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11.08.26 - 16:06
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IBM’s CEO Just Did the Math on AI Spending — and the Numbers Don’t Add Up (24/7 Wall St.)
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Big Tech is about to spend $725 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 alone — Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) combined, up 77% from $410 billion just last year. That kind of spending has become the defining feature of this market cycle, and most bubble warnings focus on the usual ... IBM's CEO Just Did the Math on AI Spending — and the Numbers Don't Add Up...
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11.08.26 - 09:32
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Meta to challenge China′s open-weight AI dominance amid US regulatory fears (SCMP)
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China's dominance in open-weight artificial intelligence faces a fresh challenge from Meta Platforms, whose renewed push into open-source models could lure away American customers anxious about looming regulatory restrictions in Washington, analysts say.
The US tech giant on Monday launched Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion parameter open-weight model light enough to run locally on personal computers, while also announcing plans to release the weights of its latest flagship Muse Spark 1.2 model.
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11.08.26 - 08:00
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Zuckerberg pushes ′superintelligent′ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model (The Guardian)
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Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulationMark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans for how Meta would develop the technology in the future. The CEO's essay went online the same day as Meta released a new, open-source AI model that seeks to rival Anthropic and OpenAI's products called Muse Glimmer.Over the course of more than 6,000 words in a post titled “The Future is for Everyone,” Zuckerberg addressed a range of topics related to AI that included datacenters, government regulation, cybersecurity, the creation of bioweapons, labor market disruption, surveillance powers and more. The essay presented a utopian vision of AI as a personalized “superintelligence” – using the word 60 times. Continue reading......
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11.08.26 - 04:06
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Meta bets open, on-device model can win AI power struggle (Digitimes)
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Meta Platforms is trying to turn open-source AI into a strategic weapon rather than a side project. On August 10, the company released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weights model built for local, agentic tasks, alongside a 6,500-word essay from CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing that distributing powerful AI widely — not concentrating it inside a handful of labs — is the surest way to avoid outcomes like mass unemployment or an unchecked "singular" superintelligence. The pairing signals that Meta now sees openness itself as the differentiator it needs while it plays catch-up to Anthropic and OpenAI....
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