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Meta has a new AI model out, and it’s a recipe for a potential deepfake disaster and even more AI slop. If you have a public account, you need to change your settings now to avoid ending up the unwitting subject of anyone’s AI creations.The model, called Muse Image, is the first creative model from the new family of Muse Spark models made by Meta’s superintelligence labs. The company said in a blog post that it’s built to handle more complex requests, create composite photos and edit existing images. It’s available now on the Meta AI app, Instagram and WhatsApp, with plans…
Conway Corp recently announced Crystal Kemp’s title has changed from chief marketing officer to chief customer officer, reflecting the continued expansion of her leadership responsibilities and the company’s commitment to delivering an exceptional customer experience.As chief customer officer, Kemp will continue leading Conway Corp’s marketing, communications, video production, business solutions and community engagement efforts while providing strategic oversight for customer experience, customer service, business solutions, brand strategy and local programming. The updated title aligns with her role in shaping and enhancing the customer experience across every interaction with Conway Corp.Kemp joined Conway Corp in 2000 as marketing and communications coordinator.…
An engineer ships an agent to production. It needs to call an internal API, so it uses the key already sitting in the engineer’s environment. The agent runs. It also now holds every permission that engineer holds. That is the default state of most agent deployments today. The agent has no identity of its own, so it borrows one. Usually it borrows a human’s, through an API key. The agent works on day one, which is exactly why the problem ships to production unnoticed. What inheritance actually costs you Four failures follow from that single shortcut, and they compound. Figure…
Meta hopes to have its custom AI chip installed in its data centers by September, as it seeks to reduce the cost of training and running AI models. It is the fourth iteration of the company’s custom chip and has reportedly performed well in early tests, with full deployment expected ahead of schedule. The social media giant designed the chip alongside Broadcom, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co manufacturing it, according to Reuters. It comes as Meta looks to gain more control over costs and operations away from Nvidia and AMD, just a few months after it inked a partnership worth…
ESET ResearchThreat Reports A view of the H1 2026 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts. 08 Jul 2026 • , 2 min. read The first half of 2026 shows how attackers continue to improve the efficiency and scalability of their operations. Rather than relying on entirely new methods and tools, they are quickly adapting established techniques to new platforms, technologies, and user behaviors. Artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in this development. In H1 2026, ESET analyzed nearly 900,000 AI skills – small functional components used by…
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Volkswagen is in trouble. Two weeks ago, Germany’s Manager Magazin reported that CEO Oliver Blume had floated an idea to close four factories and eliminate 100,000 workers, both in Germany and around the world, by 2030. It said the plan would be made public at a company board meeting on July 9. The factories affected were said to be those in Hanover, Zwickau, and Emden, as well as the Audi factory in Neckarsulm. If implemented, the plan — known internally as the Group Target Picture — would effectively transform Volkswagen…
IoT technology is quietly reshaping how forex traders access and act on market information. Traders can now monitor news feeds, financial indicators and social media sentiment by linking smart devices directly to live data streams.Understanding IoT in the Financial MarketThe concept of the Internet of Things is simple at its core. It is simply a network of everyday objects that connect to the internet to share information. IoT involves sensors for data collection, microcontrollers for data processing, and communication modules.Those three can transform a simple object into a device that helps users gather data and get useful information. Smartwatches and…
Mint Mobile offers some of my favorite Android phone deals on the web, but when these promotions go out of stock, they’re usually gone for good. Fortunately, that’s not the case with the Samsung Galaxy S26, as the prepaid carrier just brought back one of my favorite deals of 2026 thus far.Purchase the Samsung Galaxy S26 with one year of the Unlimited plan and Mint Mobile will give you $500 off the phone AND 50% off the wireless. That means you’re getting a powerful 2026 flagship phone and a full 12 months of T-Mobile-powered wireless service for only $580 upfront…
Clare Liguori, a Senior Principal Engineer who works on developer tooling and agentic AI at Amazon Web Services, speaks with host Sri Panyam about the Amazon Strands Agents SDK. This episode explores the philosophy, design decisions, and emerging patterns behind building production-grade AI agents. Clare frames any agent as three core components: a model, a set of tools, and a prompt. During this interview, she describes the origin story of Strands, the model-driven approach vs. workflows and custom orchestration, steering hooks, tools and MCP, sub-agents and multi-agents, memory layers, production readiness, testing and evaluation starting with use cases where trajectories…
Quantum phenomena are usually associated with extremely small objects such as individual atoms, molecules, or photons that must be carefully isolated from their surroundings. But can those same strange quantum effects also exist in objects large enough to see and hold? Researchers at TU Wien have now provided compelling evidence that they can. By studying a centimeter-sized crystal made from a type of material known as a strange metal, the team detected a high degree of quantum entanglement, one of the most remarkable features of quantum physics. They accomplished this using a technique from quantum information science called quantum Fisher…