Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that open, decentralised access to super-intelligence is essential for ensuring global economic prosperity and personal safety. In a lengthy blog post, he rejected doom-centric narratives surrounding advanced AI technologies.
Rather than centralizing powerful models within a select group of corporations or government institutions, Zuckerberg advocated for a balance-of-power approach, which puts personal superintelligence directly into the hands of individuals. On the same day the post was published, Meta Superintelligence Labs released the open weights for Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter dense multimodal model under an Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face.
The model is distilled from Muse Spark 1.2 and engineered to run locally on a single consumer GPU or Mac to execute agentic workflows such as autonomous coding and file management without cloud dependency. Meta also plans to publish open weights for its Muse Spark 1.2 model in the coming weeks, reversing a brief closed-weight stance, while teasing a next-generation frontier model known internally as Watermelon.
Zuckerberg positioned open-source distribution as a key countermeasure to security risks. He stated that broad developer access allows system defences to be patched faster than in centralised environments. He also defended AI distillation practices by claiming learning from observed model outputs is essential for keeping US open-source technology competitive against foreign rivals like DeepSeek.
Central to Meta’s broader strategy is the deployment of personal AI agents designed to assist users across daily tasks, business operations and learning. To support this vision, Meta unveiled a $1 billion community fund for US cities hosting its data centers to address local power, water and infrastructure needs, while committing to train skilled trade workers through its Community Compact and America’s Workforce Academy initiatives.
Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica and Portuguese telecommunications and IT company NOS Comunicações have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in developing advanced digital technologies for European defense and security applications. The agreement covers secure communications, advanced connectivity and digital services intended to support military operations, autonomous systems and other emerging defense requirements. The partnership also reflects the growing importance of telecommunications infrastructure in Europe's efforts to strengthen technological sovereignty and improve interoperability between national defense systems.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a specialised experiment in web development; it is part of programmers’ daily work. “There is no job in which we do not use artificial intelligence,” Hrvoje Nekić, CEO of WEB Marketing, tells ICTbusiness Media – ICTbusiness.info. He sees the change as both a productivity opportunity and the beginning of a different relationship between users and software.
Daytona, the technology company led by Croatian entrepreneur Ivan Burazin, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round that values the business at $1 billion. The round was led by FirstMark Growth and brings total capital raised to $91 million. The company is building infrastructure that enables autonomous AI agents to execute complex digital tasks in their own computing environments.
