US tech giant whose Muse agent is cited as a competitive reference for Apple.
Meta announced a global rollout of AI age-estimation technology that will pull millions of Instagram teens who claim to be adults back into its Teen Accounts protections. The move responds to litigation over youth harm, following a settlement with US states worth up to $18 billion.
Jiang Guanjun, AI algorithm lead at Alibaba's Qwen unit, argues that Personal Agents have moved into product competition but remain unreliable in practice, with a wide gap between near-100% theoretical capability and real delivery. He positions user-need understanding as Qwen's core differentiator, while acknowledging unresolved issues around service prioritization and user-interest conflicts arising from Alibaba's commerce ecosystem.
AMD CEO Lisa Su cited Meta's Muse as a standout example of rapid AI adoption, noting over 10 million activations in 45 days. She said annual operating plans that were once fixed now shift month to month because of AI adoption.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI chief Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap toward a capable AI agent able to compete with OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse. Two upgrades are slated: iOS 27.3 will give Siri fine-grained control over first-party apps such as Photos and Safari, while third-party app integration (e.g., ordering via Grubhub, booking through OpenTable) is expected next spring. The longer-term goal is a more agentic Siri capable of sustained multi-step tasks, potentially as early as next year.