Manus said it will resume independent operations as its transaction with Meta unwinds. To comply with jurisdictional requirements, data generated on or after 29 December 2025 for certain users will be deleted during 23–24 August Singapore time; affected users can back up before 7:59 a.m. on 23 August and restore from 8 a.m. on 25 August.
Why it matters: The corporate separation has an immediate continuity consequence: some users face a two-day access interruption and must preserve recent work before a fixed deletion window.
ANCHOR evaluated 2,008 synthetic conversations across 27 personas, nine interaction schedules, three memory settings, and four models. Mean trajectory accuracy was 44.4%, user-state recall stayed near four-choice chance, and no context or memory setup consistently preserved continuity.
Why it matters: An assistant can sound coherent in each reply while gradually losing role boundaries, values, and consequential facts about the user.
Meta added plans, connected email and calendar apps, scheduled briefings, research, slides, real-time steering and a persistent home for deliverables to the Muse Spark 1.1-powered Meta AI experience.
Why it matters: Consumer assistants are adopting the same production primitives as enterprise agents: connected context, scheduled execution, steerable long-running work and reusable artifacts.
Meta said Meta AI would surface more real-time international news and provide outbound links using content from News Corp, Le Figaro, Prisa, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. The update expands the assistant's ability to answer about breaking events and current affairs with publisher content.
Why it matters: Assistant news experiences are moving toward licensed, current source integration and explicit outbound attribution instead of relying only on model memory or generic web summaries.