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More from AI & SoftwareEight months after abandoning open source over the Llama 4 benchmark scandal, Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30 billion parameter Apache 2.0 model that runs on a single consumer GPU. Here is what it does well, where Qwen still beats it, and why Meta opened the small model instead of the big one.
OpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra solved 10 decades-old math problems for about $2,000 in compute, with formally verified proofs. Days later, the same system was hit with a Critical cyber-risk classification. Here is what happened and why mathematicians are both impressed and wary.
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster using Cerebras wafer-scale chips instead of Nvidia GPUs. Here’s what it means for the AI speed race.
Stockholm’s Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, double what it was worth in December. The revenue growth behind it is real. The harder question is what happens to everyone selling software when describing an app is enough to build one.
A flaw in Zoom’s annotation feature let any meeting participant run code on another participant’s device with no clicks and no warning. The researchers who found it needed fewer than 20 AI prompts and less than a day.
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After 13 years, Fairphone is selling a phone directly in the United States. The Gen 6+ costs $649, comes apart with one screwdriver, and carries a five-year warranty. The specs are mid-range on purpose.
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OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18 and auto-enrolls anyone it thinks is under 18. The guardrails are real, the age check is a guess, and reporters had it writing a full homework essay within hours.
Privacy researchers are urging women in 13 US states to drop cycle tracking apps. The catch is that uninstalling does nothing to the copy on the company servers. Here is what these apps collect, what actually deletes it, and which apps never send it anywhere.
Jason Kelce and Liquid Death are asking Americans to mail their urine to AI data centers. It is a stunt, but the water figures behind it are real: 4.5 trillion liters in 2025, and 7 in 10 Americans now oppose a data center near them.
A new PNAS study tracked what X actually served 715 Americans and found the For You algorithm learns most from replies, the rarest form of engagement. Here is why arguing with a bad post keeps making your feed worse.