I wouldn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent with my personal data yet
Two people can keep a secret if one is dead, or so goes the saying. But what happens when you share the details of your life with an AI agent? Unfortunately, data can’t die the…
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Meta’s new VR headset forgot about the games
I have a medium-intensity interest in virtual reality gaming. I’m excited to try Valve’s new Steam Frame, and an older VR headset design helped me lose a ton of weight. VR, more than any other…
Meta’s Muse AI assistant was born to shop
Let an AI agent go to town with your credit card? You must be nuts. But that’s the pitch — and the appeal — of Muse, the new agentic assistant from Meta that’s turned into…
Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day…
Meta’s $18 billion payout isn’t enough to save our kids
I’m not a parent, but I’m looking at the Meta settlement wondering if our kids are any safer. If you haven’t heard already, Meta agreed last Wednesday to settle a lawsuit over Facebook and Instagram’s…
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
Two sources also describe the inventory bot as too slow. One says Meta previously explored using drones as a faster alternative, but ultimately didn’t pursue the idea. Inside the Testbed The Altoona data center campus…
UI design chief exits Apple to head up Meta’s new design studio
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that a key Apple executive is leaving the company (no, it’s not Tim Cook). Alan Dye, who leads Apple’s user interface design team, is leaving Apple Park in Cupertino for the…
Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
A different approach to AI LeCun founded Meta’s Fundamental AI Research lab, known as FAIR, in 2013 and has served as the company’s chief AI scientist ever since. He is one of three researchers who…
Report: 10% of Meta’s revenue is from scammers on Facebook and Instagram
Anyone who’s been on Facebook recently knows the platform is plagued by advertising and other posts from scammers and other frauds. But the massive scale of the issue is no surprise to parent company Meta,…
Meta’s new Ray-Ban AI smart glasses are controlled using gestures
Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band The glasses look like classic Ray-Bans, but they have a discreet display on the side of the right lens. It supposedly doesn’t get in the way when looking through the…