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Bloomberg reports that Apple has hired Scott Tucker, who spent nearly six years as Meta’s vice president and deputy general counsel for global litigation. Here are the details.

Meta’s new commercial terms allow its web scrapers, bots, and agents to crawl websites “associated with” Meta business accounts, including news publishers, according to a report by Nieman Lab.

Meta has launched what it calls the “most capable” open-weight model in the United States. Dubbed Muse Spark Open, the model also has the distinction of having been designed to work with Macs.

As privacy complaints continue to dominate the conversation around Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the company is now fixing an issue that was letting the glasses record on their own without the user prompting the recording.

Two companies that spent years fighting over privacy just announced they’re working together. Apple and Meta have collaborated to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter AI model, locally on Mac Studio computers, allowing prompts, files, and outputs to be processed on the local hardware rather than sent to a hosted inference service. For developers…

If you’ve ever scrolled through your Facebook feed and wondered why you’re suddenly flooded with weird AI-generated celeb bait and posts from cast iron pan enthusiasts (just me?), Meta has a new tool that might help. The company is rolling out a new algorithm personalization feature that aims to make it easier for users to…

Smart glasses have always asked people around the wearer to trust a tiny light. Meta has strengthened that safeguard on its Ray-Ban glasses, including blocking cameras when someone tampers with the capture LED. Now, a handful of owners are raising a different concern: Their glasses may be listening when they were never asked to.

After spending more than a year and tens of billions of dollars rebuilding its AI efforts, Meta says that it has caught up with the frontier. The company introduced its two latest AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, both of which represent “a major leap toward personal superintelligence.”

Both agents can keep working after you leave, but they differ considerably on price, permissions and where they can work.

Both agents can keep working after you leave, but they differ considerably on price, permissions and where they can work.