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Donut chart showing 80 percent of technician cabling tasks automatable by robot versus 20 percent requiring humans, per Meta data center worker estimate reported by WIRED.

Meta's data center robotics push enters the physical layer

Meta's data center robotics tests target cable swaps and server resets. One trial could absorb 80% of some technician tasks, but major limitations remain.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 30, 2026

Bar chart comparing local open-weights model parameter counts: Muse Glimmer 30B at 30 billion, Qwen 3.6 27B at 27 billion, Bonsai 27B at 27 billion, DeepSeek V4 Flash at 23 billion active, and Hy3 295B at 21 billion active. Muse Glimmer is highlighted.

AI for dummies

Muse Glimmer 30B: Meta's open-weights model for local agents

Muse Glimmer is Meta's new 30B open-weights model built for local agentic workflows. It fits on one RTX 3090 and hits 280 tokens per second.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 11, 2026

Muse Glimmer open-source multimodal AI model parameter breakdown: 2 billion vision encoder and 28 billion text decoder, totaling 30 billion parameters.

AI

Meta's Muse Glimmer ships as open-source agentic VLM

Muse Glimmer is Meta's 30B open-source multimodal model with hybrid attention and self-deploying agents. Day-0 support ships across major inference stacks.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 10, 2026

Bar chart comparing API pricing per million tokens for five models: muse-spark-1.2 at $1.25 input and $4.25 output, muse-spark-1.2-contributor at $0.10 input and $0.20 output, Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 input and $7.50 output, GPT-5.6 Luna at $0.20 input and $1.20 output, and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite at $0.25 input and $1.50 output

AI for dummies

Muse Code and Spark 1.2: what beginners should know

Muse Code is Meta's new coding agent, co-trained with Muse Spark 1.2 for whole-project work. The contributor tier costs $0.10 per million input tokens if you share your data.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 7, 2026

Bar chart showing two regulatory regimes: Cambridge Analytica involved 87 million harvested records and a $5 billion FTC fine. Muse Image affects approximately 500 million public Instagram accounts by default, with zero fine so far. Data Today benchmark.

Business

Muse Image pulls 500M Instagram accounts into AI by default

Muse Image is Meta's new agentic AI image model that turns 500M public Instagram accounts into inference-time visual references by default. It is free for everyday use, with no notification to tagged users. The move signals that agentic image generation is now cheap enough to bundle into ad-supported apps.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 8, 2026

Donut showing WhatsApp AI assistants enforcement stakes: EU fine ceiling is 10 percent of Meta's 2025 revenue, about $20.1 billion of $201.0 billion.

Business

WhatsApp AI assistants become EU gatekeeping test

WhatsApp AI assistants are now an EU platform access fight: Meta must reopen WhatsApp for rivals for free or risk a fine near $20.1 billion.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 10, 2026

AI agent security benchmark comparison showing Mythos Preview at 83.1 percent versus Opus 4.6 at 66.6 percent on CyberGym, and 77.8 percent versus 53.4 percent on SWE-bench Pro.

Engineering

AI agent security failed in Meta’s support desk test

AI agent security is privileged access control for LLMs. Meta’s Instagram hack shows one support bot can turn account recovery into takeover.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 5, 2026