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AI Models

Meta’s Muse Ember matches Haiku 5.5 at a third of the cost

Artificial Analysis scores Meta’s smallest model 36 on its index, the same as Claude Haiku 5.5 (max). A test task cost $0.14, against $0.41 for Haiku 5.5. The prices per token are the same; Ember saves by writing fewer tokens.

Meta released Muse Ember on November 9 for the work AI agents repeat all day, such as tool calls, coding subtasks and reading long documents. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens on the Meta Model API.

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Agents & Apps

Meta buys Conductor, and OpenAI agrees to buy Pierre

Both startups make tools for developers who work with coding agents. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts on November 20. OpenAI’s deal still needs regulators’ approval. Neither price is public.

Meta has acquired Conductor, an app that runs several coding agents at once, the startup and Meta confirmed on November 4. The same day, OpenAI said it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, the maker of Code Storage and of two libraries already used in Codex. No prices were disclosed. Conductor users need to move their cloud work soon.

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Business

Nvidia says it will buy $3B of Meta’s new shares

The two companies will deepen their work on Meta’s Muse AI models, and Meta intends to use more of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems. Meta is selling about $35 billion of new stock, and Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have shown interest in up to $5 billion of it.

Nvidia announced the $3 billion investment in a release dated October 26, the day Meta filed details of its share sale with US regulators. The investment is not complete yet. Neither company gave chip numbers, a time frame or a value for the hardware.

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Business

Meta plans nonvoting shares as its AI bills keep growing

Every Meta share will get one new Class C share with no vote in January 2027. Meta now expects $135 billion to $145 billion of capital spending in 2026.

The new shares carry no votes, so Meta can sell them or pay with them without weakening Mark Zuckerberg’s control. In a separate deal, Zuckerberg agreed to stay in California for eight years.

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AI Models

Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model

Meta calls it the most capable open-weight model from a US company. An independent test gives it 39 points, and in Meta’s own table two Chinese open models still lead on coding.

Meta released the weights of Muse Spark Open on October 15. The model has 816 billion parameters, of which about 42 billion work on each token, and it can read up to 1 million tokens at once. Meta worked with Apple so the model can run on two or four linked Mac Studio computers.

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Agents & Apps

Facebook lets people steer their feed in their own words

Meta’s “Your algorithm” controls are coming to Facebook’s Feed and Reels. Meta says large language models now let the feed understand plain requests and change within the same session.

Meta began rolling out “Your algorithm” on Facebook on October 13. From the three-dot menu on a post, people can add and manage the topics they want to see in Feed and Reels. They can also describe in their own words what they want, Meta says, and its AI models use that to change the feed.

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AI Models

Meta’s Muse Wonder models close in on the AI frontier

Meta released Muse Wonder and the larger Muse Wonder Full on October 12. On Artificial Analysis’s index, Wonder Full scores 56, two points behind Claude Opus 5.5.

Meta released two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, built for agents that work on long tasks. Developers can use Muse Wonder through Meta’s API for $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. Muse Wonder Full is only for paying users of Muse Code, Meta’s coding agent.

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Safety & Security

Meta adds AI tools to catch ads that lead to child abuse

The ads look harmless but point people to illegal material outside Meta’s apps. In September, a watchdog reported hundreds of paid ads with AI-made abuse imagery on Facebook and Instagram.

Meta announced five AI tools on October 7 to find ads that quietly point people to child sexual abuse material hosted elsewhere. It says it acted on 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram from January to June 2026. Meta did not say how many were ads, or when the tools started.

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Safety & Security

Dutch optician Hans Anders pauses Meta glasses sales

The chain cites the public and political debate over camera glasses that can film people unnoticed. Meta says the recording light cannot be turned off.

Hans Anders, one of the largest optician chains in the Netherlands, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban camera glasses for now. It told the Dutch news agency ANP it will wait for the debate about smart glasses before deciding whether and how to sell them again. Reuters reports the pause covers Belgium too.

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Agents & Apps

Meta lets hobbyists build their own Muse gadgets

Meta released open-source firmware and a Linux kit that connect cheap boards to its Muse agent. It is also giving away 5,000 Muse Home Link dongles to US subscribers.

Meta launched Muse Gadgets on October 2, an open-source project for building small devices that talk to Muse, its personal AI agent. The firmware and software kits run on ESP32 boards and the Raspberry Pi 5, under the Apache 2.0 licence. Meta also offers a free USB-C Muse Home Link that lets Muse control devices on a home network.

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Agents & Apps

Meta brings its Muse agent to small businesses

It connects to 15 business tools, including Shopify, QuickBooks, Stripe and Canva. Meta says nothing is published, sent or spent without the owner’s approval.

Meta launched Muse for Small Business on September 29, adding connectors that let its Muse agent work with a company’s storefront, books, ads and customer records. It links to 15 outside tools, including Shopify, Intuit QuickBooks, Stripe and Canva, and to Meta’s own Instagram, Facebook and ad accounts. Muse is free for most uses, with paid plans for more.

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Agents & Apps

Meta opens a new front in enterprise AI

Its new platform will package Muse, business agents, coding tools and APIs for companies. MongoDB’s CEO is leaving to lead it.

Meta announced the Meta Enterprise Platform on September 28. It plans to sell its models, agents and tools to companies, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code. Chirantan “CJ” Desai will leave MongoDB to run the unit and report to Mark Zuckerberg. Meta gave no launch dates, prices or revenue target.

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Agents & Apps

Meta built its Connect show around Muse, its AI agent

It showed a keychain gadget and $349 glasses with no camera.

At Connect on September 23, Meta showed Muse Charm, a keychain-sized device for talking to its Muse AI agent, with no price yet. It also launched $349 Ray-Ban glasses without a camera and announced $1,299.99 VR glasses for spring 2027. Muse is coming to Meta’s AI glasses in the coming months.

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Agents & Apps

Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse agent, and Shopify welcomed it

Six banks now want rules for AI shoppers.

Amazon began blocking Meta’s personal AI agent Muse on September 20, saying it does not identify itself and appears to store login details. A day later, Shopify said Muse will be able to pay on all Shopify stores. On September 22, six banks published principles for shopping by AI agents.

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