Exclusive: Meta director Rohit Patel departs after 8 years to take on Microsoft Office Suite

After eight years developing AI for Meta, Rohit Patel is departing the company, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The former director at Meta Superintelligence Labs has…

Mark Zuckerberg's creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta |

During Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday, the company revealed its board had approved a new class of nonvoting stock, called Class C common stock. The…

WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot

Dozens of WhatsApp web pages designed to answer people’s questions about Meta’s encrypted messaging app inadvertently exposed the company’s own instructions to its chatbot. These…

OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty

The generative AI revolution hasn’t been kind to Vanniall, an OnlyFans creator who lives in New York City. She now constantly finds hyperrealistic deepfakes—AI-generated images…

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs |

1:04 PM PDT · October 15, 2026 Meta has launched what it calls the “most capable” open-weight model in the United States. Dubbed Muse Spark…

Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder |

10:56 AM PDT · October 12, 2026 Meta’s Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full,…

Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier

When Mark Zuckerberg rebooted his company’s artificial intelligence efforts last year, it seemed to be a very expensive gamble. Meta’s latest AI models, Muse Wonder…

China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta |

6:20 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Chinese AI lab Manus’ parent company, Butterfly Effect, said on Thursday in a WeChat post that it has…

Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative |

In Brief Posted: 9:52 AM PDT · September 28, 2026 Meta announced Monday that it’s launching “Meta Enterprise Platform,” a new initiative aimed at expanding…

Exclusive: Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory |

Plastics recycling startup MacroCycle announced a new deal with Meta on Tuesday that will help speed the development of its first commercial plant. Three-year-old MacroCycle,…