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Every story, newest first: the day’s AI news on models, research, tools, policy and business, in short plain-language summaries linked to the original reporting.
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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.
Source: 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.
Source: 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 work.
Source: 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.
Source: 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 patients.
Source: The Verge
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Laika’s Travis Knight says generative AI clashes with his studio’s craft
Travis Knight, director of Laika’s stop-motion film Wildwood, says generative AI is at odds with his studio’s handmade work, while still seeing benefits in medicine and science.
Source: The Verge
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia each set lobbying spending records last quarter
Three leading AI companies had their biggest-ever lobbying quarter this summer, federal filings show, as they work harder to shape AI rules in Washington.
Source: The Verge
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Spotify pulls 50 million AI ‘slop’ tracks from its recommendations
Spotify says it has stopped recommending a flood of low-quality AI and spam songs and changed its algorithm to favour music by human artists.
Source: The Verge
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Data center demand is driving a US fossil fuel building boom
A new report finds the US is planning more gas and other fossil fuel power than it has in a decade, as data centers push electricity demand up and renewable growth slows.
Source: The Verge
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Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with one tap
Adobe added a generative AI tool to Lightroom’s mobile app that fixes photos where someone blinked, using other pictures of the same person as a guide.
Source: The Verge