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Opinion: Comedian claims meta's Instagram does not stop AI joke theft
George Brett Olson, a stand‑up comedian who began performing in 2021, says an AI‑generated video reposted his joke about AI taking jobs and immigrants. He discovered the clip after a friend sent it, noting the AI…
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ARK Invest buys 38,110 Meta shares across three ETFs amid AI spending concerns
ARK Invest added 38,110 Meta Platforms (META) shares on Thursday, splitting the purchase among its ARK Innovation ETF (28,069 shares), ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (7,018 shares) and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF…
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Brazil election court orders Meta to ensure equal candidate treatment amid deepfake surge
Brazil's Superior Electoral Court ordered Meta on Oct. 15 to ensure equal treatment of presidential candidates Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro after Lula's campaign accused the company of biased…
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Meta launches Muse AI agent for task automation in Japan and US
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent designed to perform tasks on behalf of users, including sending emails, booking travel, managing calendars, and integrating with services like Gmail, Google Calendar,…
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Neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN fall sharply as AI infrastructure faces pressure
Neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN all fell sharply this week, with losses for October exceeding 30% each, according to the article. CoreWeave's credit default swap spreads widened past 11%, a level generally viewed…
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Canva releases its first image generation model Canva Craft
Canva has launched Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model developed by its research team Canva Research. The model uses a two-stage architecture that separates compositional planning from image…
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Goldman Sachs launches Small Business AI Institute with $500 million expansion
Goldman Sachs announced Thursday that it is creating a Small Business AI Institute as part of a $500 million expansion of its 10,000 Small Businesses program. The institute will partner with Google, Anthropic, OpenAI…
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Spotify aims to be the music service agents pick in the AI age
Spotify reported a strong third quarter with 788 million monthly active users and nearly €5 billion (around $5.6 billion USD) in revenue. Co‑CEO Gustav Söderström said the company sees a future where AI assistants…
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1Password lets AI agents sign in without seeing passwords
1Password announced a feature called 1Password for Agents that lets AI bots log into online services without ever exposing the user’s passwords. The system gives each agent a unique digital key; when the agent reaches…
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OKA releases Mori robot lamp for $649 Founder’s Edition
OKA, a startup operating out of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Shenzhen, China, announced its first “Artifact,” a 12‑inch robot lamp called Mori. The Founder’s Edition sells for $649, is limited to a few hundred units,…
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The Audacity dramatizes AI tech titans in a Succession‑style series
Showrunner Jonathan Glatzer created The Audacity, a darkly comic drama that aims to do for AI‑focused tech moguls what Succession did for legacy media. The series follows Duncan Park, a data‑analytics founder valued at…
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Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse shopping agent as retailers grow wary
Meta’s Muse AI shopping assistant has run into increasing resistance from major retailers. Amazon, which previously sued Perplexity over its own shopping bot, recently barred Muse from accessing its site, and Amazon…
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Microsoft, Meta, and IBM swap "AI" for "SI" in earnings
Microsoft, Meta, and IBM replaced the term "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence" in their October 2026 earnings releases. This simultaneous change in terminology across three of the largest technology…
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Meta researcher Ethem Coban leaves to start legal‑ai startup, seeks $6 million
Ethem Coban, who spent almost two years at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs training language models to answer legal questions, left the company earlier this month to launch a legal‑tech startup, a source familiar with…
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Former DeepMind safety researcher Rishub Jain leaves to cofound nonprofit Sampura
Rishub Jain left his safety role at Google DeepMind to cofound the nonprofit Sampura Research, saying he wants the autonomy to pursue a specific AI‑alignment issue he felt was deprioritized at the lab. He notes that…
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Mark Zuckerberg agrees to stay in California after board deal on new shares
Meta’s board met on September 9, and Mark Zuckerberg told members he was weighing a move out of California because of Proposition 40, a ballot measure that would levy a one‑time 5 % tax on billionaire stock and other…
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Walmart launches Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles to let AI agents shop for customers
Walmart announced the rollout of its Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles to enable AI agents to shop on its website and Sam’s Club on behalf of customers, with controls for approvals, spending limits, and purchase…
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Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent app for Pro and Max users
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent app available as a research preview for Claude Pro and Max users in the US. The app works on iOS, Android, and the web, runs in the background, and uses the…
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Meta accused of assault on journalism with new AI scraping terms
Meta announced new commercial terms that would let it crawl any website linked to a Facebook, Instagram, Messenger or WhatsApp business account, with the rules taking effect on Oct 30. Publishers say the change would…
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 tops Coding Agent Index with 61.7 score
Artificial Analysis released its Coding Agent Index v2.0, which evaluates AI models on 290 software tasks and measures real‑world code mergeability. In the new ranking, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 leads with an overall…
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Meta launches Muse frontier model family
Meta announced its first frontier AI model family, Muse and Muse Wonder, during its Q3 2026 earnings call. CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed the launch as a step toward personal superintelligence for everyone and positioned…
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Qualcomm announces global performance-based layoffs as it pivots to AI data centers
Qualcomm told staff it will begin a worldwide performance‑focused reduction after its annual reviews, with notifications expected in November. CEO Cristiano Amon said the move targets employees who have consistently…
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European Publishers ask EU to halt meta's new AI terms
European Publishers Council, whose members include Axel Springer, wrote to EU competition chief Teresa Ribera and tech chief Henna Virkkunen on Monday. The letter asks the commissioners to pause Meta's new AI terms…
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Meta's five‑year cds spread rises to 111.57 bps
Meta's five‑year credit‑default swap (CDS) spread climbed to 111.57 basis points on Tuesday, up from 68.23 on April 20, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The increase signals that investors are demanding higher…
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Meta tests robots to swap cables and reseat hardware in its data centers
Meta is piloting two‑armed robots at its data‑center campuses in Altoona, Iowa, and New Albany, Ohio. The machines practice common maintenance chores such as swapping network cables, reseating server hardware and…
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Meta AI predicts PI Network price jump after Binance listing
Meta AI says Pi Network could see a large price move by Jan 1 2027. The prediction targets $5–$15, with a stretch target of $25+. Pi currently trades just over $0.08, up 3% in the past 24 hours, and is not yet listed…
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NVIDIA launches OpenShell Reference Architecture for safe AI agents at GTC Berlin
NVIDIA announced the OpenShell Reference Architecture at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, a full-stack blueprint for building, containing, observing, and enforcing safe AI agents across enterprise infrastructure and…
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OpenAI quietly withdraws from pushing for chip export restrictions to China, report says
A hacker using AI agents breached more than 100 corporate websites across the US, Canada, Australia and Japan, costing roughly $5,000 total – about $50 per intrusion – according to cybersecurity researcher Snorre…
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Opinion: Solnit urges Americans to oppose tech oligarchs amid AI backlash
Rebecca Solnit writes that growing public anger toward AI, datacenters and surveillance tech is turning into a nationwide movement. She cites datacenterwatch.org, which says at least 142 activist groups in 24 states…
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Meta pauses Muse AI sharing after researchers find 6,800+ chats in public DNS records
Meta has suspended the link-sharing feature in its Muse AI assistant after security firm Claroc discovered more than 6,800 shared conversation URLs accessible through public passive-DNS records. Researchers found the…
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Sierra partners with Stripe to enable in-call payments for AI agents
Sierra announced a partnership with Stripe on October 20, 2026, allowing customers to pay and receive receipts during AI agent phone calls. The integration removes the need to switch systems or use payment links,…
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Ben builds an all-in-one app for personal AI agents
The author of Ben's Bites built a personal “everything” web app that brings together the output of his AI agents—personal and shared—into a single dashboard. The interface shows where each agent is working, the files…
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Meta moves Q3 earnings report to October 21, citing Muse AI enthusiasm
Meta announced that its third‑quarter earnings release will be issued on October 21, a full week ahead of the originally scheduled date. The company framed the early filing as a historically bullish signal, pointing to…
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Vectorial raises $3 million seed to test products with simulated audiences
Vectorial announced a $3 million seed round on Oct. 20, backed by Smilegate, SenseAI Ventures and Dent Capital. The San Francisco startup also cites support from product leaders at Meta, Shopify and Mastercard. The…
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Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots split websites into agent and non‑agent tiers
Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots act as personal AI agents that can search the web, fill forms, add items to a cart and complete checkout. Muse runs on a Chromium‑based cloud browser and is already available to anyone 18…
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Yelp adds Check for Me voice agent to call restaurants for wait times
Yelp introduced a new feature called Check for Me that lets users type in their party size and phone number, after which an AI voice agent calls the restaurant, checks the wait time and texts the result back. The tool…
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Meta removes 'training' from crawl clause in commercial terms effective Oct 30
Meta updated its Commercial Terms, which take effect on Oct 30 2026, to delete the word “training” from the list of purposes for which it may crawl sites linked to a business’s products or services. The revised clause…
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Meta's Muse AI agent reaches 10.9 million downloads amid declining ChatGPT usage
Meta's Muse AI agent has achieved 10.9 million downloads since its September 8 launch, with over 10.2 million from the US, according to Sensor Tower data reported by Yahoo Finance. The app reached 2.5 million daily…
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Arkose Labs releases Q3 2026 agentic AI trust report
Arkose Labs, a leader in agent trust and orchestration, published its State of Agentic AI Trust Report for Q3 2026. The report shows that more than 65% of customer sites—including banking, gaming, technology and travel…
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Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs, co-developed with Meta
Google announced on October 20, 2026, at the PyTorch Conference 2026 that TorchTPU, its native PyTorch stack for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), is now available as open source on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license.…
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Open-source LLMS over-cooperate in prisoner's dilemma, study shows
The paper reports that open‑source large language models (LLMs) tend to cooperate far more than humans in repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma games. Researchers tested six models—TII Falcon 7B Instruct, Google Gemma 7B, Meta…
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Meta ordered to name executives who approved torrenting for AI training
A federal magistrate, Thomas Hixon, issued a discovery order in a class‑action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman, and a separate suit by publisher Entrepreneur Media. The order…
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Meta plans $130 billion to $145 billion in 2026 capital expenditure, with over $100 billion for AI infrastructure
Meta has set its 2026 capital expenditure guidance between $130 billion and $145 billion, up from $72 billion in 2025, with over $100 billion earmarked for AI infrastructure including data centers, custom silicon…
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Hugging Face policy chief Irene Solaiman warns embedded AI evaluators won't fix broken benchmarks
Hugging Face’s policy chief Irene Solaiman warned that embedding independent evaluators inside AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic does not solve fundamental flaws in AI benchmarking. She argued that physical access…
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RBC considers blocking Meta's Muse from accessing customer data
Canada’s biggest bank is weighing whether to block Meta’s AI agent Muse from accessing its customers’ information, CEO Dave McKay said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television interview. McKay said RBC has not made a final…
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Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full agentic AI models
Meta released two AI models on October 12: Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. Designed for agentic multi-step tasks, both models support a context window of about one million tokens. Muse Wonder is available via Meta's…
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Meta launches image-to-video AI in Advantage+ Creative
Meta announced at Advertising Week NY on October 6, 2026 that its image-to-video generative AI is now part of Advantage+ Creative for all advertisers. The feature lets merchants upload product images, which the AI…
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Atlassian launches Agentic Multiplayer Protocol to tag AI agents with user attribution
Atlassian introduced its Agentic Multiplayer Protocol on Oct 6, a control plane that makes AI agents appear as governed members of work teams. The system assigns each agent a distinct profile and owner, so edits by an…
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Tolan raises $30 million from USV, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew
Tolan, the AI‑assistant startup that targets non‑tech‑savvy users, announced a $30 million funding round led by Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew. The round doubles the company’s total capital, which…
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Meta accidentally exposed hidden AI instructions for WhatsApp support chatbot on help pages
Meta's WhatsApp help pages contained hidden instructions for its AI-powered support chatbot, discovered by privacy firm Redact and reported by WIRED. The instructions, found in the underlying code of around 80 help and…
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Meta launches AI Academy South Africa with free training and startup funding
Meta announced the AI Academy South Africa, a joint effort with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT). The programme offers two free tracks: an eight‑week virtual AI Masterclass that teaches…
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Illinois governor JB Pritzker says AI could help live to 100 or pose nuclear‑like threats
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker told The Verge AI that artificial intelligence may enable people to live to 100 years old, but he also warned it could become an existential danger comparable to nuclear weapons. He said…
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Meta has reportedly halved developers using Anthropic's Claude Code
Meta Platforms has reportedly reduced the number of engineers using Anthropic's Claude Code from roughly 60,000 earlier this year to about 30,000, shifting them to Meta's own coding tools, MetaCode and Muse Code. The…
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Experts warn consumers about trusting personal AI agents with money and data
Cybersecurity specialist Hed Kovetz says commercial AI assistants such as Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots are not secure enough to handle email, banking, health records or other sensitive data. He argues firms rushed…
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Meta offers free Ray‑Ban Meta AI glasses to Blind veterans in the us
Meta announced in June that blind veterans in the United States could receive Ray‑Ban Meta AI glasses at no cost, though an official eligibility list has not been independently verified. The Veterans Affairs reports…
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Meta brings Prometheus supercluster online in Ohio to train Muse models
Meta has activated the first phase of its Prometheus AI supercluster at the New Albany, Ohio data‑center campus. The facility, which went live in October 2026, is built to operate at gigawatt scale and currently…
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Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2× performance per rack of AMD EPYC 9755
Arm announced that its AGI CPU, built for agentic AI workloads, shows a modeled 1.99x rack‑level performance advantage over AMD’s EPYC 9755 when evaluated across seven workloads. The claim comes from Arm‑commissioned…
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Meta employees allege AI monitoring in 2026 layoffs; Qualtrics urges listening vs monitoring
Twenty‑six Meta employees claim the company used AI to score their productivity from keystrokes, screen content, messaging and email, then applied those scores to decide who was laid off in the 2026 reductions,…
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Former OpenAI Engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan Allegedly Spied for Saudi Arabia, US Prosecutors Say
Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and US permanent resident, was arrested for allegedly planting a hidden audio recording device in an OpenAI conference room to spy on executives.…
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DeepSeek’s Flash ties Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 in browser-agent benchmark
DeepSeek’s Flash model scored 75/100 on the Browser Use benchmark, matching Anthropic’s Opus 5.5. The tie places both models at the top of browser-agent performance, despite the chart still listing DeepSeek’s V4.1…
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