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InfrastructureOct 16, 20263 min read

Muse Spark Open Needs 1TB of Memory and Four Mac Studios

Meta's 800B Muse Spark Open needs 1TB of unified memory. The quoted route is four 256GB Mac Studios at about $38,000 — and the benchmarks are Meta's own.

AI ModelsOct 16, 20265 min read

Beam Ships 501B Open Weights With 23B Active Per Token

Reflection AI released Beam under Apache 2.0 on October 16: 501B parameters, 23B active, a 1M-token context, and free for now on Vercel AI Gateway.

AgentsOct 16, 20263 min read

ChatGPT's Chrome Extension Can Now Read Your Open Tabs

OpenAI's Chrome extension now reads your open tabs, and ChatGPT Work can fill forms, send messages and download files. What it touches, and what to scope.

IndustryOct 15, 20263 min read

Anthropic Tells Investors Q3 Revenue Reached $16.8bn

Anthropic presented quarterly revenue of $16.8bn, an 11% adjusted operating margin and a distillation clampdown worth 5% to 7% of its top line.

InfrastructureOct 15, 20267 min read

Is NVIDIA's Free LLM API Worth It? 40 RPM and Three Catches

NVIDIA hosts 80 models free, but a terms review found a ~40 RPM ceiling, two 'not in production' clauses and models that vanish without notice.

IndustryOct 15, 20263 min read

OpenAI Says Ex-Employee Took 100+ Product Files to Apple

OpenAI's filing accuses a former employee of taking 100+ product-plan files to Apple leadership, and links them to the new HomeView display.

AI ModelsOct 14, 20264 min read

Gemini 4 Argon's 0.7% Injection Figure Has No Sample Size

Google says Argon cut indirect prompt injection to 0.7% on the Gray Swan benchmark. The launch post ships no sample size, scenario list or link.

IndustryOct 14, 20265 min read

Android Adds Cloud Gemini Scam Checks to Google Messages

Google shipped two scam detectors on the same day: cloud Gemini intent analysis in Messages, and an on-device Gemma model built with GovTech Singapore.

IndustryOct 14, 20264 min read

Ray-Ban Meta Audio Ships at $349: Which Pair to Buy Now

Meta's camera-free glasses shipped October 13 at $349, $100 under the Gen 3. Specs, the ten new markets, and the Muse caveat before you order.

IndustryOct 13, 20263 min read

X Subscription Bundles Grok and Cursor From $8 to $200/Month

SpaceXSI merged X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one plan across five tiers. Latest Grok models need the $30 Premium tier, not the $8 entry plan.

AI ModelsOct 13, 20265 min read

Gemini 4 Argon Arrives With a Price Cliff Set for November

Google released Gemini 4 Argon at $2 per million input tokens, about a fifth of rival frontier rates. The introductory price doubles at the end of November.

IndustryOct 13, 20263 min read

Character.AI Files Chapter 11, Disney Bids $20M For Assets

Character.AI filed for bankruptcy with $50M-$100M in liabilities. Disney is lead bidder at $20 million, and the platform winds down if no better offer lands.

IndustryOct 12, 20263 min read

Perplexity Never Named AWS When Asked About GPU Clouds

A 24-answer test of ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity on GPU inference buying: the hyperscalers won two assistants, and Perplexity named neither AWS nor GCP.