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The Guardian: Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” — Google also rejects nee

Ashley Gold / Axios: Filing: Anthropic spent 1.6M and OpenAI 1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. 360K and 560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with 7.1M — Both Anthropic and Ope

European Union regulators today said that Platforms Inc. has violated the Digital Services Act by failing to keep kids under 13 years old from accessing its platforms. The European Commission, the exe

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an 'academy' positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The 'Horowitz Andreessen Academy' will lau

OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well. This no doubt has traditional anti-indus

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of

Matt Shumer / Something Big Is Happening: Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characte

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Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as

Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to

Written by: Jordan Jones Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has conducted an in-depth analysis of a .NET backdoor, tracked as STOCKSTAY, that has been continually developed and deplo

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg could soon have an AI clone of himself to interact with and provide feedback to employees, according to a report from the Financial Times. Sources tell the outlet that Meta is

It’s a big week for Meta. The company just kicked off its big Connect conference on Wednesday, and the new Muse AI agent appears to be an early hit. I’ve been using it — it is surprisingly good. CEO M

Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer — Manus, an artif

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence - his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter

Meta's Apache-2.0 30B Muse Glimmer targets local agentic tool use, multi-step coding, and vision, sized to leave headroom on 32GB machines.

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 Following Muse Spark in April, here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use. T

Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packag

We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta's new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active users in the US, by an A

After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version o

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed — TikTok anno

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It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like us

OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can 'do

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Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device — Two years aft

Jeremy Stern / Colossus: A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more — A journey to

Meta is bringing back the Facebook Creator Studio page manager, now 'reimagined' as a standalone AI companion app. The new app aims to make it easier for creators to connect with their audiences and s

Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more — The

Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It's called the Square Kiosk. Square says the Kiosk, which has a large pill shape,

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything t

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Introduction Beginning in 2024 Mandiant investigated a string of compromises affecting Brazilian financial services, retail, and eCommerce organizations. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracks

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On

PYMNTS.com: Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.O

Thinking Machines Lab Inc. will expand its use of Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership the companies announced this morning. TechCrunch cited a source as saying that the deal is valued

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers — Texas Instruments

Amazon.com Inc. plans to invest up to 25 billion in Anthropic PBC and provide the company with a significant amount of additional computing capacity. The collaboration, which was announced today, buil

Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. seem to be putting their longstanding rivalry aside in favor of a more pragmatic relationship that acknowledges the reality of today’s multicloud technology e