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The app was ranking No. 57 on the App Store just before Meta AI's new model launched. Now it's No. 5 — and rising.
Read full articleMeta launched Muse Spark on April 8, its first fully closed AI model, abandoning its open-source Llama strategy Meta launched Muse Spark on April 8, its first fully closed AI model, abandoning its open-source Llama strategy. The launch marks the…
Meta AI team has released NeuralBench, a unified open-source framework for benchmarking NeuroAI models, alongside NeuralBench-EEG v1.0 — the largest open EEG benchmark to date, covering 36 tasks, 94 datasets, and 14 deep learning architectures evaluated under a single standardized interface across 9,478 subjects and 13,603 hours of brain recordings. The post Meta AI Releases NeuralBench: A Unified Open-Source Framework to Benchmark NeuroAI Models Across 36 EEG Tasks and 94 Datasets appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Downey at home in LA with one of his channel’s frequent guest stars. | Image: The Verge; Shutterstock It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App Store's list of top paid apps. It was a surprise success - but what's even more surprising is the app's origin story: it all started with a cadre of friendly neighborhood squirrels and their favorite caretaker. Derrick Downey Jr. built a career on short-form videos documenting his interactions with the squirrels that visit his patio in LA. His Instagram and TikTok accounts each have well over a million followers (myself included) who know well the regular cast of characters: Maxine, Richard, … Read the full story at The Verge.
Meta Reality Labs releases a new foundation model family for human-centric vision that pushes pose estimation, segmentation, and 3D geometry to new state-of-the-art levels — all from a single backbone. The post Meta AI Releases Sapiens2: A High-Resolution Human-Centric Vision Model for Pose, Segmentation, Normals, Pointmap, and Albedo appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Meta’s big moment is here. The Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Spark, its first AI model aiming at “personal superintelligence.” The journey to this point has been eventful, from building the widely adopted Llama family of open-source models to aggressive talent acquisitions that sent shockwaves through the AI industry. But the backstory is not […] The post Meta Muse Spark Review: Is It Worth the Hype? appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus. Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystemthan the one Cook spent decades shaping. The App Store’s 30% cut is under pressure, the behind-the-scenes power Apple once […]
New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.
Apple quietly threatened to kick Elon Musk's AI app, Grok, from its App Store in January over its failure to curb the surge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding X, according to NBC News. It was a muted show of force from one of tech's most powerful gatekeepers, made behind closed doors even as the undressing crisis unfolded in full public view and criticism over Apple's cowardice mounted. In a letter obtained by NBC News, Apple told US senators it "contacted the teams behind both X and Grok after it received complaints and saw news coverage of the scandal" and demanded that the developers "create a plan to improve content moderation." … Read the full story at The Verge.
