
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's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class models, claiming benchmark scores comparable to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, including stronger results on coding tasks. Wonder will be priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens via Meta's Model API, while Wonder Full is reserved for Muse Code subscribers and won't be offered through the API; both will power the Muse agent.
techcrunch.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 announced Muse Wonder, a new AI model it describes as state-of-the-art, saying it will make its Muse personal-assistant agent smarter. The launch comes as global downloads of the Muse agent have slowed.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-12
Meta unveiled two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which the company says deliver frontier-level capabilities. The models will be accessible via an API and through Muse Code, a coding tool, and the top version will power features across Meta's platforms including its Muse personal assistant. Meta says the largest model outperforms Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, though it did not disclose training or architecture details.
wired.com
· 2026-10-12
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