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| Financial Times: |
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products — Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta says Muse Spark powers queries in Meta AI and its “shopping mode” feature, and it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license — Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March — A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of Anthropic for now …
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| Antonis Pothitos / Reuters: |
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban social media access for kids under 15 from January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action — Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday …
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| Reuters: |
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years — U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere (DE.N) on Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for farms and farmers …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta — Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
More: Claude, Digit, TestingCatalog, Claude on YouTube, The New Stack, and SiliconANGLE
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LinkedIn: Jeremy Sticco and Ravi Trivedi
| CNBC: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI will “for sure” reserve shares for retail investors in its IPO, after “strong demand” from individuals in its latest round — OpenAI plans to reserve a portion of shares for individual investors in what's expected to be a blockbuster initial public offering.| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reportedly reserved most of the capacity — An underappreciated step in the chipmaking process is poised to become the next bottleneck for artificial intelligence.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed in 2025, at a $300M post-money valuation — Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That's the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and, in some markets, WhatsApp.
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| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages — The venture firm, led by CEO Ali Partovi, illustrates the growing gulf between a few top performers and the industry median
LinkedIn: Yuliya Chernova and Hadi Partovi
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO — Anthropic employees have sold some equity to investors, wrapping up a secondary share sale that started earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
X: @yeboahwalee
| Samreen Ahmad / Tech in Asia: |
Nava, which develops cloud infrastructure for AI workloads by combining data centers, GPUs, and software tools, raised a $22M Series A led by Greenoaks Capital — Nava, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Kluisz, has raised US$22 million in a series A round led by Greenoaks Capital.
More: The Economic Times, Entrackr, Livemint, and DealStreetAsia
| Chris Smyth / Financial Times: |
Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering “outstanding results”, as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech — Ming Tang says the platform, which collates patient information in one place, is delivering ‘outstanding results’ in England
More: The Guardian
| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news — Engagement for tweets from @nytimes (53 million followers) is dwarfed by engagement for tweets from @GlobeEyeNews (866,000 followers).| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy — New job driving Japanese group's AI strategy would be in addition to running the UK chip company — Rene Haas, the chief executive of UK chip designer Arm …
More: Reuters
| Mike Cherney / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at a global scramble to protect submarine cables vulnerable to potential sabotage, as companies develop monitoring tech like distributed acoustic sensing — U.S. and allies turn to tech, patrols and new routes to defend crucial underwater infrastructure against Russia and China
More: The Ken
| Isaac Yee / CNN: |
A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, including classified defense docs and missile schematics — A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data - including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics …
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