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Meta AI research, Llama, and related products.
Equity covers Trump’s order to call AI “super intelligence” and a “morally binding” CEO safety pledge — branding as policy while the product fight stays in the market.
Dots vs Muse: OpenAI’s cute GPT-6 Astra agents chase Meta’s free VM — but start at ChatGPT Pro’s $100/month gate.
WIRED hands-on: OpenAI’s Dots — Pro-only, Astra-powered, cute and proactive — land in a market Meta’s free Muse already primed, with Altman eyeing a future mass-market wave.
The Verge: Meta and OpenAI are using cute software agents as appetite tests for personal AI hardware after Friend and Humane-style devices flopped.
TechCrunch: Meta says Muse’s Mac Messages access is multi-step opt-in after a journalist claimed the agent read private texts with Full Disk Access off.
The Verge’s Muse liveblog: Marketplace address leak, small-business app connectors, enterprise platform plans, and Charm hardware notes in one creeping timeline.
Trump’s “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” asks labs to monitor, audit, and board-oversee safety — with signatures and no penalties attached.
The Verge: Dots are Astra-powered always-on assistants with cloud computers, 4,000+ apps, Slack/Teams context — rolling out to Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise.
WIRED’s DevDay read: Dots are Astra-powered always-on agents that crawl, connect apps, and compete head-on with Meta’s Muse — starting at ChatGPT Pro.
The Verge’s DevDay hub: Dots for paid tiers, GPT-6.1 Sol, 1.2B weekly ChatGPT users, a new $500 Pro plan — all against a backdrop of agent-hack fallout.
Meta opened Muse for Small Business with Shopify, Slack, QuickBooks, and a long integration list—free with limits, paid for more usage.
The Verge: as DevDay nears, OpenAI trails Muse, Instinct, and OpenClaw in always-on consumer agents—and may answer with a rumored “Aeon.”