tc · General
When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
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tc · Tools
Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
tc · General
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.
marktechpost · Agents
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B-parameter multimodal MoE model with 12B active parameters, 1M-token context and NVFP4 weights that run on 1 DGX Spark, plus 2 Bolt edge models. The post NVIDIA Release…
tc · Research
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
openai · LLMs
Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.
tc · Tools
Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more
Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.
hn · General
Muse Spark Open
https://dev.meta.ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-spark-ope... https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/15/meta-launches-new-muse-spark-...
hn · General
Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale
hn · General
Neural networks are clean
https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056
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hf · General
Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline
hf · General
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hf · Vision
Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta
hf · General
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hf · General
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