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Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible
Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to see, not least because Muse itself told people, including us, it wasn't supposed to reveal [...]
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Sony and UMG are suing Suno again
Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources. Sony and UMG are notable holdouts who did not sign [...]
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One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks
In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures implicating numerous AI models trickled out over the past few [...]
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Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the test
A few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed in my pocket; I ignored it. A moment later, it buzzed again. I pulled it out, glanced down, and saw a "motion detected" notification from my security camera. "Just [...]
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Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office
After teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents. As part of the launch, Microsoft is also rebranding Scout, the AI personal assistant it unveiled at Build earlier this year, as Autopilot. [...]
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Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google's AI a face
Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers. As noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 [...]
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The Verge AI
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil down to the [...]
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The Verge AI
Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone
Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI prompts: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app that offers more granular controls. The apps will be available in [...]
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Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem
A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta's Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independently coaxed Muse into zipping up and sharing the entire contents of its root filesystem, Ubuntu system files, app templates, and internal documentation. Saunders posted on [...]
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The Verge AI
Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw
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 Apptopia estimate. And AI agent platform Instinct, whose eponymous creator is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation, has been [...]
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TechCrunch AI
Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
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TechCrunch AI
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab's knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
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TechCrunch AI
Meta opens early access program for new Muse features
Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
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TechCrunch AI
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
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TechCrunch AI
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.
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