📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

Turns out Meta's idea of open still needs a serious machine. Muse Spark Open runs 816 billion parameters with a 1 million token context window, and Meta claims it beats every other open-weight model in the country. It is natively multimodal, built for coding and agentic work, and tuned to run locally on Apple hardware... assuming you have a Mac Studio with a spare terabyte of RAM.

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Harvard researchers just found consistent gender gaps in how Americans use AI, get support for it, understand it, and appear in coverage of it, drawing on a survey of 5,400+ adults, browsing data, and 78K news articles. 29% of women said they’d never used AI vs. 22% of men, though browsing data showed no real gap in trying it, only in how much time users spent on it.

Anthropic is bringing independent outside experts into its labs to investigate AI risks and see whether its safety practices hold up. Six reviewers from nonprofit METR get access comparable to Anthropic’s internal risk teams. METR can publish findings on AI risks and internal safety practices without Anthropic’s approval.

NVIDIA just released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open multimodal model built for specialized AI agents that need to reason across text, images, documents, video, and tools in one workflow. Main points: It has 120B total parameters but activates only 12B per token, using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to keep inference efficient.

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🧠 Greg Isenberg just shared 21 AI industry takeaways after 48 hours with execs

⚡ Product Hunt’s CEO has a warning for AI builders, His answer is a skill called “buoyancy.”

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🕵️ Citizen Lab Found Spyware Hiding Inside Online Ads

🥤 KFC is Dumping Pepsi For Coca-Cola in the U.S.

🛒 Google launched its Universal Cart across Search and Gemini in the U.S., tracking prices and combining products from different stores.

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