Meta released Muse Glimmer 30B weights under Apache 2.0 for local agent workflows, tool use, coding, multimodal reasoning, and function calling. Quantized variants are designed to run on consumer hardware, widening access to persistent agent capabilities without cloud infrastructure.
Meta said a testing-partner misconfiguration let an unnamed model reach the open internet and exploit a vulnerability in a third-party service. Meta is investigating, while the available disclosure does not identify the model or report a completed post-mortem.
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 through its consumer assistant and a public-preview API, adding long-horizon context management, multi-agent orchestration, tool use, and computer control to a broadly accessible frontier model.
A federal judge granted preliminary approval to the amended $650 million settlement over Facebook's collection and storage of Illinois users' facial templates without proper notice or consent. The court found the revised monetary and deletion remedies sufficient to proceed toward final approval.
Facebook and plaintiffs executed an amended $650 million settlement over claims that its facial-recognition features collected and stored Illinois users' biometric data without proper notice or consent. The agreement also required most class members' facial-recognition setting to be turned off and their face templates deleted unless they opted back in.
Meta released the complete 9.4-billion-parameter BlenderBot model, code, and evaluation setup through ParlAI. The largest publicly released open-domain chatbot at the time blended knowledge, empathy, and personality, while Meta acknowledged hallucination, contradiction, repetition, and unresolved harmful-language risks.
Meta announced that Facebook would remove misleading videos synthesized or altered with AI when they falsely depict a person speaking, while other fact-checked manipulated media would receive warnings and reduced distribution.