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The first half of August 2026 was dominated by rules and reporting-plumbing changes on Meta's Ads and Marketing API surfaces, per the adsuploader.com recap. On August 2, EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure obligations became legally binding for AI-generated ad creative delivered in Europe; on August 4, USDC stablecoin ad-a Subsequent changes continue the developer-facing pattern: on August 7, exclusion-only custom audiences got an official Help Center page for suppression-list use; on August 11, granular security controls for AI Connectors and the ads MCP server were reported as shipped, which matters for agencies and tool builders wirin

On July 9, 2026, Meta Superintelligence Labs announced Muse Spark 1.1, a major upgrade to April's Muse Spark reasoning model, alongside the first public preview of the Meta Model API for developers. According to the explainx.ai write-up, Muse Spark 1.1 positions the model as a multimodal agentic foundation — combining Two follow-up updates extend the story: on August 6, 2026, Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused successor that powers the new Muse Code terminal coding agent (Meta Superintelligence Labs' first dedicated coding agent, in beta), and on August 10, 2026, Meta open-weighted Muse Glimmer, a 30B agentic model distil

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, 2026 as the first foundation model exposed to outside developers through a new paid Meta Model API. The closed-source multimodal reasoning model ships with a 1 million-token context window, active context compaction, zero-shot generalization to native tools, MCP servers and custo Public-preview pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, with $20 in free credits for new developers. The guide cites Meta positioning Muse Spark 1.1 against GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on agentic evaluations (MedScribe, TaxEval, Harvey's Legal Agent Bench), claiming top rankings at roughl

Meta's Messenger Platform changelog (updated June 30, 2026) added an image grid message template that displays 2 to 6 images in a single message, each with its own tap action (web_url or postback) plus optional title, subtitle, and up to three buttons. The June 1, 2026 entry introduced a Sticker API with GET /sticker_p Permissions and rollout notes: catalog and search endpoints require only an app access token, while sending stickers requires pages_messaging. Multi-image sending graduated from beta on May 6, 2026, available via the Facebook Graph API for Instagram accounts linked with a Facebook page or the Instagram API for Instagra