{"id":1835,"date":"2026-07-24T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/meta-is-making-its-ai-chatbot-more-like-an-assistant\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:00:00","slug":"meta-is-making-its-ai-chatbot-more-like-an-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/meta-is-making-its-ai-chatbot-more-like-an-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot of a recipe generated by Meta AI\" data-caption=\"Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Meta\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/04_Trending.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,70.070631469476\" \/><figcaption>\n\tMeta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2026\/07\/meta-ai-muse-spark-doesnt-just-think-it-acts\">update will allow Meta AI<\/a> to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a blog post, Meta says this update marks its &#8220;next step toward personal superintelligence,&#8221; something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/command-line-newsletter\/717880\/zuckerbergs-personal-superintelligence-plan-ai-chatgpt-race\">CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted as the future of AI<\/a>. Meta is powering the update with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/963193\/meta-muse-spark-model-api\">newly released Muse Spark 1.1 model<\/a>, which the company says will allow its chatbot to go beyond its current capabilities of answering questi \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/970570\/meta-ai-chatbot-productivity-update\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}