Scale AI just added computer use to its Muse app for Mac, letting users queue up tasks and walk away while the system keeps working unattended. Alexandr Wang announced the update, positioning it for long-running workflows. Why it matters: Desktop AI agents are shifting from active chat assistants into background workers that grind through chores on their own.
Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang just announced that its Muse AI assistant is getting its own dedicated email address. Users can now loop Muse directly into email threads or forward messages to let it handle tasks automatically. It shifts the assistant beyond dedicated interfaces straight into daily email workflows.
The Center for AI Safety and Scale Labs just updated their Remote Labor Index, and agents are getting better at digital work fast. Anthropic's Fable 5 leads the pack by delivering professional-grade freelance work 15.8% of the time, up from 2.5% less than a year ago. Why it matters: Progress is rapid, but the ceiling proves humans are still required to keep AI workers from going off the rails.
Meta is adopting a hybrid release strategy for its next-generation AI models under Alexandr Wang, planning to open-source smaller versions while locking down its largest frontier models. Brought in via a $15B Scale AI deal, Wang is designing the new lineup to bounce back from Llama 4's lag, bypassing OpenAI's enterprise turf to push consumer AI directly across WhatsApp and Instagram.
Scale AI just launched SEAL Showdown, an LLM benchmark designed to challenge LMArena with real-world user preferences. Sourced from contributors across 100+ countries on its Outlier platform, it lets users slice rankings by profession, age, and language. Currently, GPT-5 sweeps every category.
Scale AI just cut 200 full-time employees and dropped 500 contractors following Meta's multi-billion-dollar investment. The deal saw co-founder Alexandr Wang leave for Meta, triggering rivals like OpenAI and Google to pull back their business over privacy concerns. Scale is now scrambling to trim bloated bureaucracy and pivot toward government and enterprise contracts.
Mark Zuckerberg just announced Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new unit combining foundation models, FAIR, and product teams under Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman. An internal memo revealed high-profile recruits poached from OpenAI and DeepMind to build Meta's next frontier models alongside Llama 4.1 and 4.2.
OpenAI is officially winding down its work with Scale AI following Meta’s multi-billion-dollar investment and hire of its CEO Alexandr Wang. OpenAI says it is already shifting toward more specialized data partners, and Google is reportedly considering a similar breakup. Scale AI now faces a fight to prove its core labeling business can stay neutral.
Google is cutting ties with Scale AI, its primary data-labeling vendor, after Meta agreed to acquire a 49% stake in the startup. Google had planned to spend $200 million this year, but with rivals like Microsoft and xAI also backing away, top AI labs refuse to risk having proprietary model blueprints exposed to Meta.
Meta just poured major capital into Scale AI at a valuation topping $29 billion, expanding their data partnership and bringing Scale founder Alexandr Wang over to Meta to lead AI initiatives. Wang will keep a Scale board seat while former Uber Eats leader Jason Droege steps in as interim CEO. Why it matters: Meta locks down high-grade training data pipelines while snapping up one of the industry's most influential builders.
Meta is reportedly setting up a brand-new AI research lab dedicated to pursuing superintelligence. As part of a broader shakeup, Mark Zuckerberg has tapped Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and is in talks to invest billions into his startup, while dangling seven- to nine-figure pay packages to poach researchers from OpenAI and Google.
The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating $13.8B data-labeling giant Scale AI for potential violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, TechCrunch reported. The probe, active since at least August 2024, centers on whether the startup misclassified workers as independent contractors to bypass overtime and benefits. Scale AI denied wrongdoing, saying its platform provides flexible earning opportunities.
TIME just launched TIME AI, an interactive tool built with ElevenLabs and Scale AI that turns static articles into a two-way voice conversation. Readers can ask follow-up questions directly to an audio agent equipped with article context and archives, essentially giving legacy journalism a personalized interactive guide.
Time just rolled out an AI chatbot alongside its 2024 Person of the Year feature, built in partnership with Scale AI. Readers can ask questions about the story, digest it into short summaries, translate it into six languages, or generate audio playback. It is a major experiment to see if conversational AI can keep digital readers engaged longer.
OpenAI is cracking down on users trying to peek inside its new o1 reasoning models, sending warning emails and threatening account bans. While ChatGPT only shows a filtered summary of the model's chain of thought, researchers and red-teamers attempting to extract the raw traces—sometimes just by using the phrase "reasoning trace"—are being flagged for violating safety policies.
