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AI news briefing — week of October 13, 2026
The week's most consequential AI releases, research, and industry moves.
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Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more
Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites.
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI.
Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce
The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them.