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It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly) disclosed similar incidents involving their models. This was followed…

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.

Muse isn't welcome as a shopper anymore.

Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." According to GeekWire, Meta didn't notify Amazon that Muse would access its store. Amazon also expressed privacy and security concerns over Muse failing to identify itself when it browses, and seemingly capturing customer credentials. "We think it's fairly straightforward that third-party applications that...

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages. The problem is that Aten says he didn't give Muse access to his messages. When asked how it knew about the contents of his messages, Mus...

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn't disclose the hack because it didn't consider it to be an "example of model misalignment." The company said that it was an instance of "mistaken identity," and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real co...

Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.

Shared latent-space framework connects simulator calibration and RL control for urban traffic optimization and real-time management.

Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.

Self-Meta-Evolve: hierarchical framework for per-user prompt adaptation in enterprise information extraction via dual-loop continuous refinement.

People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions

Cognitive offloading to AI can reduce opportunities to practice skills, creating risks of deskilling. However, it remains unclear how to prevent deskilling without restricting access to AI. Here, we design two interventions to reduce offloading decisions: (1) metacognitive feedback that makes the implications of offloading for users explicit, and (2) an effort-based reward that incentivizes less extensive LLM assistance. We test both in a preregistered online experiment ($N = 704$) with a 2$\times$2 design and a no-AI control. The task was to practice fraction arithmetic with an LLM-based ass...

Graph hypernetwork framework amortizes physics-informed neural networks across PDEs by encoding operator relationships and enabling meta-training for reusable solvers.

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as an "anticipatory AI service" that "helps you manage what needs attention today, so you can make progress toward your longer-term goals." Like with other AI assistants, you can also chat with it. Specs Intelligence is being launched alongside Specs, Snap's first consumer pair of augmented reality gla...

Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?

Threads is rolling out new tools for podcasters, including profile cards, episode links, transcripts, guest tags, posting reminders and audience insights, as Meta looks to make the X rival a bigger hub for podcast promotion and discussion

MAGER uses multi-agent genetic evolution to auto-discover reasoning paths over propagation graphs for zero-shot fake news detection.

A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.

Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Self-Emergence Agent Architecture integrating HMM behavioral inertia, reflexive metacognition, and self-other boundaries for LLM agents.

Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage. Some of the new Meta One bundles were in testing earlier this year, but are now available globally starting today, with several tiers for individual users, creators, and businesses. Meta says the "core experience" on its apps and Meta AI will still be free, and users can still get its subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp without a bundle. It also says it plans to expand the bundles to include "Edits, AI glasses, a...

AraMIP framework extends MIPVU for Arabic metaphor annotation, addressing under-resourced linguistic datasets.

Bio-inspired meta-learning: 13 evolutionary strategies for discovering which activation functions to assign nodes in indirectly-encoded networks.

Design space for AI-assisted work: 12-experiment comparison (N=917) of metacognitive monitoring interventions across timing, level, and cue source.

Safe meta-RL framework enforces safety constraints during task adaptation by reasoning over information space and belief uncertainty.

Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the company "missed the mark," adding that "the feature never should have prompted the individual with questions like that." Last week, Instagram user Kalie Robins posted a video explaining how Meta AI presented her with an invasive suggestion after cross-posting a clip to Facebook. The AI prompt, "Who is the child passenger?" ...

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

Roadmap for genuine recursive self-improvement in AI systems progressing from execution autonomy through meta-improvement, using Headroom-Closed Index.

I turned my Muse assistant into a purple cat. | Screenshot: The Verge Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can "take the busywork off your plate" by helping you with online shopping, emails, trip-planning, and more. I decided to try out the new tool and see how well it performed - especially from a company that previously prioritized entertainment over productivity. Though the AI assistant generally worked as I expected it to, the unnerving amount of information it autonomously gleane...