AI News Archive: August 6, 2026 — Part 13
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- Mark Zuckerberg Just Unveiled a New ‘Low-Cost’ AI Coding Tool. There’s Just 1 Catch
The AI agent is called Muse Code, and it’s designed to help software engineers.
- Meta's New Mac Coding Agent Costs Up to 20x Less If You Let Meta Train on Your Data
Meta today launched Muse Code , a terminal coding agent available for macOS and Linux. Muse Code is in beta, and it is powered by Muse Spark 1.2, Meta's newest model. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Muse Code can accomplish complete software engineering tasks across large repos. It can plan out changes, write code, and validate results using multiple persistent subagents. Muse Code is Meta's equivalent of OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code, and it is Meta's first major push into agentic coding. There are several default skills available, such as /plan for turning a task into an approval-gated plan, /grill for stress testing a plan, and /goal for working toward the successful completion of an objective. Muse Code maintains an append-only local event log of every model call, tool run, approval, and edit, so it can resume where it stopped if it crashes. Muse Code can be used through the Mac's terminal after a one-command install, and there is no dedicated app available. The model is priced at $1.25 for 1 million input tokens and $4.25 for 1 million output tokens, but Meta is offering a discount for users who give the company permission to use their prompts and completions to train future AI models. With the Contributor tier enabled for Meta model training, Muse Spark 1.2 is priced at $0.10 for 1 million input tokens and $0.20 for 1 million output tokens. The Standard tier costs more and does not let Meta use prompts to train its models. The more affordable Contributor tier is rate limited at 60 requests per minute and 2,100,000 tokens per minute, while the Standard tier allows for 3,000 requests per minute and 4,000,000 tokens per minute. Tag: Meta This article, " Meta's New Mac Coding Agent Costs Up to 20x Less If You Let Meta Train on Your Data " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
- Meet Discovery Loop, AI startup launched by Google DeepMind’s top researchers
Meet Discovery Loop, AI startup launched by Google DeepMind’s top researchers
- Meet Sanjay Ghemawat, cofounder of AI startup Discovery Loop
Computer scientist Sanjay Ghemawat is among the co-founders of Discovery Loop, the artificial intelligence startup launched by longtime Google executives Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le alongside Ghemawat. The Indian-origin scientist spent more than two decades at Google, where he worked on some of the company’s foundational distributed computing and AI technologies.
- Google's top AI researchers leave to launch Discovery Loop startup
Google's top AI researchers leave to launch Discovery Loop startup YourStory.com
- Google Shifts AI Power to California in Race Against Anthropic, OpenAI
Google Shifts AI Power to California in Race Against Anthropic, OpenAI The Straits Times
- OpenAI's models secretly joined forces months ahead of hacking Hugging Face
Researchers said multiple AI agents communicated through hidden message boards and coordinated for months to gain internet access, exposing new risks around advanced AI behaviour during testing
- WhatsApp warning: AI agents can spam all your contacts — here’s how
WhatsApp warning: AI agents can spam all your contacts — here’s how Gulf News
- Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers MarkTechPost
- Ask Maps gets more helpful with food ordering and more
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- Google Maps Adds Agentic Feature That Orders Food and Books Hotels for You
Interested users will also be able to share their entire schedule with Google Maps and let its AI agents takeover.
- Hungry Before a Trip? Gemini in Google Maps Can Order Food, Find Hotels for You
Hungry Before a Trip? Gemini in Google Maps Can Order Food, Find Hotels for You PCMag UK
- Ask Maps in Google Maps rolling out Personal Intelligence, real-time transit, global launch
After rolling out in March , the Gemini-powered Ask Maps chat in Google Maps is getting a number of big updates today, including a global launch.
- Introducing Adobe for ChatGPT: Create, edit and get work done — all in ChatGPT
Introducing Adobe for ChatGPT: Create, edit and get work done — all in ChatGPT Adobe
- Photo and Video Editing in ChatGPT Just Got an Adobe-Size Update
Adobe’s plugin adds over 70 new photo, video and document editing capabilities inside ChatGPT.
- Stop jumping between Adobe apps with this new ChatGPT plugin
Adobe’s entire creative suite is now in ChatGPT.
- New Adobe plugin in ChatGPT combines Photoshop, Firefly, Premiere, Acrobat, and more
Adobe is unifying its ChatGPT integrations into a new plugin with more than 70 tools spanning photo editing, video, design, and PDFs. Here are the details.
- You can use 70+ Adobe tools without leaving ChatGPT now - here's how
Adobe's new plugin works both in Work and Codex, and is available today in ChatGPT.
- Adobe is putting its entire creative ecosystem inside ChatGPT with one unified plugin
Adobe's new ChatGPT plugin brings Photoshop, Premiere, Firefly, and dozens of other tools into a single conversational interface.
- Anthropic confirms plans to build own AI chips amid global shortage
The Claude creator will also put together a new team in charge of designing the custom-made chips. Read more: Anthropic confirms plans to build own AI chips amid global shortage
- Confirming rumors, Anthropic reveals plan to develop custom chip
Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it plans to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip. A spokesperson told Business Insider that the company will co-design the processor with its future large language models. Usually, co-design initiatives focus on tailoring a chip to a specific workload. Such customization can significantly increase hardware efficiency. Off-the-shelf AI chips’ specifications […] The post Confirming rumors, Anthropic reveals plan to develop custom chip appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Anthropic Could Build Custom AI Chips for Claude Models, Job Listing Suggests
Anthropic has started hiring Research Engineers for its Chip Design RL team at the company’s San Francisco and New York City offices, seemingly confirming the company's plans to foray into designing custom AI chips in-house. An Anthropic spokesperson reportedly confirmed the development to a publication. The tech firm will reportedly co-design hardware and models, w...
- Introducing Agent Plugins 1.0.0
Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is now available. It is an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins. Compatible agent clients can discover and load them. Agent Plugins defines a common format: a root plugin.json manifest, plus fixed locations for portable components. Each client keeps control of installation, distribution, policy, user experience, and client-specific capabilities. At launch, Agent Plugins is supported across the following clients: ChatGPT and Codex Cursor GitHub Copilot Kiro VS Code Read the specification and implementation guides , learn more in the announcement post, and follow our guide to build a plugin on the new standard. Read more
- AI film depicts Singapore under zombie attack
AI film depicts Singapore under zombie attack The Straits Times
- As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits
As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits thestar.com
- As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits
As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits San Francisco Chronicle
- Out-of-control AI systems are going rogue and hacking people. Is it time to panic?
ChatGPT’s OpenAI, Claude’s Anthropic and now Meta have all announced that their systems have launched cyber attacks on other people and companies. But there are plenty of reasons to stay calm, for now
- AI has been stepping out of bounds. Should you be worried?
The robots aren't revolting, but they're starting to freelance … or so it seems. Recent weeks have seen several high-profile instances of AI going off the leash in ways that have raised alarms among security experts and the public alike.
- AMD, Supermicro and Spectro Cloud unveil enterprise AI coding platform
AMD, Supermicro and Spectro Cloud unveil enterprise AI coding platform verdict.co.uk
- Alphabet Heads to Bond Market After Boosting AI Spending Forecast
Alphabet Heads to Bond Market After Boosting AI Spending Forecast Barron's
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- Most People Prefer AI Writing, but That’s Because It’s Trained on Us
A new study finds that people rated AI-generated stories higher than human-generated stories, especially when told that a human wrote the story.
- Suno Plans New Tools to Make AI-Generated Music More Transparent. Is It Enough?
Suno plans to flag use of its music generator using audio watermarking and fingerprint technology.
- Study finds AI-generated animal stories rarely have a female lead
A new University of Washington study found that when AI models write stories about talking animals, the lead character is rarely ever female.
- AI bias in kids stories (VIDEO)
AI bias in kids stories (VIDEO) eurekalert.org
- Google Chrome starts rolling out updated navigation bar with Gemini button on Android [Gallery]
Google Chrome is testing a pretty major new redesign on mobile devices – Android and iPhone – which has dual bars on the top and bottom as well as a new Gemini shortcut.
- Google reveals how much free space Chrome wants to install local AI models
It's kind of a lot.
- Training-free framework accelerates large language models without retraining
Training-free framework accelerates large language models without retraining eurekalert.org
- AI for homework—parents more willing to pay subscriptions for their children as peer pressure rises
Many parents have mixed feelings about the unrestricted use of artificial intelligence (AI) for schoolwork. They are concerned about the potential impact on their child's ability to learn but also don't want them to be left behind if other young people are using AI.
- In dry AMD models, ISM9077 significantly improved retinal structural integrity and visual function.
In dry AMD models, ISM9077 significantly improved retinal structural integrity and visual function. eurekalert.org
- Advanced Micro Devices to Buy Startup Taalas for New AI Chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is buying Canadian startup Taalas, a move that will let it offer another type of artificial intelligence chip to the burgeoning data center industry.
- Toronto’s Taalas sells to AMD as AI inference market heats up
The post Toronto’s Taalas sells to AMD as AI inference market heats up appeared first on The Logic .
- AMD Acquires Taalas to Advance Compute Solutions for Rapidly Growing AI Inference Market
AMD Acquires Taalas to Advance Compute Solutions for Rapidly Growing AI Inference Market thestar.com
- AMD acquires Taalas to hardwire AI models into silicon
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today it has agreed to buy Taalas Inc., a Toronto startup that hardwires artificial intelligence models directly into silicon, in a deal that pushes the chipmaker deeper into the market for AI inference. Terms were not disclosed. AMD shares rose about 1.5% following the announcement. Founded in 2023, Taalas builds […] The post AMD acquires Taalas to hardwire AI models into silicon appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
- AI Chip Startup Taalas Acquired by AMD
AMD plans to use Taalas chips alongside its GPUs for AI inference, likely as an LLM decode accelerator. The post AI Chip Startup Taalas Acquired by AMD appeared first on EE Times .
- Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree prices IPO at $9 billion valuation
The IPO comes as the U.S. and China ratchet up trade and technology tensions, with Washington tightening Chinese access to U.S. technology and markets.
- Consint.AI Bags ₹22 Cr To Expand Globally, Build AI Model For Risk And Fraud Detection
AI startup Consint.AI, which offers an AI-powered healthcare fraud and management platform to enterprises, has raised ₹22 Cr (about $2.3…
- Consint.AI Secures INR 22 Cr in Series A Funding
Consint.AI Secures INR 22 Cr in Series A Funding india.entrepreneur.com
- Acrab nets $130m Series B for edge AI silicon and software platform
Acrab nets $130m Series B for edge AI silicon and software platform verdict.co.uk