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Meta unveils Muse Spark, its first AI model since hiring Alexandr Wang and a bellwether for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s multi-billion dollar AI push
Meta has unveiled Muse Spark, the first AI model produced by its Meta Superintelligence Labs, the new AI research unit it created last year and has spent billions of dollars to staff and equip. The model is, according to benchmark tests that Meta published, competitive with leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google across…
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Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout
AI’s capabilities are growing more sophisticated by the day, and business leaders are rushing to adopt the technology to remain competitive. But one obstacle to AI adoption is catching companies off guard: their own workers. A new report published Tuesday from enterprise AI agent firm Writer and research firm Workplace Intelligence finds a significant share…
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What do you do when your AI agent hallucinates with your money?
Imagine you tell an AI agent to convert $10,000 in U.S. dollars to Canadian dollars by end of day. The agent executes — badly. It misreads parameters, makes an unauthorized leveraged bet, and your capital evaporates. Who’s responsible? Who pays you back? Right now, nobody has to. And that, a group of researchers argues, is…
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Supermicro launches internal probe after cofounder’s arrest on charges of $2.5 billion in chip smuggling
Two Supermicro board members are spearheading an internal investigation following a federal indictment alleging one of the company’s cofounders orchestrated the routing of $2.5 billion in servers packed with Nvidia’s highly prized GPUs to China, in violation of export controls. The independent investigation comes two years after an independent director on the board previously investigated…
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Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense
Anthropic is giving a group of Big Tech and cybersecurity firms access to a preview version of Claude Mythos—its unreleased and most advanced AI model—in an attempt to bolster cybersecurity defences across some of the world’s most critical systems. The company has been concerned that the new model may pose unprecedented cybersecurity risks and increase…
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OpenAI is a drama company. Will that hurt its IPO chances? And Anthropic tries to get ahead of the cyber risks its own models are accelerating
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…lots and lots of OpenAI news…Anthropic secures more compute from Google as its current capacity is strained…Google DeepMind releases its latest open weight Gemma model…Anthropic says AI has emotions (sort of)…and Google DeepMind shows AlphaEvolve can help solve real world enterprise problems. OpenAI dominated the news…
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Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla agree: AI will break the economy. Their fix is no income tax for most Americans
When Vinod Khosla sat down with Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell in March and floated the idea of wiping out federal income taxes for the roughly 100 million-plus Americans earning less than $100,000 a year, it sounded like the kind of provocation only a billionaire with nothing left to prove could get away with. “I can’t…
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Billionaire NASA chief who’s been to space twice says critics of billionaire space travel are ‘outright wrong.’
The billionaire leader of NASA, who has gone to space twice, has a message for critics of billionaire space travel: You’re “outright wrong.” As the crew of Artemis II embarked on the first lunar mission in more than 50 years, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, the billionaire payments processing company mogul confirmed to lead the agency…
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Delta’s CEO says AI’s biggest opportunity in aviation isn’t inside the plane—it’s air traffic control
Delta CEO Ed Bastian doesn’t think AI will drastically change the flying experience, but it may improve it by tackling one of the biggest problems facing airlines. Air traffic control, Bastian noted, is ripe for innovation and could be the area where improved technologies like AI make a real difference for travelers—“an amazing deployment,” even…
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Sam Altman’s big pitch to fix the big AI mess sounds like Jamie Dimon’s: a 4-day workweek and a big new tax on rich people like him
Sam Altman wants Washington to tax AI’s winners — and he’s put it in writing. On Monday, OpenAI released a 13-page paper entitled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First.” It offers a sweeping policy blueprint that proposes tax hikes on corporate income, among other revenue-boosting levers that shift the tax burden…