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META ENTERS AI IMAGE MODEL RACE IN BID TO COURT ADVERTISERS AND SUBSCRIBERS

Meta has released a new AI model for creating images, Muse Image. The model will be available for consumers to access for free via the Meta AI app and site, WhatsApp direct messages, and Instagram Stories. Users who hit their free limit can purchase a subscription or wait until the limit resets. Muse Image will be used to power advertiser-specific image-generation tools as part of Meta's AI-powered Advantage Plus service.

YOU CAN NOW CUSTOMIZE SIRI'S PACE AND EXPRESSIVITY IN THE LATEST IOS 27 BETA

Apple's iOS 27 beta 3 activates new Siri voice controls that let users adjust the AI assistant's speaking pace and emotional expressivity, previously marked "Coming soon." These sliders, first announced at WWDC 26, build on existing voice and accent options, letting testers hear Siri demo phrases as they customize settings. The update follows ChatGPT's more extensive December 2025 voice-and-tone customization, and arrives alongside minor changes like a refreshed Reminders icon and some reported Siri access issues.

THE TASK ECONOMY - DATA WILL BE THE NEXT $1 TRILLION CATEGORY

The Task Economy is the defining market for the future of AI. The barrier to automating every task with agents is covering the full distribution of all of the apps, all of the environments, and all of the tasks that correspond to everything in the economy. This will require a massive data build-out across every professional domain, academic discipline, and consumer use case. Labs, AI app companies, and enterprises will all fight to rapidly scale this data infrastructure across the full surface area of economically useful work. The ones that succeed will continue to improve frontier capabilities and gain market share.

BEHIND XBOX'S BIG LAYOFFS, A STREAMING STRATEGY THAT FAILED

Xbox announced on Monday that it would lay off 3,200 employees and let go of five game studios. The company is aiming to reset itself after overspending on studios, staff, and games that people didn't want to play. Xbox plans to take a more streamlined approach to games and studios going forward. It will focus more on franchises like Minecraft, which is considered one of the most successful video games in the world.

SPACEX JUST LAUNCHED THE 1ST-EVER NUCLEAR-POWERED COMMERCIAL SATELLITE

The BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) satellite is a commercially built nuclear-powered cubesat created by Florida-based company City Labs. It was designed to test the company's proprietary NanoTritium betavoltaic micropower source in space for the first time. The NanoTritium device harnesses beta particles emitted from the radioactive decay of tritium and converts them directly into electricity using a semiconductor. It is meant to provide continuous power to spacecraft without a reliance on solar energy.

TESLA CYBERCAB INCLUDES MORE POWERFUL FSD HARDWARE

Production units of the upcoming Cybercab are running a more powerful version of Tesla's Full Self-Driving computer compared to the Model 3 or Model Y. The biggest change is the increased onboard memory, which will allow the computer to run much larger self-driving models. The extra computing muscle enables the Cybercab to be equipped with an SAE Level 4 Autonomous Mode - the Cybercab is designed to operate entirely without human intervention. Tesla started testing Cybercabs without steering wheels or pedals on public roads in Austin last week.

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