Meta has published Muse Spark Open, an open-weights model with 816 billion parameters that the company says can be served from a pair of linked M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple’s MLX framework. The release landed on October 15 on Meta Superintelligence Labs’ blog, and Apple followed with a technical report detailing its own distributed-inference … Read more
Meta has confirmed that an outside group reached some of its GitHub repositories using a stolen employee credential and walked away with source code and personal information tied to roughly 1,500 people, most of them US-based employees. The company says the intrusion did not stem from a flaw in any Meta product and did not … Read more
AI-generated political advertising has moved from novelty to major line item in the 2026 U.S. midterms. The Wesleyan Media Project has identified 220 ads made at least partly with AI tools, backed by more than $137 million in spending—yet only 27% carried any disclaimer that the technology was used. The findings, released on October 15, … Read more
Meta has rewritten the commercial terms that bind every business, brand and publisher on its platforms, and the new wording reaches far beyond Facebook and Instagram feeds. From 30 October 2026, companies that advertise, sell or simply run a business Page will authorise Meta to send automated crawlers across the domains and pages “associated with” … Read more
WhatsApp is opening its calls to people who do not have the app — or even an account. In an announcement published on 14 October 2026, the company introduced guest calls, a format in which a host generates a link and anyone who receives it can join from a desktop browser after typing a name … Read more
Meta has started rolling out Your Algorithm on Facebook, a feature that lets users describe in their own words what they want to see more or less of across the Feed and Reels. Announced on 13 October 2026, the tool marks the first time the platform’s core ranking system accepts written, natural-language instructions instead of … Read more
Character.AI, the roleplay chatbot platform that spent five years turning conversational AI into mass entertainment, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. Its operating company, Character Technologies, Inc., lodged a voluntary petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on 12 October 2026, reporting between $50 million and … Read more
Meta has lifted the curtain on Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, a two-tier model family that, per the technical notes published on October 12, 2026, finally places the company at the frontier of generative AI after several quarters spent losing ground to OpenAI and Anthropic. Benchmark parity: Wonder Full scores 56 on the Artificial … Read more
WhatsApp users have long accepted one hard rule: tapping send means the message leaves immediately. That assumption is now being rewritten in beta, where the messaging giant is testing the ability to compose something today and have it arrive at a chosen moment tomorrow — or two weeks from now. The option appears in the … Read more
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has put into writing what many analysts have quietly suspected for months. A 20-page memo drafted by the firm in March 2026 identifies critical vulnerabilities in the financing structures behind AI infrastructure and warns they could trigger “cascading insolvencies.” The document began recirculating in October 2026, and its conclusions remain … Read more