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Meta's New Commercial TOS Requires Businesses to Allow AI Training on Linked Website Content

Meta is slated to update its commercial terms of service on October 30, requiring business accounts to permit AI training on content from their linked websites, not just their social media posts. The update reportedly offers no opt-out, with Meta suggesting businesses stop using its services if they disagree. Legal experts and news publishers flag the change as a way for Meta to sidestep potentially millions in AI content licensing fees. The move escalates the broader fight over whether AI train

Ars Technica AI1d agoScore 78
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Meta's new business terms may let it scrape news sites for AI training

Meta's updated business terms, effective October 30th, reportedly grant it permission to crawl and scrape websites associated with businesses using its platforms, including online publishers, to develop and train AI products. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the company is only consolidating its commercial and self-serve ad terms. Legal experts cited by Nieman Lab suggest the terms could let Meta argue its commercial agreements supersede blocking instructions like robots.txt.

The Verge AI1d agoScore 73
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Meta launches open-weight Muse Spark Open model for Apple silicon

Meta has launched Muse Spark Open, a new open-weight AI model that runs locally on Apple silicon, in collaboration with Apple. The model is designed for on-device execution on Macs rather than requiring cloud inference. The source material does not specify model size, licensing terms, or performance benchmarks.

TechCrunch AI2d agoScore 70
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Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B Open-Weight Multimodal Model

Meta has introduced Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that handles text, images, video and audio with context windows up to one million tokens. According to the report, it performs roughly on par with the most capable open-weight Chinese models on benchmarks and is optimized to run locally on Apple's M5 Ultra. The release positions Meta against Qwen, GLM and Kimi in the open-weight race.

The Decoder2d agoScore 78
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Meta announces Muse Spark Open AI model, optimized for Mac via Apple partnership

Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model, which it calls the most capable US open-weight model to date and the first in its class to run on desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the MLX framework. Meta and Apple, typically rivals, collaborated on the launch and publicly supported each other, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and new Apple CEO John Ternus exchanging praise on X.

The Verge AI2d agoScore 70
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Meta's Muse Spark Open coding model now deployable via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Meta's coding-optimized open-weight model Muse Spark Open is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, with BF16 and NVFP4 quantized variants. The MoE model has 816B total parameters (42B active), a 1M-token context window, and accepts text, image, document, audio, and audio-video input. It deploys to SageMaker AI endpoints in the user's own AWS account via Studio or the Python SDK, with VPC, KMS encryption, and network isolation options.

AWS Machine Learning Blog2d agoScore 76
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Meta Launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: Benchmarks, Pricing and How to Use It

Meta has launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, frontier models aimed at long-running agent work such as coding, legal, finance, and computer use. Muse Wonder is available via Meta Model API and Muse Code at $4/$20 per 1M tokens, while Muse Wonder Full is limited to paid Muse Code plans starting at $50/month. Both offer 1M-token context and text, image, video, and audio input, and run only on Meta’s cloud. In Meta’s published benchmark table, Muse Wonder Full leads 6 of 14 rows and Muse Wond

MarkTechPost4d agoScore 77
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Meta Acquires Humanoid Robotics Startup Assured Robot Intelligence to Advance AGI Ambitions

Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup specializing in humanoid robotics, for an undisclosed amount, the social media giant confirmed. The acquisition aims to strengthen Meta&#39;s push into embodied artificial intelligence and<!--autointro-->

AITopic existing contentMay 2, 2026Score 70
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Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space

Meta has signed an agreement with startup Overview Energy to beam solar power from space to its data centers at night, marking a novel approach to meeting surging AI energy demands.In 2024, Meta&#39;s data centers consumed over 18,000 gigawatt-hours <!--autointro-->

AITopic existing contentApr 27, 2026Score 80
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Meta Locks in 1GW of Space-Based Solar Power for AI Data Centers

Meta has announced a strategic partnership with space energy startup Overview Energy to secure up to 1 gigawatt (GW) of space-based solar power. This initiative aims to provide a continuous, clean energy source for Meta&#39;s rapidly expanding AI dat<!--autointro-->

AITopic existing contentApr 27, 2026Score 70
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Meta to Train AI by Tracking Employee Keystrokes and Mouse Movements

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is set to implement a new employee monitoring tool to harvest behavioral data for training its artificial intelligence models. The initiative, titled the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), involves <!--autointro-->

AITopic existing contentApr 22, 2026Score 80
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Meta to Lay Off 8,000 Employees

April 18 — According to reports, Meta plans to initiate the first round of significant layoffs for the year on May 20. This initial wave is expected to affect approximately 10% of its global workforce, amounting to nearly 8,000 employees.The company <!--autointro-->

AITopic existing contentApr 18, 2026Score 70
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