Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

Meta’s new Muse Spark 1.1. will go up against similar products offered by Anthropic and OpenAI.

Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute
Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta…

How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos

Meta’s new AI image generator is using your public Instagram photos unless you opt out. Here’s how to do that.

Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

In its bid to spend less on GPUs from providers like Nvidia, Meta is on track to start making its the latest versions of its AI-specific chips in September.

A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that
A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that

Yann LeCun is not a natural contrarian, but he is playing one right now. The man often called a godfather of AI built the convolutional neural network in the late 1980s. That design still powers phone cameras, medical scans, and driver-assistance syste…

Meta’s latest AI model is Muse Spark 1.1 and it can run your computer for you

Meta is doubling down on AI agents with Muse Spark 1.1, a model that doesn’t just answer questions — it can use apps, browse the web, and even operate your computer to complete tasks on your behalf.

Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding
Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a “step-change” from the first generation, with improvements […]

Meta patches the mod that turned its Ray-Ban glasses into secret spy cams
Meta patches the mod that turned its Ray-Ban glasses into secret spy cams

Meta is updating its smart glasses to shut off the camera if the recording light has been physically tampered with or destroyed. The change, announced in a 7 July blog post, closes a loophole that let modders turn the glasses into covert recorders. A w…

Meta to put its own AI chip into production in September, aiming to double computing capacity
Meta to put its own AI chip into production in September, aiming to double computing capacity

Meta plans to put its own artificial intelligence chip into production in September and is aiming to roughly double the computing capacity across its data centres, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The chip belongs t…

AI image generators have escaped nightmare fingers and entered the fake premium era

I tested Meta Muse, Gemini Nano Banana 2, and ChatGPT Images 2.0. The obvious AI failures are fading, but the new flaws are harder to laugh off.