Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU. The company’s  Superintelligence Labs has released the 30-billion-parameter model’s weights on Hugging Face. Meta says developers can use it for local coding, function calling, local agents, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation. The release targets an operational…

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Physics AI can now explore thousands of design variations in the time it would take a traditional simulation to chew through a handful of them. Precisely up to 1,000 times faster, according to Siemens. What it cannot do is sign off a safety-critical part. On that, the technology has a firm limit, and Sam Mahalingam,…

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Insider Brief Firebird launched an Nvidia-based AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, and plans to scale the site beyond 70,000 Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs and 300 megawatts of capacity by the end of 2027. Nvidia intends to invest in Firebird following an earlier CoreWeave investment, while Schneider Electric, Vertiv and Dell Technologies supplied electrical,…

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For years, artificial intelligence could be covered as one industry. This edition makes that impossible. The important action is now distributed across institutions with incompatible duties, incentives, and definitions of success. The result is a new kind of AI news cycle: no single launch at its center, no single authority in control, and no clean…

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Insider Brief HII plans to award up to $900 million in shipbuilding work to Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics over seven years to expand physical AI and automation across U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs. The performance-based agreements are part of HII’s HYPR program and will move through development and delivery stages covering automated welding, grinding, blasting,…

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Insider Brief Magnendo Corp. has been selected for an award of up to $32 million from ARPA-H to develop magnetic robotic navigation technology for increasingly autonomous treatment of ischemic strokes. The five-year award is part of ARPA-H’s Autonomous Interventions and Robotics program and will support development of a platform for navigating guidewires and catheters through…

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Insider Brief Qureight, an end-to-end imaging company providing enterprise-grade imaging and precision endpoints for clinical trials focused on lung and heart disease, raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Molten Ventures, with participation from existing investors Hargreave Hale AIM VCT, XTX Ventures, Guinness Ventures, Meltwind, and Ascension. The capital will fund expansion of…

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Every AI model, no matter how capable, is only as good as the systems underneath it. Training a large language model, running inference at scale, or deploying an autonomous agent all depend on a specific combination of hardware, software, networking, and data pipelines built to handle demands that ordinary IT systems were never designed for.…

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Guest Post by By Mark M.J. Scott, President of Northern Pixels Inc. The demo went well. The buyer leaned in, asked good questions, took the follow-up meeting. Then nothing. Your team has theories — the budget froze, the champion got busy, a competitor undercut you on price. No one names the real one: the buyer never…

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A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay a $567 million fine, adding to a previous $375 million penalty from March and bringing the company’s total fines in the state to $942 million, in a case centered on social media harms and addiction among young users. The court also mandated operational changes, including…

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