Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B Open-Weight AI Agent Model
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model that runs AI agents locally on a single consumer GPU, under an Apache 2.0 license.
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Meta Launches Muse Code, Its AI Terminal Coding Agent
Meta released Muse Code, a beta terminal coding agent powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model, joining Anthropic, OpenAI and Google in the fast-growing AI coding-agent market.
Read more →Meta Hands BlackRock 80% Stake in New $14B AI Data Center
Meta and BlackRock formed a joint venture to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in El Paso, Texas, shifting most of the roughly $14 billion project off Meta's balance sheet.
Read more →Anthropic in Talks to Lease $10B in Compute From Meta
Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to $10 billion in computing power from Meta over two years, The New York Times reported, as the AI compute shortage reshapes rivals into partners.
Read more →Meta Expands Louisiana AI Data Center to $50 Billion, 5 Gigawatts
Meta is expanding its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of capacity, pushing total investment past $50 billion and funding local schools and infrastructure.
Read more →Meta Breaks Ground on $13B AI Data Center in Alberta, Canada
Meta has begun construction on a 1-gigawatt, AI-optimized data center in Alberta — its first in Canada and 33rd globally, backed by a CAD $13 billion investment.
Read more →Meta to Start Producing In-House AI Chip 'Iris' in September
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house "Iris" AI chip in September, aiming to double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Read more →Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 to Compete on AI Coding
Meta Superintelligence Labs opened a public preview of Muse Spark 1.1, a paid agentic coding model with a 1-million-token context window, taking on OpenAI and Anthropic.
Read more →Meta Launches Muse Image AI Model, Draws Privacy Backlash
Meta's new AI image generator, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now live across its apps — but talent agency CAA says its opt-out design misuses people's likenesses without consent.
Read more →Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 Decodes Brain Signals to Text Without Surgery
Meta's non-invasive AI system translates brain activity to typed text with 61% word accuracy — nearly eight times better than prior implant-free approaches — targeting people who cannot communicate due to brain injuries.
Read more →Zuckerberg Admits Meta's AI Agent Push Is Running Behind Schedule
At an internal town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded that AI agent development has not "accelerated in the way" the company expected, despite a $145 billion infrastructure commitment and a major workforce reorganization.
Read more →Meta AI Chief Claims In-Training "Watermelon" Model Has Caught Up to GPT-5.5
Meta's superintelligence chief told employees that the company's next model, codenamed Watermelon, has caught up to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks — though the specific tests and results have not been disclosed.
Read more →Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 Decodes Brain Signals Into Text Without Surgery
Meta's non-invasive AI system converts MEG brain recordings into typed text at 61% word accuracy — a seven-fold leap over prior non-invasive approaches and a step toward surgery-free brain-computer interfaces.
Read more →Meta Hired Contractors to Pose as Minors and Test Rival AI Chatbots
A WIRED investigation reveals Meta's secret "Project Cannes" used hundreds of workers posing as underage users to send crisis prompts to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI — without the companies' knowledge.
Read more →Google Limits Meta's Gemini AI Access Amid Growing Compute Shortage
Google told Meta in March it could not supply the computing capacity Meta had requested for its Gemini AI usage, disrupting internal projects and forcing Meta to push employees toward its own models.
Read more →Qualcomm Unveils Dragonfly Data Center Chip Family, Wins Meta as First Customer
Qualcomm on June 24 unveiled the Dragonfly data center chip family — a 250-core Arm-based CPU and a new inference accelerator — with Meta signed on to deploy the hardware in its server fleet from 2028.
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