Meta opens early access program for new Muse features

Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?

When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.
How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector

A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.
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 …
Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing

The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company’s massive AI data center buildout.
The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics — see it at TechCrunch Disrupt

Muju Earth Technologies has developed a deceptively simply pod that can save farmers money while improving crop yields.
Anthropic’s Blacklisting by the Pentagon Was Legal, Federal Judges Rule

The Pentagon had “ample support for its conclusion” that the A.I. company’s products could pose a national security risk, according to a Washington appeals court ruling.
Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off

Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agents’s promotion across its own apps and beyond.
Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid ‘imminent’ threat of cyberattack

The tech giant, which allows companies to send large datasets over the internet, said it received a “credible threat” from law enforcement about an imminent attack.
For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts

The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.