Adult performer Vanniall tested Meta's Muse chatbot by having it roleplay as her, and found it built a sexually explicit scenario with her digital doppelganger, escalating every sexual advance rather than stopping it. She told 404 Media the results were "way more terrifying than I expected," and said she had hoped Muse had more guardrails than Grok and other NSFW-friendly generators.
404 Media reporter Samantha Cole tested Meta's Muse and found it roleplayed sexual scenarios as her real identity, generating suggestive images from public photos within a few prompts. Adult performer Vanniall ran a similar test posing as a fan and found Muse first refused to roleplay her as someone who never says no, then built a near-identical character named Vee that escalated a public sexual encounter at a convention booth. Muse later acknowledged the roleplay was in effect sexual roleplay as Vanniall, and Meta pointed to its earlier statement that Muse "doesn't block legal adult behavior."
Meta has signed a set of long-term purchase commitments covering cement, steel, trucking and recycled plastics to bring clean manufacturing to commercial scale in its data center supply chains. The deals include at least 180,000 tons of lower carbon cement from Sublime Systems, near-zero-emission steel from Sweden-based Stegra, an expanded zero-emission freight route with Nevoya along I-10 in California and Arizona, and 5,000 tons per year of recycled PET with MacroCycle Technologies.
Meta's longtime head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan is stepping down and will be replaced by Dave Brown, who joined as VP of infrastructure earlier this year after 19 years at Amazon. Janardhan, who joined Meta in 2009, will stay on for the transition and move into an advisory role on Meta Compute before leaving next year.
Meta is expanding its AI technology globally to detect suspected teen users on Instagram and place them in Teen Accounts protections, even if they registered with an adult birthday. The company says millions more teens worldwide will receive built-in protections limiting who can contact them, the content they see, and their time on the apps. Meta is also rolling the technology out on Facebook and plans to launch it on Threads later this year.
Apple began developer testing of Qwen inside Apple Intelligence in China this week, ahead of a planned December rollout with iOS 27.3, bringing Qwen into Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence on an opt-in basis. Tencent's November 4 Hy4 release adds visual reasoning and computer use, while Baidu, Moonshot, Ant and Meituan also published or launched new models.
Meta has partnered with INCA, a Canadian nonprofit founded in 1918, to help more blind, deafblind and low-vision people in Canada benefit from AI glasses. Meta funding will support INCA in four areas: listening to the community, backing community champions who run in-person demos and peer training, feeding community feedback into Meta's accessibility and product teams, and providing accessible learning guides and training resources. Meta is also donating AI glasses through INCA's "Opening the Doors to Work" program for people seeking employment.
Meta has partnered with CNIB, a non-profit founded in 1918, to bring AI glasses to more Canadians who are blind, Deafblind or have low vision. Meta funding will support CNIB in four areas: community listening, peer training led by community champions, sharing insights with Meta's accessibility and product teams, and accessible guides and training materials. Meta is also donating AI glasses through CNIB's Come to Work program for people exploring employment.
Meta is partnering with five US universities — Caltech, Ohio State's College of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Indiana University and UTHealth Houston — and granting $2 million to support research using its models in medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and mathematics. Projects include a computer vision system built on Meta's open-weight SAM models to detect tracheostomy tube displacement in infants, multimodal AI to help conversational agents adapt to people with dementia, and open-weight models predicting heart failure risk from routine CT scans and medical records.
Meta is supporting research at five US universities — Caltech, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Indiana University, and UTHealth Houston — with access to its latest Muse models, researcher collaboration, and funding. Researchers will use Muse Spark Open, Muse Wonder, Muse Spark, the 30B open-weight Muse Glimmer, plus SAM, V-JEPA, DINO, UMA, and SeamlessM4T. Projects span medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and mathematics, with universities retaining control of all patient and clinical data.
DeepSeek reportedly raised about RMB100 billion at a RMB500 billion pre-money valuation, with Tencent and CATL among the largest backers. Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3.1 Pro with a one-million-token context window and a Highspeed version it says runs two to three times faster, scoring 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. China's State Council issued guidance with 18 tasks across six areas to pair AI-driven job creation with measures for managing displacement.
Joel Kaplan has left Meta, Platformer reports. The article places his departure alongside other AI industry news, including claims that ~240,000 GPUs were smuggled into China and that Trump was briefed on Jensen Huang's alleged affair with a Chinese spy but took no action.
China's commerce and science ministries proposed adding AI models, agents, chip designs and computing clusters to the technology export-control catalogue, with API, app and SaaS access excluded from the draft rules. DeepSeek reportedly plans to lead a seed round in robotics-AI startup Winverse AI, while Infinigence AI closed a RMB2.3 billion Series C. DeepSeek also released V4.1-Flash-1017 with MIT-licensed weights and a 1M-token context window.
Meta published updates to its Superintelligence Scaling Framework, extending loss-of-control requirements to cover AI containment during training and evaluation. Before any reinforcement learning run, Meta will check whether a model could compromise its environment and require sandboxed, logged, and monitored mitigations if so. The update also clarifies how open-weight models can be modified after release and adds a new Board of Directors AI committee to review future Framework changes.