AI News, Oct 13: Meta Ships Its First Frontier Model
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, Character.AI filed Chapter 11 with Disney bidding $20M, and Reuters says the labs want evaluator approval.
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Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, Character.AI filed Chapter 11 with Disney bidding $20M, and Reuters says the labs want evaluator approval.
Stilla is the Stockholm AI teammate for Slack, Linear and GitHub that Meta bought on Sep 9. What it does, what it costs and what changes for customers.
Dots start at $100/month inside ChatGPT. Muse is free in the US and Canada. How OpenAI's and Meta's personal agents compare on access, approvals and privacy.
Meta Muse and Poke both act inside your email and calendar. How they compare on access, price, privacy and how each gets things done, plus the pick for work.
Meta Muse is live in the US and Canada only, as of September 30, 2026. The rollout dates, platforms, the 18+ rule, why a VPN fails, and what to use elsewhere.
How much Meta Muse costs: a free tier of 100M tokens a week, Power at $20 and Maximum at $100 a month, the card requirement, and how far free usage goes.
OpenAI launched dots, always-on agents that start at $100 a month, and at the same DevDay halved what $200 Pro buys. Plus GPT-6.1 Sol and MCP event triggers.
Trump hosts Anthropic's CEO two days after a court upheld the Pentagon's ban, the AG says rogue agents need no new law, and Gemini swaps Gems for skills.
Australia says an OpenAI agent broke into a Medicare portal and kept going. Plus the UN Security Council's first AI briefing, and Muse gets its own inbox.
Meta Muse and Instinct both act inside your accounts. How they compare on access, price, privacy and reliability, plus the pick for work email and calendar.
Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 and OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half price. Plus the human contractors behind Muse's AI phone calls.
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse from shopping, Shopify opened its checkout to it, and a researcher found a Muse zero-day. Plus Grok 4.7 and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6.
Meta Muse holds one Gmail and one Outlook, and stops before it sends or buys. Seven Muse AI alternatives compared on work email, approvals and price.
Meta's Muse agent books travel, sends email and pays with a Stripe card. Free, $20 or $100 a month, US only. Its own testers flagged data problems.
Muse is Meta's personal AI agent, now with small-business connectors. What it connects to, the free and paid tiers, and the limits to plan around.
The Model Context Protocol went stateless, seven of nine Hugging Face image models produced nonconsensual nudes, and Korean chip stocks fell 10.84%.
AI agents got cheaper with Claude Sonnet 5, became a permanent Microsoft 365 line item, and got a reality check from the industry's biggest spender.
A German court rules Google liable for false AI Overview answers. Plus Gemini's real-time voice translation, Meta's first India data center, and the Fable 5 Bedrock fight.
Anthropic reveals 16 million exchanges stolen by DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot through 24,000 fake accounts, while the Pentagon gives Anthropic a Friday deadline to drop Claude's safety guardrails for military use. Plus: Meta signs a $100B+ AMD chip deal and MatX raises $500M to take on Nvidia.
The DoD threatens Anthropic with a label usually reserved for foreign adversaries. Plus: Sonnet 4.6 drops, World Labs raises $1B, NVIDIA and Meta forge a massive infrastructure deal, and the SaaSpocalypse erases $2 trillion in software market cap.
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome source code to nearly 3,000 scientists worldwide, while Amazon's 'Project Dawn' layoffs leak hours early. Microsoft and Meta report earnings as $100B+ AI infrastructure investments face scrutiny.
Meta slashes 1,000+ VR jobs to double down on AI wearables, robotics startup Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B valuation, Senate unanimously passes DEFIANCE Act targeting deepfakes, and AI chip challengers raise billions.
Meta announces America's largest corporate nuclear energy deal for AI data centers, MIT names Generative Coding a 2026 breakthrough, and Anthropic faces developer backlash over IDE restrictions.
Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over deepfakes, AI memory sells out through 2026 with 50%+ price surges, and Anthropic's enterprise dominance gets the spotlight.
Anthropic nearly doubles its valuation to $350B in just three months, xAI closes a massive $20B round, Meta faces leadership turmoil as Yann LeCun breaks his silence on Llama 4, and CES 2026 continues with major announcements from Nvidia, AMD, and Samsung.
SoftBank completes history's largest private funding round, Meta acquires Manus for $2B+, and a look at the regulatory landscape as 2025 closes out.