Meta launches its personal AI agent Muse in Singapore, linked to Grab and Shopee

Meta says its AI agent Muse is now available in Singapore on iOS, Android and muse.ai. It can connect to Gmail, Google Calendar and Instagram. Local partners include Shopee, Grab, Singapore Airlines, Agoda, ShopBack, Klook, Trip.com and Lazada. Meta says these connections will roll out gradually, and some will arrive after launch. Muse runs on what Meta calls Muse Secure VM, a dedicated cloud computer. Meta says this keeps passwords and payment methods out of the agent's view, and that Muse asks before sending email or buying things. Meta says it is free for most uses, with paid plans for more.

Anthropic hiring manager says he dropped coding interviews because Claude aces them

Felix Rieseberg, a hiring manager at Anthropic, wrote that this month he stopped asking candidates to do traditional coding interviews. His reason is that Claude, Anthropic's AI model, is better at them. His advice to junior engineers is that "hunger beats tenure".

Anthropic's stock market filing shows Amazon stands to gain most from its listing

According to Anthropic's IPO filing, no venture firm owns 5% of the AI company, which TechCrunch calls highly unusual. At its $965 billion private valuation, even large stakes are small percentages. Amazon structured much of its investment as convertible notes, debt that turns into shares at a listing. The notes have $6.2 billion in principal, but Amazon's own filings valued them at $97.9 billion as of June 30. Amazon has invested about $18 billion in total, and Anthropic has committed to spend at least $110 billion on Amazon's cloud over ten years. Google also holds a stake and has at least $114 billion in cloud commitments from Anthropic through 2033.

OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, a rival to Nvidia's, report says

The Information reports that OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, called TPUs. Its source is one person familiar with the matter. A job listing shows OpenAI is looking for an engineer to "lead the optimization" of its models on TPUs. OpenAI is a major Nvidia customer, and Nvidia is also an OpenAI backer.

Chipmaker AMD says it will invest $1 billion in Meta and its servers now run there

AMD says it will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity offering. CNBC reports that Nvidia and AMD together will invest $4 billion in Meta. AMD also says its first Helios rack-scale systems, whole server racks it sells as one unit, are installed at Meta, and that its EPYC server processors power Meta's AI agent Muse.

US regulator approves Amazon's $11.5 billion purchase of satellite firm Globalstar

The US Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it approved the $11.5 billion deal for Amazon Leo, Amazon's satellite internet business, to buy Globalstar. The deal gives Amazon access to Globalstar's 24 satellites and its mobile satellite spectrum, the radio frequencies used to reach phones and devices.

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