In an opinion essay for The Wall Street Journal, Mark Zuckerberg lays out a modest ambition for Meta’s AI. He wants to put superintelligence in everyone’s hands, giving ordinary people technology powerful enough to improve their health or help them work.
Zuckerberg presents personal superintelligence as an alternative to advanced AI being controlled by a few institutions. Meta can certainly distribute it on a scale few companies could match. What users would receive is an assistant built and governed somewhere else, with its most important decisions made for them.
Meta’s apps averaged 3.56 billion daily active users in March 2026. More than 1 billion people already use Meta AI each month.
That reach makes Zuckerberg’s distribution plan unusually plausible. Meta wouldn’t need to sell another gadget or persuade people to join an unfamiliar service. It could quietly place increasingly capable AI inside apps billions already open, allowing superintelligence to arrive as another update waiting beside the usual collection of new buttons.
Wide availability won’t change who builds the technology. Stanford’s 2026 AI Index found that industry produced more than 90% of notable frontier models in 2025. Developing them requires computing power and money concentrated among a small number of companies.
Meta expects to spend between $125 billion and $145 billion on infrastructure in 2026 alone. Users won’t decide how the models are built or which safeguards they follow. Those choices remain with the company paying for the data centers.
Personal superintelligence could give far more people powerful AI tools. Meta would still decide which ones reach them and where their limits sit.
Availability assumes an appetite that isn’t guaranteed. A June 2026 Pew survey found that 63% of Americans believe AI is advancing too quickly. Only 8% have high confidence that American companies will develop it responsibly.
Meta already has enough reach to put advanced AI in front of billions. The next detail to watch is whether users gain meaningful control over its safeguards and limits, or merely another Meta feature they never asked for.
Speech-to-text apps have flooded the App Store, making it easier than ever to type on our Macs with just our voice. I have previously covered one such app called TypeWhisper. However, there has been a dearth of good text-to-speech models, and most of the good ones are locked behind a subscription.
Ollama, an open-source app that lets you run local AI models on your computer, wants to change that. It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and your prompts are never stored or used for training.
Did you think hitting delete on your AI chatbot conversation actually makes it disappear? Georgia Tech researchers just proved that's not entirely true. They have built a forensic tool called ORISA that can dig deleted conversations from your phone and even rebuild them into a working chatbot session you can keep talking to.
How can ORISA bring deleted AI conversations back?
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).