Meta added terms that would allow it to scrape business websites and retracted them the same day

Below are some of the highlights in AI, robotics, and machine learning for this past week.

Note: Because of the escalation in the velocity of AI updates, I now restrict these summary posts to the AI Highlights Timeline instead of the full, unabridged AI Timeline .

10/18

Report: Anthropic built an AI worm that spreads across smart TVs

Engineer quits Meta’s Muse AI agent after strange unprompted message

Google open-sources Harness² to improve agents without new models

Disney to hire most of Character.AI’s workforce

10/17

Meta removes terms that raised AI scraping concerns (Good job, internet!…