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Meta AI Research:
Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying that they “deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks”  —  Fourteen months ago, we began a ground-up overhaul of our artificial intelligence efforts.  In that time, we've gone from rebuilding …
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Cheeky Pint:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang on the Muse app, Muse Wonder, the risks of committing $100B+ to AI, rebooting Meta's AI team, agentic commerce, more
@artificialanlys:
Muse Wonder Full (max) outperforms Fable 5.1 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, matches Sonnet 5.5 (max), and is just shy of Opus 5.5 (max)
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Meta says it plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it “can bring to everyone using Muse”
Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters:
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale  —  Character.AI said on Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney (DIS.N) for $20 million.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an “AI first” production model with “no more hand-written code”  —  The company told the team behind the upcoming shooter that it will now be an ‘AI first’ production
Anthropic:
Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes  —  Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices …
Anniek Bao / CNBC:
The IMF lifts its 2026 global GDP growth forecast to 3.1%, up from 3% in July, citing an AI boom that offsets Middle East war disruptions and high energy costs  —  BANGKOK — The International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for global growth this year as the AI-driven investment boom helps offset …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Meta confirms Muse lets users “engage in adult conversations, if they choose, using a private and secure VM”, saying it doesn't block “legal adult behavior”  —  My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters.
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build an up to 500 MW data center for Anthropic in Osaka, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B  —  TOKYO/OSAKA — NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in western Japan for U.S. AI company Anthropic, multiple sources have told Nikkei.
Aditya Soni / Reuters:
Sources: Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for substantial control over what external AI evaluators can publish, out of concern that trade secrets could leak  —  Anthropic and OpenAI have sought significant control over what outside evaluators can publish, concerned that findings could reveal trade secrets …
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Anthropic:
Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99%  —  In recent months, we've made substantial progress on reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks on Claude using new methods, as we outline in this blog.
Reuters:
IDC: China's Q3 smartphone shipments fell 15.4% YoY to 57.9M units, the sixth straight quarter of decline; Huawei led with a 21% share and Apple had 17.8%  —  China's third-quarter smartphone shipments fell 15.4% from a year earlier to 57.9 million units, research firm IDC said on Tuesday.
Counterpoint Research:
Global smartphone shipments fell 20% YoY in Q3 to a 14-year low amid memory shortages; Apple's share crossed 20% for the first time in any Q3, reaching 22%
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a ~$1B valuation by Ithaca Holdings, founded recently by two Silicon Valley execs; BMBL jumps 49%+  —  Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd expected to stay involved with company as part of deal  —  Bumble , the dating app founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd …
Financial Times:
A global chip stock sell-off deepens after Broadcom's CEO likened AI investing to a casino, with Samsung down as much as 8.8%, SK Hynix down 9.2%, and Micron 4%  —  Declines for Samsung and SK Hynix drag Kospi sharply lower as investors fret over scale of AI investment
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Bloomberg:
CXMT says it plans to launch a 4F² design DRAM chip for data center servers before the end of 2026, achieving a breakthrough that rivals have pursued for years  —  CXMT Corp. declared it achieved a breakthrough in chip technology that rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. had pursued for years …

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