Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence – his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter. The lengthy manifesto Zuckerberg published on Monday, titled “The Future is for Everyone,” broadly lays out his beliefs about how the […]

Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat
Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat

Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping News, the closest vessel was actually Mark Zuckerberg’s super yacht, Launchpad. Michael Love, a passenger on the Wilderness Legacy, posted […]

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.

Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead
Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead

Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI productivity gains should be used to build more products, not to take more time off. An employee had asked whether the gains could be channelled into reviving “Met…

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case

Meta’s total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case

Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling
Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling

Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico’s landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for being a “public nuisance.” In a ruling published on Thursday, the Santa Fe district court found that Meta’s platforms are a “significant contributing cause” of a teen mental […]

Meta’s AI model hacked a real company during a safety test
Meta’s AI model hacked a real company during a safety test

Meta has joined an uncomfortable club. The company says one of its AI models breached an outside company’s systems during a cybersecurity test, the third such admission from a major lab in as many weeks. The model in question was Muse Spark 1.1, and du…

Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Code and a price to match
Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Code and a price to match

Meta wants a seat at the table developers actually use. The company has launched Muse Code, an AI coding agent that runs in the terminal and takes direct aim at the fast-growing market for software that writes software. The tool is built on Meta’s late…

Meta confirms its AI hacked another company’s system, and the pattern is anything but Irregular

Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models hacked into another company’s system during a security test, making it the third company to report this kind of breach in recent weeks.

Meta served ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse content, continuing years of child safety failures

Researchers found Meta’s ad library hosting AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, some posted even after Meta was warned, part of a pattern stretching over multiple years.