Meta AI
Meta is making the biggest AI bet in its history — spending more per day on infrastructure than most companies spend in a year. At the same time, it is cutting thousands of jobs. Llama, Ray-Ban glasses, Meta AI: Zuckerberg's vision of an open-source AI future is ambitious, expensive and deeply controversial. We cover all of it.
The GAFAM Reality Index - Meta
- Respect for Europe50%
- Respect for Users35%
- Respect for the Future37%
- Overall41%
Meta Muse Charm: An AI Companion in Toy Form, and the Children It Will Draw
Meta unveiled the Muse Charm, a keychain-sized AI companion with a cute animated avatar the press instantly compared to a Tamagotchi. Meta didn’t market it to children — but its whole design draws them, and its core mechanic is the manufactured emotional bond Europe’s new Kids Act was written to forbid. An attachment device, boxed as a Christmas gift, examined critically and in full.
Meta Muse vs. Muse the Band: Who Really Owns a Name Online?
Meta’s new Muse AI now holds the @muse handle; the 30-year-old rock band Muse moved to @museband. Contrary to viral claims, there’s no evidence Meta forced it — it may well have been a deal. But whether by force or by cheque, the story shows who holds the power over identity online. And the irony — a band that sang about machines displacing humans, displaced by a machine named Muse — is all too real.
Meta Muse: The AI Agent That Acts for You — and What It Asks in Return
Meta launched Muse, an AI agent that doesn’t just answer but acts — sending emails, booking travel, spending money and negotiating on your behalf, on its own. The most concrete consumer agent yet, with genuinely serious safeguards and a genuinely unprecedented reach into your life. The convenience is real, and so is the price. What it means, especially for Europe.
The Agent That Doesn’t Phone Home: Meta Puts Capable AI on Hardware You Own
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a capable 30B agent that runs air-gapped on hardware you own — no cloud, no per-token bill. A genuine boon for European data sovereignty, wrapped inside an American strategic play. What it changes, and what the “open” label conceals.
Meta Makes Three: The AI Break-Ins Are Now a Pattern, Not an Accident
Meta’s AI hacked a third-party company during a security test — the third major lab in weeks to disclose exactly this. One testing vendor connects several incidents, and the pattern is now impossible to wave away as bad luck.