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Juno, CPA-Founded Startup That Aims To Make Tax Returns Less Painful With AI, Raises $12M
AI tax prep automation startup Juno, founded to address the opportunities — and risks — that come with advances in AI, and built for underserved SMB accounting firms, says it has received a $12 million seed investment.
Anthropic launches managed infrastructure for autonomous AI agents
3 charts reveal Big Tech's biggest problem this earnings season
General AI
Meta races to catch up to AI giants with new model
The firm invested huge sums in a team to develop the new model, but analysts have questioned whether it has already fallen too far behind AI rivals.
An Interview with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien About Betting on Humans With Expertise
An interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI.
The Nasdaq Is in Correction Territory. Here Are the 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks I'm Buying First
The Nasdaq correction isn't pausing artificial intelligence (AI) demand -- it's discounting the infrastructure movement entirely.
Meta, CoreWeave stocks jump on expanded AI infrastructure partnership with $21B agreement
CoreWeave won industry recognition in November for its best in class neocloud services.
Cisco: Cybersecurity Remains Top Challenge as Industrial AI Adoption Expands
Article URL: https://techgraph.co/tech/cisco-cybersecurity-remains-top-challenge-as-industrial-ai-adoption-expands/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700999 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle
Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.
OpenAI releases a new safety blueprint to address the rise in child sexual exploitation
OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.
The Biggest Mistake Artificial Intelligence (AI) Investors Can Make Right Now Is Selling. Here's What I'm Doing Instead
Investors should turn the current situation to their advantage.
New problem: AI finds too many bugs
Article URL: https://etn.se/73048 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700400 Points: 3 # Comments: 4
Waiting for DeepSeek: new model to test China's AI ambitions
The long-awaited V4 model has yet to appear, stoking speculation over China's AI progress and whether Huawei chips can power a true Nvidia alternative.
Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/8/muse-spark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699703 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Meta's New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kid's Table
Muse Spark is Meta’s first model since its AI reboot, and the benchmarks suggest formidable performance.
Nvidia-Backed Firmus Raises $505 Million As AI Data Center Boom Accelerates
Nvidia Corp backed Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus has secured $505 million in fresh equity funding, pushing its valuation to $5.5 billion. AI Infrastructure Demand Drives Fresh Capital The latest funding round was led by Coatue, with participation from Nvidia. The investment remains subject to closing conditions, Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday. This marks Firmus' third equity raise in six months, bringing total capital raised during that period to $1.35 billion. The funding arrives
Motorola suddenly raises budget phone prices up to 50%—you can probably thank AI
Motorola's budget phones are much less budget-friendly today.
AI research foundation releases test that will warn when AGI arrives
The ARC-AGI-3 test presents game-like puzzles the AI must work out on the fly, and a researcher behind it said even top AI models score below 1%.
Atlassian launches visual AI tools and third-party agents in Confluence
Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.
Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools
101 Humans of New York on the Risks of AI
Nobody has ever done an in person door to door survey about AI risks[1]. What do people really think about AI? Like really? There have been some surveys on the risks from AI. But there’s a real difference between looking at numbers on page vs. the feeling of talking to our fellow humans. I[2] asked 101 people what they thought about the impact of AI. Approximately half of the responses were from ringing doorbells, and half were from asking people out and about[3]. Every single one of these was in person face to face. Around 10 respondents only spoke Spanish and were surveyed in Spanish[4]. Here are the results. The top level results are very strong when it comes to showing interest in regulating AI. Everything else will be reflections on the results/process and all the qualitative data I picked up from this process. Thoughts on some Specific Questions This question was the longest and most complex question. I basically have to read out all of the options since it's not on a simple sc
Meta unveils Muse Spark, its first AI model since hiring Alexandr Wang and a bellwether for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar AI push
The new model is competitive with rival AI models, according to data from Meta, but won’t be widely available outside Meta’s own product ecosystem.
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Goodbye, Llama? Meta launches new proprietary AI model Muse Spark — first since Superintelligence Labs' formation
Meta has been one of the most interesting companies of the generative AI era — initially gaining a loyal and huge following of users for the release of its mostly open source Llama family of large language models (LLMs) beginning in early 2023 but coming to screeching halt last year after Llama 4 debuted to mixed reviews and ultimately, admissions of gaming benchmarks. That bumpy rollout of Llama 4 apparently spurred Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to totally overhaul Meta's AI operations in the summer of 2025, forming a new internal division, Metal Superintelligence Labs (MSL) which he recruited 29-year-old former Scale AI co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to lead as Chief AI Officer. Now, today, Meta is showing us the fruits of that effort: Muse Spark, a new proprietary model that Wang says (posting on rival social network X, used more often by the machine learning community) is "the most powerful model that meta has released," and has "support for tool-use, visual chain of thou
New framework lets AI agents rewrite their own skills without retraining the underlying model
One major challenge in deploying autonomous agents is building systems that can adapt to changes in their environments without the need to retrain the underlying large language models (LLMs). Memento-Skills, a new framework developed by researchers at multiple universities, addresses this bottleneck by giving agents the ability to develop their skills by themselves. "It adds its continual learning capability to the existing offering in the current market, such as OpenClaw and Claude Code," Jun Wang, co-author of the paper, told VentureBeat. Memento-Skills acts as an evolving external memory, allowing the system to progressively improve its capabilities without modifying the underlying model. The framework provides a set of skills that can be updated and expanded as the agent receives feedback from its environment. For enterprise teams running agents in production, that matters. The alternative — fine-tuning model weights or manually building skills — carries significant operational ove
Anthropic’s New Product Aims to Handle the Hard Part of Building AI Agents
Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT
Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers.
Stability AI launches Brand Studio for brand-consistent image generation
Stability AI is going commercial: The new "Brand Studio" lets creative teams generate AI visuals that match their brand identity, using custom-trained models, automated production workflows, and precision image editing tools. The article Stability AI launches Brand Studio for brand-consistent image generation appeared first on The Decoder.
Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark
Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company's AI efforts. Called Muse Spark, the model now powers the Meta AI app and the Meta AI website in the US, per the company's announcement. In the coming weeks, Meta says, it will appear in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Meta's smart glasses, as well as roll out in other countries. Like Google Gemini, which easily integrates into Google's product suite, Meta touts Muse Spark as "purpose-built for Meta's products." The model, the first in a new series, will also be available to some of Meta's partners in private … Read the full story at The Verge.
Meta's Superintelligence Lab unveils its first public model, Muse Spark
Meta touts strong benchmarks but admits "performance gaps" in agentic and coding systems.
Robotics
ABB partners with Jacobi Robotics to roll out AI-powered palletizing for integrator network
Jacobi Robotics, a Physical AI company for warehouse automation, has announced a collaboration with ABB Robotics, which will integrate Jacobi’s OmniPalletizer AI software within its portfolio of robotics hardware and software. The collaboration will give ABB Robotics’ network of system integrators a productized, repeatable way to deploy AI-powered mixed-case palletizing without upstream sequencing infrastructure, facility […]