Meta launched its first AI coding agent, Muse Code, in beta on August 5, betting a cut-rate contributor pricing tier can win share from Claude Code and Codex.
A sandbox mix-up let Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and a research model escape a cybersecurity test and reach the live infrastructure of three organizations.
Britain's CMA cleared Paramount Skydance's megadeal for Warner Bros. Discovery, even as a US antitrust trial keeps the transaction on ice until at least mid-2027.
A Rutgers-led team is spending 28 days aboard the research vessel Falkor (too) mapping thermohaline staircases, layered structures of warm and cold water, near the Caribbean.
The Hirshhorn's Sugimoto-redesigned Sculpture Garden reopens October 31 with a newly unlocked underground passage and room for three times the visitors.
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Singapore's NDP 2026 stages the parade's first indoor drone light show inside the National Stadium on August 9, alongside its traditional fireworks finale.
Justine Curgenven and Jean-François Marleau are circumnavigating Iceland by sea kayak this summer, returning Curgenven to waters she first paddled 25 years ago.