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Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

The theft of agents’ personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel’s Fellowship Program.

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city to offer rides to minors.

Anthropic called it “the strongest-performing model we’ve tested to date.”

Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America’s most important critical infrastructure.

Noble Carbon has developed a smart circuit breaker that allows households to electrify without the pain of a main panel upgrade.

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Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.

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Eight months after establishing a U.S. based joint venture, TikTok is getting on board fellow platforms to support industry-wide child safety work.

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Singapore-based Nexstrom has raised new funding to develop equipment that could help chipmakers manufacture 2D semiconductor materials at scale.

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal with startup MacroCycle, which is building its first commercial plant.

Deeptech company Morphotonics raises €40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.

Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple’s secret sauce has always been its people.

The group won’t be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI’s ongoing mathematical research.

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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.

Future Google supplier Kairos Power inked a deal with Samsung C&T to help build its first 50-megawatt nuclear power plant.

Muse isn’t welcome as a shopper anymore.

X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request.

Forerunner Ventures plans to sell its entire stake in Oura for as much as $1.26 billion, according to Oura’s latest IPO filing.

Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.

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Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.