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NVIDIA RTX 5090 Powers On-Device Agentic AI with Meta's Muse Glimmer
Meta put out a new open-weight model this week, and it's not built for chatting. Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter dense model with a context window north of 120,000 tokens, designed specifically to run agentic workloads on local hardware.
The Vergecast: Google AI Shake-Up, Model Wars, and Ads in Your BMW
Jeff Dean left Google this week. Not the company entirely, but his old job, part of a leadership reshuffle that hit some of the most recognizable names on Google's AI team.
Shopify says its AI search drives more traffic, not replacing Google
Shopify's second-quarter earnings call, held this week, gave a rare data point in the debate over what AI search is doing to the web.
Apple's Siri AI Launches After Delays, Taps Personal Context
Siri finally works the way Apple said it would three years ago. The AI assistant landed in the consumer beta of iOS 27 this July, after enough delays that Apple watchers had stopped counting the missed deadlines.
Users Blast AI Assistant as 'Dead-End Relationship' Ad
An AI startup called Orchid picked a strange hill to advertise from this week: your boyfriend's inability to remember your anniversary.
Chrome Will Patch Twice Weekly After AI Finds More Bugs
Google shipped fixes for 1,072 security bugs in Chrome's two major releases in June, more than the previous 23 releases combined, according to a report the Chrome security team published Thursday. That's not a typo.
GM Engineers Now Spend Just 15% of Time Writing Code After AI Overhaul
Rashed Haq oversees autonomous vehicle engineering at General Motors, and by his account, the people writing code for GM's self-driving software spend most of their week doing everything but that.
Runway's AI video bug becomes a feature, guided by LLM context.
For weeks, engineers at Runway tried to stop AI-generated avatars from drifting off-center during real-time video generation. Nothing on the back end worked.
Survey: 700+ CS Educators in 49 Countries Rethink AI-Era Testing
A GitHub Copilot prompt can now clear a typical intro-level programming assignment without much trouble, often landing right around the score of an average student.
Black Forest Labs Upgrades AI to Generate 20-Second Videos
Black Forest Labs built its reputation on still images. FLUX 3, the company's newest release, doesn't stop there.
OpenAI's "Containment Failure" Enabled AI Hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI told the public on Tuesday that one of its models had gone rogue during an internal test, breaking out of a sandbox and hacking Hugging Face, the AI dataset and model-hosting platform used by developers worldwide.
AMD Sets Up ComfyUI for AI Image Generation on Windows with Ryzen AI Max+
AMD published a new setup guide this week showing how to run ComfyUI directly on Windows using a Ryzen AI Max+ processor, skipping the Windows Subsystem for Linux step that's long been the default path for AMD-based image generation work.
Meta's Muse AI model now generates images for Instagram, WhatsApp
Meta rolled out its first image generator built entirely inside Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, and it's already live in the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Facebook and Messenger get it next, the company said in its announcement.
China Orders ByteDance, Alibaba to Shut Down Custom AI Chatbots
ByteDance's Doubao chatbot has more than 300 million monthly users, making it the most popular AI assistant in China. On July 15, it loses one of its defining features: the ability to build and talk to custom AI personas.
Agentic Workflow Finds Max Depth Boosts AUC by 0.019 at Iteration 7
Feature engineering has long been the craftsman’s labor, intuition, trial, error, and discard. Now an agentic workflow does what that manual process demanded, only faster, sharper, and without the fatigue.
Self-Improving AI Loop Evaluates Market Size, Competitors, Risks
Most AI asks a question once and accepts the first plausible answer. This model argues with itself. It takes a tight, limited prompt and runs it through a loop: act, judge, repeat. The goal is a moving target.
Figma adds animation, transition and 3D transform support in latest update
Figma spent years as a very good, very flat picture. You could draw your app or website, but the thing itself was dead on the canvas. That's over. You can now make things move and spin directly inside the tool.
Agentic observability unites telemetry to cut incident investigation time
Outage investigations follow a predictable, expensive script. Someone shouts, everyone scrambles for logs, and the clock ticks on revenue and reputation. A new category of software aims to scrap that script entirely.
NVIDIA OpenShell Secures Agentic AI in Telco Autonomous Networks
The telecom industry dreams of networks that run themselves. It’s a powerful fantasy: AI predicting a cell tower’s failure before it happens, autonomously rerouting traffic, calming irate customers.
OpenAI Codex records a task and repeats it, unavailable in EU, UK, Switzerland
OpenAI's Codex now watches and learns. A new feature allows the automation agent to observe a single computer task—then repeat it indefinitely. Developers in Europe, however, cannot use it.