Meta Platforms News Latest Meta Platforms news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Meta Platforms is the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and is investing heavily in humanoid robotics, with acquisitions like Assured Robot Intelligence joining its Superintelligence Labs and Robotics Studio teams.
Meta Rushes Muse Hotfix After Zero-Day Let Local Malware Hijack Its Mac AI Agent — Sep 27, 2026 — Meta patched a SEV-2 zero-day in the Mac version of its Muse AI assistant on 24 September after researcher Patrick Wardle showed that any locally runn...NYC Council Rolls Out 10-Bill AI Package With Kill Switches And Whistleblower Bounties — Sep 27, 2026 — Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a 10-bill package on 25 September that would force AI companies operating in New York City to install kill switches, subm...Sanders And Casar Propose Permanent Superintelligence Ban, Cabinet-Level AI Agency — Sep 24, 2026 — Sanders and Casar's twin bills would ban superintelligence, pause massive training runs and create a cabinet-level Department of AI.Meta Bets $1,300 On A VR Headset And Six New AI-Glasses SKUs — Sep 24, 2026 — At Meta Connect 2026, Zuckerberg unveiled a $1,300 tethered VR headset, a $449 Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, $349 audio-only glasses and a Muse Charm keychain a...Meta Hot-Fixes Muse Zero-Day That Let Local Apps Hijack Its AI Agent On Mac — Sep 23, 2026 — An undocumented dictation endpoint in Meta's Muse Mac agent let unprivileged local processes redirect voice traffic to attacker servers. Meta shipped...OpenAI, Anthropic And DeepMind Push FINRA-Style AI Safety Body — Sep 19, 2026 — Three of the top frontier AI labs are quietly building an industry-run standards body modelled on Wall Street's FINRA, and Cohere's CEO is calling it...Meta's Muse AI Agent Comes To The Mac, Takes Over The Desktop — Sep 19, 2026 — Meta released a native Mac app for its Muse personal AI agent on September 18, 2026, letting the agent read files, mail, calendar and notes and act in...Manus Targets $4B Valuation In $500M Raise After Meta Split — Sep 19, 2026 — Butterfly Effect's Manus is raising $500 million at a $4 billion valuation, with IDG Capital, Boyu Capital and CATL circling the deal and a Hong Kong...Anthropic Weighs New AI Model Release Before IPO As OpenAI's Astra Pulls Ahead In Enterprise — Sep 19, 2026 — Anthropic is deliberating over releasing a new frontier AI model ahead of its planned IPO, according to a Reuters report, as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra take...Meta Puts MTIA v3 'Iris' Custom AI Chip Into Production This Month — Sep 11, 2026 — Meta has begun production of its third-generation MTIA 'Iris' AI accelerator this September, a Broadcom-designed, TSMC 3nm chip meant to double the co...Meta Buys Sweden's Stilla.ai To Power Its Business Agent Across WhatsApp And Instagram — Sep 11, 2026 — Meta has acquired eight-month-old Stockholm startup Stilla.ai to accelerate the Meta Business Agent, its AI chatbot now serving more than one million...Meta Debuts Muse Personal AI Agent With Its Own Secure VM And Stripe Wallet — Sep 10, 2026 — On September 8, 2026 Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that runs inside a dedicated Muse Secure VM, ships free plus $20 and $100 subscription ti...Meta Ships Muse Spark 1.3 With 1M-Token Context And Frontier Coding Scores — Sep 6, 2026 — Muse Spark 1.3 hits a 61 on Artificial Analysis's index, extends the context window to 1M tokens, and cuts tokens and tool calls versus 1.2.d-Matrix Unveils Raptor 3D-DRAM AI Accelerator With Meta — Aug 29, 2026 — At Hot Chips 2026, d-Matrix and Meta detailed Raptor, an AI inference accelerator that stacks TSMC 4nm logic on custom DRAM at 36-micron pitch for 32...Meta Patches Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Privacy LED Loophole — Aug 29, 2026 — Meta is rolling out a software update that stops Ray-Ban Meta and Meta Smart Glasses from recording if the front-facing capture LED is covered mid-cap...Meta Quietly Becomes One of Microsoft's Largest AI Customers on Azure — Aug 25, 2026 — Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on AI models via Microsoft's Azure Foundry marketplace, running trillions of tokens each week...Big Tech's AI Purchase Commitments Near $1.5 Trillion As Off-Balance Risk Grows — Aug 16, 2026 — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle and Meta have piled up nearly $1.5 trillion in AI infrastructure purchase commitments, layered on top of a...Manus Returns To Independence As China Forces Meta Deal Unwind — Aug 15, 2026 — Butterfly Effect's Manus AI agent will return to operating independently after China ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of the Singapore-domic...Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer, A 30B Agent Model For Your Laptop — Aug 11, 2026 — Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter open-weight agentic model under Apache 2.0 that runs on a single consumer GPU with...Meta Ships Muse Code And Muse Spark 1.2 For Repo-Scale Agentic Coding — Aug 9, 2026 — Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Code, a terminal coding agent, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused upgrade that lifts its Artificial...