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A new KPMG survey of CEOs at major U.S. corporations found that 89% expect to increase overall headcount over the next three years, even as their companies adopt artificial intelligence. The survey suggests executives are treating AI more as a tool to integrate into existing workflows than as a straightforward way to cut staff costs.
President Trump posted a before-and-after photo on Truth Social showing a White House column touted as freshly restored, but Google's SynthID Detector flagged the 'after' image as created or edited with OpenAI tools. Reddit users noted the two photos share near-identical angles, window reflections and cardboard placement, but have mismatched and uneven numbers of steps. Other photos Trump posted of the White House facade and heliport did not trigger the AI watermark detection.
A follow-up post claims that Anthropic's Scion version control system did not merely resemble Meta's Mononoke by coincidence, but was deliberately modeled on it, citing shared personnel between the two projects. The author says the similarity extends beyond the 'derived data' concept to Scion's entire data model, including its 'changesets', which closely mirror Mononoke's 'Bonsai changesets' in both structure and naming.
A WIRED review of deleted social media and professional profiles found that Katie Zacharia, now the White House press secretary, spent part of a 2013-2023 resume gap as an affiliate marketer for Beachbody, a fitness multilevel marketing company she herself described as 'sort of a pyramid scheme.' The finding comes amid broader scrutiny of her background, including reports that she never passed the California bar exam despite being repeatedly identified as an attorney on Fox News, and that tax filings show she was a fundraiser rather than general counsel for the nonprofit Fix California.
Meta has open-sourced Muse Spark Open, an 800-billion-parameter model it calls the most capable US open-weight model yet. Running it locally requires roughly 1TB of unified memory, achievable by pairing two of Apple's upcoming M5 Ultra Mac Studios with 512GB each, or four 256GB units costing about $38,000. The weights are now downloadable from Hugging Face, and Meta says the model was built in collaboration with Apple to run on its new hardware.
Southwest Airlines announced it will launch a revamped loyalty program next year, adding three new membership tiers and new ways to earn and redeem points. The highest-status members will reportedly be able to bring a companion on unlimited trips, expanding beyond the current Companion Pass structure. The changes are set to take effect starting next year.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that leaders who build small, consistent acknowledgment into daily work routines can significantly improve staff retention. The piece cites a finding that employees whose recognition is woven into everyday tasks are 26 times more likely to plan on staying with their company for another year, and recommends practices like a weekly 'thankful list' and noticing small efforts rather than only big wins.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that Florida may enforce its 2024 law banning social media accounts for children under 14 and requiring parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds. The decision overturns a 2025 injunction that had blocked the law after industry groups NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association sued, arguing it violated free-speech rights. The case now returns to federal court in Tallahassee for further proceedings.
Meta and Apple have struck a partnership allowing developers to run Meta's open-weight AI models locally on Mac hardware. The collaboration gives developers an alternative to relying on cloud-based computing power for running advanced AI systems.
A robotics project has secured $9 million in funding to develop a small robot designed to survey sewage infrastructure. The device is intended to inspect pipes and detect problems in underground sewer systems without extensive excavation.
Meta launched Muse Spark Open, a multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters (42 billion active) and a 1 million-token context window, designed for coding and agentic tasks. The model is optimized using Apple's MLX framework to run on Mac Studio with M5 Ultra chips, with Meta demonstrating two linked Mac Studios handling the full model via unified memory. Weights are now available through Hugging Face.
Rocket Lab said Wednesday its Neutron rocket won't launch until 2027, blaming a manufacturing defect found in the carbon composite propellant tank domes of the first stage. CEO Peter Beck said engineers discovered voids, or air pockets, between layers of carbon fiber in the domes, forcing a pause in production to investigate. The delay confirms what industry observers had already suspected after Rocket Lab's August update left little room for a 2026 launch.