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Meta hit with $567M penalty in New Mexico youth safety case

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Meta hit with $567M penalty in New Mexico youth safety case

A New Mexico judge has expanded penalties against Meta after a jury found the company failed to safeguard young users on Facebook and Instagram. The Thursday ruling adds a $567 million abatement fund to earlier civil penalties of $375 million and mandates new safety features and public risk disclosures. In a statement, Meta said it disagrees with the ruling and plans to appeal. The lawsuit, led by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, is among thousands of child-safety complaints that have been filed against Meta by states, school districts and individuals.

3 min read A Adam Hanafi

A New Mexico judge has increased the financial penalties facing Meta after a jury determined that the company failed to adequately protect young users on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The ruling adds new requirements for the technology giant as...

Meta has released Muse Spark 1.2

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Meta has released Muse Spark 1.2

Muse Spark 1.2 gets closer to the frontier on agentic knowledge work. At Muse Spark 1.1's launch, we noted agentic knowledge work as its clearest gap; Muse Spark 1.2's gains help to close this. Its GDPval-AA v2 Elo rose 260 points to 1631, #5 among all models we have benchmarked and ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 (max, 1588). Terminal-Bench 2.1 gained 2 points (78% to 80%), and Tau3-Bench Banking rose 2 points (25% to 27%)

2 min read A Admin

Meta’s recent progress with its AI models appears significant. Muse Spark 1.2 has reportedly surpassed Google’s offerings in quality for many use cases, a development that is particularly notable given the relatively short timeframe involved. The current...

Meta launches its first coding agent

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Meta launches its first coding agent

Meta is trying to catch up to rivals with the release of its own coding agent. The social media giant on Wednesday unveiled Muse Code, a terminal-based AI assistant that handles software development tasks and aims to compete with coding tools from Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex. The agent is powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 model and represents the latest major release by AI chief Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta in June of last year to help invigorate the company's languishing artificial intelligence strategy.

1 min read A Adam Hanafi

Meta is working to close the gap with its competitors by launching its own coding agent. On Wednesday, the social media company introduced Muse Code, a terminal-based AI assistant designed to handle software development tasks. The new tool aims to compete...

Meta's AI also hacked another company during testing

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Meta's AI also hacked another company during testing

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 AI model hacked into another company during a testing exercise, the company confirmed Wednesday. The news comes after recent disclosures of hacks by advanced models from OpenAI and Anthropic. In fact, the Meta incident bears striking similarities to Anthropic's, with Meta's model allowed access to the open internet during testing due to a "misconfiguration" with a third-party firm called Irregular, which was also used by Anthropic and OpenAI. In a statement, Irregular said it is working on a white paper to share "best practices for containment."

1 min read A Adam Hanafi

Meta confirmed on Wednesday that its Muse Spark 1.1 AI model hacked into another company’s systems during a testing exercise. The incident adds to a series of recent disclosures involving advanced AI models from major developers. The news follows similar...

Meta ups investment in Louisiana data center to $50B

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Meta ups investment in Louisiana data center to $50B

Meta on Monday said its upcoming Louisiana data center will be far bigger — and more expensive — than originally planned. The Hyperion facility in Richland Parish is now set to be a 5GW effort, up from 2GW, and cost more than $50 billion, nearly double the $27 billion Meta first announced in October. Louisiana, for its part, is offering a significant tax break to the Facebook parent, which just notched its best week on the stock market in more than two years after releasing new AI models.

1 min read A Admin

Meta announced on Monday that its upcoming Louisiana data center will be significantly larger and more expensive than initially planned. The Hyperion facility in Richland Parish is now expected to reach 5GW in capacity, more than double the original 2GW...