A quiet day — some candidates were dropped before publishing. 6 today.
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Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer: A 30B Local Agentic Model Optimised for On-Device Execution
Meta AI Research has introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local workflows. It enables autonomous agents and complex task execution on consumer GPUs without relying on cloud APIs.
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Rubrik’s lessons from one month with Mythos Preview
Rubrik joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing in June, when the program expanded to roughly 150 organizations across 15 countries, to test Mythos Preview against its codebase. CTO Arvind Nithrakashyap says the model surfaced vulnerability chains that conventional scans missed, forcing the team to build automated triage instead of hiring more reviewers, and to limit automated fixes to a deliberate, tightly-scoped subset of vulnerability classes.
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Scaling AI hinges on the enterprise data layer
A Google Cloud and MIT report finds AI has access to just 45% of enterprise data on average, and only half of organizations trust that their AI agents' decisions are relevant and accurate. A separate Deloitte report found only 15% of companies have successfully scaled multiagent systems, with surveyed IT leaders saying their organizations were three to four years from redesigning workflows around agentic AI.
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Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba
Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington.
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How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression
AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle at QCon London.
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Solving integration woes with a hackathon
Ryan welcomes Meryll Blanchet, Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, to chat about Adobe’s recent acquisition of Semrush, how Adobe Brand Visibility was born from Semrush’s AI visibility product and Adobe’s LLM Optimizer, and how Adobe used a three-day internal hackathon instead of a…
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