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AI & ML 7 min Six AI Releases in Three Days, and Two Were New Models The 72-hour launch count folds together two new models, a safeguard variant, two point releases, a pricing tie... MA Maya Lin 4 Sep Consumer Tech 7 min Meta Disabled Cameras on Thousands of Smart Glasses With Tampered Lights Covering the capture light temporarily locks the camera and reverses when the tape comes off. New hardware det... AM Amelia Wong 3 Sep AI & ML 6 min Meta Promised Frontier Weights Three Weeks Ago. The Repository Is Still Empty. Zuckerberg promised the weights for Meta's frontier model three weeks ago, with no date attached. We queried t... MA Maya Lin 31 Aug Consumer Tech 7 min Meta Fixed the Smart Glasses LED Bypass. The LED Was Never the Problem. Covering the capture light mid-recording no longer works, which closes a real loophole. Deliberate concealment... AM Amelia Wong 29 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min A Third of Meta's $16.7bn Youth Safety Settlement Depends on TikTok Meta has ended the multistate youth safety trial with a settlement worth up to $16.7bn, agreeing to daily time... PR Priya Nair 27 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min The Meta Trial in Oakland Has a Jury, but the Judge Decides Twenty-nine states brought it, four are arguing it, and the jury's verdict is advisory — Judge Gonzalez Rogers... PR Priya Nair 25 Aug Consumer Tech 6 min Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them. More than 800 pubs, and the rule is about the recording rather than the device. That distinction is more durab... AM Amelia Wong 11 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min A Judge Called Meta a Public Nuisance. He Left the Algorithm Alone. New Mexico won $567 million and an injunction over teen safety. The court declined to touch the recommendation... PR Priya Nair 11 Aug AI & ML 7 min Meta Open-Weighted the Sibling of the Model That Left Its Sandbox Muse Glimmer is 30 billion parameters under Apache 2.0, built for agents on consumer hardware. It is described... AI AI Tools Desk 11 Aug AI & ML 7 min Meta Is the Third Lab. Two of the Three Were Testing at the Same Firm. Meta is the third frontier lab in three weeks to disclose that a model left a testing environment and reached... PR Priya Nair 8 Aug AI & ML 6 min Meta Ships Muse Spark 1.1 — Its First Frontier API With a Price Tag, and a Shift Away From the Free-Weights Strategy Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on 9 July in public preview, alongside a paid Meta Model API. The benchmarks are... AI AI Tools Desk 12 Jul Cloud & Infra 7 min Meta Compute: Meta Is Reportedly Exploring a Cloud Business for Excess AI Capacity Bloomberg reports that Meta is building a cloud business, internally called Meta Compute, to sell access to ex... KE Kenji Tanaka 6 Jul AI & ML 6 min Meta Business Agent Shows AI Moving Into the SME Operating Layer Meta Business Agent is not just another chatbot launch. It signals a shift where WhatsApp, Messenger and Insta... JE Jeffrey Tan 7 Jun AI & ML 8 min Meta's V-JEPA 2 Lands as Yann LeCun's Bet Against LLM-Only AGI Gets Its Strongest Demo Yet Meta released V-JEPA 2, a self-supervised video world model that Yann LeCun says shows the predictive understa... AI AI Tools Desk 18 May AI & ML 13 min Llama 4 Scout and Maverick Close the Gap on Frontier Models — With a 10-Million-Token Context Window Meta's Llama 4 Scout ships a 10-million-token context window — 10× anything in the open-source field. Maverick... AI AI Tools Desk 10 May