Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Beth Simone Noveck joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about her book, Reboot, AI and the Race to Save Democracy. She’s a professor at Northeastern, where she leads the Burns Center for Social Change. She also founded Innovate US,…
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft was changing a few of OpenAI’s software program with its personal in-house fashions in an effort to chop prices. These in-house fashions, referred to as MAI, had been more and more getting used to energy apps like Phrase and Excel, the outlet famous. The story raised an more…
Today, Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.1. Alongside it, Meta opened a public preview of the Meta Model API. That second part is the structural change. Meta’s models previously reached developers mainly as open weights. Muse Spark 1.1 is closed, hosted, and metered per token. So the question is narrow. Where does it belong…
Interactive · OpenAI GPT‑5.6 · July 9, 2026 GPT‑5.6 tier, cost and benchmark explorer Every number below is taken from OpenAI’s published GPT‑5.6 eval tables and price list. Move the controls to see how tier choice changes spend and score. Three durable capability tiers The number is the generation. Sol, Terra and Luna are tiers…
AI model developers have long offered consumers a simple deal: Use our technology for free through an online chatbot, or pay a monthly subscription to receive more usage, premium features, and advanced models. Anthropic is about to make that bargain a lot more complicated. Starting on July 12 at 11:59PM PT, subscribers to Anthropic’s $20,…
Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April, can engage in multistep reasoning and handle complex processes, manage digital workflows, and…
Datalab’s Lift is a focused document extraction tool with a specific promise: give it a PDF or image plus a JSON Schema, and it returns schema-shaped JSON directly. Instead of converting a document to Markdown first and then asking another model to extract fields, Lift reads rendered page images and attempts to emit the final…
On Tuesday, Meta launched “Muse Image,” a new AI image generation feature that allows users to create original images, edit existing photos, and even generate custom ads directly within its apps. But one capability has quickly become the center of controversy. Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts….
Long the leading light of the industry, Nvidia has had a bad couple of months. Bloomberg has the ugly details, but the upshot is that the company’s stock price has fallen 15% since its peak in May, even as projected revenue continues to grow. Compared with expected earnings, the company is now cheaper than the…
Courtesy of 1X Courtesy of 1X “We love this idea that a robot can be this peaceful and fun and goofy safe presence in a life,” says Dar Sleeper, 1X’s vice president of product and design. “Something that feels comfortable to be around, something that’s soft from the inside to the outside. If you want…
