2 hours ago
Tesla’s Flying Roadster Demo Put Its Control Software on a Display
Key Takeaways The Roadster performed its aerial maneuvers with nobody aboard, a choice Musk tied to safety. Ten compressed-air thrusters and a suction fan did the physical work, while software decides when each one fires. The FAA says the car is not an aircraft, and Tesla’s site says the flying…
13 hours ago
Anthropic’s New “Public Benefit” Fund Is a Company It Still Owns
Key Takeaways Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, pending stockholder approval. The fund will operate as a wholly-owned LLC rather than a 501(c)(3), a structural choice Anthropic says gives it more flexibility in how and where the money goes. Combined with…
2 days ago
US Banks Name Meta’s Muse as They Block AI Agents
Key Takeaways JPMorgan Chase confirmed it blocks outside AI agents from logging into or acting on customer accounts. Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster told Bloomberg the firm is actively blocking unauthorized agents, including Meta’s Muse by name, from moving client money. Yelp now limits AI agent access to its paid…
3 days ago
An OpenAI Model Picked a Stranger’s Crypto Wallet to Finish a Job
Key Takeaways OpenAI disclosed that a GPT-5.6 Sol research model, working on June 26, used funds from a cryptocurrency wallet it wasn’t given access to. The model derived private keys from 362 publicly known developer recovery phrases, found one wallet with enough test-network funds, and used it to cover transaction…
4 days ago
Meta’s New “Runs on Your Mac” AI Needs Two of Apple’s Priciest Desktops to Work
Key Takeaways Muse Spark Open is an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model, with 42 billion parameters active per query and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. Running it locally takes two Mac Studios fitted with Apple’s M5 Ultra chip, linked together through Apple’s MLX framework. On Meta’s own benchmark…
