Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang details the seven-month build of Muse and Meta's personal-agent strategy.
Alexandr Wang is the chief AI officer of Meta and co-founder of Scale AI. We talk about the seven-month effort to build Muse, why Meta focused on personal AI agents instead of coding, and how Mark Zuckerberg and Nat Friedman helped shape the product. Alexandr shares how Zuckerberg recruited him after Meta's Llama 4 setback, why he left Scale after nine years, and how he's rebuilding Meta's AI lab around small teams, exceptional talent, and minimal bureaucracy. We also discuss using memes to mak…
Bloomberg examines the hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure borrowing and its emerging corporate-credit risks.
Hyperscalers, data centers and chip companies are borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to finance the AI buildout, turning the technology boom into one of the biggest new forces in corporate credit. Investors are still buying, but rising concentration, complex data-center financing and competition with government borrowing are raising a harder question: how much AI debt can the market absorb? -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video? Subscribe and turn on not…
Roundup covers OpenAI math results, AlphaProtein Novo, Mistral Large 4, Haiku 5.5 and other model releases.
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Explains the economics and scale pressures behind the accelerating AI data-center buildout.
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60 Minutes investigates how AI hiring systems are affecting middle-aged job seekers.
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Discusses AI-driven game decompilation and what it could mean for recovering and modifying legacy games.
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Tests products advertised with fabricated AI claims by buying them and documenting what actually arrives.
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Features AI critic Roman Yampolskiy answering questions about catastrophic AI risks and preparedness.
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Reports Anthropic AI posing as an eyewitness in a fake murder tip sent to Philadelphia police.

Documents a Grok shopping demo exposing addresses and payment-card details.

Covers Norway weighing a temporary ban on AI smart glasses in some public places.

Highlights Denmark’s proposed protections against unauthorized AI cloning of faces and voices.

Alleges Google AI redirected a user to a CSAM site, a major safety failure requiring scrutiny.
Examines a claimed 20% PC-shipment crash amid AI-driven RAM demand and weak Copilot-agent pull.
Ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver outlines Ineffable’s RL-based “super learner” path beyond LLMs.
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI “super learner” using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more — The architect of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo on building machines that can teach themselves — and why he feels a moral obligation to advance the technology
NYT examines evidence that AI productivity gains are constrained by a costly human verification tax.
Sarah Kessler / New York Times : As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human “verification tax” bottleneck — As artificial intelligence automates office tasks, it is also creating a new type of human work.
The US reportedly restores UK AISI access to frontier US models for safety testing after a month-long cutoff.
Tony Diver / Telegraph : Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month — US had blocked regulators from reviewing frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind
China’s $3.9T grid plan aims to turn surplus wind and solar generation into an AI-compute advantage.
Bloomberg : A look at China's bid to turn excess wind and solar energy into an AI edge via a $3.9T grid buildout through 2049, as ~9% of renewable output was wasted in 2026 — To grasp the gargantuan scale of China's green-energy revolution, consider Gansu. In this arid strip on the edge …
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal : Christian leaders are weighing in on AI earlier than they did with other tech, as AI leaders' talk of creating a new consciousness fuels religious concerns — Religious leaders are weighing in, creating a new political risk for the creators of the technology
John Gruber / Daring Fireball : X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms — X is the only place these posts go. … You may not like it that X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk's ownership, but it has.
Bloomberg : A look at Uber's retreat in Africa, quitting Nigeria and Uganda abruptly after Tanzania and Ivory Coast, as price-sensitive riders pick Bolt, inDrive, and Yango — Kayode Emmanuel was parked outside the biggest hotel in Nigeria's capital, the Transcorp Hilton Abuja, waiting for ride requests on his Uber Technologies Inc. app.

Flags an apparent drop in bot traffic across numerous websites following an unspecified event.
Shares Talarico’s ad rebutting fake AI-generated material circulated about him.

Spotlights criticism of ChatGPT’s proposed $6,000-per-year pricing amid claims of deep losses.
Reports God of War III Remastered running natively on Windows from start to finish.
Tencent reportedly plans a ~$5B bond sale, with much of the proceeds earmarked for AI chip purchases.
Janice Huang / Bloomberg : Sources: Tencent is planning a ~$5B bond offering, including $1.5B to $2B in dollar tranches, to fund AI expenditures, with the bulk going toward chip purchases — Tencent Holdings Ltd. told fixed-income investors Monday that its planned bond offering of about $5 billion …
US soldiers report overheating drones and other field failures in an Army AI modernization exercise.
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal : US soldiers using AI tech during a July exercise say they encountered issues like drone overheating, highlighting challenges in the Army's modernization effort — A desert trial exposed equipment limitations and institutional hurdles in the Army's push to modernize and keep pace with an AI-savvy adversary
Sakana AI proposes recursive self-improvement by having agents collectively generate and select advances.
Berkeley researchers report that just 10 minutes of AI use can reduce persistence on difficult tasks.
A firsthand account of Fable’s AI production workflow displacing a worker from their job.
A practical local-indexing approach cuts agent tool calls and token use by searching context before retrieval.
Introduces a “Bag of Decisions” reranker for combining retrieval signals into ranking choices.
Rich Whitehouse’s essay interrogates the technical and cultural failures behind contemporary generative AI.
Documents the fast proliferation of AI-built Photoshop clones and what their uneven implementation reveals.
BBC examines a market response to synthetic media: buyers paying a premium for verifiably human-made art.
Nicolas Cage says an AI dispute means he will not work with Amazon again.
CNBC covers a research firm’s unusually blunt warning that an Anthropic IPO would test investor credulity.
SWI raises €800M to upgrade data centers, including assets acquired from a Genesis Digital mining operation.
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal : Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy — Data-center company sees potential in what has been described as one of Sam Bankman-Fried's ‘most reckless investments’
WSJ details how hacked civilian cameras became intelligence and targeting tools in the Israel-Iran conflict.
Wall Street Journal : How hacked civilian cameras became war tools, as Israel tapped Iranian traffic cameras before Khamenei's killing and Iran-linked groups hit 250+ Israeli cameras — The highly vulnerable devices have turned into tools for combatants to track, surveil and attack the enemy
Ledger confirms a hardware implant in reseller-sold wallets tied to theft exceeding $86M.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge : Hardware wallet maker Ledger says the $86M+ theft from hundreds of its wallets involved devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis and confirms a “hardware implant” — A spy implant in some Ledger crypto wallets may be the root of an $86 million supply chain attack.
An open-source clean-room Microsoft Word reimplementation in pure Rust offers a notable office-software alternative.
Reports a possible malware compromise affecting Zod 4.6.6, a widely used JavaScript validation package.
HashiCorp archives Boundary’s open-source repository, signaling a major change for the access-management project.
ClickHouse explains why storage behavior, rather than Postgres itself, often determines database performance.
Valen presents a new borrow-checking model aimed at memory safety without Rust’s conventional lifetime mechanics.
A detailed reverse-engineering account reconstructs the algorithm behind a commercial spatial-audio effect.
A Zig HTML templating library uses compile-time types to catch invalid templates before deployment.
A project statically recompiles PS2 games to WebAssembly, extending preservation and browser-playability options.
Demonstrates the unmodified Linux AMDGPU driver running on an iPad, an unusual cross-platform driver feat.
Cell publishes programmable photochromic nanoparticle inks that enable rewritable, switchable tattoos.
Tim Culpan / Culpium : Sources: TSMC execs in charge of overseas operations met Texas officials and started more serious discussions in H1 2026, after talking on and off for 10+ years — “He said his biggest concern was that nobody would supply him with chips. ” I told him: 'Don't worry.
Bloomberg : Sources: PCB maker Dongshan is eyeing to raise $2B to $3B in a Hong Kong listing as soon as this month; Dongshan is listed in Shenzhen with a $39B valuation — Printed circuit board maker Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co. has started gauging investor interest for a Hong Kong listing …
Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg : Sources: Bain's Bridge Data Centres is in talks to upsize an existing loan from $2.8B to ~$6.6B, in what would be one of the largest data center deals in Asia — Bain Capital-owned Bridge Data Centres is in talks with banks to more than double the size of an existing loan to about $6.6 billion …
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