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IBM’s Granite Speech 5.0 sharpens open transcription and translation
IBM has released a new open speech model and refreshed existing ones, aiming at more accurate transcription, translation and tracking of who said what in long recordings.
Hugging Face
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Meta restores Muse sharing after exposed links raised privacy fears
Meta has turned Muse sharing back on after researchers showed that pages people shared from its AI agent could be found by strangers.
The Verge
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Meta’s revised business terms may still allow AI scraping, lawyers warn
Meta softened new terms for business accounts after publisher backlash, but legal experts say the wording could still let it use scraped site content for AI.
The Verge
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Discord now renders Markdown files properly, a boost for AI project sharing
Discord’s latest update shows uploaded Markdown files with proper formatting instead of raw symbols, which could help people swapping AI agent instructions and notes.
The Verge
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SpaceX and Tesla weigh a merger as Musk pitches shared AI ambitions
SpaceX and Tesla have set up special committees to discuss combining, a move that could hand Elon Musk voting control of both and reshape his AI plans.
The Verge
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Reflection releases Beam, a 501B-parameter open model for coding agents
Reflection, a new US lab, has released Beam as an open model on Hugging Face, aimed at coding and agent work on teams’ own hardware.
Hugging Face
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Zuckerberg bets Meta’s future on a network of Muse AI agents
On Meta’s earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg described a future where people’s Muse agents shop, work and deal with each other, but gave few details on how it will…
The Verge
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Modder says OpenAI’s Codex helped jailbreak Nintendo’s Switch 2
A modder has apparently jailbroken Nintendo’s latest console with help from OpenAI’s Codex coding tool and shown it running a customised version of Mario Kart World.
The Verge
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Microsoft’s AI diagnosis tool beats doctors on past cases in Science study
Microsoft says its multi-agent AI system diagnosed medical cases far more accurately than doctors in tests published in Science, though it has not yet been tried with real…
The Verge