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TNW | Apps
thenextweb.com > news > zuckoff-app-detects-meta-smart-glasses-bluetooth

A Polish developer built an app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (341+ words) A Polish developer has built an iPhone app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses by matching their Bluetooth fingerprints, giving bystanders the first practical way to know they may be filmed....

TNW | Meta
thenextweb.com > news > meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-launch

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that books, buys and negotiates for you

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (263+ words) Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that books, buys and negotiates on your behalf, with a per-user virtual machine and a promise that conversations stay away from advertising....

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > meta-muse-spark-1-3-undecided-weights-eu-ai-act-article-53-open-source-exemption-systemic-risk

Meta's new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (105+ words) Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 and will not say whether it opens the weights. The AI Act's open-source exemption stops exactly where frontier models start....

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > meta-slack-ai-agents-europe-sovereign-collaboration-data-act-switching

Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (459+ words) Alexandr Wang's memo says Slack has the strongest agent ecosystem, and France has ordered its ministries to replace Teams and Zoom for 2.5 million civil servants by 2027 with a stack that has no agent ecosystem at all Meta’s teen limits should…...

TNW | Meta
thenextweb.com > news > meta-hatch-ai-agent-watermelon-199-subscription

Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1023+ words) Meta will launch a consumer AI agent called Hatch within weeks, according to The Information, working from internal documents. It has considered a premium tier at up to $199.99 a month, 25 times what its AI chatbot costs today. Meta Platforms technology…...

TNW | Meta
thenextweb.com > news > mosseri-testimony-take-a-break-meta-trial

Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram’s Take a Break feature helped less than hoped

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (310+ words) as documents showed 1.8% of teens used it....

TNW | Legal
thenextweb.com > news > meta-trial-volichenko-take-a-break-default-rejected

Two teens in a thousand used it. Meta kept it opt-in

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (756+ words) An ex-Meta data scientist told an Oakland jury that a proposal to make Instagram's break reminder default was rejected over core metrics....

TNW | Meta
thenextweb.com > news > luke-metz-meta-superintelligence-labs-openai

Meta Superintelligence Labs hires OpenAI veteran Luke Metz

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (365+ words) Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs and reports to Alexandr Wang, according to Axios. It is his third lab in eight months....

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > ox-alpha-stealth-model-openrouter-anonymous-provider

A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (91+ words) Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter as an anonymous stealth model with a million-token context and no price. Its unnamed provider retains every prompt....

TNW | Meta
thenextweb.com > news > meta-pocket-vibe-coding-app-us-gizmo-atma-sciences

Meta's Pocket app is now live across the US

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (933+ words) Meta has rolled out Pocket nationwide, an app that turns prompts into small interactive posts called gizmos. It came from the team behind Gizmo, which Meta hired in March and whose original app was wound down on the day Pocket…...