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Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding

Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor.

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API.

Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a “step-change” from the first generation, with improvements based on feedback from developers. The company says it’s capable of more advanced coding, including detection and fixing of complex bugs; better supports end-to-end agentic workflows across a range of apps, including multi-agent systems; and has native multimodal perception across images, videos, and documents.

The Muse Spark 1.1 launch follows this week’s launch of Muse Image, an image generation model that’s proved controversial for its ability to incorporate other users’ Instagram...

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Android is getting its own weird dots to cure car sickness

Thomas Ricker is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Google is rolling out a new Android feature that’s been proven to reduce, or even eliminate, motion sickness

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Tokenomics - the SHI worldview takes in what enterprises can learn from ITAM and FinOps

Every new technology wave introduces new revenue models for vendors, which create new complexities for enterprise end users. At one level of abstraction, tokenomics is emerging as the word of choice for characterizing the new complexities of financial engineering and innovation in new AI opportunities and revenue models. Although many

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HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp

public sector Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era The UK government is inviting suppliers to bid to build a new national insurance system with a price tag of up to £500 million. The tax collector, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has issued a call to speak to

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The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over

A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left. What the court decided

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