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Meta Superintelligence Lab released a new AI model on Monday called Muse Ember, the lab’s lightest and most cost-efficient AI model yet. In its release, Meta said Ember was “designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing.” Meta particularly emphasized…
AI’s power crunch has become so acute that Anthropic, a company that has generally avoided buying physical infrastructure, is spending $3.4 billion on natural gas turbines. The AI company, which is planning to go public this year, is buying Caterpillar generators that equipment supplier OnePWR had originally ordered, according to a Financial Times report .
Meta is globally expanding the age estimation technology it uses to find teenagers on Instagram who haven’t correctly disclosed their age. The rollout will automatically place “millions more teens on Instagram into Teen Account protections,” according to Meta’s announcement , after launching the AI-powered age assurance updates in the US, EU, and Brazil…
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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI’s Dots or Meta’s Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it’s keeping pace with its…
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Knowledge: We continue our series about recursive self-improvement. Learning Loop: We dive into GPT-6 Cyber and the new Thinking Machines and Gemini models.
Today, I’m talking with Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime cybersecurity expert, about what a mess cybersecurity is right now. This episode is part one of a special series looking at AI in real life.
← AI News AI News Anthropic IPO: Whither Now? November 6, 2026 — ARC Prize tests Inkling 2 Small, and Thinking Machines explains how it caught early checkpoints bypassing guardrails.
Crusoe, an eight-year-old, Denver-based data center developer recently valued at $30.9 billion , confirmed Friday it has sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google, which Crusoe had tried and failed to land as a customer for the project, is taking over the development after reportedly raising concerns about its cost…
Meta recently launched its Muse agents — a new generation of cuddly agentic helpers. Now, the company has launched Spaces, a new way to communicate and collaborate with them.
Meta will now allow you to build customized, app-like experiences within Muse. The new feature, called “spaces,” allows its AI assistant to build things like a shopping hub, school dashboard, music tracker, trivia game, and more, which you can interact with directly in the Muse app.
If you’re curious about virtual reality, Meta’s Quest 3S is a good entry-level headset for dipping your toes in, especially now it’s on sale in refurbished condition for $255.99 directly from Meta’s eBay storefront through November 8th when you use coupon code SAVE20TECH . For comparison, the headset recently dropped to $300 in new condition as part of…
Companies are using more AI than ever, but they’re not spending more on it. A new report from Ramp shows AI spending flatlined over late summer even as token volumes rose, a sign that price competition and savvier customers may be capping revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic.
Amazon is jumping on the currently most popular bandwagon for interacting with AI agents: texting. The company on Friday said it is launching a feature that lets customers chat with its Alexa AI agent over text messages to help them shop, much like you can with AI agents like Muse or Instinct.
← The conversations Latent Space Podcast Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich As systems biology efforts heat up to map biology at higher resolution, greater breadth and more modalities, Fabian Theis is pushing the frontier from mapping to predicting to controlling biology Listen to this conversation 51 min Read transcript Watch on YouTube…
The European Commission claims TikTok broke its online platform rules by offering a recommendation algorithm that creates a “rabbit hole effect” on users. In an announcement on Friday, the regulators allege TikTok’s algorithm can harm users with “endless and repeated exposure” to content related to sadness, isolation, or body image.
← AI News AI News Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark November 5, 2026 — Inside Inkling 2 Small’s training run and METR’s study of AI research at Anthropic. Build AI systems with context graphs and agentic memory.
[Submitted on 4 Nov 2026] Title: LowRAM: Low-Rank Keys and Amortised Values for Composable KV Cache Compression at Test-Time View a PDF of the paper titled LowRAM: Low-Rank Keys and Amortised Values for Composable KV Cache Compression at Test-Time, by Teresa Delgado and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Autoregressive decoding relies…
Muse Voice, a feature that lets users call and video chat with Meta’s consumer AI agent, Muse, is now available to everyone in the U.S., the company announced on Thursday. First introduced at Meta’s Connect developer conference in September, the video-chatting feature involves new AI models, Muse Realtime Avatar and Muse Realtime Voice technology, which…
Meta president Dina Powell McCormick said that the Democratic wins in the midterm elections are going to make it a lot harder for companies to build data centers, adding that the industry has “not done as good a job as we needed to explain the benefits of these investments.” Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference on Wednesday, the Meta exec pointed out that…
Meta now lets you have voice conversations with your Muse AI agent in real time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today . The feature has been rolled out to me, and I gave it a spin on the iOS app while writing this article.
On Tuesday night, Democrats made history as they took control of the House and the Senate, and a blue wave swept through traditionally red and swing states — with the nation’s first Black woman governor elected in Georgia, the country’s first Native American woman governor elected in New Mexico, and a Maine Senator ceding to a Democrat after 30 years in…
Instagram’s standalone video editing app is now available on macOS , where you can plug in your AI agent of choice to assemble your videos. Instagram’s Matthew Simari, head of product management for Edits, said in an interview with The Verge , “One of the things we’re releasing with Edits Desktop is a MCP for all the tools within Edits Desktop.
Tech CEO hearings. Tougher AI and data center guardrails.