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Meta has released Muse Spark Open, a huge open-weight AI model optimized for Apple Silicon, with 800 billion parameters. It outperforms leading Chinese models but requires 1TB of RAM to run locally, making it accessible only to larger organizations with significant resources.

Adobe has rearchitected its creative apps, including Photoshop, Premiere, and Substance 3D, to take full advantage of NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform. The optimized apps are two times faster when it comes to AI tasks and editing across workflows, with improved performance and responsiveness on computers with RTX Spark.

Meta launches Muse Spark Open, a capable open-weight AI model that runs on Macs with 816 billion parameters and a 1 million token context window, offering superior performance and cost efficiency.

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay predicts a future where AI devices, like the new Bee wearables, will replace the need to use apps. These ambient devices will use sensors and AI to understand users' needs, making interactions more seamless and reducing the need for manual input. Panay emphasizes the importance of privacy in designing these devices, ensuring that user data is protected and controlled by the user.

Amazon's Bee has launched two new personal AI devices, the Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse, starting at $75. These devices use AI to take notes from conversations and turn them into actionable to-dos, summaries, and insights. They offer features like conversation summaries, integrations with Amazon.com and Alexa, and a private computing security architecture.

Liquid Clustering outperforms on latency for point lookups, range scans, and large aggregations, and should be the default for teams with diverse or evolving workloads. ZOrdering performs better for stable, highly selective multicolumn predicate workloads.

A judge has ruled that Apple will gain expedited access to OpenAI's hiring materials in a trade secrets lawsuit. OpenAI must turn over documents associated with interviews of former Apple employees, including interview checklists and technical presentations.

Microsoft has released over 1400 security updates, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, due to its use of AI to find and fix vulnerabilities. The updates include fixes for remote code execution flaws, security feature bypass vulnerabilities, and denial-of-service flaws.

A study by Chainguard found that 66% of security leaders in billion-dollar companies admit to leaving high or critical vulnerabilities unpatched, compared to 27% in smaller companies. The main hurdles for larger companies are business trade-offs and patching being too disruptive, while smaller companies face capacity constraints. AI is also playing a significant role in the vulnerability landscape, with 91% of respondents saying AI-accelerated attacks have changed their job in the past decade.

Instagram migrated its Android UI to Jetpack Compose, creating an AI-native UI codebase. This reduced UI code volume by 50% and token costs per AI agent session by 33%. The migration was done without disrupting the team's work and improved startup performance in other areas of the app.

Nvidia's DLSS 5 has been updated to be less performance-hogging and less in-your-face. The new model allows developers to realize their original artistic vision and infuses scenes with lifelike lighting and materials. DLSS 5 is now coming to Hogwarts Legacy and Where Winds Meet, with Nvidia claiming it can run on its new RTX Spark PCs without a significant framerate hit.

Nvidia's RTX Spark PCs feature a new laptop chip with a CPU tile co-developed with MediaTek and a GPU with up to 6,144 cores. The chip is designed for local AI work, rendering, and gaming, and will be available in various laptops from manufacturers like Asus, MSI, Dell, HP, Microsoft, and Lenovo. The higher-end models will have up to 128GB of unified memory, making them suitable for heavy-duty local AI work.

Tesla has unveiled its redesigned second-generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters, capable of flying and falling with style. The car uses 10 thrusters connected to 600 liters of compressed air to lift and spin in midair. It will be available in three trims: Performance, Thrust, and Rocket, with prices starting at $50,000 for reservations. The Roadster is expected to be delivered in 2028.

Bluesky has expanded its AI-powered Attie app, allowing users to build websites, games, and other interactive experiences without needing to be software developers. The tool is connected to the ATProto identity and can suggest projects based on users' public Bluesky profiles. The resulting sites and games can tap into Bluesky's audience of 47 million registered users.

Volvo is expanding its partnership with Nvidia to use its hardware and software in future vehicles for hands-free automated driving, combining Volvo's safety systems with Nvidia's Hyperion sensor and compute architecture, Alpamayo driving software stack, and Halos safety evaluation layer.

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, initially launched as a way to build your own feeds with AI, now lets you make small social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can share with others as their own websites. You can make your own Attie app by typing in a prompt, and each app has a custom link on the attie.site domain and attribution for who made the social app at the bottom of the page.

Researchers at The Citizen Lab discovered a zero-click spyware campaign, dubbed 'AdFection', that infects phones via targeted ads, allowing attackers to automatically hack specific individuals with mercenary spyware as they use apps or browse the internet.

Rivian's CEO announced that the company's cars will soon be able to run AI agents made by other companies, allowing for more advanced voice interactions and integration with external apps. The company has developed its own in-car software and agentic framework, which will enable the use of AI models from companies like Anthropic.

Google's Universal Cart is a new shopping tool that allows users to collect and monitor products across search and the Gemini app. It offers features like deal notifications, promo codes, and tailored help during checkout, making online shopping easier to manage.

Brendan O'Leary discusses how real-world AI adoption depends on building trust rather than chasing model benchmarks, and analyzes key failure points in context construction, multi-model routing, and feedback loops