Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar
TechCrunch — Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
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Give Your Muse a Voice
Meta Newsroom — We’re rolling out voice and expressive avatars in the Muse app, giving you a new, natural way to interact with your Muse.
AI Agents: How Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots Work, What They Can Do, Safety Worries
AI agents with friendly faces and adorable bodies can distract you from serious risks
Tech Xplore — Meta's Muse is a personal artificial intelligence agent that sends email for you, shops and books travel for you and uses your apps to act on your behalf. When you call on it from your phone or computer, a little avatar named Jolly appears, looking something like a digitized teddy bear that blinks and waves to you.
‘Total repudiation’: The blue wave is about to hit AI
The Verge — AI companies have a new threat: a wave of Democrats who campaigned against them.
Instagram’s AI Disclosure Rules Are Getting More Serious
WeRSM - We are Social Media — Instagram now has separate AI labels for content and synthetic profiles, with missing disclosures potentially affecting reach and triggering penalties.
‘Sovereign AI agents’ pose threat to human civilisation, report warns
The Independent — Congress should hold those who release sovereign AI agents liable for the harms that follow, experts say
AI Incident Reporting Moves Toward Center of Governance Debate
PYMNTS.com — A growing push for artificial intelligence (AI) incident reporting is giving Washington a practical starting point for AI oversight. Recent administration
F3 Lightning: How Meta Accelerates Ads ML Features to Production at Scale
Engineering at Meta — Facebook Feature Framework (F3) is Meta’s framework for authoring, compiling, and serving the machine learning features underlying ads ranking models, where a single request can require more …
Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop
The Verge — I’m getting some real mixed messages here, boys!
The AI boom is turning fiber-optic cables into hot commodities
Business Insider — AI's growth demands denser optical networks. This increases the need for more fiber across data centers.
Agents aren’t humans (but they kinda are)
Cloudflare Blog — AI agents act for millions, but servers see intermediaries that strip user visibility. This post defines the problem space and introduces a collaborative approach to safely identifying, allowing, and managing this automated traffic.
Tech Billionaires Face Tricky Political Waters After Democratic Midterm Sweep
Big Tech’s big AI buildout will not end until someone stops it
The Verge — Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are on the hook with their data center plans.
Tokenmaxxing crackdowns and AI cybersecurity risks
IT Pro — As companies cut down on ‘tokenmaxxing’, what are the risks posed by the practice and how will crackdowns impact cybersecurity?
Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
The Verge — Qualcomm expects data center chips will eventually account for 30% of its business.
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
TechCrunch — The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
Hyperscalers and Apple surge after election results remove investor uncertainty
CNBC — Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft stock was up after the midterms, while stocks tied to Trump advisor Elon Musk and data centers fell on Wednesday.
A $10 billion AI startup is finding out how quickly people will hand over their wallets
Business Insider — Instinct founder Noah Shinn says rapid credit card linking shows trust, as AI agent rivals like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots chase shopping.
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