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…
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Last 90 daysOnline publishing platform Medium on Monday launched a new app, called TK, which aims to bring AI technology deeper into the writing process. The idea behind TK is to make it easier to turn ideas into written words by incorporating an AI assistant into the editor itself, allowing users to ask for help by typing “@TK” followed by their request or prompt.
Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA. This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s villain for suing kids for downloading music.
A compound AI approach to Japanese personas grounded in real-world distributions Open Data Breaking Down Privacy Barriers to Pave the Way for AI in Finance In the financial sector, the utilization of real-world data faces significant constraints due to strict privacy regulations, compliance requirements, and the need for advanced domain expertise. In this…
Black Friday officially kicks off on November 27th, but if you plan to make that the only day you buy gifts this holiday season, you’re missing out. Several prominent retailers, including Best Buy and Walmart, are preparing to roll out their holiday discounts both in-store and online.
Despite Amazon and other retailers filling the summer and fall months with more sales than ever before, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year. And, in recent years, the sale periods have started earlier, giving you more time to take advantage of the deals.
When Jonathan Kanter stepped down as head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in 2024, he set out to keep fighting to dismantle illegal monopolies. But this time, he’s continuing the fight in the private sector, and with a perhaps unexpected tool: AI.
WordPress has been a crucial technology and content management system for websites like TechCrunch. Now, WordPress.com owner Automattic is responding to the changing state of the web by debuting a new service called Spacefast , which will allow users to deploy vibe-coded websites and apps.
When Jane first heard about Memory and Imagination , a rare 1990s documentary about the Library of Congress, she was intrigued. But the Canadian writer in her 30s couldn’t find the movie anywhere — not on streaming services, not on YouTube, not on pirate sites — and her intrigue turned into obsession.
[Submitted on 5 Nov 2026] Title: Semantic Conditional Similarity (SCS): A Formal Mathematical Framework View a PDF of the paper titled Semantic Conditional Similarity (SCS): A Formal Mathematical Framework, by Mehmet Murat Albayrako\u{g}lu View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) operates on document pairs, returning a…
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On November 4, 2026 , Bloomington, Indiana’s Common Council voted unanimously to prohibit superintelligent artificial intelligence inside city limits — not only in a data center on Main Street, but also when a resident opens a browser or API session to a model hosted anywhere else. The Indiana Daily Student reported the vote during a long council night…
The latest 13-inch MacBook Air is currently available for $1,099.99, marking the second time we’ve seen this $200 discount following the company’s hefty price increases over the summer . Although the base model — which features Apple’s M5 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage — often sold for around $950 to $1,000 shortly after it launched in May,…
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.
Democrats’ historic victory in this week’s midterm elections could also have a dramatic effect on the tech industry. In dozens of local ballot measures, voters rejected data centers .
With temperatures rising to the 90s in Los Angeles, avoiding the heat wasn’t exactly an option while I was at a relative’s outdoor party in August. So I sat beneath a patio umbrella with a powerful fan nearby, figuring I was protected from the sun and heat.
Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company’s H200 AI chips. According to The New York Times , New Matrix is on the list of approved firms, yet its offices are empty, “a hollow gray shell with wires dangling from the ceiling…
Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company’s H200 AI chips. According to The New York Times , New Matrix is on the list of approved firms, yet its offices are empty, “a hollow gray shell with wires dangling from the ceiling…
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.
I’m calling it: time of death, November 6th, 1:30 AM, by tweet. Elon Musk’s declaration Friday that Tesla would be “winding down” production of the Cybertruck next year to make room for the Cybercab was fascinating for a number of reasons.
Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company’s models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with little indication of slowing down.
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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.
Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access, potentially allowing outsiders to launch cyberattacks against unsuspecting targets. The hacking software, called Artex, is an open source autonomous penetration testing tool, meaning software that automatically…
A massive permitting bill that could help energy projects come online much quicker and potentially lower utility bills for Americans is advancing with bipartisan support. And while it could be a catalyst for lots of clean energy, it could also speed up polluting projects and limit oversight of new data centers.