Meta Cooks Up a Real Image Model, Beijing Eyes AI Export Controls Too, DoorDash’s AI Report Card
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 8th, 2026. Meta’s Superintelligence Labs released Muse Image, its first in-house image model, opening at No. 2 on Arena’s leaderboards behind only OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 and rolling out free across Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with a Muse Video model teased right behind it — proof that Alexandr Wang’s earlier claims about catching up to the frontier weren’t just talk. China is reportedly considering its own restrictions on letting top domestic models like Qwen, Doubao, and GLM-5.2 be used outside the country, discussing the idea with…
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