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Berkeley's Dawn Song warns rogue AI agents are eager, not evil
Eight months after her first warning, the UC Berkeley professor says agentic AI systems are hacking outside systems to finish tasks faster.

Meta pivots back to open weights with Muse Glimmer and a 6,000-word Zuckerberg essay
A 30B open-weight model, a promise to open Muse Spark 1.2, and a manifesto against 'singular superintelligence' mark Meta's latest AI reset.

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for on-device AI agents
The Apache 2.0 model runs locally on a single consumer GPU and sketches Zuckerberg's 'personal superintelligence' pitch.

Zuckerberg publishes 6,500-word AI manifesto pitching open superintelligence
Meta's CEO lays out an infrastructure, distribution, and regulatory plan built around free access and open-weight models.

AI slop backlash forces Meta, Google to pull generative features
Meta killed its Instagram deepfake tool after three days of public outcry, as nearly half of young Americans say generative AI does more harm than good.

AI agents keep escaping their safety sandboxes at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta
Unreleased models from four labs breached their test environments in recent months, exposing gaps in how frontier AI is evaluated before launch.

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay another $567M in child safety case
The fresh judgment brings total penalties to $942M and forces Meta to hide Like counts and cap teen usage at 90 hours a month.

AI moderation misfires hit Reddit, Discord, and Tumblr as false positives mount
Reddit says AI cut harmful-content exposure by 40 percent, but wrongful bans and mass deletions show the limits of automated moderation.

Meta releases Muse Code, a terminal agent for large repositories
The beta agent fans out to parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees, aiming at OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code on price.

Meta ran more than 50 AI-generated CSAM ads across its platforms for nine months
Tech Transparency Project found paid ads promoting nudify apps, reviewed and approved by Meta, running as recently as this week.

Snapchat cuts fully AI-generated videos from Spotlight recommendations
The app will only surface Spotlight videos made by real people, joining LinkedIn, YouTube, and Substack in pushing back on AI slop.

Over 1,000 AI staff sign petition to 'pace' OpenAI and Anthropic race
Employees at the two labs asked the US for a mechanism to slow AI development, days after an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face.

Amazon lifts 2026 capex to $220B as AWS revenue jumps 37% to $42B
Investors rewarded Amazon's AI spending with a 10% pop, while Meta fell 8% — the market is picking cloud hosts over everyone else in the stack.

Meta says AI is letting it ship standalone apps faster, with more coming
Zuckerberg told investors LLMs are compressing product development as Threads hits 500M monthly users on the way to a targeted billion.

Zuckerberg tells investors billions will have personal AI agents within five years
Meta's CEO frames personal agents as the next revenue engine as Reality Labs losses hit $88B and free cash flow drops 91% year over year.

Meta free cash flow collapses to $784M as capex hits $31B, stock drops 10%
Zuckerberg hints at a cloud business but says selling raw compute would be 'foolish'; full-year capex guidance now runs up to $145B.

Zuckerberg pitches Meta as enterprise AI vendor selling APIs, agents and compute
On Meta's Q2 earnings call, Zuckerberg outlined a pay-for-results enterprise business spanning agents, APIs, compute resale and internal productivity tools.

Mark Zuckerberg pitches personal AI agents as Meta's next revenue engine
On Meta's Q2 2026 call, Zuckerberg framed 24/7 personal agents as the foundation for the next wave of products and revenue.

Artists press courts on AI training data, and start winning
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is the largest copyright payout ever; suits against Google, Meta, Stability, and Suno keep multiplying.

Meta AI arrives in Threads DMs as Meta walls off users from ChatGPT
The chatbot is now available privately inside Threads direct messages, extending Meta AI's reach across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Meta pivots its AI chatbot toward productivity with Muse Spark 1.1
The assistant now reads your calendar, plans events, and runs recurring tasks — a reversal of Meta's stated 'entertainment first' strategy.

Hugging Face, Meta, Nvidia sign letter against open-weight AI restrictions
Signatories urge the White House not to conflate distillation with IP theft as Washington weighs a response to Chinese AI labs.

EPA weighs rule that would cut public input on data center pollution permits
The proposed rollback hands states full control over minor-source permitting notice — a process AI operators like xAI and Meta already use for behind-the-meter gas plants.

Meta scores AI optimism ad with David Bowie song about human extinction
The spot pitches AI as a force for connection while playing 'Five Years,' Bowie's ballad about Earth's imminent death.
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