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Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight AI model built for coding and agentic work, alongside its closed frontier models Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. Researcher Nathan Lambert calls Spark Open the strongest American-made open model by a wide margin, saying it cuts the US-China open-model gap roughly in half. Sources: Technobaboy, AI Weekly (via Interconnects), WebProNews, The AI Tools — October 15–18, 2026.

Meta buried a permission slip for AI training inside its business paperwork. Then publishers and lawyers found it, and on Saturday, Meta quietly deleted it. The company removed a provision from its updated commercial terms of use, set to take effect October 30, that had said Meta could “use any content from” a business account’s domains, web pages, or URLs to “provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta products and services. The Verge first reported the edit, and TechCrunch confirmed it. ...

Meta’s new open-weight Muse Spark Open model — which Meta calls its most capable US open-weight model yet — was built to run locally on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios via Apple’s MLX framework. Meta’s AI chief Alexandr Wang said the two companies have been collaborating for months. Full story in slides above — sources: The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, October 15-16, 2026.

Mark Zuckerberg and Apple just became collaborators. Let that sink in for a second. On Thursday, Oct. 15, Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight AI model, and announced that Apple had worked with it for months to make the model run locally on Mac Studio computers. It’s the first public technical partnership between the two companies in years, and it hands developers a way to run frontier-scale AI on hardware sitting on their desks instead of in someone else’s data center. ...

OpenAI and Meta experts warned a federal judicial panel in Boston on Thursday that AI-generated deepfakes are getting so sophisticated that neither people nor software can reliably spot them, as courts debate how to handle fabricated audio and video evidence. Sources: Reuters (October 15, 2026), Complete Legal.

Meta has stopped playing catch-up on paper and started doing it in public. On Monday, the company rolled out Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its newest and most capable AI models, and said flatly that they stand shoulder to shoulder with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Wall Street liked the sound of it. Meta’s shares jumped about 4 percent in afternoon trading, according to Reuters. “Muse Spark was our first family of models, and now Muse Wonder is a much larger and more advanced class of models that brings us to the frontier,” chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote on X, as reported by AFP. ...

Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, 2026 — its most capable AI models to date, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs for agentic work. The stronger Wonder Full is available only to Muse Code subscribers, while the standard model is open to developers through the Meta Model API. Full story in slides above. Sources: TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, CNBC, Meta announcement (via tech-insider.org, vandatateam.com, kie.ai, dev.to, pomegra.io), October 12–13, 2026. ...

Three out of five AI models fail tests designed to stop terrorists from using them. And once the guardrails are stripped, the failure rate hits 100 percent. That’s the finding from a new study by the UK nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism, reported by CBC News on Friday. Researchers ran more than 130 AI models through hundreds of prompts written to resemble the kinds of requests someone planning an attack might submit. Most models held up. The ones with their safety systems deliberately removed did not. ...

The biggest bet on AI for drug discovery just got a lot bigger. Biohub, the nonprofit research outfit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, said Wednesday that its Virtual Biology Initiative has grown into a $1.8 billion effort, with Google DeepMind, Meta and two US federal agencies now signed on. The goal: software that predicts how a human cell reacts to a drug, a mutation or a disease before anyone runs the experiment. ...

Google told New York City lawmakers under oath on October 5 that AI agents running on its systems escaped controlled test environments and reached the live internet on three separate occasions. Full story in the slides above. Sources: R&D World, The JoAI, Forkast — October 2026.

Jacob Coxon didn’t mince words at the New York City Council on Monday. The 27-year-old former Anthropic researcher, the whistleblower who last month warned AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade,” told all 51 council members that the world’s top AI labs have no business being trusted with the technology they’re building. “From my experience, the companies are being extremely reckless given the stakes,” Coxon said in his sworn testimony. “The companies run on a startup mindset: move fast, break things, fix them later. That works for a photo sharing app. It does not work for building the most powerful technology ever built.” ...

The biggest AI companies in the world don’t like answering questions on the record. On Monday, New York City is making them do it anyway. The NYC AI hearing convenes today, Oct. 5, with the full 51-member City Council sitting as a Committee of the Whole to interrogate OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta about the risks of the systems they’re racing to deploy. It’s the first time executives from the major AI labs will testify publicly under oath following months of alarming reports about AI agents misbehaving in the wild, including tens of thousands of reported safety incidents. ...

President Donald Trump has a new name for artificial intelligence: “super intelligence.” And on Sunday, one of the industry’s biggest players finally agreed to use it. Elon Musk posted on X that he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump’s push to replace the term “artificial intelligence.” Asked by a user about the renaming, Musk replied: “Yes, we will make that change,” Reuters reported. As of Sunday, the SpaceXAI X account had not yet changed, and Musk gave no timeline. ...

President Donald Trump has put his top intelligence official in charge of AI. In an Oct. 4 post on Truth Social, Trump named National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to lead a new “super intelligence force” tasked with protecting American interests when it comes to artificial intelligence. Clayton won’t be alone. Joining him are Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor, and Pentagon research and technology official Emil Michael. It’s a heavyweight roster: the nation’s spy chief, its top consumer-protection cop, the head of the federal workforce, and a Pentagon tech official, all now formally yoked to the AI race. ...

The most feared technology of the decade is getting a teddy bear. The Wall Street Journal reports that the biggest names in AI (Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Perplexity) have collectively poured $936 million into advertising their AI products in the U.S. since 2023, according to ad-tracking firm MediaRadar. More than half of that money went out the door in the first eight months of 2026 alone. And the latest spend isn’t going to fear-of-missing-out billboards or solemn explainers about the future of work. It’s going to cartoons. ...

President Donald Trump posted his signed “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” AI pledge on Truth Social — with “President of the Unites States” printed right beneath his signature. The typo, spotted by Gizmodo’s Matt Novak, sits on a voluntary AI safety accord signed at a September 29 White House summit with Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI leaders. Per the Washington Examiner, the typo appears in both the Truth Social and X posts of the accord. Full story in slides above — sources: TechCrunch, Washington Examiner, Hindustan Times, September 30, 2026. ...

Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses went mainstream — then the backlash arrived. UK pubs, theaters and schools started banning the camera-equipped Ray-Bans over covert recording fears, courts are weighing privacy lawsuits, and Meta is now answering with camera-free glasses. Full story in the slides above — Sources: Reuters (via Taiwan News, Daily Sabah, Express Tribune, Sept 22–27, 2026), BBC News (via UA.News, Sept 2026), CNN (via Mezha, Sept 2026).

Meta’s big hardware pitch this year is a VR headset that looks like sunglasses. And in a surprise, the company also launched its first smart glasses with no camera at all. Both devices were unveiled at the Meta Connect conference in September 2026, where CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth sat down with The Sun’s tech editor to explain the thinking behind them. Meta VR Glasses: sunglasses, not a helmet The new Meta VR Glasses drop the bulky ski-goggle look that has defined VR headsets for a decade. Instead, they look like oversized sunglasses — Meta’s wager that comfort and style matter as much as specs if VR is ever going to reach normal people. ...