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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
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Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
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Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
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Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
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Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures (Maria Curi/Axios)
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Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock (John Koetsier/Forbes)
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Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
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Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses (Ina Fried/Axios)
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OpenAI says, while unlikely, it "cannot rule out that de-identified data derived" from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models (OpenAI)
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT (Ina Fried/Axios)
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OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he reached out to Levent Alpöge to coordinate their releases and denies asking to remove Alpöge from authorship of his own work (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)
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Sources: Ramp is in early talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $750M at a $44B valuation in June; founded in 2019, Ramp has raised $3B to date (Bloomberg)
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AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M (Samantha Oltman/Bloomberg)
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The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes "copyright infringement very seriously" (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)