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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2 — Meta on Wednesday released Muse Spark 1.3, an update it says significantly improves performance in coding and agentic tasks.
More: Meta AI Research, Neowin, Bloomberg, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
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| Mark Zuckerberg / @finkd: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are “coming soon” — Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter. This is the biggest jump we've made so far on coding and agentic work. Try it in Muse Code and our API. Next up 🍉 and Muse Spark open weights releases coming soon.
X: @ttunguz, @zephyr_z9, @yashvarpatel, @xiangyue96, @eliebakouch, @mweinbach, @shuchaobi, @levie, @lichangchen2, @alexandr_wang, and @matthewberman. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| @artificialanlys: |
Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 — Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, their fourth Muse Spark model release in five months. Muse Spark 1.3 (max), which is in limited preview for Meta's partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5. The variant available now, Muse Spa...| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31 — After the last model release three weeks ago, Google today is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash. This marks the third Flash update in three months.
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| Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks — Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.
More: Google, Thurrott, NewsCord, and Cyber Security News
LinkedIn: Oliver Parker, D Shin, Srivarshan Selvaraj, and Shawn Horton
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals — Alphabet Inc.'s Google doesn't have to sell off its advertising exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals …
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Bluesky: @caseynewton, @robin.berjon.com, and @leahnylen
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis — Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
The Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with The New York Times, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works is generally fair use — The Trump administration has filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with the New York Times (NYT.N) …
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says “we trust Anthropic” as they are “back on the right side” with the administration and that “they've done what we asked” — - “They've done what we asked. … - “Really excited for our conversation …
More: Bloomberg, Gizmodo, NewsMax.com, Reuters, Reuters, The Information, and Quartz
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The FBI is investigating Nexus, a new ID theft service on the dark web claiming to sell digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada — A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/news, r/onguardforthee, r/technology, r/privacy, and Slashdot
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Wonderful, which helps enterprises deploy AI, raised a $550M Series C led by Insight at a $5B valuation; investors also paid $170M to buy shares from employees — Founded just last year, the startup already has 650 employees and is expanding its forward-deployed engineering teams around the world
More: TechCrunch, Wonderful, SiliconANGLE, CTech, Startup.eu, FinSMEs, and The Economic Times
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| Matthew Haag / New York Times: |
NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more — A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
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| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer.
More: OpenAI, Washington Post, TechCrunch, The Verge, Don't Worry About the Vase, Marcus on AI, Gizmodo, Reuters, The Decoder, Mashable, Wired, and Axios
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/codex
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, and Premiere, available via Slackbot prompts — Customers can now use Adobe's apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock …
More: The Adobe Blog, Digital Trends, TechTarget, WeRSM, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and iClarified. LinkedIn: Navin Watumull
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 86% YoY to $29.59B, vs. $29.36B est., AI semiconductor revenue up 221% to $16.7B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates — Broadcom shares dropped 5% in extended trading on Wednesday after the chipmaker issued disappointing guidance for the current quarter.
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Forums: r/MU_Stock and r/wallstreetbets
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources like RxNorm and PubMed — OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record (EHR) system …
More: OpenAI, Neowin, Unite.AI, and PYMNTS
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| MarketWatch: |
Snowflake reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to $1.55B, vs. $1.48B est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 20%+ after hours — Companies looking to build AI tools on top of their data are turning to Snowflake, driving robust revenue growth
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
MrBeast, whose YouTube channel hit 500M subscribers in June, will put Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multiyear Google deal — One of YouTube's biggest creators has a new deal to promote Gemini and Google Health.
More: Google, USA Today, and iPhone in Canada
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money — Elon Musk's social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app's payments service.| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI is facing new lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect talked gun violence with ChatGPT for days — New lawsuits add to list of cases in which the chatbot maker faces questions about the safety of its products
More: TechCrunch, The Guardian, CBC News, Al Jazeera, The Verge, Newser, iPhone in Canada, NPR, and New York Post
| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B — Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint Inc. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis Systems Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.| Ian Thomas / CNBC: |
Thyme Care, which focuses on filling cancer treatment gaps via a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation, up from $1B+ in 2025 — Despite recent advancements in oncology, the branch of medicine focused on the study, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer …
More: MedCity News, Nashville Business Journal, FinSMEs, and HIT Consultant
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| Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
Letter: OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems — OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by Reuters … | Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a $100M+ valuation — The company, valued at more than $100 million, uses agentic AI to block threats — Blackstone is placing an early bet on Huskeys … | Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based HiddenLayer, which makes security tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital — When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether …
More: HiddenLayer, Ventureburn, Pulse 2.0, and RuntimeWire
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to $12.2B, vs. $11.9B est., forecasts FY 2026 and FY 2027 sales growth above est., signs a $3.5B server deal with a cloud firm — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. boosted its sales outlook for this fiscal year and next, saying artificial intelligence workloads … | Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: |
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents without a human “owner” — The Coming of Userless Agents — The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident is an early example of an AI system that has “gone rogue.”
More: TechRadar. X: @deanwball, @deredleritt3r, @sjgadler, @deanwball, @mihonarium, @thezvi, @hamandcheese, @deanwball, and @jachiam0. Forums: r/singularity
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
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