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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight model, and will release an open-weight version of its most advanced model, Muse Spark 1.2, in the coming weeks — Mark Zuckerberg has a new game plan for winning over hearts and minds to his company's artificial-intelligence efforts: open models and an open hand.
More: Meta AI Research, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Hugging Face, New York Post, and TestingCatalog AI News
| Mark Zuckerberg / Meta: |
Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more — We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence …
More: MarketWatch, Fox Business, and Constellation Research
| Jamie John / Financial Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg criticizes “closed” AI model makers, says AI labs are espousing a “discourse ... so filled with doom”, and defends distillation as a principle — Meta's founder casts OpenAI and Anthropic as foils in his pitch for powerful AI to become more freely available| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Meta says Muse Glimmer has 30B parameters and is “small enough” to need only one GPU; Meta plans a $1B fund to invest in US communities near its data centers — Meta Platforms Inc. introduced a new AI model that's light enough to run on a single computer, allowing users to download and customize the technology.
More: Business Insider. X: @eliebakouch, @kimmonismus, @lmstudio, @amd, @kimmonismus, @theahmadosman, @himanshustwts, @lmsysorg, and @metafordevs
| ABC: |
An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to move him up the waitlist — By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team's Rhiannon Hobbins — abc.net.au/news/ai-assistant-hacks- gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986
More: Forbes, The Independent, Business Today, The Neuron, Neowin, RuntimeWire, Cyber Security News, The Indian Express, Android Authority, The Cyber Express, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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Mastodon: @Ex_spurt@aus.social and @ai@defcon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/australia, r/auslaw, r/technology, and r/aussie
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns — Spotify is terrifying much of the podcast industry with a tiny little widget. — Last week, the audio streaming giant tweaked …
More: Forbes, Podnews, Podnews, Spotify, LinkedIn, Net Influencer, and Digital Music News
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 — TOKYO/KUMAMOTO, Japan/TAIPEI — Sony Group and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plan to begin mass production …
More: Bloomberg, The Information, Euronews, The Japan Times, Automotive World, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and DigiTimes
| New York Times: |
Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage kicks off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips — The artificial intelligence boom has created a shortage of a critical commodity called memory chips, and a new front for corporate lobbying in Washington.
More: Tech in Asia, Telecompaper, and DigiTimes
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: Reuters, Global Times, Barron's Online, Watcher Guru, Korea JoongAng Daily, Semafor, The Asia Business Daily, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, and Blockonomi
X: @ehrmantrautcap_ and @danielmuvdiyt
Forums: r/apple and r/MU_Stock
| Richard Holmes / Telegraph: |
Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent “heartbeat communications” to an IP address in China — Special forces boats set for use in planned Gulf missions were fitted with Chinese-made components
More: Tom's Hardware, The Sun, PetaPixel, Metro.co.uk, GB News, Mirror, NewsMax.com, and Neowin
X: @kevinrogerjames, @teortaxestex, @lukedepulford, @lowlandsapien, @ghwtowler, @baldingsworld, @laralogan, @richard_aholmes, @robertclark87, @benobesejecty, @whatnowdoc, @mpiainds, @mrbcyber, @heatloss1986, and @fennelljw. LinkedIn: Philip Hicks
Bluesky: @drode, @novanovis, and @saridder
Forums: r/CanadianInvestor, r/ukpolitics, and r/Intelligence
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total — A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth.
X: @simonhedlin and @wired
| Shane Burke / The Information: |
After New York and Texas added statewide data center restrictions, 500+ US towns and counties have passed bans or restrictions, up from 300+ in late June — Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic …
X: @cryptopunk7213, @freewayheilig, @shawnchauhan1, and @discoplomacy. Bluesky: @jessefelder.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/TechGawker and r/technology
| Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
Q&A with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on his vision to “financialize everything”, sports betting, Kalshi's “philosophical misalignment” with Polymarket, and more — Tarek Mansour co-founded the fast-growing prediction market company shortly after graduating from M.I.T. …
More: The Crypto Times and Fortune
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor, a lender that aims to fill the gap left by Silicon Valley Bank, is in advanced talks to raise ~$1.5B at an $8B valuation — Funding values Erebor at $8bn, underscoring growth of lender supported by Silicon Valley investors — A start-up bank backed … | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King's Cross?| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups — The strategy marks a break from Beijing's reliance on subsidies and state funding. — Even by the frothy standards of the AI era …
More: Seoul Economic Daily and Daily Sabah
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