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Meta runs the largest open-weights AI research effort of any major tech company. The Llama family — Llama, Llama 2, Llama 3, Llama 4 — is downloadable, modifiable, and free to use commercially up to a usage threshold, which has made it the default base model for thousands of fine-tuned derivatives on Hugging Face. Meta also builds AI features into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger (AI Studio, Meta AI assistant), and ships specialized models like Segment Anything (computer vision) and AudioCraft (audio generation). Research output runs through FAIR (Fundamental AI Research). Stories cover Llama releases, FAIR papers, AI integration into Meta's consumer apps, the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and Mark Zuckerberg's recurring statements about AGI timelines.
Nordic pilot adds Gemini for Education, NotebookLM to boost AI literacy
In a Swedish classroom, a teacher just reclaimed hours once lost to lesson planning, and students are gaining fluency in an AI-shaped world.
Microsoft AI Chief: "If It Isn't Safe We Shouldn't Build It
Microsoft AI has put out a code of conduct for its MAI models, spelling out values, behavioral limits, and rules for handling conflicting goals.
Pocket FM Doubles Revenue Run Rate to USD 500M as AI Powers Audio Content
Pocket FM has hit a $500 million annualized revenue run rate, twice what the Indian audio storytelling company reported a year ago, and artificial...
Meta’s Muse Tracks Your Email and Bank Data While You Work
Meta pushed a pop-up onto my Instagram feed advertising its new AI agent, Muse, with a pitch that sounded almost too convenient: hand off...
Photon Raises USD 4.5M to Replace Mobile Apps with AI Agents
Photon buried the mobile app on September 17, literally. The San Francisco startup rented a church, hired speakers, and lowered a coffin stuffed with...
AI browsers cut 15-30 minutes per document when summarizing long reports
The promise of AI is often vague. The promise of an AI browser is brutally specific: give it a long document and it will give you 30 minutes of your...
Meta Faces Lawsuit Over AI Training Data, Facial Recognition
A group of parents and children in Illinois and California filed suit against Meta last week in federal court in Chicago, accusing the company of...
OpenAI hires 630 ex-Meta staff as ChatGPT memory may turn data into ads
OpenAI is becoming Meta, one employee at a time. It has hired 630 of them, enough to fill an internal Slack channel and worry the old guard.
Developers Clash Over Google’s Cursor Killer Antigravity IDE Amid Hype
The coffee machine at every Y Combinator startup is now forking Google’s Antigravity IDE.
Meta's AI Agents Can Now Set Up WhatsApp Business for You
Meta announced Tuesday that developers can now hand off WhatsApp Business setup to an AI agent instead of doing it themselves.
Meta, Microsoft slash Claude spending as user base halves
Microsoft had been on pace to spend more than $1 billion a year on Anthropic's Claude, according to The Information.
DFlash drafts whole token blocks, achieving 15× throughput on NVIDIA Blackwell
Token-by-token generation is the bottleneck that has kept large language models tethered to a serial fate. DFlash breaks that chain.
Anthropic and OpenAI Cut AI Model Costs Amid Chinese Competition
Anthropic and OpenAI both trimmed prices on their AI models this week, a move that lands squarely in a market where Chinese labs like DeepSeek and...
Wiola Architecture Introduces Five Novel Components for Efficient Small Language Models
The obsession with trillion-parameter models has become a bad joke. A useful one is happening with small ones.
AI agents invade PCs; Brendan Carr, Matter 1.5, MS NOW rebrand discussed
The AI is coming, but not from the sky. It’s moving into your taskbar. Microsoft is pushing an “agentic OS,” a buzzword that currently describes a...
Mistral's Shieldstral matches larger safety models with rewritten unsafe text.
Mistral released Shieldstral this week, a 3-billion-parameter guardrail model the French AI company says matches safety classifiers three times its...
DeepSeek AI unveils DeepSeek‑V4 with compressed attention for 1 M‑token contexts
The AI arms race has always been a battle of scale, until now. DeepSeek’s latest release, DeepSeek-V4, doesn’t just push context windows to a million...
LWiAI Podcast #238: GPT 5.4 Mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals
The dust has barely settled on last week’s AI news cycle, and the landscape has already shifted again.
Muse AI Builds Detailed Profiles on User's Friends and Family
Meta's new AI assistant Muse has racked up millions of downloads since launch, with users linking it to bank accounts, text messages, and health...
ChatGPT's 'Nerdy' tweak rewards goblin metaphors in answers, study finds
ChatGPT briefly, bizarrely, fell for goblins. The whole fling started with a single broken piece of code.