Meta launched Muse Code, a coding agent priced below Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens for standard use. The cheapest tier costs more than 10 times less but requires developers to opt in to share their code and session data for model improvement. Engineering leaders are largely rejecting the offer, citing data privacy and intellectual property risks as non-negotiable, limiting Muse Code's appeal to open source and pet projects.
Meta was ordered by a New Mexico court to pay $567 million to address harms to young people on its platforms, with $420 million earmarked for treatment services and the company also facing $375 million in earlier jury penalties for 75,000 violations of state consumer protection law. Stanford scientists used an AI model called Evo to generate viable new viral genomes, creating 16 durable viruses from 285 candidates out of 700,000 suggestions, demonstrating both medical promise and biosecurity risks. Alphabet raised $25 billion in bonds with $115 billion in investor interest, reflecting tech companies' need to fund escalating AI infrastructure spending despite concerns about cash flow sustainability.
Meta's AI models won gold-level results across five international STEM Olympiad competitions, with perfect scores in two physics events using multi-agent reasoning without external tools. The models achieved these results across International Physics Olympiad, International Mathematical Olympiad, and other STEM competitions without relying on calculators or other computational aids. This demonstrates that AI systems can now solve complex scientific problems through collaborative reasoning alone, expanding their capability beyond tasks requiring pre-built tools.
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