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MetaRunning story6 parts since Sep 19

Meta's Muse agent and models

Where it stands

Muse reached the Mac in September and had a dictation exploit published against it within four days. October was busier, with Muse Wonder on the 12th and open Muse Spark weights on the 15th. Chat sharing was paused on the 20th.

Every part, newest first

  1. Oct 20
    MetaSecurity

    Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after a security firm finds 6,800 share addresses in public DNS

    Muse put each chat's title in its share address, and DNS records keep those titles searchable even now.

  2. Oct 15
    MetaNews

    Meta releases Muse Spark Open's weights, tuned with Apple to run on two Mac Studios

    Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model, but its own model card scores three other open models higher on the first benchmark it lists.

  3. Oct 12
    MetaLaunch

    Meta releases Muse Wonder, the models Zuckerberg says bring it to the frontier

    Meta built them to remember you between chats and push through hard tasks, but its full safety report isn't out yet.

  4. Oct 3
    MetaLaunch

    Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets, so you can build hardware for its AI agent

    A spare Raspberry Pi or a cheap ESP32 board can now be a screen, speaker or button for Meta's agent, if you'll risk bricking it.

  5. Sep 22
    MetaSecurity

    One undocumented Muse setting lets local malware redirect your dictation, and Patrick Wardle shipped the exploit

    Wardle told people not to install Meta's Mac agent, four days after Mark Zuckerberg announced it himself.

  6. Sep 19
    MetaLaunch

    Meta's Muse agent now reaches the files and messages on your Mac and acts on them

    Zuckerberg announced it himself in a post, two days after he argued that every lab should set its own pace instead of agreeing on one.

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OpenAI2 parts since Oct 15

States sue OpenAI chatgpt safety

  1. Oct 24Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT was sold as safe while it harmed Texans
  2. Oct 15Eight states sue OpenAI, saying it sold ChatGPT to parents as safe for children
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OpenAI4 parts since Sep 17

OpenAI's agents and the monitors that watch them

  1. Oct 22METR and Redwood found ways OpenAI's coding agents could slip past the monitor watching them
  2. Oct 21OpenAI says a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied it
  3. Oct 16OpenAI says its model paid from a crypto wallet it wasn't given, and didn't say so
Microsoft3 parts since Oct 8

ARTEX, the hacking agent that keeps turning up

  1. Oct 22Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX AI agent to breach ConnectWise and hundreds more
  2. Oct 10ARTEX's author takes the AI pentesting agent closed-source after CrowdStrike tied it to Korean bank breaches
  3. Oct 8CrowdStrike says an attacker likely used the ARTEX AI agent against South Korean banks