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The Verge, citing a Nieman Lab report, says Meta's new terms appear to let it crawl and scrape websites "associated" with businesses that use its platforms, including online publishers. The terms say Meta can use that content to "develop, improve, research" and "train". They take effect on October 30th. Ars Technica reports legal experts warn it is an AI power grab that could help Meta avoid millions in licensing fees.

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model, meaning anyone can download it and run it themselves. It has 816 billion parameters, of which 42 billion are active at a time, and can take in up to 1 million tokens of text at once. Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model and says its own tests show it beating other open models. Meta says it runs on two Apple Mac Studios with M5 Ultra chips using Apple's MLX software, and Engadget reports it needs at least 1 terabyte of memory. It is also available now through several API services. The license has limited commercial terms.

Meta introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which it calls its most capable models yet for personal and professional 'agentic' tasks, built on features it calls Active Memory and Active Focus. Both are available now via Meta's model API and Muse Code, and will eventually power Meta's Muse assistant.