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Meta's new Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang after a $14.3B Scale AI acquisition, just released Muse Spark, a multimodal model handling voice, text, and image with a multi-agent reasoning mode.

Muse Spark benchmarks competitively with Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on reasoning but trails on coding and ARC-AGI 2, with health reasoning as its standout strength tied to Meta's "personal superintelligence" mission.

Unlike Llama, Muse Spark is fully proprietary for now. Meta says it wants to open-source future versions, but with no timeline set, that promise is doing a lot of work.

YouTube has rolled out AI-generated avatars for Shorts, letting creators scan their face and voice to insert a photorealistic digital version of themselves into videos up to eight seconds long.

Any avatar-generated video gets YouTube's AI disclosure plus SynthID and C2PA watermarks, with avatars auto-deleted after three years of inactivity and creation restricted to account owners over 18.

YouTube is framing AI avatars as a creator control tool, but it's also just adding more AI-generated content to a platform already struggling with AI-generated content.

Anthropic opened a public beta for Claude Managed Agents, letting developers deploy production-ready AI agents by defining tasks, tools, and guardrails — no backend infrastructure required.

Agents can run solo for hours without losing state, a coordination mode lets one agent delegate subtasks to others, and pricing runs $0.08 per hour on top of normal API costs.

Rakuten stood up agents across five departments in roughly a week each, which is the kind of adoption speed that usually takes a year of internal tooling to pull off.

The New York Times published an investigation by Theranos journalist John Carreyrou arguing British cryptographer Adam Back, inventor of Hashcash and cited in the Bitcoin white paper, is the most likely person behind Satoshi Nakamoto.

The case rests on stylometric analysis — Back was the only mailing-list participant to hyphenate "proof-of-work," reference Russian currency WebMoney, and use phrases that mirror Satoshi's writing, though Carreyrou admits it falls short of definitive proof.

Back denied it, the crypto community is skeptical, and even Carreyrou says only cryptographic evidence would be a real smoking gun — so the mystery stays intact for now.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple's first foldable iPhone is on track for a September debut alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, despite earlier concerns about delays from engineering test challenges.

Supply may be limited at launch due to the device's complexity, but Apple has reportedly solved key foldable problems including screen durability and a less visible crease when unfolded.

Samsung and Chinese makers have sold foldables for years, so Apple is late to the category — but it has a habit of arriving late and making everyone forget who got there first.

A) Maybe one or two, through smart partnerships - 62% 🏆

B) None — the entire business model is broken - 38%