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Meta jumps 11% as investors bet on its Muse agent

Meta’s shares closed up 11.43% at $741.25 on Monday as investors piled into the company’s bet on AI agents. Trading volume hit 48.5 million shares, well above the three-month average, The Motley Fool reported.

The rally made Mark Zuckerberg about $25bn richer in a single session, lifting his fortune to an estimated $253.6bn, as Mary Whitfill Roeloffs reported for Forbes. That figure is Forbes’ own estimate, based on his roughly 13% stake, and TNW has not independently verified it.

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The catalyst was Muse, the personal AI agent Meta launched earlier this month with a free tier and plans at $20 and $100 a month. It books travel, sends email, and handles purchases on a user’s behalf, and in under two weeks it overtook ChatGPT and Claude in Apple’s iOS download rankings, The Motley Fool reported.

Wells Fargo analyst Ken Gawrelski raised his price...

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AWS Gives You Tools to Cut S3 Costs but Monitoring Has a Price

It's easy to create an S3 bucket, let objects pile up, and watch everything sit comfortably in the Standard class whether it's accessed a thousand times a day or has been its fourth abandonment anniversary. However, AWS gives you the tools to figure out where your

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Nobody actually writes Best regards

There is a small, recurring moment of social panic at the bottom of every email you write. You have said the thing. Now you have to decide who you are. Best? Best regards? Thanks? Your name, alone, like a man leaving a note on a windshield? Nothing at all? Plenty

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Choosing Between AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store

Every application has its secrets (database passwords, API keys, tokens, etc.), and they need to live somewhere that isn't a plaintext file committed to Git (please, don't). For those familiar with AWS, the first thought that comes to mind is to go with Secrets Manager to

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Three quarters of email begins with nothing

Every email advice column in existence opens with the salutation. It is treated as the load-bearing decision — get it wrong and you are too stiff, too familiar, too American, too much. Entire consultancies exist to tell you whether to write Dear Ms Patel or Hi Priya. We counted the openings

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AWS Gives You Tools to Cut S3 Costs but Monitoring Has a Price

Nobody actually writes Best regards

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Three quarters of email begins with nothing