Meta's first frontier model 🧠, Character.AI files for bankruptcy 📉, Microsoft's new Maia chip 🔌

This year AI shook up creative strategy. Most teams are still working like it didn't.

Ari Murray, Chief Digital Officer at Salt and Stone sits down with Bryan Harvey, Head of Brand at Hightouch, for an honest conversation about what's breaking on creative teams right now, how the roles are changing, and what a day looks like when creatives spend it on ideas, concepts, and craft while agents handle the manual execution.

Leave with new insights from 3 experts in the field and 5 prompts to instantly improve your creative output.

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Meta released Muse Wonder, its first frontier model, and Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 and agreed to sell some assets to Disney for $20M.

Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder · techcrunch.com
The Wonder models are larger than the low latency Muse Spark, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · reuters.com
It agreed to sell some assets to Disney for $20M and plans to keep operating while the sale goes through.

Microsoft's Maia 300 chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia · theverge.com
The third generation in-house chip is meant to be the primary AI inference system for Microsoft's products and handles reasoning models and agentic tasks better.

Anthropic says its new defenses cut distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% · anthropic.com
Measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through these attacks.

NTT Data is reportedly in advanced talks to build a data center for Anthropic in Osaka · asia.nikkei.com
Sources say the site could reach 500 MW, among Japan's largest, and could cost $6.3B.

Chip stocks slide after Broadcom's CEO likened AI investing to a casino · ft.com
Samsung fell as much as 8.8%, SK Hynix 9.2% and Micron 4% as the global selloff deepened.

Nvidia's AI chip shipments in China fell 44% in the first half · reuters.com
IDC says shipments dropped to 678K and Nvidia's market share slid to 34%, citing US export curbs and rising local competition.

China's CXMT claims a memory breakthrough ahead of Samsung and Hynix · bloomberg.com
It plans to launch a 4F² design DRAM chip for data center servers before the end of 2026, something rivals have pursued for years.

Microsoft president says the UK is best placed to drive AI regulation · techcrunch.com
Brad Smith called for urgent AI rules, saying milk and washing machines get more oversight than AI companies.

snuri00/ps2-web-recomp · Show HN · 290 points
PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly so they run in a browser.

SaarthurR/atticus-mac · Show HN · 105 points
A hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p.

Alishahryar1/free-claude-code · +626★ today
Lets you use Claude Code, Codex, VSCode, Pi, OpenCode and six other harnesses with free tokens from your terminal, IDE, phone or browser.

ai-image-prompts-skill · by YouMind-OpenLab
Recommends prompts from a library of 10,000+ real image generation prompts and works with Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney, Flux, GPT Image and other models.

nuxtjs-seo · by harlan-zw
Installs, configures and debugs the Nuxt SEO module, which covers robots, sitemap, OG images, Schema.org and a link checker for your Nuxt site.

spook · by frenck
Helps your agent use Spook, the Home Assistant integration that finds references to things that no longer exist and adds over a hundred actions.

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