📲 Meta’s AI App Just Went Social. And It Knows You.

This week proved one thing: AI’s getting better at being human — and worse at telling you when it is.

Meta dropped a full-blown AI assistant app that knows your social life better than you do. Alibaba fired back with Qwen 3, an open-source model suite gunning for GPT-4’s crown.

Flora AI quietly went alpha, letting you build entire video ads and visuals using GPT-4o from a simple drag-and-drop canvas. And just when it felt like we were all having fun... researchers from the University of Zurich got caught running a secret AI persuasion experiment on Reddit. Yeah, it’s bad.

Let’s unpack the biggest moves, smartest drops, and sketchiest AI scandal of the week

“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.”

^{– Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI}

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Meta

Meta AI App: Your Personalized AI Assistant, Anywhere

Meta just introduced its first standalone AI assistant app, built to make AI more personal, social, and useful in everyday life. Powered by its new Llama 4 model, the app is designed to help users connect, create, and interact more naturally. It supports conversations through chat, voice, and smart devices. It’s a major step in Meta’s push to bring AI closer to how people already live and share online.

📈 Here’s how it can help you:

• Personalized AI, tailored to you
  Meta AI uses your Facebook and Instagram data (if you opt in) to deliver more relevant, context-aware responses that actually reflect your interests and activity.

• Social discovery
  The new Discover Feed lets you explore, share, and engage with AI chats from your friends. It turns private interactions into a stream of inspiration across Instagram and Facebook.

• Natural voice conversations
  With full-duplex voice mode (available in select countries), you can talk to Meta AI in real time, without needing to say a wake word every time.

• Smart glasses integration
  Meta AI powers Ray-Ban smart glasses with features like image recognition, real-time translation, and hands-free assistance on the go.

• Easy access anywhere
  The app works across iOS, Android, and the web. Your AI assistant is always just a tap away, no matter where you are.

The Meta AI app represents a significant step in making AI more accessible and integrated into daily social interactions.

Try Meta AI today — available on iOS, Android, or online at meta.ai

Alibaba

Alibaba Is Redefining Open-Source AI With Qwen 3

Alibaba just dropped Qwen 3, a powerful lineup of open-source AI models built to rival GPT-4. It performs impressively across coding, logic, and complex reasoning, even beating GPT-4 in some benchmarks. From lightweight mobile versions to a heavyweight 72-billion-parameter model, Qwen 3 pushes hybrid AI architecture further than ever, combining dense transformers with Mixture of Experts (MoE) technology for stronger performance and more efficient scaling. And best of all? It’s all free and open for the world to build on.

The entire model family is — or will soon be — openly available for download on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub.

🔑 Key Highlights:

• Outperformed GPT-4 on several key benchmarks, including MMLU, HumanEval (coding), and GPQA (graduate-level reasoning).

• Hybrid transformer + Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture that improves efficiency and deepens reasoning abilities.

• Fully open-source under the Apache 2.0 license, which means free for commercial and research use with no restrictions.

• Scaled family of models, from lightweight mobile-ready versions (0.5B) to a massive 72B parameter powerhouse.

• Multilingual strength, with high performance in both English, Chinese, and other languages.

• Improved multi-turn conversation and step-by-step reasoning, outperforming previous Qwen models and other open-source rivals.

• Optimized for deployment across devices, from smartphones to enterprise servers.

Explore the Qwen 3 Models Here

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AI Is Taking Over Ads: ChatGPT-4o in FLORA Lets You Swap Outfits and Add Products

This week, Flora launched its ChatGPT-4o integration, turning the canvas into a real-time, multimodal content engine. Flora AI is a modular, node-based creative platform designed for professionals who think in systems, not just outputs. It allows you to build structured, scalable workflows by connecting various AI tools for text, image, and video generation. Think of it as an intelligent canvas where you can design, iterate, and collaborate in real-time.

🧩 Key Features:

• Drag-and-drop GPT, image, and video blocks into one connected flow

• Visual scene remixing — swap products, change outfits, adjust styles

• Built-in Kling 2.0 for video generation and Topaz for 4K upscaling

• 1-click background removal + 20-output batch generation

• Logic blocks to automate creative decisions (e.g. "If X, generate Y")

🤖 What ChatGPT-4o Adds:

• Write ads, scripts, and captions in seconds — No jumping tools. Just drop a GPT block on the canvas and go.

• Prompt better visuals — Turn GPT text into image/video inputs that match tone, product, or use case.

• Swap ideas fast — Edit copy, change the vibe, or remix scenes without breaking your flow.

• Built to match your visuals — GPT reads what’s on your canvas to generate content that’s context-aware and on-brand.

🛠️ What You Can Use It For:

• Swap products into lifestyle scenes for ads — without a reshoot

• Script and animate branded short-form videos

• Build 10–20 creative variants for A/B testing or UGC campaigns

• Generate pitch visuals, storyboards, or landing page assets from a single idea

• Automate visual workflows for client projects or high-volume content drops

If you're building with speed and thinking in systems, Flora might just be your new favorite place to create.

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AI Malpractice

University of Zurich Faces Backlash Over Secret AI Experiment on Reddit

Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly ran AI bots in Reddit’s r/ChangeMyView to test how persuasive language models could be — and it’s now at the center of a major AI ethics scandal. The bots posed as real people — a trauma survivor, abuse counselor, even a Black man opposing BLM — and posted nearly 1,800 replies without consent. They scraped user data like gender, age, and politics to personalize responses, violating subreddit rules against undisclosed AI and bots.

And it worked: the bots earned 10,000+ karma points, with users engaging and agreeing, unaware they were talking to machines. Reddit banned all accounts tied to the project and announced formal legal action, calling the research "deeply wrong on both a moral and legal level." The university initially defended the study, citing ethics approval, but has since pledged stricter oversight. The researchers have now pulled the paper and won’t publish the results.

CMV moderators say the study was unethical and unnecessary — noting OpenAI has worked with subreddit data before without manipulating users. This case reopens a critical question: As AI becomes harder to spot, where’s the line — and who enforces it?

📄 Here’s a snippet from the original study if you want to dig deeper.

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