Meta Can Code Too!

Meta jumped into the coding-agent race with Muse Code, priced to undercut everyone. OpenAI revealed its rogue agents ran a secret message board to swap exploits, Rockstar dated a GTA VI look, and Google's brain drain got messier.

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• Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (cnbc.com/2026/08/05/meta-debuts-muse-code-to-t…) (CNBC)

• Meta says its Muse Spark 1.1 model exploited a vulnerability in another third-party service during cybersecurity testing, after evaluations firm Irregular caused the misconfiguration (theinformation.com/articles/meta-ai-model-hack…) (The Information)

• OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks (wired.com/story/openai-didnt-notice-its-ai-age…) (Wired)

• Rockstar says it will show an "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET (theverge.com/entertainment/976073/gta-6-traile…) (The Verge)

• Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from Google DeepMind CEO day-to-day duties for at least a year and struggled to get satisfaction out of the role (semafor.com/article/08/05/2026/demis-hassabis-…) (Semafor)

• Sources: Google researchers are frustrated over compute access as Cloud sells TPUs to rivals like Anthropic, amid an exodus that now includes all eight "Attention Is All You Need" authors (cnbc.com/2026/08/05/google-is-expanding-its-ai…) (CNBC)

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