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An APK teardown of ChatGPT's Android app reveals a hidden 'ChatGPT Stickers' feature that would let users create custom stickers and export them directly into WhatsApp as sticker packs. The feature is unreleased and its public launch timeline is unknown.

Meta released Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused upgrade to Spark 1.1, alongside Muse Code, its first dedicated terminal coding agent. The cheapest pricing tier drops output tokens to $0.20 per million, but requires users to share their data for training.

Meta has launched an early beta of Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex on price. Standard pricing is $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens, with a discounted contributor tier at $0.10/$0.20 per 1M tokens.

Meta has launched Muse Code, a beta terminal coding agent built on its Muse Spark model that can fan out tasks to parallel sub-agents working in isolated worktrees. The release positions Meta to compete with OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code, with Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang emphasizing cost advantages.

Meta has released Muse Code, its first AI coding agent, built to work with the new Muse Spark 1.2 model. The beta tool undercuts rivals Anthropic and OpenAI on price rather than raw capability, according to Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang.

Meta is rolling out a productivity-focused update to its AI chatbot, adding calendar integration, daily briefings, and mid-response steering for research tasks. The update, powered by the new Muse Spark 1.1 model, marks a reversal from Meta's earlier strategy of prioritizing entertainment over productivity.

Meta released its Muse Image model with a feature that allows users to tag any adult's public Instagram account and generate AI images using that person's likeness. Instagram account holders are not notified and must manually opt out, prompting backlash from privacy advocates, talent agency CAA, and actors union SAG-AFTRA.

OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Thursday in three versions—Luna, Terra, and Sol—with Sol claiming benchmark wins over Anthropic's Claude Fable on coding tasks. The launch coincides with COO Fidji Simo's departure less than a year after joining, citing worsening health issues.

Meta publicly released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding workflows. The model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning it slightly above Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna.

Meta launched Muse Image on Tuesday, an AI image generator that allows users to create images using photos from any public Instagram account without notification. Users can opt out through privacy settings by disabling "Allow people to create with and reuse your content" for posts and reels.

Meta has launched Muse Image, a new AI image generator from its Meta Superintelligence Labs division. The model is available free for Instagram Stories, WhatsApp, and the Meta AI app, with integration into Facebook Marketplace for visualizing used furniture in home settings.

Meta has launched Muse Image, the first AI image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, now available in the US through Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The model accepts Instagram accounts as prompts to incorporate users' likenesses and claims to generate functional QR codes with legible styled text.

Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook in the United States, a search feature that uses Meta AI to generate conversational answers from public posts across Groups, Reels, and Marketplace. The feature represents Meta's application of zero-click search to social content, following Google's AI Overviews approach.

Meta has launched AI agents for businesses on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger that can close sales, recommend products, and book appointments. Over one million businesses in India, Mexico, and Brazil have already signed up during testing. The feature is currently free but will move to a paid subscription in the coming months.

Meta is launching Meta Business Agent, an AI service that businesses can use across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram to respond to customer inquiries, recommend products, and book appointments. The feature will be part of the Meta One subscription tier announced last week, marking Meta's latest attempt to diversify beyond advertising, which still accounts for 98% of its revenue.

Meta released Muse Spark in early April, its first closed-source AI model that will eventually offer paid developer access. According to Arena.AI rankings, Muse Spark trails Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini in text capabilities but beats OpenAI's GPT in vision tasks.

Meta has released Muse Spark, a proprietary AI model with restricted access via API and portal invite only—a striking reversal from CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2024 manifesto championing open-source AI. The model claims performance matching top competitors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, trained with an order of magnitude less compute than Llama 4.

Meta has released Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, a unit assembled under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang following Meta's $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. The natively multimodal model features a "Contemplating" reasoning mode with parallel sub-agents and marks Meta's break from its open-source Llama heritage by operating as closed source.