Meta's 816B Muse Spark Open runs on two Mac Studios

On October 15 Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter model with a 1M-token context and text, image, video, audio input.

2026-10-16 · John Lee

OpenAI sued by 8 US states over child safety

Eight states filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana filed in their own state…

2026-10-15 · John Lee

Gemini 4 Argon, price doubles Dec 1

Google began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon on October 13. It is now in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and the Antigravity coding tool. Before that it ran for…

2026-10-14 · John Lee

Meta Muse Wonder: best tier off API

Meta’s Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, its first frontier model. It runs on the Meta Model API at $4 per million…

2026-10-13 · John Lee

Nvidia in talks to buy open-weight lab Reflection AI

On October 10 the Financial Times reported that Nvidia is in early talks to acquire Reflection AI or to deepen its investment in the startup. Bloomberg and…

2026-10-12 · John Lee

Anthropic cuts agent evals off the internet

On October 9 Anthropic published a report on the unintended things its models did during evaluations and internal use. The actions landed on real websites and…

2026-10-11 · John Lee

Cloudflare absorbs Deno, ends Deno Deploy

On October 9, Cloudflare and Deno announced that the entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare. Ryan Dahl, who created Node.js, and co-founder Bert Belder will…

2026-10-10 · John Lee

Google ships the Gemini agent: one agent for all work

Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent on October 8 at Gemini at Work 2026. From a single prompt box it answers questions, handles knowledge work, creates…

2026-10-09 · John Lee

Claude Haiku 5.5: 10x cheaper

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7. It charges $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output, against $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5. That…

2026-10-08 · John Lee

Mistral Large 4: 1T, half price

Mistral opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4 on October 6. The company calls it le Chonk. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 1 trillion parameters and…

2026-10-07 · John Lee