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Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta’s newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company’s other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch

The main event was the tech giant’s highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.

Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn’t working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

It’s the latest failure of OpenAI’s internal monitoring and security systems.