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Meta AI is Meta's AI assistant embedded in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Ray-Ban smart glasses to answer questions and generate content.
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Approval is what Meta describes guarding the way out of its new agent. The way in is a one-time connector grant across nine accounts, and the two published accounts of the closed test disagree on where you can get it at all.
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Meta's six Muse Spark math papers, out October 2, label which passages the model drafted and which the researchers wrote. They show a chat assistant writing search code and proof drafts for mathematicians who chose the problems.
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WhatsApp extended its parent-managed controls to teen accounts, letting parents move Meta AI from its 13+ default to a stricter Limited Content mode. The controls are optional, so the tighter limits apply only in families that turn them on.
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The 16MB download matters less than what it plugs into: Instagram and Facebook accounts, ad campaigns and Google Workspace, with Meta's training and ad-targeting policy attached.
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Meta One's Indian ladder runs from Rs 79 a month for WhatsApp extras to Rs 20,990 for the top business tier. The compute-heavy AI bundles in the middle are the rungs priced closest to their US equivalents, and basic Meta AI stays free.
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Meta One Core costs $7.99 a month and contains three single-app plans that add up to $10.97, so the higher ceilings on Restyle, voice effects and Muse generation are the part of the bundle Meta is actually selling.
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Core includes the Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp plans that cost $10.97 bought on their own, and adds higher image and video limits on top. The step up to Premium costs $12 a month and buys allowance.
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The Information says Meta could unveil a camera-free model called Luna at Connect on September 23 and 24 and start shipping as soon as October, with six microphones where the camera used to sit.
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The glasses Meta ships in Spring 2027 weigh about 100 grams because compute and battery moved to a tethered puck rated for up to three hours of high-resolution playback. Every launch partner Meta named sells video or live sport.
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The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses start at $349 with no camera, 43 grams and about 12 hours of battery, while the camera-equipped Gen 3 rises to $449. The Verge reports the launch included no new privacy controls.
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Meta says a stateful, deeply personal assistant cannot fit in a pair of glasses, so inference runs in confidential VMs in its data centres, and the client sends nothing unless two attestation checks pass.
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Meta's first audio-only Ray-Bans drop the lens that Wetherspoon pubs and the Faslane submarine base banned, and at GBP 319 they undercut by GBP 90 the camera model Meta shipped on the same day.
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The Ray-Ban Meta Audio arrives on October 13 at $349 with 12 hours of runtime, Dolby Atmos and no camera. The microphones that most no-recording rules were written to catch are still on board.
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Omdia's first-half count shows AI glasses growth still running almost entirely on pairs with cameras. The restrictions arriving on wearers come from Australian schools, city councils and draft rules in Beijing.
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An amended class action in Northern California alleges every Meta AI activation on the glasses routed video overseas to low-paid labelers. Some of the plaintiffs were never users, only people who got recorded. Meta intends to fight.
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One operator's 30-day log counts 6,027 requests from Meta's training collector, 155 from the crawler documented for Meta AI search quality, and zero from the fetcher that fires when a person asks a question.
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Meta says Meta One now has more than 50 features and 15 million subscriptions and trials. BNP Paribas expects it to add $13.5bn of revenue by 2028; at the $7.99 bundle price, that needs about 141 million paying accounts.
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Kalie Robins clicked a question Meta AI put under a video of her daughter, and it returned both children's names and birth dates, a photo her mother had posted years ago, and one she says she deleted. Meta says it has fixed the prompting.
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Meta One charges for higher AI usage limits, creator tools and business agents across nine plans running from $2.99 a month to $499. Ads stay switched on for the people who pay.
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Meta AI asked a mother to name the child in her own video, then, she says, pulled her daughters' ages and location out of years of family posts. Meta says the answer used only data she could already reach.
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