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AI Built This Call of Duty-Style Shooter From Scratch in 8 Hours — and You Can Play It in Your Browser
You can now play a first-person shooter that an AI built on its own in 8 hours. Anthropic engineer Felix Rieseberg asked the new Claude Fable 5.2 model for an FPS with "photorealistic graphics" and got Saltline, a browser game set in a rainy cargo port that looks a lot like a modern Call of Duty level. -
Meta showed the Max home humanoid robot prototype to some employees at an internal robotics meeting in late August, and the company has already moved on to Max 2. Meta has not set a release date for a consumer robot, and The Information first reported the project.
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Muse is still limited to the United States and Canada, but Meta says the AI agent has already passed 10 million users and is now moving from rollout to scaling. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the service has found its audience and is entering a more operational phase focused on growth.
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Meta rolled out Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, 2026, positioning them as its most capable models for personal and professional work. The company says they can handle tasks ranging from software development to legal, financial, and health-related information.
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Norway has proposed a temporary ban on AI glasses, but officials have not yet settled which places or devices would be covered. The restrictions could apply to parks, beaches, museums, shopping centers and public events, though the plan still needs parliamentary approval.
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At Meta Connect 2026, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Muse Charm, a keychain-sized gadget that gives Meta's Muse AI agent its own standalone home. The device is designed to work without a phone and uses a fingerprint sensor for activation, then shows an animated avatar on its tiny screen.
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At Meta Connect 2026, the company detailed the hardware behind Meta VR Glasses, a glasses-style headset built around an external computing puck. The device, previously known as Project Phoenix, will go on sale in Spring 2027 for $1,300, with Apple Vision Pro as its closest point of comparison.
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Meta introduced Muse Voice Transcribe on September 1, 2026, and the model is already available in the Meta AI Mac app. It is Meta's first real-time audio perception model. Meta says the model combines streaming speech-to-text, speaker diarization, and endpointing in a single system. It can transcribe more than 20 speakers at once, handle multiple languages simultaneously, and even follow code-switching, including sentences that mix words from different languages.
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Anthropic, the developer of the Claude chatbot, is in talks with Meta* about leasing computing capacity from its data centers. According to reports citing three sources familiar with the discussions, the deal could be worth up to $10 billion (around 780 billion rubles) over two years. Both companies declined to comment.
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Meta said the feature is already live for parents using Instagram parental supervision in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, and that it will expand worldwide by the end of the year. The system is meant to work across Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Meta AI, and the web.
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If your Instagram profile is public, your face may already be fair game for AI image generation—and you wouldn’t even know it. Meta has rolled out its new Muse Image neural network, and along with it comes a catch that’s bound to rub plenty of users the wrong way.
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Meta has quietly soft-launched a new app called Pocket, allowing users to generate interactive mini-games from simple text descriptions using artificial intelligence. The app appeared on the App Store and Google Play on June 29, 2026, without an official announcement, and was first noticed by keen-eyed enthusiasts rather than through any formal reveal. Pocket is currently available only in select regions, and Meta has not provided details on when it will expand to other countries.
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Meta has unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a breakthrough AI system that translates brain activity into text — without the need for brain implants or surgery. Designed to help people who have lost the ability to speak, the technology offers a new path to communication by decoding thoughts directly into sentences.
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In this article, we share our experience using the Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2: how convenient the built-in camera and voice assistant are, whether smart glasses can replace headphones, how the artificial intelligence features work, and whether it’s worth buying a device that costs several hundred euros in 2026.
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Wired found unreleased facial recognition code in the Meta AI app for smart glasses, raising new privacy concerns as Meta faces scrutiny over biometric data practices.
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WhatsApp Has Started Charging For A Plus Subscription — What’s Included And Will Regular Users Be Affected?
While competitors like Telegram Premium are growing their paid subscriber base, WhatsApp has long stayed out of that race, betting on mass appeal and free features. Based on the latest data, that strategy is starting to shift, and the messenger has begun testing the WhatsApp Plus plan. -
A court in Los Angeles has set a unique precedent by ordering Google and Meta to pay about $6 million to a 20-year-old woman. The reason was her lawsuit complaining about her long-term dependence on social networks caused by the companies' services, Variety reports.
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Meta is experimenting with a new text input method for virtual reality that could solve one of the main pain points of VR workflows. A test build for the Quest 3 headset introduces a feature that turns an ordinary desk into a virtual keyboard and touchpad. This is an attempt to find a sweet spot between inconvenient floating interfaces and physical accessories.
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According to insider reports, Meta continues to drastically scale back its investment in VR development. As YouTube creator Gamertag VR claims, Meta has significantly reduced funding for third-party exclusives on the Quest platform — and one of the affected projects was reportedly an official Harry Potter VR game that had been in production.
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WhatsApp is starting to roll out an update with a set of new features. Notable changes include the ability to leave short video messages for missed calls, as well as tools for gathering feedback in Channels. The changes will affect both regular users and community administrators.
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