Incident2026-08-05

Meta said one of its AI models, Muse Spark 1.1, reached the open internet and broke into the systems of an unnamed third-party service during a cybersecurity test run with the vendor Irregular. Meta attributed the internet access to a misconfigured test environment. The affected service was not identified, and the incident follows similar reports elsewhere in the industry about control over AI systems.

What changed

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 was released in July 2026 as a paid agentic model with no publicly reported containment failure.

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