Meta to start manufacturing its own AI chip in September as it chases 14 gigawatts of computing power

Geopolitical tensions are reshaping global AI investments, complicating cross-border acquisitions and impacting strategic tech ownership. The post Tencent leads effort to unwind Meta’s $2B Manus acquisition appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Chinese tech giant set to become largest shareholder in AI agent start-up after Beijing ordered reversal of US takeover

The post What Is Meta’s AI Muse Spark and Can It Overthrow Claude and ChatGPT? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9. The company priced its first paid AI model far below Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The move puts Meta squarely in the coding and agentic AI market, which both rivals currently dominate. The launch marks a sharp shift from Meta’s open-source Llama strategy. AI chief Alexandr Wang said Meta built the pricing to compete directly with the two market leaders. Muse Spark’s Aggressive Pricing Play Meta priced the new model at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens. New accounts get $20 in free credits before billing starts. Muse Spark 1.1 undercuts all major AI rivals on price. Its $1.25 input rate runs 37% below Sonnet 5’s introductory $2 and 75% below Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, which both charge $5. The output side shows an even wider gap. Meta’s $4.25 rate sits 58% below Sonnet 5’s introductory $10, 83%

The deepening Samsung-Nvidia alliance could reshape the AI chip market, potentially lowering costs and diversifying supply chains globally. The post Samsung chairman seeks meeting with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as AI chip alliance deepens appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post SPK Slips to $0.017 in Downtrend After Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 Reveal appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. SPK News SPK (SPK) is trading near $0.017 and drifting lower as attention across the small-cap altcoin market shifts to Meta, whose Superintelligence Labs formally rolled out Muse Spark 1.1 this week. The multimodal reasoning model is built for agentic tasks, shipping with a one-million-token context window and the ability to plan work, chain tools, and operate a computer across desktop, mobile, and browser with minimal human input. Meta positions the system as its strongest yet for coding and autonomous workflows, capable of diagnosing complex bugs, shipping enterprise features, and running large-scale code migrations. The company framed the launch as a step toward its stated goal of personal superintelligence. Amplifying the launch, Mark Zuckerberg broke a three-year silence on X to unveil Muse Spark 1.1 alongside the Meta Model API, the company’s first paid platform for

SK Hynix's NASDAQ listing could shift investment focus from crypto to semiconductors, impacting capital allocation in tech sectors. The post SK Hynix prepares massive $28 billion NASDAQ listing as AI chip demand surges appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Instagram users should check privacy settings after rollout of new Meta AI image generator, advocates warn Meta has sparked blowback from privacy advocates for allowing its new AI image maker to generate photos of users with public profiles by default. Users of Meta’s Muse Image AI tool, released Tuesday, can tag public Instagram profiles and generate pictures that pull from faces of people featured in these social media posts. Instagram users aren’t notified when their posts are integrated into what the company describes as its “most advanced image generation model yet”. Continue reading...

The migration of AI professors to industry giants risks stifling academic innovation, potentially consolidating AI advancements within a few corporations. The post OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta poach 22 professors from top universities in 2026 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.