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Latest edition · October 12, 2026
Meta dropped its new Muse Wonder frontier model family today, and early benchmarks suggest it's genuinely competitive at the top of the AI leaderboard — a notable comeback for a company that's been playing catch-up. Elsewhere, Anthropic's red team published findings that small AI models may soon be capable of self-replicating on IoT devices, which is the kind of security research that warrants immediate attention, and Microsoft gave more detail on its plan to scale its in-house Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027, signaling a serious push to reduce Nvidia dependence.
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