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Open Source · Today · 7 min

Meta's Muse Glimmer Puts a 30B Agent Model on Your Laptop

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B agent model, under Apache 2.0. The number that matters is not 30B — it is the 24-32 GB memory envelope, and what it changes for builders in India and the UK.

Funding · Today · 6 min

Sequoia's $1B Nuclear Bet on AI Data Centre Power

Valar Atomics raised $1B led by Sequoia plus a $200M credit facility, weeks after its Ward 250 reactor went critical and powered a Blackwell GPU. What is proven, financed and unproven.

Infrastructure · Today · 6 min

AMD Buys Taalas, the Chip That Hardwires One Model in Silicon

AMD has agreed to acquire Toronto's Taalas, which builds inference chips hard-wired for a single model. Terms were not disclosed. The bet underneath it, and what it means for builders.

Model Release · Yesterday · 6 min

Gemini 3.6 Flash Hit GA in July: Google's Subagent-Tier Play

Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite hit general availability in July with cheaper output and stronger agentic planning. Where the new Flash tier fits in your subagent stack — with verified pricing.

Funding · Yesterday · 7 min

Indian AI Startup Funding Up 4x in H1 2026 — Still a Rounding Error?

Inc42 counts $676M across a record 57 deals for Indian AI-native startups in H1 2026 — over 4x year-on-year. London raised ~$12B in seven months. The honest maths on the gap, for AI builders.

Product · Yesterday · 7 min

Claude Code Turns Auto Mode On by Default: What Changes 14 August

From 14 August 2026, Claude Code stops asking permission at every step on Pro, Max and Team plans. The new blast-radius rules, the opt-out, and what UK and Indian teams should do this week.

Live from the AI world
A Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.7 launches with 1M-token context window

Model Release Product
2h ago
O OpenAI

Agentic browser rolls out to Plus users, embedded in ChatGPT desktop

Product
3h ago
A Analytics India

Sarvam AI raises $53M Series A led by Lightspeed, Peak XV, Khosla

India Funding
4h ago
X arXiv cs.AI

DeepMind: Chain-of-Thought Gains Plateau Past 32k Tokens (14-task benchmark)

Research
5h ago
G DeepMind

Gemini 3.1 adds real-time voice and image analysis; AlphaEvolve extended

Model Release Research
6h ago
H Hugging Face

Sarvam-2 7B weights released under modified Apache 2.0 for Indic languages

India Open-Source Model Release
7h ago
I Inc42

Neysa becomes unicorn with $1.2B round led by Blackstone — India's GenAI infra bet

India Funding Infra
9h ago
M Meta AI

Muse Spark debuts as first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs

Model Release
12h ago
T TechCrunch AI

OpenAI passes $25B annualised revenue; IPO filing rumoured for late 2026

Product
14h ago
M MarkTechPost

Agentic AI Foundation formed under Linux Foundation — MCP, AGENTS.md, goose unite

Open-Source Infra
18h ago
A Analytics India

IndiaAI Mission earmarks ₹10,000 Cr; potentially doubling under FY27 budget

India Policy
yesterday
M MIT Tech Review

What's next for AI in 2026: interpretability, agents, and on-device inference

Research
yesterday
X arXiv cs.CL

Self-Critique Beats Longer Thinking: Empirical Study on 7 Open-Weight Models

Research Open-Source
yesterday
L LLM Stats

Mistral releases Magistral-3 weights; tops open-weight coding leaderboard

Model Release Open-Source
2d ago
H Hugging Face

Smol-VLA: 2B-param vision-language-action model lands for robot-arm tasks

Open-Source Research
2d ago

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