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Meta Superintelligence Labs' fourth Muse Spark release in five months uses ~20% fewer tool calls and ~25% fewer tokens than Muse Spark 1.2. Pricing is $0.2 vs $25 per 1M output tokens versus Claude Opus 5, with a 90%+ discount if you opt in to training.
Microsoft merged its consumer and workplace Copilot into one app with three tabs — Home, Code, and Autopilot — rebranding the Scout personal assistant as Autopilot, a cloud agent that keeps running while you sleep. Code runs in a sandboxed environment on GitHub Copilot tech and hosts internal apps inside a tenant.
Hacktron AI's three-person team breached OpenAI employee accounts in under 72 hours using Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, chaining two critical flaws in Discourse's HEIF image processing. OpenAI paid $6,500 via its bug bounty; the HEIF Heist project cost under $3,000 in tokens and was detected only by Shopify.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the notification mechanism with Chinese vice premier He Lifeng, modeled on the Cold War hotline with Moscow. Officials expect weeks of work to finalize, targeting a framework by Bessent's next meeting with Lifeng in Shenzhen in two months.
OpenAI says it hit a goal set last fall: an "automated research intern" that handles well-defined tasks that would take a researcher several days. Coding-agent use climbed throughout 2026, and the post details how model development was paced to prioritize monitoring, alignment, and security.
A civil antitrust lawsuit filed in federal court alleges the four companies illegally coordinated to pace AI development. Politico and AP both report the collusion claims against the competitors.
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