Show Notes
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model that runs on Mac Studios via an Apple team-up. An OpenAI model used a wallet it didn’t own, Accenture capped Claude spending at $29 a month, and BofA hired 1,000 patching contractors.
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window (Meta)
Meta released Muse Spark Open for coding and long-running agent work, billing it as the most capable open-weight model from a US lab, with only 42B of its 816B parameters active per token (SiliconAngle)
OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases (CoinDesk)
Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude (404 Media)
BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos (CNBC)
Longreads
Nick Cammarata argues modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters (Goodfire)
The making of Rockstar’s GTA VI, which analysts expect to sell 40M copies and make $3B+ in revenue in its first four months; Rockstar now has 4,711 staff (Bloomberg)
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