Meta’s Muse-fueled rally gave Mark Zuckerberg another multibillion dollar boost on Wednesday.

The Meta CEO briefly surpassed Google co-founder Sergey Brin to become the fifth-wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of around $255 billion as of late afternoon. Investor optimism about the company’s new personal AI agent lifted shares this week, as JPMorgan analysts predicted the tool could “become the most widely used consumer AI application since ChatGPT,” according to Reuters.

The Muse app has been downloaded 2.8 million times since its launch earlier this month.

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The FBI said it’s “aggressively” investigating an alleged hack against the agency that compromised data on its employees, after reports emerged that a hacking group claimed responsibility for the cyberattack.

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government national healthcare database earlier this year, in what appears to be the first known incident of an AI agent breaching a major government system.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House, writing that the media organizations’ press passes were “revoked without constitutionally adequate due process.”

Shares of Royal Caribbean slumped........

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