The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.
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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy
Many developers find that an agent idea works inside Claude Code or Codex, then struggles once they rebuild it with their own loop. The Strands Agents team at AWS is targeting that gap with Strands harness, a fully assembled, general-purpose…
California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to prevent AI data centers from passing utility costs onto residents, as reported earlier by the Los Angeles Times. The package of laws requires the California Public Utilities Commission to introduce…
OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
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Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?
UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents
The UN's AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents isn't assured. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio says OpenAI's Hugging Face incident first combined a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that…
Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026
A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.
xAI launches Grok 4.7 at bargain prices, but benchmarks reveal a wide gap to Claude and GPT-6
xAI has released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet. But on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores just 46 points, landing mid-pack and well behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53 each. The gap grows even wider…
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weight Model for Image Generation and Editing
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B diffusion transformer that handles text-to-image generation, multi-reference editing, and native RGBA transparency in one checkpoint. A prefix KV cache speeds up edits with up to 10 reference images. The weights are public,…