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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview — Muse Spark 1.1 is available to US developers through a public API preview.
More: Meta, CNBC, Simon Willison's Weblog, Reuters, Spyglass, The American Bazaar, Proactive, The Tech Portal, Digital Trends, Benzinga, RuntimeWire, TestingCatalog AI News, iClarified, and Android Central
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LinkedIn: Hyung Won Chung and Wen Shi
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta launches a Meta Model API, which Mark Zuckerberg says will have “aggressive and attractive” pricing at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI's and Anthropic's models — In a crowded market for AI tools, Mark Zuckerberg wants to win on price. — Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a version …
More: The New Stack, Business Insider, PYMNTS, Big Technology, International Business Times, Fortune, Finimize, The Decoder, iPhone in Canada, Hindustan Times, and Neowin
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta prices Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25/1M input tokens and $4.25/1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says improving coding and agentic performance was a key focus — Facebook's parent company on Thursday updated its Muse Spark large language model and followed through on a promise to make it available to developers.
More: Engadget, Constellation Research, and International Business Times
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| Axios: |
OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows — - Sol is the most powerful version, while Luna is designed for speed. … - A new “ultra” mode within Sol allows the system …
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| OpenAI: |
GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 — More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic debuts a “reflection” dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users with memory turned on, to track their Claude activity over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months — Today we're introducing, in beta, a new way to reflect on and refine how you use Claude.
More: Inc, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, Blockchain.News, Engadget, TestingCatalog AI News, and Mashable. Forums: Hacker News
| Jarred Sumner / bun.com: |
Bun's creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a Claude Fable 5 prerelease version in 11 days, noting it would've taken three engineers “about a year” — Disclosure: Bun was acquired by Anthropic in December 2025. I and others on the Bun team work at Anthropic.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows — Microdramas are such a rage these days that nearly every kind of company in the attention economy space — be they dedicated microdrama apps …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries — Law enforcement agencies have arrested 5,811 suspects and seized $293 million in illicit assets in a global anti-fraud operation spanning 97 countries.| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple talked with PrismML about its tech — Apple is on a quest to shrink powerful AI models to run on iPhones, which could cut down on cloud computing costs and enhance user privacy.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Blockonomi, and 9to5Mac
| Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan” — Microsoft President Brad Smith has weighed in on U.S. policy on AI, saying that the Trump administration's …
More: Forbes and TechCrunch
| Reuters: |
Memo: Meta plans to start manufacturing its in-house AI chip, codenamed Iris, from September, as part of its plan to boost its computing power to 14GW in 2027 — Meta Platforms (META.O) plans to start manufacturing an artificial intelligence chip from September as part of its plan …
More: Quartz, TechCrunch, New York Post, Barron's Online, The Daily Caller, and ZeroHedge News
| Nikunj Ohri / Reuters: |
India scraps import duties on some parts used to make devices like phones until March 31, 2029, removing 7.5% and 5% levies, which might help Apple and Xiaomi — India has scrapped import duties on some parts used to make mobile phones and other electronic devices, removing the current 7.5% and 5% levies … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark — The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Venture, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch.
More: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Ventureburn, RuntimeWire, and Tomasz Tunguz
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B — In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows.
More: New York Times
| John Reynolds / Tech.eu: |
Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation — It says it will use the funding to develop its uncrewed surface vessels while expanding manufacturing facilities.
More: Sifted, Tech Funding News, Tectonic Defense, Resilience Media, Bloomberg, and UKTN
| Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed: |
A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% — Brown University leaders' response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.
More: Ars Technica, The Register, Business Insider, CTech, Tom's Hardware, The Daily Caller, Brown University, The Next Web, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Aftermath
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Forums: Hacker News, r/antiai, r/technology, r/qualitynews, r/technology, r/BrownU, and Ars OpenForum
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in a Series A in 2026, and says agents wrote investment memos — A startup that helps enterprises build AI agents proved the technology's value in the most practical way possible: by deploying one during its own fundraising.
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