# Meta [https://timesof.ai/platform/meta](https://timesof.ai/platform/meta) Meta develops large-scale AI systems across research, consumer products, and developer platforms. Meta's AI efforts span foundational research, product integrations, and new lab initiatives focused on long-horizon model capabilities and safety. ## Coverage - [Nonprofits Ask a California Court to Freeze Frontier AI, Using the Labs' Own Risk Warnings as Their Evidence](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/nonprofits-sue-to-freeze-frontier-ai-anthropic-google-meta-openai-xai) — Public Citizen and three other groups sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI in San Francisco, seeking to freeze more capable AI under California law. - [Meta Hands Its AI Data Center Build-Out to a Former AWS Executive as Infrastructure Chief Santosh Janardhan Steps Down](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/meta-infrastructure-chief-janardhan-steps-down-dave-brown) — Meta's Santosh Janardhan will step down in 2027; ex-AWS SVP Dave Brown takes over infrastructure under Meta Compute as capex runs $135B-$145B this year. - [Meta's Muse Ember Lists at Haiku's and Luna's Price; Its Edge Is Spending Fewer Tokens per Task](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/meta-muse-ember-cheapest-agent-model-haiku-luna-per-task) — Meta's Muse Ember lists at $0.10/$0.50, like Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna. Artificial Analysis scored it 36, level with Haiku, at about a third of the cost per task. - [Meta Rolls Out Muse Voice and Expressive Avatars to All US Muse App Users](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/meta-muse-voice-expressive-avatars-us-rollout) — Muse Voice and expressive avatars are live for US Muse app users on mobile, web and Mac. Realtime Avatar/Voice; Glasses and Muse Charm coming soon. - [Meta Buys Conductor, the App for Running Coding Agents in Parallel, and Gives Its Cloud Users Until November 20](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/meta-acquires-conductor-parallel-coding-agents-cloud-shuts-nov-20) — Meta bought AI coding startup Conductor. Sign-ups are closed, Conductor Cloud goes read-only Nov 13 and shuts Nov 20; terms were not disclosed. - [Meta Sells $15 Billion of Dollar Bonds and Pays More Than in April to Borrow, With Its First Euro Notes Due Next](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/meta-15b-bond-sale-wider-spreads-first-euro-notes) — Meta sold $15 billion of dollar bonds on Nov. 3 at wider spreads than in April, with its first euro notes expected next, to fund AI infrastructure. - [Anthropic Releases FlashProve, a Claude-Built System That Cryptographically Proves Which Model Produced a Response](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/anthropic-flashprove-provable-inference-zksnark-open-source) — Anthropic's open-source FlashProve uses zkSNARKs to prove a response came from committed model weights, at about 110 tokens a second on one H100. - [WIRED Finds a Network of More Than 400 Apps and Domains That Hid Sexual Deepfake Generators Inside Pet-Portrait and Language Apps on Apple's and Google's Stores](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/wired-400-app-network-hid-nudify-deepfake-tools-app-store-play) — More than 400 linked apps and domains posing as pet-portrait and language tools hid explicit deepfake generators, WIRED reports. Apple pulled 19; Meta acted on 11,600 ad accounts. - [Meta Built a Humanoid Prototype Called Max With China's Fourier and Started a Second Version in September, The Information Reports](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/meta-fourier-max-humanoid-prototype-the-information) — The Information reports Meta and Fourier built the Max humanoid in about three months and began Max 2 in September. Meta says it is research, not for sale. - [S&P Turns Meta's Outlook Negative Over AI Spending, Days After Its $25 Billion Share Sale and $12.5 Billion of Convertibles](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-95b-equity-raise-ai-infrastructure) — S&P moved Meta's outlook to negative, forecasting cash-flow deficits of $39B in 2026 and $71B in 2027. Meta disagrees. Earlier: $25B stock and $12.5B convertibles priced. - [Meta Pauses the Business Terms Publishers Said Would Let It Crawl Their Sites for AI, With No New Date](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-delays-business-terms-ai-scraping-nov20) — Meta paused business-terms changes publishers said would let it crawl their sites for AI; they won't start Nov. 20. Existing terms stay; the UK CMA probe continues. - [Meta Buys AI Analytics Startup Sundial, Bringing Back Ex-Meta Leaders Julie Zhuo and Chandra Narayanan](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-acquires-sundial-ai-analytics) — Meta has bought Sundial, the AI analytics startup of ex-Meta leaders Julie Zhuo and Chandra Narayanan. Sundial will stop serving outside customers, Axios says. - [Meta's Filing Makes 20% of Zuckerberg's New Class C Shares Freely Saleable and Ties the Rest to His Voting Stock](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-q3-nonvoting-class-c-stock-capex-135-145b-muse-10m) — Meta's filing: 20% of Zuckerberg's Class C shares freely saleable, 80% tied to selling voting stock; approved by written consent. 2026 capex guided to $135–145B. - [Meta Pauses Muse Chat Sharing After Researchers Find About 6,800 Share Links Through Public DNS](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-muse-share-links-exposed-via-passive-dns-sharing-paused) — Security firm Claroc found ~6,800 Muse share links via passive DNS, Ars reports. Meta has paused sharing while it reviews the report. - [Google Open-Sources TorchTPU, a Native PyTorch Backend for TPUs Co-Developed With Meta](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/google-torchtpu-open-source-pytorch-backend-tpus-meta-co-developed) — Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs co-developed with Meta's PyTorch team. Model-coverage and cost figures are Google's. - [Meta Releases Muse Spark Open Weights: An 816B Mixture-of-Experts Under Attribution and $20M Model-Service Terms](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-muse-spark-open-816b-open-weights) — Meta's Muse Spark Open: 816B MoE, 42B active, 1M context, attribution and $20M MaaS licence terms. Meta-reported benchmarks. - [AI Rout: Nasdaq Falls 2.6% and Chip Index 6.7% After Meta's Results; Solidigm Halts Its IPO Review](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/ai-financing-rout-nasdaq-sox-coreweave-kospi-7pct) — Nasdaq −2.6% and chip index −6.7% on Oct. 22 after Meta's results, Reuters says; Meta CDS at a record. SK hynix says Solidigm halted its IPO review. - [OpenAI and Anthropic Tell UK MPs Voluntary AI Safety Pledges Are Not Enough; Google DeepMind and Meta Decline to Back New Laws](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/uk-bist-openai-anthropic-binding-ai-safety-rules-evidence) — At a UK Commons hearing, Anthropic and OpenAI backed binding AI safety rules while Google DeepMind and Meta declined. Officials described the UK regime as voluntary. - [Nvidia Opens Vera Rubin Rack Designs at OCP; Meta Adopts Spectrum-6 Switches](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/nvidia-ocp-vera-rubin-mgx-open-designs-meta-spectrum-6) — Nvidia contributed Vera Rubin MGX rack designs to OCP, including a CPU rack for agents. Meta adopts Spectrum-6; Nvidia and Cisco unveil USFP optics. - [Meta Releases Muse Wonder, Its First Frontier Model, and Artificial Analysis Puts It Two Points Off the Top](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-muse-wonder-first-frontier-model) — Meta's Muse Wonder and Wonder Full launch at $4/$20 per million tokens. Artificial Analysis scores Wonder Full 56 vs Opus 5.5's 58; safety report pending. - [Caixin: ByteDance and Tencent Fast-Track Personal AI Agents After Meta's Muse](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/bytedance-tencent-fast-track-personal-agents-after-muse) — ByteDance and Tencent are fast-tracking personal AI agents after Meta's Muse, Caixin reports; ByteDance builds on its Doubao 'Spell' project. - [Zuckerberg Called Meta's Muse Agent Ready to Launch Despite the Risks as Rival Instinct Took Off, New York Times Reports](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-muse-nyt-zuckerberg-launched-despite-safety-concerns) — NYT, via The Verge and TNW: Zuckerberg called Muse ready to ship despite known test risks as Instinct grew. Meta disputes it and cites a months-long delay. - [UK ICO Says Ten AI Developers Made or Committed to Data-Protection Changes, and Opens a Call for Evidence on Agents](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/ico-foundation-model-changes-agentic-ai-call-evidence) — The ICO says ten AI developers made or committed to data-protection changes and opens a call for evidence on agentic AI, closing Nov. 20. Not new rules. - [Manus Raises More Than $500 Million From Boyu, IDG and Tencent After Beijing Blocked Meta's Purchase](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/manus-500m-round-boyu-idg-after-meta-unwind) — Manus raises more than $500M led by Boyu and IDG, with Tencent following on, after Beijing blocked Meta's deal. Valuation undisclosed.