METAS SUPERINTELLIGENCE
Meta launches Muse Ember, its most efficient AI model to handle repetitive tasks; know what it can do and here's how it works
Meta has said that Muse Ember is significantly cheaper than competitors like Haiku and Luna. Despite being designed as a lightweight execution model, Ember can process different types of information. Meta claims it supports text, images and audio. The objective is to make the AI agents faster and cheaper to operate.
Tech billionaires in Democrats’ crosshairs: Who could face congressional probes? Here’s the hit list
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech leaders could face congressional investigations as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress in 2027. Their scrutiny could focus on ties to Donald Trump, political influence, AI development, data center expansion and the industry's impact on American jobs and communities.
Grok bot users hit limits faster as Elon Musk warns of ‘unsustainably high’ AI agent costs: What happens next?
Grok Bot usage limits: Elon Musk says the cost of running Grok Bot has become unsustainable relative to its revenue as users report hitting weekly usage limits faster. Despite 800,000 paid weekly users, questions remain about the service's costs, pricing and future limits.
Musk and Zuckerberg officially adopt Trump’s “super intelligence” label for AI, other tech chiefs yet to follow
In a significant shift, tech giants Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have embraced the term 'super intelligence' to describe AI, following a pivotal lunch with Donald Trump that resulted in a new safety standards agreement. Meanwhile, executives from Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft still favor the traditional AI nomenclature in their dialogues.
Big Tech turning to equity to raise funds for AI
Meta plans to raise up to $98 billion to fund AI infrastructure, making it one of the largest equity financing plans ever. Stocks worth only about $37.5 billion have been sold so far — which includes common stock, along with a $12.5 billion offering of mandatorily convertible preferred shares.
AMD and Meta advance strategic partnership to power Meta's Superintelligence Infrastructure
Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, is teaming up with Meta to enhance its superintelligence infrastructure. As part of this strategic partnership, AMD plans to invest a whopping $1 billion into Meta’s projects. This collaboration aims to push the envelope on advanced technologies and improve how superintelligence functions within Meta's framework.
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Nvidia, Meta deepen AI ties with $3 billion investment deal
In a groundbreaking partnership, Nvidia and Meta have committed to advancing the Muse AI assistant, with a substantial $3 billion investment from Nvidia to enhance functionality and reduce expenses. This AI assistant is vital to Meta's strategic vision of achieving unprecedented personal superintelligence for its users. The collaboration may also explore the implementation of Nvidia's OpenShell framework for safer software distributions.
Meet Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed, two Egyptian founders who built a text-to-speech tool; their voice AI startup was later acquired by Meta
Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed are the founders of PlayAI. Both of them Egyptian entrepreneurs who had previously worked at Dubai-based classifieds platform Dubizzle. The idea for starting the company came when they got frustrated by limited access to regional content in audio formats. The aim was to make written content more available through speech technology.
US targets $500 billion India trade in 3 years, up from record $240 billion, Sergio Gor says
The United States plans to increase bilateral trade with India to over USD 500 billion in three years. This trade target comes after reaching a record USD 240 billion, highlighting growing economic ties. Collaboration will focus on sectors like semiconductors, energy, and defense to foster mutual interests. Recent diplomatic engagements have already begun shaping a strategic alignment for both nations.
Who is Abdulrahman Alfozan? ChatGPT maker OpenAI's Saudi national employee arrested by FBI for planting high tech listening device in San Francisco office
OpenAI's security team found the device late last month at ChatGPT maker's office and the employee, Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested on October 9, the US Justice Department said.
Meta launches frontier AI models under Muse series; here’s the lowdown
Meta announced the launch on Monday via a blog poston its official website, saying these were its “most capable models that deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks.”
Meta says its new AI models on par with OpenAI, Anthropic
Meta on Monday unveiled two new "frontier" artificial intelligence models called Wonder and Wonder Full, which the company claims perform at a level comparable to that of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. In a blog post, Meta touted so-called benchmarking data from an independent firm called Artificial Analysis that appears to show that Meta's newest Wonder models outperform its own previous models, Spark, as well as various models developed by Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
Meet Alexandr Wang, MIT dropout who built Scale AI, caught Mark Zuckerberg's attention, became Meta's 29-year-old AI chief, turned Muse into an App Store hit
Wang is currently 29-years-old and grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He belongs to a family of physicists who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He started programming as a teenager and joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015. Notably, he left MIT after his freshman year at 19. In 2016, he co-founded Scale AI with Lucy Guo.
Trump has just fired the starting gun on a new Cold War with China
The US-China AI race is increasingly taking on the character of a Cold War-style strategic contest, with artificial intelligence becoming linked to economic power, military capability, national security and technological leadership.
Meta launches enterprise platform; appoints Chirantan Desai to lead division
According to Meta, the expansion relies on collaboration across its ecosystem, noting that establishing the platform happens through partnering with different industry stakeholders.
Meta's Charm gadget carries CEO Mark Zuckerberg's big AI ambitions
The device, called Muse Charm, highlights a broader shift at the social media giant that has long sought to escape Apple and Google's operating systems with a platform of its own. Users can tap the gadget to access Muse directly, bypassing AI apps on smartphones.
Meta bets big on wearable AI, Muse as Mark Zuckerberg pushes back against AI doom
Zuckerberg has distanced himself and Meta from recent calls by rival companies for a coordinated slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence, arguing that individual labs can and should ensure their technology is safe.
Meta testing a 'human concierge' for its new personal AI agent, Muse
Meta has been testing a phone-calling feature for its AI assistant Muse, which involves human contractors making calls. Employees raised privacy concerns regarding sensitive information potentially being shared during these calls. Following a critical incident involving a racist remark, Meta has decided to roll back this feature for now. The company reported significant success in app downloads and stock performance since Muse's launch.
Meta's Muse overtakes Claude, Grok in post-launch download race: Report
In the 13-day post-launch window, Muse has roughly 2.5 million downloads, way ahead of 400,000 for Anthropic's Claude and 200,000 for xAI's Grok. However, Meta's agent trails ChatGPT, which logged 3.1 million downloads in that time, according to the report. But Muse briefly held the number spot on Apple’s US free app chart, ahead of ChatGPT.
From smart glasses to AI pins, privacy fears challenge tech's next big bet
The backlash against devices that can see, hear and respond to the world around them has been strongest against Meta's Ray-Bans, which made smart glasses mainstream by pairing EssilorLuxottica's trendy designs with AI from the social media giant chasing "personal superintelligence."
Course correction? How the last 10 days changed the way we see AI
In a series of cascading events over a 10-day stretch, OpenAI and Anthropic, the largest AI labs, found themselves reeling as their own creations threatened to break humanity itself.
What AI leaders and world governments have to say about 'AI doom' fears
AI industry leaders are split over how fast companies should develop the increasingly powerful technology: Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SpaceX's Elon Musk are seeking a coordinated slowdown, while Meta's Mark Zuckerberg favors market-led safeguards.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that competition and liability give AI companies enough reason to act individually on safety, appearing to break from calls by leaders of top AI firms for a coordinated slowdown in AI development.
New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate
The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, cautioning Saturday that a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the internet in six months to a year unless companies devoted more time to putting safeguards in place.
Meta share price surges after personal AI agent Muse release
Meta shares surged more than 6% on Wednesday, a day after the company unveiled a personal AI agent that it says can book travel, send emails and make purchases on users' behalf. Agents -- AI programs that work on their own, without a person guiding each step -- have recently unsettled users, with reports from OpenAI and other companies of models going against instructions and safety guardrails.
Jacob Coxon quits Anthropic with chilling AI warning: 'These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire...'
Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who also worked at OpenAI, has raised a chilling warning about the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Coxon says AI could soon become “superhuman systems” capable of hacking anything, transforming entire fields overnight and acquiring real power and resources. Other Anthropic researchers have also warned about the potential risks of advanced AI.
Flipkart's new Minutes app; Anthropic employee sounds alarm
Flipkart has launched a standalone app for its quick commerce unit Minutes. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Meta Muse: Why is this new AI agent raising privacy concerns?
Meta introduced Muse, an AI assistant designed for task execution and personal assistance. This agent can send emails, book travel, and fill online forms for users. Muse operates across various applications, remembering details and working without constant human instructions. While Meta emphasises safety, internal tests revealed vulnerabilities and privacy concerns.
Meta launches AI agent Muse that can access other apps to send emails, make payments
The company's Muse agent, known internally as Hatch, is the centerpiece of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to supply "personal superintelligence" to the billions of people who use Meta's services daily.
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