
Meta’s Muse Image model enables users to @-mention other Instagram accounts in prompts, allowing the AI to incorporate their likenesses into generated images. The model, part of the Muse family, replaces Meta’s previous Llama lineup and powers image-making tools across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, with plans to expand to Messenger. It is described as "agentic," capable of reasoning, searching the web, and planning before generating images, offering features like image transformation, design creation, and direct photo edits.
Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other's idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fantasies in which their fame leads to access to […]

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is […]

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the "Microsoft Copilot" name but features an updated app icon. The single […]
