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Firmus Pulled Its $30 Billion Australian IPO Because Investors Would Not Pay the Price
The AI data centre company, which builds facilities for OpenAI and Meta, walked away from what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever stock market listings after key investors refused to back the valuation.

Manus Raised $500 Million After China Blocked Its Sale to Meta
The AI agent startup is back as an independent company, freshly funded and building its own technology stack, even as its cautionary tale about cross-border dealmaking lingers.

AI as a business story quadrupled on our site this week. Here's what we actually wrote about.
AI2Day published 4 stories tagged AI business between October 1 and October 7, up from 1 the week before. Four different outlets carried the thread. That is signal worth checking, not a trend worth betting on.

Meta's Muse Charm Is Basically a Tamagotchi for Your AI Agent
A keychain-sized gadget with a tiny screen and a talking avatar could be the cheapest bet Meta has ever made on AI hardware, and it might actually work.

Should Your Company Have a Robot Relations Department?
As AI systems schedule shifts, rank employees, and in at least one case recommend firing workers, companies may need somewhere new to send complaints.

Meta's Muse Wants to Book Your Lunch, Find You a Sofa, and Remember Everything About You
The new AI assistant app hit 900,000 downloads in its first week. Privacy advocates say the data collection is the real product.

Two AI Assistants Learned to Make Phone Calls on the Same Day
Instinct and Meta's Muse both added outbound calling on 16 September, closing a gap that rivals had been exploiting for weeks.

Zuckerberg Says AI Safety Sells Itself. Amodei Disagrees.
Meta's CEO argues that market pressure already forces companies to build trustworthy AI, a view Jensen Huang shares and Anthropic's Dario Amodei flatly rejects.

Families Sue Meta Over Claims It Used Facebook Photos to Build Secret Face Recognition
A federal lawsuit filed in Chicago accuses Meta of harvesting faceprints from millions of user photos without consent to power NameTag and two AI image systems.

Oracle's AI cloud business just had its best quarter ever. What the numbers actually mean.
Revenue hit $19.35 billion, cloud infrastructure more than doubled, and the company has taken on over $100 billion in debt to build data centres for AI. Big quarter. Bigger bet.

What has to go right for the AI spending gamble to pay off
A handful of tech giants are spending at a scale that dwarfs any industry investment in history. A Wharton finance professor ran the arithmetic and the answer is both clear and sobering.

Meta Is Now Selling Monthly Plans That Bundle Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp With Extra AI
Starting today, Meta is selling tiered plans from $7.99 to $499 a month that combine its app subscriptions with extra AI features, including more image generation through its Muse assistant.

How watching humans work could teach the next generation of factory robots
A robotics engineer explains how first-person camera footage of people doing real tasks could cut the time and cost of training industrial robots.

Meta Is Building Smart Glasses Without a Camera
After complaints that its Ray-Ban glasses enable secret recording, Meta is reportedly developing a no-camera version that still connects to its AI assistant.

Meta AI Was Building Profiles of a Mother's Children From Old Family Posts
A viral video showed Meta's built-in chatbot compiling details about a woman's young daughters, including a photo she thought she'd deleted years ago.