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Thu, Oct 1
Meta's Muse passes 3 million weekly prompting users, giving consumer agents a first stable base
Agents won't be won on download speed but on whether users think of them every day, a habit no company has built yet.
Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech companies that calls for external audits
Rules drafted by the regulated rarely restrain them most; their main effect is deciding how many reasons others still have to restrain them.
Wed, Sep 30
Meta launches an enterprise unit and hires MongoDB's CEO to sell its Muse agent to businesses
By poaching a public-company CEO, Zuckerberg is buying the capability Meta lacks most: turning AI into contracts businesses renew every year.
The Trump administration launches America.gov, an AI chatbot front door to federal services
Putting AI on the front line of public services tests "who is responsible when it's wrong" more than any industry, and the answer will become the template for other agencies.
Apple's new CEO John Ternus begins a shake-up, cutting management layers and speeding up launches
Apple's problem has never been a lack of money or talent but slowness; by cutting layers rather than products first, the new CEO signals he thinks the drag lies in the organization itself.
Tue, Sep 29
Meta launches Meta Enterprise Platform under MongoDB's CEO, and MongoDB shares plunge
Meta has consumer traffic, but enterprise software is sold on trust and long-term service, which a strategy announcement cannot supply.
Manus unveils Manus 2.0 and the Cue personal-agent app, giving each agent its own email, phone number, wallet and computer
Once an agent has money and a phone number, how much power users are willing to hand over becomes the dividing line between products.
Fri, Sep 25
Anthropic seeks majority voting control for seven founders ahead of a potential IPO
Anthropic wants room to maintain its research direction after raising more capital; investors will want the checks on that control defined just as clearly.
Zuckerberg says Meta began developing camera-free Ray-Ban glasses before the privacy backlash, with no launch date set
Mass-market smart glasses must work for both wearers and bystanders; removing one sensor could sometimes open more settings for use.
Thu, Sep 24
Zuckerberg unveils 100-gram VR glasses at Meta Connect for $1,299, less than half the price of Apple's Vision Pro
Meta launched glasses, a headset and a handheld on the same day, which shows it has not yet decided what hardware Muse should ultimately live on.
Wed, Sep 16
Zuckerberg calls safety alignment a competitive capability, says Muse was delayed for months
Meta disclosed a release delay, external evaluators and a commitment on compute use; exact resource allocations and full evaluation results remain absent from the statement.
Musk proposes mutual model testing by US and Chinese AI companies, says rivals have not agreed
Musk's cross-company testing proposal remains subject to negotiation; Chinese participation and implementation rules have not been agreed.
Wed, Sep 9
Meta launches Muse with up to 100 million free tokens a week and $20 and $100 monthly plans
Muse's broad appeal depends on persistent execution reliably saving effort: free tokens lower the trial barrier, while task success determines whether users grant more access.
DeepSeek cuts Flash pricing from noon September 10, with cached input at RMB0.02 per million tokens and peak rates still double
Caching receives the largest cut, but actual savings depend jointly on the cache-hit rate, output length and share of work performed at peak times.
Wed, Sep 2
Broadcom's Q3 AI semiconductor revenue jumps 221% to $16.7 billion, but Q4 guidance falls short
AI chip revenue tripled while total guidance missed, which says the non-AI business can no longer carry this company's own valuation.
Meta ships Muse Spark 1.3 at unchanged pricing, and Zuckerberg says open weights are coming soon
Matching frontier performance while cutting tool calls by a fifth, what Meta is selling is cost per task, not a leaderboard position.
Fri, Aug 28
NYT: Meta internally projected spending up to $10 billion a year on Anthropic's models
When public criticism and a ten-figure purchase order coexist, believe the purchase order.
Tue, Aug 25
Files Show Meta Agent Hatch Could Launch as Early as Late August; New Model Watermelon Set for October
Trained on someone else's model, launched on its own — Meta flips between API customer and competitor with zero transition.
Wed, Aug 12
Manus Announces Return to Independent Operations as Meta's $2 Billion Acquisition Nears Full Dismantling
An acquisition that closed eight months ago is being unwound item by item, with the cost shouldered by both buyer and seller — this precedent is far costlier than the $2 billion itself.
Tue, Aug 11
Meta Releases Open-Source Muse Glimmer: 30B-Parameter Model Runs on a Single Consumer GPU
What Meta is filling this time isn't a model-capability gap — it's the "is the open-source license clean?" question the company itself once botched.
Zuckerberg Makes Case for Personal Superintelligence, Says It Should Benefit Everyone
This manifesto bets on the "individual" rather than the "state"; win or lose, it all comes down to whether Spark 1.2 actually opens up.
Nvidia Teams Up with Six Wall Street Institutions to Build a $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Financing Platform
Nvidia has turned the chip-selling business into a business of sourcing capital for the entire industry — and the risk has shifted onto the financiers' balance sheets.
Thu, Aug 6
Meta debuts first coding agent Muse Code, with output priced at $4.25 per million tokens
The coding-model price war is on — the first shot lands on competitors' margins, and the ammunition is data.
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