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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.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closed up 6.5%
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 …
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Source: OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies, similar to Anthropic  —  OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031  —  Meta has committed to spending an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, which comes on top …
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 …
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 …
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices  —  Controls are rolling out worldwide to stop videos playing alongside music and podcasts. … Spotify is adding new toggles to stop …
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released an AI video model called HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0  —  Alibaba Group has anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1., which rose to the top …
Bloomberg:
Samsung plans to invest $4B to construct a chip packaging facility in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to support AI demand; sources say the first phase costs $2B  —  Samsung Electronics Co. plans a $4 billion outlay to build a chip packaging plant in northern Vietnam, as the country's largest …
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.
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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Sources: Disney is planning to eliminate as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks, many from the company's recently consolidated marketing department

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