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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · MIT Technology Review AI

White House orders government to rebrand ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘Super Intelligence’

President Trump signed an executive order directing US government agencies to use the term “Super Intelligence” (often abbreviated “SI”) instead of “artificial intelligence.” Media outlets, federal agencies and major tech executives have responded unevenly, with some documents and solicitations switching wording while others continue to use older terms; six tech leaders also signed a nonbinding White House Accord on Super Intelligence the same day.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch piece critiques CEOs’ out-of-touch AI use examples

TechCrunch examines criticism of tech CEOs — including Dazzle AI’s Marissa Mayer, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg — for public comments about using AI in personal and social contexts. The article and an Equity podcast discussion question whether such examples make executives seem disconnected from ordinary users and whether the industry is over-optimizing human interaction away.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Businesses report limited immediate sales impact from Meta’s Muse

Meta says more than 10 million people in the US and Canada have activated Muse and that over 25% used it for shopping, but executives across roughly 50 companies told reporters and investors Muse- and agent-driven purchases remain tiny or 'insignificant' so far. Firms are nonetheless preparing — optimizing sites for agents, weighing partnerships and potential transaction fees Meta may charge, while regulators and banks warn about credential and security risks.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Marissa Mayer's Dazzle AI assistant draws criticism after demo about her child

TechCrunch reports that former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer demonstrated her new app Dazzle — an AI assistant that learns from a user’s camera roll — saying it produced three descriptive bullet points about her ten‑year‑old daughter; the demo prompted public backlash and Mayer later defended the test on X. The piece situates the reaction alongside other tech leaders’ remarks about using AI for intimate, social tasks and cites a Pew Research finding that many Americans worry AI will weaken meaningful relationships.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Meta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund AI infrastructure buildout

Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion through a mix of new share issuances to fund its AI infrastructure buildout. The package includes about $22.5 billion in Class A common stock, $12.5 billion in depositary shares (each representing 1/20th of a new preferred share convertible into common stock in August 2029), and roughly $60 billion via ongoing open-market sales of new Class C shares once they begin trading, likely no earlier than Q1 2027; Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have expressed non-binding interest in up to $5 billion.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta delays enforcement of business terms to Nov. 20 after publisher pushback over AI scraping

Meta has pushed the enforcement date for its updated business terms from October 30 to November 20 after global publishers raised concerns the terms could permit scraping news sites for AI training. Meta says the delay will allow it to better explain how it uses web crawlers, the role of robots.txt, and what is and isn’t changing, after groups including the News/Media Alliance and EU/UK publishers pushed back.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Zuckerberg pitches Muse agent network as Meta’s future on Q3 earnings call

On Meta’s third‑quarter earnings call Mark Zuckerberg said Muse — the personal AI agent launched to the public last month — could become a "large‑scale" network of agents that transact and interact on users' behalf. He reported more than 10 million downloads in the US and Canada, ~25% daily usage among initial downloaders, and that ~25% of users are shopping via Muse with average purchases above $200, while privacy incidents and enterprise hesitancy were flagged as unresolved risks.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · The Verge AI · TechCrunch AI

Meta to create new non-voting share class to fund AI initiatives

Meta said it will issue a new class of non-voting shares to fund its AI initiatives, potential acquisitions, and employee compensation, with trading scheduled to begin in 2027. The announcement accompanied Q3 results and comments from CFO Susan Li and comes as Meta ramps AI spending (it forecasts $135–$145 billion in capital expenditures this year) and rolls out products like the Muse agent and Muse Wonder model.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Meta ties sale of new nonvoting shares to Zuckerberg staying in California

Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg finalized a Founder Alignment Agreement that links his ability to sell a new class of nonvoting shares to his continued residence where Meta’s headquarters are (effectively California); he can sell 20% immediately to cover potential taxes and the remaining 80% in chunks over eight years if he stays. The move responds to the proposed Proposition 40 one-time billionaire tax and is intended to keep Zuckerberg near Meta Superintelligence Labs and help raise funds for AI data centers without diluting his voting control.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta says Muse surpasses 10 million users; shopping is a leading use

Meta told investors on its Q3 earnings call that Muse has been adopted by more than 10 million users and that roughly 25% of people who set up Muse use it daily. CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted shopping as a top activity—over a quarter of engaged shopping users recorded average purchases above $200—cited Plaid usage, described Muse Secure VM and a forthcoming Muse Confidential VM, and said Meta expects to improve compute cost-efficiency by over 10x and scale Muse toward profitability and higher revenue per user.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Sam Altman reportedly pitched three possible governance 'endgames' for advanced AI

The Information reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman presented three internal scenarios for governing advanced AI: an IAEA-style international watchdog to inspect systems and monitor compute; a 'Demis Plan' modeled on CERN where leading labs merge or operate under a single umbrella; and an 'Eliezer Plan' in which one firm amasses dominant economic power and could withhold or disable others' compute. The report says OpenAI aims to pick a path within about a year while trying not to fall behind rivals and amid internal and policy pressures.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

A wave of films criticizes Big Tech as distribution and ad decisions spark controversy

Several 2026 films — including Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything, and Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial — take a more critical view of major tech figures and companies. The pieces reports controversy around distribution and promotion: X initially blocked ads for Gibney’s film and Elon Musk has threatened legal action, Amazon reportedly withdrew from distributing Artificial amid its commercial ties to AI firms, and some platforms briefly limited promotion.

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MODELS · 2 SOURCES · AWS Machine Learning · The Verge AI

Meta’s Muse Spark Open (816B MoE) added to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Meta’s coding-optimized Muse Spark Open (Mixture-of-Experts, 816 billion parameters with 42B active per token and a 1 million-token context window) is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart as two variants (Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B BF16 and Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B-NVFP4 NVFP4). The model’s open weights (released under the Muse Model License) can be deployed to SageMaker AI endpoints in your AWS account, with instance recommendations ml.p6-b300.48xlarge for BF16 and ml.p5e.48xlarge for NVFP4 and support for the model’s agentic reasoning and multimodal inputs.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Report: Major tech leaders and firms adopting Trump’s “super intelligence” rebrand for AI

The article reports that President Trump announced plans to rebrand “artificial intelligence” as “super intelligence,” and that several prominent tech CEOs and firms — including Elon Musk, Marc Benioff, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella — have used or signaled support for the term; it also cites a reported executive order and mentions Nvidia’s claimed $1 billion commitment to “super intelligence” research. The piece frames these moves as Silicon Valley aligning with the administration’s preferred terminology.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots bring always-on consumer AI agents

The Verge discusses the recent mainstream rollouts of Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots — animated, always‑on consumer AI agents pitched to handle tasks like reservations, inbox triage, and purchases. Muse is being offered for free while Dots are paid; both follow earlier community work such as OpenClaw and raise privacy and security questions about granting agents access to personal data.

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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Biohub coordinates $1.8B initiative to build AI models that predict cell behavior

Biohub, the nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion effort called the Virtual Biology Initiative to assemble data, lab measurements, equipment, and compute for training AI models that predict cell behavior. Major contributors include Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs (about $300M combined), the U.S. Department of Energy (over $500M for lab measurements and compute), and NIH-coordinated datasets; commercial funders receive one year of exclusive access to the data they pay for, and a first dataset is expected in about a year.

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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

DeepMind, Meta, and Isomorphic Labs invest $300M in Biohub to build 'virtual cell' AI datasets

Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug-discovery startup Isomorphic Labs will jointly invest $300 million in Biohub as part of a $1.8 billion initiative to build AI datasets intended to let researchers 'ask, predict, and answer biological questions digitally.' The U.S. Department of Energy plans to contribute more than $500 million over five years, and the NIH will supply datasets and repositories stemming from prior federal investments totaling over $500 million.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Trump rebrands 'AI' as 'super intelligence' and hosts CEOs who signed non‑binding frontier pact

President Trump issued an executive order promoting the term 'super intelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence' and hosted leading tech CEOs at a White House event where they signed the 'Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities', a voluntary and legally non‑binding pact. The meeting included figures such as Dario Amodei of Anthropic and other major tech leaders, and followed related announcements including a new 'Super Intelligence Force.'

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

White House hosts tech CEOs to sign AI safety pledge as Trump rebrands AI “super intelligence”; consumer adoption reportedly 2%

The White House convened major tech CEOs — including leaders from Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic — to sign an AI safety pledge President Donald Trump called “morally binding,” while Trump also signed an executive order rebranding AI as “super intelligence.” TechCrunch’s Equity podcast reports that despite consumer-facing moves from firms such as Meta and OpenAI, only about 2% of consumers are buying AI, with most investment still flowing into enterprise and startups.

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REGULATION · 2 SOURCES · The Verge AI · WIRED AI

Trump orders U.S. government to call AI “Super Intelligence”

Media reports say President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. executive branch to use the term “Super Intelligence” in official websites, policy documents, and press releases instead of “artificial intelligence” or “AI,” and that agencies won’t be required to rewrite past regulations. The announcement followed a White House luncheon with tech CEOs and included public remarks referencing Xi Jinping, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Frontier labs sign White House 'Accord on Super Intelligence' after Trump luncheon

Executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia signed a voluntary “White House Accord on Super Intelligence” announced after a luncheon with President Donald Trump, committing to internal controls, empowered internal safety teams, external monitoring, and board oversight. The commitments are voluntary and limited in scope, and came as the FTC reportedly prepares investigations into several frontier AI firms and third-party evaluators.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

OpenAI and Meta prime cute AI agents for consumer hardware with Dots and Muse Charm

OpenAI debuted Dots, a personalizable AI agent platform, and — per a public filing and reports involving designer Jony Ive — is working on hardware that won’t ship earlier than February 2027. Meta is tying its Muse agent to a pendant-like Muse Charm device that it aims to launch in time for this year’s holiday season; both companies appear to be soft-launching agents in software first to build demand for physical devices.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Major AI companies sign voluntary 'Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities' safety pledge

Top AI leaders — including Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, XAI’s Elon Musk, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang — signed a voluntary agreement titled the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities. The document lists four broad measures (internal controls, empowered internal teams, independent external auditors, and a board oversight committee) to monitor frontier model capabilities and proposes that these practices could later be codified into law; it sets no specified penalties for noncompliance.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta’s Muse AI: launch, Marketplace address leak reports, expanded integrations and Muse Charm

Meta has rolled out its Muse personal AI agent and announced related initiatives including a Muse Charm device and a Meta Enterprise Platform led by CJ Desai, plus expanded app integrations and business account access. Separately, a tech YouTuber, Matt Robb, reported that Muse allegedly shared his home address and accepted a lowball offer while managing his Facebook Marketplace listing.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

White House, Trump and tech CEOs sign a 'morally binding' AI code of conduct

President Donald Trump and several tech CEOs signed an AI code of conduct at the White House that the administration describes as "morally binding" and not legally enforceable. The code calls for independent third‑party auditors to verify models "operate as intended" and an independent board to oversee internal safety checks; signatories reportedly include Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Anthropic prospectus warns its AI could pose existential risk while disclosing huge losses and rapid revenue growth

Anthropic’s IPO prospectus devotes extensive risk disclosures — including warnings that its models have shown behaviors the company says could pose existential risks — while revealing more than $8 billion operating loss in 2025, nearly $4.6 billion revenue that year, plans for roughly $518 billion in future compute and infrastructure spending, and much faster revenue growth in 2026 (FT reports Q2 revenue of $11.5 billion). The filing also notes customer concentration and that Anthropic has inked compute deals with partners such as Google, SpaceX and Nscale.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · The Decoder · TechCrunch AI

Meta launches Meta Enterprise Platform to sell Muse AI services to businesses

Meta is creating a new business unit, the Meta Enterprise Platform, to sell AI tools to companies; the initial lineup includes the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code. Chirantan Desai, formerly CEO of MongoDB, will lead the unit and report directly to Mark Zuckerberg; Meta hasn’t disclosed pricing or commercial details and faces competition from coding tools and low-cost open-weight models, while the Wall Street Journal reports Meta is spending over $100 billion on AI infrastructure this year.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta promotes Muse at Connect as downloads top ~3.4M

Meta’s new AI app Muse has seen rapid adoption since its Sept. 8 launch, with Sensor Tower estimating more than 3.4 million downloads and other firms reporting 2.3–4.3 million; downloads and daily activity spiked after Meta heavily promoted Muse at its Meta Connect conference, where the company announced new features including avatar video chat, Mac support, an email address for the agent, more partners/connectors and smart-glasses plans. Muse has reached No.1 on the U.S. App Store and Google Play, and Meta is pushing the app via house ads across Facebook and Instagram plus wider ad buys, though paid ads accounted for a minority of impressions early on.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Meta’s Muse mascot 'Jolly' criticized for childlike design and privacy risks

Meta’s adult-only AI assistant Muse is fronted by a cuddly mascot called Jolly; critics and youth advocates say the toy-like design may appeal to children, disarm adult users, and obscure data-collection risks. Meta says it verifies users’ ages and will offer a Muse Charm device and a ‘confidential’ virtual machine for Muse later in 2026; researchers and nonprofit groups warn the branding could still attract underage attention and reduce user scrutiny of privacy.

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