Meta AI Updates: November 6, 2026
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1. Meta Rolls Out Real-Time Voice Conversations and an Expressive Avatar for Muse in the U.S.
Meta is rolling out real-time voice conversations with Muse, its consumer AI agent, in the Muse app on mobile, web and Mac in the U.S., started by tapping a phone icon in the top-right corner of the app. The feature, previewed at Connect in September, runs on Meta’s Muse Realtime Avatar and Muse Realtime Voice technology: users can interrupt mid-response, choose among hundreds of voices and change them at any time, and pick voice only, the avatar alongside the conversation, or a full-screen face-to-face view. As Muse speaks, the avatar uses expressions and gestures matched to the tone of the conversation and reacts while the user talks; TechCrunch notes that Muse does not see the user and reacts only to what it hears. Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang announced the rollout in a blog post and on X, and Meta says voice conversations are coming to its AI Glasses and to Muse Charm, the small-screen wearable for Muse that TechCrunch reports is due before the end of the year. Source TechCrunch
2. Meta Indefinitely Pauses the Commercial Terms That Would Have Let It Scrape Business Users’ Websites
Meta has indefinitely paused the commercial terms update it planned to apply on November 20, which would have let it use content from websites linked to Meta Business accounts, Nieman Lab reported on November 5. Meta took down the preview link and posted that “These updates are now paused and will not take effect on November 20, 2026,” adding: “We’re pausing the changes as we continue to engage with stakeholders and take our time to get this right.” According to AI Weekly’s summary, the pause follows a preliminary injunction against the terms in Norway, a Brazilian court order barring Meta from using member outlets’ journalistic content without authorization, a formal UK Competition and Markets Authority investigation into whether Meta is “abusing a dominant position by imposing exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers,” and letters to Mark Zuckerberg from Senators Adam Schiff and Marsha Blackburn asking him to withdraw the terms. The terms, first reported on October 15, had already been narrowed: Meta dropped the word “train” and limited content use to “advertising and business products,” then on October 23 moved the effective date from October 30 to November 20. Meta has not given a new date. Nieman Lab AI Weekly
3. Meta President Says Midterm Results Will Make Data Centers Harder to Build and That Firms Already Want to Lease Its Compute
Meta president Dina Powell McCormick said at the WSJ Tech conference on November 4 that Democratic wins in the midterm elections will make it a lot harder for companies to build data centers (“I think it’s going to be harder”), and that the industry has “not done as good a job as we needed to explain the benefits of these investments,” calling data centers “the visible sort of manifestation of AI” for people opposed to the technology. She said Meta has data centers in 23 states, five of them, including one in Texas, planned at 1 gigawatt or more, and described the model Meta uses to win local approval: paying for its own electricity, directing tax surpluses to teachers and first responders, keeping the labor force local and seeking bipartisan support. TechCrunch reports that Muse has 10 million users today, and Powell McCormick said that even if Meta’s AI products do not scale as hoped, the compute will not go to waste: “We’re getting calls every day to lease that compute [we’ve built], and so one way or another, we’re seeing a path to monetization.” Source