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Meta is launching Meta One, a subscription for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI, while the core experience stays free. Single-app plans cost $2.99 to $3.99 per month, and bundles for AI power users cost $7.99 or $19.99. Subscribers get more Meta AI usage, enhanced image and video generation with the Muse models, Restyle for Stories and voice effects.

Perplexity has brought Portable Computer to Windows. It is a local version of the Perplexity Computer agent that plans and carries out multistep tasks on the PC. It requires a GeForce RTX GPU with at least 24 GB of VRAM or an RTX PRO workstation and ships with Qwen 3.8 27B, post-trained for Perplexity Computer.

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki argues in his essay An Alien Mind that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at full speed. He expects voluntary slowdowns to become common practice until the industry agrees on shared safety bars.

Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents in day-to-day operations rather than as experiments: in onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. The common thread is that the agents plug into existing workflows instead of replacing them.