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Meta AI Research:
Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks  —  Fourteen months ago, we began a ground-up overhaul of our artificial intelligence efforts.  In that time, we've gone from rebuilding our stack from first principles to pushing the frontier.
More: Meta Newsroom, Meta, The Information, ANI News, Cointelegraph, Gizmodo, Social Media Today, Implicator.ai, Engadget, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, Unite.AI, The Decoder, Yahoo Finance, Mashable, Business Insider, Barron's Online, and TestingCatalog AI News
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LinkedIn: Pradeep Sanyal, Christine Trodella, David Hsu, Sy Choudhury, Ben Benrubi, and Omar Baldonado
Bluesky: @sungkim and @natolambert
Threads: @zuck and @mosseri.  Facebook: @zuck
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/accelerate
Cheeky Pint:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang on the Muse app, Muse Wonder, the risks of committing $100B+ to AI, rebooting Meta's AI team, agentic commerce, more
@artificialanlys:
Muse Wonder Full (max) outperforms Fable 5.1 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, matches Sonnet 5.5 (max), and is just shy of Opus 5.5 (max)
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an “AI first” production model with “no more hand-written code”  —  The company told the team behind the upcoming shooter that it will now be an ‘AI first’ production
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system”  —  The new Maia 300 chip will start rolling out to production AI workloads in 2027.
Reuters:
Microsoft says Maia 300 racks will hold 96 chips and use ~167 kW of power and plans to roll out “multi-gigawatt deployments” of the chip starting next year
Bloomberg:
Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-managed refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, heating them to 50°C for roughly six hours  —  Hundreds of supermarkets in France were hit by cyberattacks on Sunday night that disabled refrigeration systems and forced stores …
Anthropic:
Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes  —  Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line  —  The Edge, which replaces the Fitbit Charge 6, offers consumers another vehicle for trying out the recently revamped Google Health app.
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a ~$1B valuation by Ithaca Holdings, founded recently by two Silicon Valley execs; BMBL jumps 49.61%  —  Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd expected to stay involved with company as part of deal  —  Bumble , the dating app founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd …
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach  —  The world's richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans' Senate majority …
Gao Yuan / Bloomberg:
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs  —  The AI boom has attracted investors whose strategies resemble those of gamblers, Broadcom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan said …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisity, which helps stop cyberattacks and ransomware from spreading, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B  —  Privately held Elisity stops cyber attackers and ransomware from spreading across organizations
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
X has refound its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms  —  Upon taking the CEO helm last month, John Ternus began tweeting on X. He tweeted “hello”, posted an iPhone event eve teaser …
Claire Ruckin / Bloomberg:
Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B  —  JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have taken a rare move to limit their exposure on a $5 billion loan sale …
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios:
Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a $90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects $60M-$80M in revenue this year  —  Suki, a health care AI and scribe company, raised a $90 million Series E round to scale and add agentic workflows, CEO Punit Soni tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Inc.com
Mitchell Labiak / BBC:
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards  —  Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said.
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year  —  In the summer of 2025, Microsoft was fielding customer complaints that its AI assistant, Copilot, was buggy and not good enough at automating work in Excel or PowerPoint.
More: TechRadar and Neowin
X: @matt_slotnick and @aaronpholmes.  LinkedIn: Bryan Goode.  Bluesky: @okane.fyi

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