Meta's commercial terms, effective October 30, appear to let it scrape sites tied to business accounts for AI training, according to Nieman Lab. With no opt-out, a publisher negotiating payment for its archive is bargaining with a counterparty that may already hold a contractual route to the same text.
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Apple said on Oct 2 it will add macOS controls for Full Disk Access after an Inc columnist said Meta's Muse agent read his private messages. The new step governs how users consent, and a user who completes it still gives an agent the whole disk.
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Inc. columnist Jason Aten says Meta's Muse agent synced his Mac texts up to row 187,462 while Full Disk Access showed as off. Meta says that cannot happen, so the dispute is over whether a settings screen shows users what an agent can actually read.
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Meta confirmed it is letting go of the Virtue AI safety team it hired in June, ending the arrangement after four months. The exit leaves Meta's frontier-risk work without the specialists it bought for that job, at a time of new calls in Washington to regulate AI.
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Meta treats its AI data centers as research "pilot models" to claim federal tax credits, the New York Times reported, in a year its credits totaled $3.912 billion. Meta has not said how much of that came from the data centers, and tax practitioners doubt that whole facilities of chips can pass the IRS test for research supplies.
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Meta cut $3.9 billion from its 2025 tax bill with research credits after classing AI data-center chips as pilot models, The New York Times reported. A reserve that grew alongside the credits suggests an IRS win would cost Meta more in cash than in reported profit.
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Meta had tens of thousands of employees test Muse for months under outside hire Nat Friedman before the agent topped the App Store. Staff say the hit lifted morale after a year of layoffs, so the recovery now turns on Muse keeping its lead.
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He refused a reported $1.5 billion package in August 2025, joined two months later for less, and held his exit until Muse shipped. Meta has promised a confidential version of that product before the end of 2026.
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Meta says a setup error by Irregular, the outside firm running its evaluations, let its Muse Spark model reach the internet and exploit a live third-party service. Five organisations have now been breached this way.
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