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Meta has disabled an Instagram AI feature tied to its new Muse Image model that allowed users to generate AI images of public accounts simply by tagging them, after significant backlash. The feature, announced Tuesday, let anyone use public Instagram content in AI creations without the account owner's permission. Critics including the National Center on Sexual Exploitation warned it enabled sextortion. The Screen Actors Guild urged members to opt out. Meta acknowledged the feature missed the mark and removed it entirely.

Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging trade secret theft and breach of contract. The complaint targets Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, a year Apple veteran, accusing him of using confidential project code names during recruiting, asking candidates to bring Apple hardware components to interviews, and coaching departing employees to evade security. Apple also names Chang Liu, who allegedly kept an Apple laptop and downloaded confidential technical documents after joining OpenAI in 2026.

Claude Code's desktop app now includes a built-in sandboxed browser, allowing Claude to pull up documentation, designs, or any website and interact with them the same way it does with local dev servers. Claude can read pages, click through links, and take actions within the browser. The sandbox is configurable, letting users choose whether sessions persist between uses. The feature is available now in the latest version of the Claude Code desktop app.

Sunrun, a solar and home energy storage company, is launching a pilot program to build a distributed AI compute network by placing small compute nodes in customers' homes equipped with its solar and battery systems. Customers will be compensated for hosting the nodes, while Sunrun sells the aggregated compute power to enterprise AI buyers. The program targets Sunrun's 1.1 million customers, who can join a waitlist. It comes as over 70 percent of Americans oppose new data centers due to pollution, noise, and resource concerns.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says users who dislike AI content should opt out of seeing it in their feeds, but the platform won't filter AI posts entirely. Speaking on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast, Mosseri said Instagram should label AI content rather than ban it, and that AI fans should be able to have an all-AI feed. He acknowledged detecting AI is increasingly hard as models improve, and suggested labeling camera-captured content instead. Instagram also launched Meta's Muse Spark AI image generator, drawing exploitation concerns from child safety advocates.

"To celebrate the launch of GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI is resetting rate limits twice across ChatGPT Work and Codex over a hour window. The move is designed to give users extended access to try ambitious tasks and fully explore the new model's capabilities without hitting usage caps. The temporary boost applies to both ChatGPT Work and Codex simultaneously, encouraging users to experiment broadly with GPT-5.6 Sol and get comfortable with what the model can do during the launch period."

Anthropic and UST are partnering to deploy Claude across 20,000 of UST's engineers, architects, and consultants worldwide. UST, which builds engineering systems for semiconductor, automotive, and manufacturing clients, is integrating Claude Code into its iDEC chip validation platform, where it reads hardware schematics, writes regression tests, and compares live equipment data against digital twins. The pipeline already cuts validation cycle times by 50 to 70%, condensing four-day turnarounds into 48 hours. UST is also embedding Claude into healthcare, telecom, and banking platforms.

Google has made AlphaEvolve generally available to all users. AlphaEvolve is a code optimization and discovery agent built on Google's Gemini model, designed to help organizations, researchers, and developers tackle some of their most difficult business problems. The tool uses AI to automate and improve code-based problem solving at scale, broadening access beyond any earlier limited release. Its general availability marks a significant step in Google's push to bring advanced AI coding agents to a wider audience.