Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say
Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.
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Meta's Muse now calls businesses for you, but many companies might just hang up on the AI
Meta's AI agent Muse can now call businesses on behalf of paying US subscribers, handling everything from cable providers to restaurants. The agent already has over 10 million users, according to Meta's AI chief Alexandr Wang.
Nov 13
Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay
Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.
Nebius tests the neocloud playbook with $40 billion in planned spending
Nebius plans to fund its $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion through customer prepayments and loans, even as delays at a Microsoft data center raise questions about its financing model.
Nov 12
How DXC Technology built a multi-model AI substrate on Amazon Bedrock
DXC Technology runs mission-critical managed IT services for regulated organizations across 70 countries. Learn how DXC built DCX OASIS, its Human+AI operating model, on a governed multi-model substrate in Amazon Bedrock, separating a resilient model substrate from a trusted harness that orchestrates, governs, and audits AI agents at scale.
Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
United won’t let your AI agent book your flight
United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports, in line with observations from other businesses like Doordash.
Nov 11
The US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it
As espionage targets go, Jensen Huang is perhaps one of the least surprising on Earth. The Nvidia CEO runs one of the world's most valuable companies, controls the in-demand technology fueling the AI boom, and is cozy with presidents, CEOs, and all manner of important people. He also wears a cool leather jacket.
eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents
eBay appears to have blocked AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing on the platform - the latest speed bump in the AI agent race.
Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS
Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.
Nov 10
Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember
Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing.
Meta launches Muse Ember, a small AI model built for the repetitive work agents actually do
Meta is introducing Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient AI model, optimized for repetitive agent tasks such as tool calls, routing, and data extraction. According to Meta, it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-6 Luna. But it falls short when it comes to actual programming tasks.
Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts
After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram's next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI.
Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
Nov 9
Apple is racing to make Siri more agentic
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse.
Nov 7
From the front row to the hot seat — what the midterms mean for Big Tech
After spending two years getting cozy with the White House, Big Tech is suddenly trying to make friends with Democrats, and the open question is whether that image makeover can hold up against what states, local communities, and the markets are about to do.
Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google
The deal highlights the challenges of developing massive AI data centers.
All the latest updates on AI data centers
Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment.
“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
Meta won't force Facebook page owners to allow AI training on linked content.
Meta’s Muse AI can create custom ‘spaces’ for the version of the app you need right now
Meta will now allow you to build customized, app-like experiences within Muse. The new feature, called "spaces," allows its AI assistant to build things like a shopping hub, school dashboard, music tracker, trivia game, and more, which you can interact with directly in the Muse app.
Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets
OpenAI is talking about the AGI era, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. At the same time, co-creators of today's models are leaving OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta to start their own labs, raising billions with no product to show. Why? They're betting that the current recipe alone won't be enough.
Nov 6
Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich
Fabian Theis has been one of the key players in the various iterations of the Virtual Cell concept and initiatives.
Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar
Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
‘Total repudiation’: The blue wave is about to hit AI
On Tuesday night, Democrats made history as they took control of the House and the Senate, and a blue wave swept through traditionally red and swing states. In these and other campaigns, one theme kept coming up: holding AI companies accountable to the American people.
Muse has a voice mode now
Meta now lets you have voice conversations with your Muse AI agent in real time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today. The feature has been rolled out to me, and I gave it a spin on the iOS app while writing this article.
Meta warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers
Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once. On the same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer, and Anthropic already bought Stainless back in May. The deals follow a pattern: AI models are becoming interchangeable, and the value is shifting to the tools built around them.
Nov 5
Big Tech’s big AI buildout will not end until someone stops it
After four of the biggest competitors in the AI race held quarterly earnings calls late last month, two things are clear: Big Tech is not done spending record amounts on the AI data center buildout, and the AI data center buildout is not any closer to yielding its promised returns.
[AINews] It's Swapping Season
OpenAI’s Linux kernel security work, Kimi K3.1 Pro’s open weights, and Ricursive’s Ripple-65B.
After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line.
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
Anthropic's new prototype proves which model wrote an AI response without exposing its weights
Anthropic has released FlashProve, a research prototype that uses cryptography to verify whether an AI response actually came from the claimed model. The system still has significant limitations.
Nov 4
Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop
People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst.
Midterm elections 2026: all the news
The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presidential election.
Nov 2
The agentic web is here
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision.
AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?
On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.
Nov 1
I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I won't be buying one, because we have Muse Charm at home.
Oct 31
The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers can apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI companies, instead of setting them individually.