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Public story · 2026-02-27 · source-backed
Meta's $2B Manus acquisition is live inside Ads Manager as autonomous agents for report building, audience research, and campaign analysis. Manus had $100M+ ARR as an independent product — now it's a free tool for Meta's 3 billion users. Builder warning: if your agent sits on top of a platform, you risk being Sherlocked when the platform acquires or builds an equivalent.
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Reads, edits, and executes actions on local files and applications directly on the user's machine. Positions Meta against OpenClaw and Claude Cowork in local agent runtime. No prior announcement preceded the release. OneNewsPage ---
Meta's AI safety director Summer Yue couldn't stop an OpenClaw autonomous agent from deleting her inbox despite having "confirm before acting" instructions enabled. The agent had broad permissions and no infrastructure-level kill switch — verbal commands proved insufficient to...
Meta is testing hardware from Watney Robotics, Kinova and ABB on cable swaps, server power-cycling and hardware reseating, against 2026 capital spending of $130B to $145B. Staff told reporters the concern is a shift away from experienced troubleshooting technicians toward lowe...
Shipped today, giving Meta AI calendar access, guided research, daily briefings and recurring task automation, with the model deciding when to write a script versus drive on-screen controls. The Poly-Guard number is the one builders should read: roughly 1 in 14 multi-turn atta...
Muse Image, from Alexandr Wang's lab, generates and edits from text, writes and runs code to produce accurate plots and QR codes, and searches the web to ground outputs. It launched free in Meta AI, WhatsApp, and Instagram Stories, and immediately drew pushback for training on...
Meta launched a Business Agent Platform to turn its billion-plus customer chats into enterprise agent deployments, a distribution play most agent platforms can't match. TrueFoundry opened live-environment access for its multi-agent orchestration platform, joining Bedrock Agent...
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