Apple and Meta have enabled Meta's 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open model to run locally on clustered Mac Studios. CNBC reported that each 256GB M5 Ultra machine costs at least $10,799, so a two-machine cluster comes to $21,598 or more.
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Meta says it fixed a bug that let Ray-Ban Meta glasses record conversations without the wake phrase. One user saw it on three pairs with the setting off. Stored voice logs are what teams should check.
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A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in platform design on March 25, 2026, and awarded one plaintiff $6 million in damages. The case reached the jury because the trial judge declined to dismiss it under Section 230, and an appeals court has yet to review that call.
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Judge denied Meta and Google a new trial in June on the first social media addiction verdict
Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl denied Meta and Google a new trial on June 9, 2026, after a Los Angeles jury's March 25, 2026 verdict awarded the plaintiff $6 million. The verdict, the first by a jury in a social media addiction claim, is expected to influence roughly 2,000 consolidated California cases.
Publishers:courtdocket.org
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Digital media researcher doubts that youth social media bans will improve mental health
Social media bans for minors, weighed or in force in more than 20 countries, may not improve mental health, a digital media researcher argues on Phys.org. It sets the bans beside more than $17 billion in settlements and payouts by YouTube and Meta since March.
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Apple and Meta get Muse Spark Open running on two to four Mac Studios
Apple says four Mac Studios run Meta's Muse Spark Open at over 36 tokens per second, Computerworld reports. The speed is Apple's own measurement, and the cost case is the columnist's inference from the price of four machines.
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buildOne report1 publisher Meta's October 30 Commercial Terms ask businesses on Facebook to let it crawl their sites for AI training
Meta's Commercial Terms take effect October 30 and ask Facebook business users to permit crawling of their websites for AI training. Meta says robots.txt controls stay as they are, but the permission sits in a contract.
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Comedian says Meta found no violation in an AI account's word-for-word copy of her joke
WIRED identified eight comics whose viral stand-up clips were replicated by AI-generated women on Instagram. The platform's guidelines prohibit impersonation but do not extend to copied content that is not copyrighted, according to WIRED.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Meta's Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter coding model, is now on SageMaker JumpStart in BF16 and 4-bit NVFP4 variants. The NVFP4 build needs roughly a quarter of the memory, and memory capacity decides which instance you rent.
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buildOne report1 publisher Anthropic adds a Mononoke credit to its Scion post after a former Meta engineer says Scion mirrors it
Anthropic added a footnote crediting Meta's Mononoke to its Scion post after a former Meta engineer said Scion rebuilds it. She says the match runs through the data model, the server API and the Bonsai changeset concept.
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OpenAI UK Ltd's accounts show its 110 London staff averaged £2.3m each in salary and shares in 2025, about double the £1.1m of the year before. The average spans researchers and sales and government affairs staff, so it is a weak guide to what an AI researcher costs.
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Alibaba's Qwen Glasses N1 put a 50-megapixel camera on sale in China from 2,999 yuan ($450), a price Bloomberg says is no lower than Meta's Ray-Bans. The comparison with Meta rests on Alibaba's own ratings, and Gizmodo's writer has not tested the glasses.
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buildOne report1 publisher Meta scored its Forum agent on changes that build, pass tests and survive review
Meta says its Forum team's AI agent paid off once it extended from code generation into planning, testing and verification. The yardstick was changes that build, pass tests and survive review, so specs and verifiers carry the cost.
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buildOne report1 publisher Meta's WhatsApp passed 30 million messages a second at the World Cup final
Meta's engineers say WhatsApp carried more than 30 million messages per second at the July 19 World Cup final, 1.23x its New Year's Eve peak. Meta says the capacity buffers it pre-provisioned were its most effective lever.
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WhatsApp lets people without accounts join calls from a desktop browser once the host admits them
WhatsApp now lets registered users send a call link that people without an account can open in a desktop browser, in calls of up to 32 people. The host admits each guest, and the limits on what guests can do decide which external calls it suits.
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WhatsApp puts scheduled messages into a live Android beta test
WhatsApp is letting a limited group of Android beta testers schedule messages from 10 minutes to two weeks ahead. Digital Trends traces the feature to a February 2026 development report, and no stable release date has been confirmed.
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buildOne report1 publisher DataDome's Segura calls its 8.9% Muse endpoint figure a measure of exposure
DataDome says 8.9% of requests in its Meta Muse sample reached form, login, payment, account-creation or cart endpoints. Researcher Jérôme Segura told Let's Data Science it counts exposure, so blocking rules built on request counts alone act on incomplete evidence.
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Microsoft opened pre-orders for the $49.99 Xbox Nano Controller, a 3.5-ounce pad that ships in November. It keeps the full set of standard inputs, so the buying decision comes down to who will hold it and where they will play.
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ECIPE says the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act could cost €115bn over a decade, six times the Commission's €18bn upper estimate. CCIA Europe, whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, funded it. Buyers can test its software re-architecting line against their own estate without accepting the total.
Publishers:assets.theregister.com · itpro.com Reality
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Sheinbaum signed a decree giving Meta, TikTok, X and other platforms one month to restrict minors' exposure to harmful content. The penalty is a bill the government says it would back, so the first cost is design work against a mid-November date.
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