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All news →Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, with only the smaller model on its API
Muse Wonder is available through the Meta Model API under the identifier muse-wonder-1.0 and in the Muse Code coding assistant. Muse Wonder Full, the stronger variant, is limited to Muse Code subscribers and has no API access.
- Nvidia reportedly in talks to buy Reflection AI or deepen its $800M stake in the open-weights lab
- Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens, a 90% cut from Haiku 4.5 on short prompts
- SpaceX reportedly seeks $40B in Apollo-led debt to pay for a giant Nvidia chip order
- Reflection AI unveils Beam, a 501B open-weight MoE built to take on China's open models
- OpenAI opens its Decisions API to all developers, charging only for input tokens on GPT-6 Luna
- Dario Amodei reportedly asked Meta's Alexandr Wang for compute this year, and Meta said no
- Anthropic says new classifier and preserved thinking cut distillation of Claude reasoning by 90 to 99%
- Anthropic reportedly signs undisclosed multiyear cloud deal with former bitcoin miner IREN
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Gemini 4 Carbon 🧠, Nvidia weighs Reflection acquihire 💰, decision model race 🤖. TLDR AI 10/12
Gemini 4 Carbon 🧠, Nvidia weighs Reflection acquihire 💰, decision model race 🤖
New AI startup aims to build "previously unbuildable" products
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😸 White House orders AI incident reporting
PLUS: Tesla's FSD rename and an AI film's XPRIZE win
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This AI factory builds tiny machines from code
Jeff Holden's Atomic Machines raises $250M to build tiny machines from code using an AI-guided factory. Plus: turn one product photo into three matching ads.
😺 Google tested AMIE with 98 patients
PLUS: Physicians monitored every AMIE chat and could step in.
Sunday Special: Scientists are alarmed by a Russian lab death
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The Sequence Radar - Issue 948: Last Week in AI: Billions in Funding, Hundreds of Papers, One Big Leap?
Reflection and Mistral expand the model race, TypeSafe and Arena raise the stakes, and OpenAI puts mathematical discovery under scrutiny.
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Microsoft's Jacob Andreou on AI's product gap
How Microsoft rebuilt the new Copilot with capabilities to address a growing gap in AI
🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++
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LLM Benchmarks in 2026: Complete Guide with Papers
A practical 2026 guide to LLM benchmarks for reasoning, coding, math, factuality, multimodal understanding, and agents—with papers and limitations.
How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)
Alex Cornell is a design director at Meta, where he leads design on Muse, Meta’s consumer AI agent. He came to the role with a long background in software product design, including
The 5 Debates Shaping AI
Can AI revenue justify the infrastructure spending? Is AI a mass market or a power-user market? Do businesses want AI they control or simply cheaper models? Who should regulate it?
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Goodfire researcher Eric Bigelow joins the show to investigate how large language models arrive at decisions at the level of mechanistic interpretability. Drawing on his research i
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding , Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build
What Happens When AI Solves Your Life’s Work
OpenAI’s latest mathematical results are forcing researchers to confront what happens when AI can tackle problems that once defined entire careers. With hundreds of proposed proofs
Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals
“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”
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