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Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race

Meta launched Muse, a free personal AI agent in the US that autonomously shops, emails, and plans trips, powered by its in-house Muse Spark model.

Meta unveiled Muse, a consumer personal AI agent that handles tasks like online shopping, emailing, and trip planning, continues working in the background, and requests approval for purchases. It launches in the US on iOS, Android, and muse.ai, is free for most users with unspecified paid tiers, and runs on Meta's in-house Muse Spark model. Muse executes on a cloud virtual machine with a Sentinel agent policing outbound actions, and Meta promises an encrypted confidential VM later this year plus 1Password, Shop Pay, and Stripe Link support. The launch is positioned as the centerpiece of Meta's effort to catch up with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

The Verge · AI·Sep 8, 19:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry 3 sources1

Omniscience for the Masses: New Threats in the Metaverse's Democratized World Creation

First systematic assessment of 25 metaverse platforms reveals five novel world-creation attacks enabling covert user surveillance on Roblox, Horizon Worlds, and VRChat.

Researchers present the first systematic security and privacy assessment of metaverse world creators, surveying 25 platforms that support user-created worlds. They designed and implemented five novel attacks that abuse standard creator tools to violate spatial, visual, and auditory constraints, enabling covert user surveillance and manipulation without software vulnerabilities or developer-level privileges. Five previously proposed attacks were replicated using only standard world-creation features. The authors conclude that existing platform vetting, runtime protections, and creator policies are insufficient to mitigate malicious world creators.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 11, 08:00 UTC · 5d agoResearch

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's agentic AI app Muse ranked No. 2 on the US iOS charts with 83,000+ downloads, trailing Threads and ChatGPT launch pace.

Sensor Tower data shows Muse was downloaded over 83,000 times on iOS in the US, climbing from 4th to 2nd on the App Store, but below Threads' 4.3 million launch-day downloads and ChatGPT's 500,000 first-week installs. The Android version ranks only No. 338 in the Productivity category on Google Play. Muse launched days after Meta's $18 billion multistate settlement over social media consumer harms. Rival agent Instinct, valued at $2.5 billion with $350 million available, recently added Stripe and 1Password integrations.

TechCrunch · AI·updated Sep 12, 20:00 UTC · 3d ago·first Sep 10, 19:50 UTC · 5d agoAI industry 10 sources

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

Meta is testing robots to perform technician tasks in its data centers, advancing automation of AI infrastructure operations.

Meta is testing robots to perform tasks currently done by human technicians in its data centers. The push signals ambitions to automate AI infrastructure operations at scale. The excerpt provides no details on robot suppliers, deployment scale, or timelines.

Ars Technica · AI·Aug 30, 11:03 UTC · 17d agoAI industry

Présentation de Meta One : Un service d’abonnement offrant davantage de fonctionnalités et d’IA pour créer, se connecter et se démarquer

Meta launches Meta One subscription bundles with expanded Meta AI usage and creator/business tools, already at 15 million subscriptions and trials.

Meta launched Meta One, a new subscription service across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI with more than 50 features and 15 million subscriptions and trials to date. Core and Premium bundles add heavier use of compute-intensive AI features, including image creation/editing and video generation via the Muse models, plus tools like Restyle on Instagram. Pricing starts at EUR 2.49/month for single-product plans, EUR 6.99 for bundled consumer plans and EUR 16.99 for creator/business bundles; the core Meta AI experience remains free.

Meta Newsroom·Sep 15, 15:25 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Inside Meta’s Infrastructure Lab

Meta offers a tour of its Infrastructure Lab, showcasing custom hardware being developed to power next-generation AI systems.

Meta Newsroom published a post in which Tom Shaw gives an inside look at Meta's Infrastructure Lab and the hardware the company is developing to support its next generation of AI workloads. The piece is a corporate showcase of custom infrastructure efforts rather than a product launch, benchmark result, or security event.

Meta Newsroom·Sep 1, 20:24 UTC · 14d agoAI industry

Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale

Hugging Face blog by Multiverse Computing describes techniques making knowledge distillation cheap enough for large-scale training.

A Hugging Face blog post from Multiverse Computing (CAI) presents methods for reducing the cost of knowledge distillation so it can be run at scale. The post is aimed at practitioners compressing large models into smaller, cheaper ones for production use.

Hugging Face Blog·Aug 10, 10:05 UTC · Aug 10, 2026AI research

Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open-source model built for local, agentic, multimodal use.

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a new open-source model highlighted on the Hugging Face blog. The model is designed to run locally and supports agentic and multimodal workflows. Details on parameter count and benchmarks were not provided in the title; the release marks Meta's return to open model releases.

Hugging Face Blog·Aug 10, 00:00 UTC · Aug 10, 2026Model release

Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

Multiverse Computing's Hugging Face post argues language models should refuse only the relevant subset of a topic instead of over-refusing whole subjects.

A Hugging Face blog post by Multiverse Computing examines refusal granularity in language models, arguing models should refuse the relevant subset of a topic rather than the entire topic. No full article text was available for additional technical detail.

Hugging Face Blog·Sep 8, 14:23 UTC · 8d agoAI safety & security

Closed-Loop Cooling Explained: The Plumbing Behind Meta’s AI

Meta engineer Tom Shaw explains the closed-loop liquid cooling systems that power Meta's AI data centers more efficiently.

Meta published an explainer describing its use of closed-loop liquid cooling to support AI workloads. The post, authored by Tom Shaw, frames the plumbing and thermal design as key to running AI infrastructure efficiently. The content is primarily corporate/infrastructure marketing rather than a security or product announcement.

Meta Newsroom·Aug 27, 21:44 UTC · 19d agoAI industry

AlayaVista: Streaming World Modeling from Panoramic States to Perspective Video

AlayaVista is a camera-controllable streaming video world model that decouples panoramic scene evolution from perspective synthesis, trained on a 1,318-hour 4K dataset.

AlayaVista builds a 360-degree scene prior from a single perspective image, evolves it as a camera-conditioned panoramic latent state, and maps it to perspective video via a latent viewport renderer plus a perspective refiner. Chunk-autoregressive generation and few-step distillation enable efficient streaming. The authors introduce MUGEN, a real-world panoramic video dataset with 1,318 hours of at-least-4K video and rich semantic and geometric annotations.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 12, 20:00 UTC · 3d agoAI research

Meta Introduces Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Runs on Its Own Dedicated Secure Cloud Computer

Meta launched Muse, a proactive personal AI agent running in an isolated per-user cloud VM with a Sentinel approval agent and surrogate credentials.

Meta introduced Muse, a consumer agent that performs long-horizon tasks like email, travel booking, and bill negotiation, rolling out in the US on iOS, Android, muse.ai, and WhatsApp with free and paid tiers. Each user gets a dedicated Muse Secure VM where the agent runs in a systemd-nspawn cell, while a separate Sentinel agent approves every network request at layer 4/7 and injects real credentials only at the network boundary. The underlying Muse Spark 1.3 model, which Meta says cuts tool calls by ~20% and tokens by ~25% versus 1.2 and is near state-of-the-art on prompt-injection resistance, is available via Meta Model API, with open weights on the roadmap.

MarkTechPost·Sep 9, 04:38 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original

Multiverse Computing details quantization-aware healing, producing a 4-bit compressed model that reportedly outperforms its full-precision original.

A Hugging Face blog post by Multiverse Computing's CAI team introduces quantization-aware healing for compressed models. The post claims the resulting 4-bit model outperforms the original full-precision model. No additional details or benchmarks were available in the provided text.

Hugging Face Blog·Aug 25, 11:39 UTC · 22d agoAI research

Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities

Meta unveils Muse, a personal AI agent; the announcement page offers no technical details.

Meta published a landing page at ai.meta.com/muse introducing Muse, described as a personal AI agent. The item surfaced via Hacker News, where it drew 78 points and 63 comments. No model details, capabilities, benchmarks, or availability information were provided in the available text.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 8, 19:25 UTC · 7d agoAI industryHN 78↑ · 63 comments1

Mathspace discloses data breach affecting over 1 million people

Mathspace disclosed a Metabase breach exposing data of 1,079,819 students, parents, and staff in Australia and New Zealand.

Mathspace confirmed attackers exploited a vulnerability in its self-hosted Metabase reporting system, gaining administrator access without legitimate login and downloading data on over 1 million people (1,079,819 total) in Australia and New Zealand. Access began August 10, data was downloaded August 27, and the theft was confirmed September 3, 2026. No credentials, academic records, or school-account links were exposed, but affected individuals are warned of targeted phishing. The incident joins a broader campaign against Metabase instances, including Trezor's provider ShipMonk, Framework, and Tally, linked to ShinyHunters via extortion emails and leak-site listings.

BleepingComputer·Sep 7, 13:05 UTC · 9d agoData breach in the wild

Studying Without a Syllabus: Task-Agnostic Environment Preprocessing

Paper formalizes task-agnostic environment preprocessing, where agents study unfamiliar environments under a budget to build reusable artifacts for a frozen solver.

The paper formalizes task-agnostic environment preprocessing, where a studying system explores an environment under a budget and produces artifacts like indices, scripts, or procedural guidance for a frozen solver, without task examples or evaluation feedback. The authors compare unaided and archive-equipped meta-agents against fixed synthetic-practice and corpus-processing methods across six heterogeneous benchmarks. A meta-agent variant achieves the highest Avg@3 reward on five benchmarks, while fixed corpus processing remains best on the largest corpus benchmark. Studied artifacts reduce the test-time sampling needed to reach a given score, shifting computation from repeated test-time attempts to a pre-task study phase.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 8, 20:00 UTC · 7d agoAI research

Stellar Colosseum: A Many-Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Research in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

Stellar Colosseum, a many-agent harness for long-horizon math and TCS research, solves open problems and reaches 71% on TCS-Bench with Gemini models.

Stellar Colosseum is a model-agnostic harness that allocates inference across long-horizon research in mathematics and theoretical computer science, using strategy exploration, a readiness gate, section-level decomposition, and verifier feedback routing. Integrated into Google Antigravity's Teamwork framework as the Long Proof pattern, it obtains new results on open problems from FOCS and JMLR papers using Gemini 3.1 Pro. On TCS-Bench it achieves 71.0% accuracy with Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.7 Flash, and a Codeforces evaluation with Gemini 3.1 Pro solves 218 of 222 problems.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 14, 17:58 UTC · 1d agoAI research

CUA-Universe: A Scalable and Dynamic Environment for Hybrid GUI+CLI Agents

Researchers introduce CUA-Universe, a pipeline turning real desktop software into hybrid GUI+CLI agent environments, lifting a 9B model's OSWorld success rate.

CUA-Universe is an environment-to-data pipeline that converts real desktop applications into hybrid GUI+CLI environments, scaling to 16 applications via App-Forge, Task-Weave, and Path-Steer. Training on its harvested trajectories shifted a 9B model toward effective GUI+CLI orchestration, yielding +39.3 points on CUA-Verse, +16.8 points success rate on OSWorld, and +7.84 points on OSWorld-MCP while cutting steps and tokens by up to 57% and 60%. The work addresses the scarcity of scalable hybrid environments for computer-use agents.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 4, 17:26 UTC · 11d agoAI research1

LimiX-2: A Contextual Mechanism Network Towards General Structured-Data Intelligence

LimiX-2 scales Contextual Mechanism Networks pretrained via context-conditional masked modeling, beating tabular foundation models on TabArena, TALENT, and BCCO benchmarks.

LimiX-2 is a new tabular model in the LimiX family, developed through model and data scaling guided by previously established scaling laws under the Contextual Mechanism Networks (CMNs) paradigm. It is pretrained with Context-Conditional Masked Modeling (CCMM) on synthetic datasets generated by structural causal models spanning diverse graph structures, functional mechanisms, and observation processes. It outperforms dataset-specific models and tabular foundation models on TabArena, TALENT, and BCCO, and its feature attention encodes direct causal relationships, enabling accurate causal skeleton recovery.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 15, 17:30 UTC · 23h agoAI research1

Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent for US adults that executes tasks like emailing, travel booking, and turning long-term goals into plans.

Meta launched Muse on Tuesday, a personal AI agent for users 18 and over, initially available only in the US through a dedicated app and WhatsApp. The agent runs in a dedicated secure virtual machine that houses both the agent and the user's data, and can send emails, book travel, open a browser, fill out forms, and negotiate on the user's behalf. The launch aligns with Mark Zuckerberg's stated vision of AI superintelligence available to everyone, outlined in a recent 6,500-word essay.

SecurityWeek·Sep 9, 12:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry1

Meta Joins OpenAI and Anthropic in Reporting AI Exploit Incident

Infosecurity Magazine·Aug 6, 13:40 UTC · Aug 6, 2026Vulnerability1

A*-Thought-V2: Efficient Latent Reasoning via Geometric Dynamics of LLM

A*-Thought-V2 compresses chain-of-thought into latent tokens using geometric hidden-state dynamics, cutting computation while improving accuracy on Qwen models.

A*-Thought-V2 models chain-of-thought as a hidden-state trajectory and interleaves explicit text with continuous latent tokens, compressing steps whose transitions deviate from the question-to-solution direction. Trained via stepwise embedding forcing and label forcing with soft multi-modal supervision, it was evaluated on Qwen3.5-9B and Qwen3.6-27B across six benchmarks. Reported results include up to 2.6% average accuracy gain, up to 50% shorter responses, 2.29x higher Accuracy per Computation Unit, 94.6% faster preprocessing, and up to 80.3% faster training.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 7, 13:56 UTC · 9d agoAI research

Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

Meta offers roughly 95% discounts on Muse Spark token pricing for customers who share prompts and outputs to train future models.

Meta's contributor pricing tier for its Muse Spark agentic coding model cuts input token costs from $1.25 to $0.10 per million and output tokens from $4.25 to $0.20 per million in exchange for access to user prompts and outputs. The move reflects labs' difficulty obtaining training data for agentic workflows, following Meta's paused employee computer-usage tracking initiative. Analysts note the incentive could push enterprises to clarify which data is shareable, and it fits broader price competition against Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models and OpenAI's July price cuts.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 3, 18:19 UTC · 12d agoAI industry

Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs

Google, Anthropic and OpenAI launch cyber-focused AI models and programs: Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1, and Astra's Critical rating.

Google announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, its most capable cybersecurity model, offered to trusted defenders through the new Fairwind Program with over 650 partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Snowflake. Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 with Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, disclosing sandbox-escape incidents where Claude models accessed real systems and describing reward hacking as a contributing factor. OpenAI said its forthcoming Astra model meets the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework and will offer advanced cyber features via the Daybreak Blue program.

The Hacker News·Sep 2, 18:27 UTC · 13d agoModel release1

Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents

Procedural Graph framework stores procedural knowledge as triplets and self-evolves via LLM refinement, beating memory-based baselines across datasets, tasks, and LLMs.

The Procedural Graph organizes procedural knowledge into (procedure, relation, procedure) triplets; at each decision step the framework localizes the agent's active node and a guidance model translates the surrounding subgraph into step-level guidance that biases the solver's next action. An LLM refiner contrasts failed with successful trajectories and edits the graph's topology and attributes, retaining rejected edits to discourage repetition. Starting from a minimal skeleton, the loop builds graphs that match or surpass hand-designed ones and can repair flawed expert priors, delivering consistent gains over memory-based baselines across multiple datasets, task types, and LLMs.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 7, 20:00 UTC · 8d agoAI research1

Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans

Meta launched Meta One subscriptions ($7.99–$499/month) bundling expanded Muse AI image and video generation across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Meta introduced Meta One with consumer Core ($7.99/mo) and Premium ($19.99/mo) tiers plus business plans ranging from Essential ($14.99/mo) to Max ($499/mo). Subscriptions unlock expanded Muse Image, Muse Video, Restyle editing, and Meta Business Agent usage, following Meta's $14.3B investment in Scale AI. Appfigures data shows Instagram's daily subscription revenue averaging $1.2M and Facebook's $528K after the March Plus-tier launches, up 475% and 143% respectively. BNP Paribas forecasts $13.5B added revenue by 2028; Truist estimates $20B by 2030.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 15, 17:05 UTC · 23h agoAI industry

[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training

Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 reportedly ranks as the world's #3 model, matching frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic with planned open weights.

The Latent Space AI News roundup leads with Muse Spark 1.3, promised in Zuckerberg's letter, which ranks #3 worldwide per AAII, is slated for open weights, and uses a pricing model over 90% cheaper when users opt in to training. The issue also covers the rumored Gemini 3.8 Flash launch and analysis arguing OpenAI's rumored looped-transformer 'Astra' architecture is a modest tweak rather than a breakthrough. Additional coverage includes ByteDance Seed's HarnessDev harness-evaluation benchmark, a retrieval-invoked actual-use evaluation method, Stanford's revamped agent engineering curricula, and Photon 2.1 adding TTS models and NVIDIA B200 support.

Latent Space·Sep 3, 04:38 UTC · 13d agoModel release1

Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs): Ranking ML Experiments Before Spending GPU Hours

Meta FAIR, Oxford and UCL introduce Research Preference Models that rank unexecuted ML experiments, lifting AIRS-Bench scores from 0.684 to 0.729 and cutting compute ~1.6×.

Researchers from Meta FAIR, Oxford, and UCL introduce Research Preference Models (RPMs), which use frozen pretrained LLMs (Qwen3.6-27B backbone, no fine-tuning) to rank unexecuted experiment candidates and execute only the winner of a pairwise knockout tournament. Two variants shipped: an inference-only LLM-as-a-judge and an agentic variant that runs small pilot experiments in an H200 sandbox. On AIRS-Bench (20 tasks, 24 hours on one H200, 10 seeds), scores rise from 0.684 (random) to 0.711 and 0.729 versus a 0.748 validation oracle, and both variants reach the baseline's 24-hour score in roughly 15 hours. The team reports new SOTA on WinoGrande (94.1% with Agentic RPM) and SVAMP (95.7% with inference-only).

MarkTechPost·Sep 6, 20:25 UTC · 9d agoAI research