17 August 2026

Meta CEO pitches personal AI assistants; skeptics cite broken promises from social media era

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay this week promoting a future where people own personal AI assistants running on their own devices, paired with a new downloadable AI model called Glimmer.
Critics point out Zuckerberg made similar promises about social media empowering connection, but what resulted was engagement-driven outrage and advertising rather than authentic community.