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| Meta AI Research: |
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window — Muse Spark Open is available today and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop for the first time on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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| CNBC: |
Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair two to four Studios to code or do agentic work — Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have clashed for years, but with John Ternus taking the reins at Apple, the rivals are finding common ground in artificial intelligence.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now at Meta, helped bring Meta and Apple together: “we're excited for mommy and daddy to be playing nice again” — Apple and Meta, whose leaders have spent years trading barbs over privacy and the future of computing … | Washington Post: |
Docs: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top amount, to Trump's White House ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir each committed $10M, and Meta and Amazon $5M — The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity. — Loading... $2.5M
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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Current and former a16z partners and others say Marc Andreessen is driven by grievances that don't quite match reality, as his White House influence grows — The prominent investor has said the Biden administration pushed him to the political right, but sources say his grievances don't always match reality.
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| Andrew R. Chow / Time: |
John Ternus discusses the iPhone Duo, memory shortages, AI, and more; he says “all options should be on the table” after reports that Apple tested Chinese chips — Andrew R. Chow/Cupertino, Calif. … Just below the broad smile he's been wearing all morning, John Ternus' hands are shaking.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Memo: Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude — Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription — Amazon.com Inc. launched two new wearables that use artificial intelligence to record and analyze a person's day …
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| Wired: |
Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices — Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic told investors that its Q3 revenue hit $16.8B, up from $11.5B in Q2, and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3, ahead of its IPO — Rapid growth is slower than some anticipated as fears about AI trade rattle markets — Anthropic told investors …
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos — Bank of America has hired an army of external contractors to help it patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced artificial …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices — Last month, we committed to stronger independent, third-party assessment of our models and safety practices.| New York Times: |
Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons from history, AGI, the mood in San Francisco, the Hugging Face hack, Chinese AI, pacing the frontier, and more — Dwarkesh Patel on what the public doesn't know about A.I. — Produced by Sophia Muniz — Dwarkesh Patel is one of the …
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sony launches three new Android-powered Walkman music players, including the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 for $5,900, as it targets the audiophile market — Sony Group Corp. introduced a trio of premium digital music players priced from $1,900 to $5,900, marking the first new hardware in several years carrying the storied Walkman name.| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers — THE SCOOP — Perplexity is giving away the software it has been using to combat rogue AI agents, the company told Semafor Thursday.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering — Atom is a data-only Android device designed to work alongside your smartphone. … Ledger has announced its latest crypto …
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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday reported a record third-quarter profit that beat estimates, powered by an unrelenting global appetite for AI chips.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
| Emmy Martin / New York Times: |
Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at Meta and gained US residency in 2020, advised Saudi organizations and is listed as a venture partner at Riyadh-based RAED — The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.
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| Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: |
Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents — The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom.
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| Nick Cammarata / Goodfire: |
A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters — The cause of polysemanticity in early model organisms wasn't superposition, but several ordinary, mostly fixable issues.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A hack of Internet-connected fridge controllers across ~700 European supermarkets exploited critical vulnerabilities in three models flagged by Claroty and CISA — Earlier this week, a mass hack of refrigeration systems at an estimated 700 supermarkets throughout France caused them to suddenly malfunction … | Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ entities in 2026 — In less than 10 months, cybercriminals used the arsenal of customized, targeted phishing kits to send more than 1 billion malicious messages … | Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
Portland-based Mueon, which says its AI server racks could fit up to 10x more computing capacity, raised $65M led by Maverick Silicon, with Intel participating — Portland-based startup Mueon raised $65 million to develop a new way to arrange AI server rack components.
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter open model for enterprise agents, and says it outperforms frontier models on specialized benchmarks — An enterprise agent reviewing a credit agreement may need to extract figures from tables, interpret a chart, check a related webpage …
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection — - The FTC sought documents from Anthropic and OpenAI with the scope of the probe focused on potential consumer protection violations, a person familiar told Axios.| Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune — In December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, targeting a ~$1B valuation in the private round, as it aims to expand its US business; WLF is not participating — Binance.US is looking to raise as much as $100 million as the crypto exchange seeks to beef up its US business amid intensifying competition for digital-asset customers.
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June — Ramp has surged to $2 billion in annualized revenue, the fintech company plans to announce Thursday — a milestone that's helped attract fresh investor capital.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Flock CEO Garrett Langley defends the company's cameras, arguing that reducing crime means sacrificing privacy in return and that “we shouldn't pause progress” — Flock's founder and CEO Garrett Langley doesn't think the risks of introducing surveillance technology at scale outweigh the rewards.
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