Artificial Intelligence

Muse Wonder: 7 Powerful Features of Meta's New AI Models

Muse Wonder: 7 Powerful Features of Meta’s New AI Models

Artificial intelligence is moving beyond chatbots that answer questions towards intelligent systems capable of completing complex tasks with less human intervention. Meta is making a significant move in this direction with Muse Wonder, a new AI model designed to power personal and professional AI agents, tackle advanced coding challenges and work through multi-step tasks. Announced […]

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Amazon Shuffles Alexa Leadership Following High-End Tablet Release

Amazon is changing its Alexa leadership a day after launching its first premium Alexa Tablets. Daniel Rausch steps away in November and Fire TV chief Aidan Marcuss takes over. We explain what Amazon confirmed, what the tablets cost in the US and UK, why the Fire line was dropped, what Alexa+ really costs, and what the shake-up means for businesses.

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AI Surveillance Startup Flock Safety to Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash

Flock Safety, the AI surveillance startup behind about 120,000 licence plate cameras, plans to cut roughly 270 jobs, 18% of its staff, after a voluntary buyout. We explain what Reuters reported, how the buyout worked, why record contract cancellations and political pressure reached the payroll, where Flock is still hiring, and what buyers of surveillance tech should check.

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Here Are the Top AI Agents That Can Live in Your Text Messages

TechCrunch has refreshed its list of AI agents that live in your text messages, adding Comma, Szn, Tab and Underdog to take it from 18 to 22. We compare the two versions, profile the four newcomers from their own sites, map every agent by messaging app, and pick the best one for each job, from family admin to private on-device help. We also flag eight details in the list that differ from what the companies publish.

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Can AI Detect a Silent Internet Outage Before It Occurs?

A router can look perfectly healthy while silently dropping data. Researchers at Istanbul Technical University have built an AI model that flags these network black holes shortly before they happen. We explain how it works, what its 98% detection claim really measures, what it does not yet prove, and how UK businesses can catch a silent internet outage on their own connections today.

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AI Agent Makers Are Promising Privacy — Will They Deliver?

Meta says Muse was built from the ground up for privacy, and OpenAI wants Dots to set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI. We test those AI agent privacy promises against each company’s own documentation, Instinct’s revised terms, a month of Muse incidents and the UK ICO’s new scrutiny of AI agents, and set out what businesses should check before connecting an agent to their data.

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‘Human-Authored’ Book Labels Gain Ground Amid AI Scandals

Human-authored book labels are gaining ground after a string of AI scandals, from the Goncourt withdrawal of Thélyson Orélien’s novel to Hachette pulling Shy Girl. We compare the Authors Guild and Society of Authors Human Authored marks, Books By People’s newly approved organic literature stamp, Librinova’s audited label and Germany’s new children’s book label, and explain why AI detectors cannot carry the weight alone.

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AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals

WIRED reports that AI is getting really good at messing with cybercriminals. Apate now runs around 350,000 AI bots that pose as scam victims for banks and telcos, O2’s Daisy answered more than 1,000 scam calls, and an ETH Zurich and Google study found LLM honeypots keep AI hacking agents engaged about 2.7 times longer than rule-based decoys. We check the sources, the numbers and the limits.

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