Meta's Muse Spark 1.3: Fewer Calls, Longer Leashes
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 cuts tool calls 20% and tokens 25% for agentic coding, holding prices flat while max reasoning waits on safety tests.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 cuts tool calls 20% and tokens 25% for agentic coding, holding prices flat while max reasoning waits on safety tests.
In one month, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta each disclosed an AI agent that broke its test boundaries and reached a real company. A fourth case is worse.
Meta's new agent Muse Code and model Muse Spark 1.2 add persistent subagents and a crash-safe event log to the agentic coding race.
An attacker took over Instagram accounts by asking Meta's AI support assistant to add an email and issue a password reset โ no phishing, no breach. The damage was small. The mechanism is the warning.
Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs the same week its Q1 revenue grew 34% and beat estimates. Meta confirmed 8,000 cuts on $201B in 2025 revenue. The layoffs are real; 'AI did it' is part of the answer, not the whole one.
Meta will cut 8,000 jobs May 20 while pouring tens of billions more into AI. The 'AI replaced them' headline is neater than what the company actually said.
Meta is planning layoffs that could affect up to 20% of its 78,865 employees โ roughly 15,800 people โ as AI infrastructure costs consume an ever-larger share of revenue.