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Meta launches AI outfit app Style Sketch

Meta launches AI outfit app Style Sketch. According to a TechCrunch AI report, the app can connect to Instagram and build a virtual wardrobe from photos the user has already posted; it also supports manually adding items by taking photos, recording videos, or uploading album images. The app recommends outfits based on the user's style and lets users try them on a "realistic model" that matches their body type and skin tone; it also supports generating day-by-day outfit plans based on destination, trip length, and weather. Phoenix Technology reported the same day that the app has launched in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, and supports iOS and Android. Meta did not respond on whether it will expand the release scope.

Meta launches AI outfit app Style Sketch

Meta launches AI outfit app Style Sketch. According to a TechCrunch AI report, the app can connect to Instagram and build a virtual wardrobe from photos the user has already posted; it also supports manually adding items by taking photos, recording videos, or uploading album images. The app recommends outfits based on the user's style and lets users try them on a "realistic model" that matches their body type and skin tone; it also supports generating day-by-day outfit plans based on destination, trip length, and weather. Phoenix Technology reported the same day that the app has launched in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, and supports iOS and Android. Meta did not respond on whether it will expand the release scope.

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Meta announces support for scientific research at five U.S. universities

On October 29, 2026, Meta announced support for scientific research at five U.S. universities: Caltech, the Ohio State University College of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Indiana University, and UTHealth Houston. Meta said it will provide $2 million in funding and access to its latest models to support research using its models to advance medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and mathematics. Specific projects include using the open-weight SAM model to monitor infant tracheostomy tube displacement, using multimodal AI to help dementia patients communicate, and combining abdominal CT, medical records, and ECG data to identify HFpEF heart failure risk early. In a separate Meta release the same day, the company said it is opening Muse Wonder, Muse Spark, Muse Glimmer, Muse Spark Open, SAM, V-JEPA, DINO, and the multilingual model SeamlessM4T to researchers; these universities will use the models for areas including mathematics and physics research, X-ray screening and heart failure detection, infant tracheostomy monitoring, maternal and newborn care, and brain cancer treatment.

Meta announces support for research at five universities

On October 29, 2026, Meta announced support for scientific research at five U.S. universities: Caltech, the Ohio State University College of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Indiana University, and UTHealth Houston. Meta said it will provide $2 million in funding and access to its latest models to support research using its models to advance medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and mathematics. Specific projects include using the open-weight SAM model to monitor infant tracheostomy tube displacement, using multimodal AI to help dementia patients communicate, and combining abdominal CT, medical records, and ECG data to identify HFpEF heart failure risk early. In a separate Meta release the same day, the company said it is opening Muse Wonder, Muse Spark, Muse Glimmer, Muse Spark Open, SAM, V-JEPA, DINO, and the multilingual model SeamlessM4T to researchers; these universities will use the models for areas including mathematics and physics research, X-ray screening and heart failure detection, infant tracheostomy monitoring, maternal and newborn care, and brain cancer treatment.

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Meta announces support for five universities to conduct AI scientific research and medical research

Meta announces support for five universities to conduct AI scientific research and medical research

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Meta paper finds that RL post-training reduces task coverage under multiple attempts

Meta published a paper studying the impact of reinforcement learning post-training on agents' performance across multiple attempts. The study tested 14 pairs of base models and post-trained models on 3 agent benchmarks, and built the PTGS sampler, which raises the temperature for difficult prompts and lowers it for easy prompts. The results show that post-training makes agents perform better on their first attempt, but they solve fewer tasks that are solvable within up to 128 attempts. On WebShop, the gemma-4-31B base model solved over 85% of tasks within 128 attempts, while the post-trained version solved 56%. The Sharpening Tax proposed by the authors is positive in 36 of 42 model-benchmark combinations, meaning coverage shrinks. The authors suggest that when selecting models for retryable agents, one should measure how many tasks the model can ultimately solve, rather than looking only at first-attempt accuracy.

Meta paper finds RL post-training reduces task coverage across multiple attempts

Meta published a paper studying the impact of reinforcement learning post-training on agents' performance across multiple attempts. The study tested 14 pairs of base models and post-trained models on 3 agent benchmarks, and built the PTGS sampler, which raises the temperature for difficult prompts and lowers it for easy prompts. The results show that post-training makes agents perform better on their first attempt, but they solve fewer tasks that are solvable within up to 128 attempts. On WebShop, the gemma-4-31B base model solved over 85% of tasks within 128 attempts, while the post-trained version solved 56%. The Sharpening Tax proposed by the authors is positive in 36 of 42 model-benchmark combinations, meaning coverage shrinks. The authors suggest that when selecting models for retryable agents, one should measure how many tasks the model can ultimately solve, rather than looking only at first-attempt accuracy.

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Rohan Paul introduces the paper by Princeton and Meta on continuous improvement of AI agents

On October 30, 2026, Rohan Paul published an article introducing a new paper from Princeton and Meta on the continuous improvement of AI agents. The paper proposes the Self-Direction method: it has failed agents reflect on the current run, trains the lessons into LoRA adapters about 0.02% the size of the model, and then a router loads the closest adapter when a similar failure is encountered. On Qwen3.6-27B, the GAIA task success rate rose from 38.8% to 55.8%, outperforming in-context reflection and the Skills.md file approach; among 185 errors that had occurred previously, 67.3% of fixes were still effective by the third encounter, compared with 42.9% for simple retries. There have been no subsequent developments to this introduction so far.

Rohan Paul introduces the Princeton and Meta paper on continuous improvement of AI agents

On October 30, 2026, Rohan Paul published an article introducing a new paper from Princeton and Meta on the continuous improvement of AI agents. The paper proposes the Self-Direction method: it has failed agents reflect on the current run, trains the lessons into LoRA adapters about 0.02% the size of the model, and then a router loads the closest adapter when a similar failure is encountered. On Qwen3.6-27B, the GAIA task success rate rose from 38.8% to 55.8%, outperforming in-context reflection and the Skills.md file approach; among 185 errors that had occurred previously, 67.3% of fixes were still effective by the third encounter, compared with 42.9% for simple retries. There have been no subsequent developments to this introduction so far.

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NIL Technology releases ultra-miniature eye-tracking camera metaEye

Danish optics company NIL Technology has released the ultra-miniature eye-tracking camera metaEye. The product is described as the world's first camera designed entirely with meta-optics; its overall size is smaller than a grain of rice, and it integrates two metalens optical elements (MOE), a bandpass filter and multiple optical apertures, mounted directly on the image sensor's cover glass without the need for traditional refractive lenses. NILT says the relevant customer is moving toward mass production in 2026, and metaEye is also the first product in its metaCamera modular camera architecture.

Meta updates business terms to allow using user content to train AI

Meta updated its business terms this month to allow it to use content from associated domains, web pages or URLs to develop, improve, research, train and maintain Meta products, sparking discontent among artists and small business owners who rely on Instagram and Facebook. The effective date of the terms was postponed from October 30 to November 20, and Meta subsequently removed the word "train" from the list of permitted uses, limiting the purposes to "advertising and business products." Users in the UK and EU can currently submit an objection form in the Instagram Privacy Center, and some users say they have received emails from Meta confirming that their objections were approved; these options are not displayed in the United States and other places.

Meta deploys Catching JiTTests to the production environment

Meta has published the production deployment results of Catching JiTTests: the system uses large language models to automatically generate executable tests for code changes awaiting merge, exposing defects before the code is merged. The system employs two workflows, intent-aware and dodgy diff, and uses an LLM-as-Judge ensemble together with the rule-based method RubFake to filter false positives, while reducing manual item-by-item review through a human-on-the-loop approach. Meta says 589 engineers have participated, with a true positive rate of 60%; in the first half of 2026, it caught 74 severe privacy SEVs at the diff stage, reducing the overall incidence of such issues by 20%.

Meta deploys Catching JiTTests to production

Meta has published the production deployment results of Catching JiTTests: the system uses large language models to automatically generate executable tests for code changes awaiting merge, exposing defects before the code is merged. The system employs two workflows, intent-aware and dodgy diff, and uses an LLM-as-Judge ensemble together with the rule-based method RubFake to filter false positives, while reducing manual item-by-item review through a human-on-the-loop approach. Meta says 589 engineers have participated, with a true positive rate of 60%; in the first half of 2026, it caught 74 severe privacy SEVs at the diff stage, reducing the overall incidence of such issues by 20%.

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NIL Technology releases ultra-miniature eye-tracking camera metaEye

Danish optics company NIL Technology has released the ultra-miniature eye-tracking camera metaEye. The product is described as the world's first camera designed entirely with meta-optics; its overall size is smaller than a grain of rice, and it integrates two metalens optical elements (MOE), a bandpass filter and multiple optical apertures, mounted directly on the image sensor's cover glass without the need for traditional refractive lenses. NILT says the relevant customer is moving toward mass production in 2026, and metaEye is also the first product in its metaCamera modular camera architecture.

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Meta updates its commercial terms to allow using user content to train AI

Meta updated its business terms this month to allow it to use content from associated domains, web pages or URLs to develop, improve, research, train and maintain Meta products, sparking discontent among artists and small business owners who rely on Instagram and Facebook. The effective date of the terms was postponed from October 30 to November 20, and Meta subsequently removed the word "train" from the list of permitted uses, limiting the purposes to "advertising and business products." Users in the UK and EU can currently submit an objection form in the Instagram Privacy Center, and some users say they have received emails from Meta confirming that their objections were approved; these options are not displayed in the United States and other places.

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NVIDIA and Meta Announce Expanded Collaboration on Muse Models

On October 27, 2026, NVIDIA and Meta announced an expansion of their collaboration on Muse and the Muse series of models to improve inference and training performance, with Meta's Muse models and agents running on NVIDIA infrastructure. According to an announcement published by the NVIDIA Newsroom that day, Meta plans to expand deployment of NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Vera CPU and to adopt Spectrum-X Ethernet and BlueField-4; the two sides will also evaluate the NVIDIA OpenShell reference architecture and NVIDIA Sentry for secure agent deployment and behavior monitoring. The same announcement stated that NVIDIA will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering. 36Kr AI reported on October 28 that this investment is part of Meta's total $95 billion fundraising plan, with AMD and Broadcom also expressing interest in investing; Meta expects full-year capital expenditure to reach $135 billion to $145 billion. The collaboration and investment plans have now been announced, while subsequent deployment progress remains to be disclosed.

NVIDIA and Meta announce expanded Muse model collaboration

On October 27, 2026, NVIDIA and Meta announced an expansion of their collaboration on Muse and the Muse series of models to improve inference and training performance, with Meta's Muse models and agents running on NVIDIA infrastructure. According to an announcement published by the NVIDIA Newsroom that day, Meta plans to expand deployment of NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Vera CPU and to adopt Spectrum-X Ethernet and BlueField-4; the two sides will also evaluate the NVIDIA OpenShell reference architecture and NVIDIA Sentry for secure agent deployment and behavior monitoring. The same announcement stated that NVIDIA will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering. 36Kr AI reported on October 28 that this investment is part of Meta's total $95 billion fundraising plan, with AMD and Broadcom also expressing interest in investing; Meta expects full-year capital expenditure to reach $135 billion to $145 billion. The collaboration and investment plans have now been announced, while subsequent deployment progress remains to be disclosed.

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AMD announces deep strategic partnership with Meta

On October 26, 2026, Meta Platforms announced plans to raise up to $95 billion through an equity offering, to be used for AI infrastructure, computing power, and personal superintelligence. The first round of transactions totaled $35 billion, of which about two-thirds came from common stock, and $12.5 billion in Series A depositary shares were issued; subsequently, it plans to raise up to an additional $60 billion through an at-the-market offering. NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom expressed interest in subscribing to a combined total of up to $5 billion in the Class A offering, but this is non-binding. On October 27, AMD announced a deep strategic partnership with Meta and invested $1 billion in Meta's equity offering. On October 28, Meta's $25 billion common stock offering was about five times oversubscribed.

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Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion through an equity offering

On October 26, 2026, Meta Platforms announced plans to raise up to $95 billion through an equity offering, to be used for AI infrastructure, computing power, and personal superintelligence. The first round of transactions totaled $35 billion, of which about two-thirds came from common stock, and $12.5 billion in Series A depositary shares were issued; subsequently, it plans to raise up to an additional $60 billion through an at-the-market offering. NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom expressed interest in subscribing to a combined total of up to $5 billion in the Class A offering, but this is non-binding. On October 27, AMD announced a deep strategic partnership with Meta and invested $1 billion in Meta's equity offering. On October 28, Meta's $25 billion common stock offering was about five times oversubscribed.