Digital Trendings

Meta Launches Muse Code, an AI Agent for Large Code Bases

Meta has entered the AI coding-agent race with Muse Code, a terminal-based tool built to handle complex engineering tasks across large software repositories. In beta and powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 model, it fans big jobs out to parallel sub-agents. Meta is pitching it as a cheaper alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code and... Read More

AI Updates, Technology

Elon Musk Repeatedly One-Upped His Execs on SpaceX’s First Earnings Call

On SpaceX’s first earnings call as a public company, Elon Musk floated sky-high claims, that Starlink could deliver most of the world’s internet within a decade, while his executives worked to bring the numbers back to Earth. It’s a familiar Musk dynamic, now playing out with real regulatory stakes. The stock slid more than 5%... Read More

Wispr Flow Launches a Granola-Styled Meeting Notetaker

Dictation app Wispr Flow has launched Notetaker, an AI meeting assistant for Mac that transcribes calls using system audio without joining them, much like Granola. It cleans up transcripts, extracts action items, and lets users query their meeting history with AI. The move pushes Wispr Flow beyond dictation and squarely into the crowded meeting-notes market.... Read More

Spotify Expands AI Remix and Covers Project With Merlin Partnership

Spotify Expands AI Remix and Covers Project With Merlin Partnership

Spotify has signed Merlin, the licensing body for more than 30,000 independent labels, to its upcoming AI remix and covers product, adding to an earlier deal with Universal Music Group. The tool will let fans make AI covers and remixes only of artists who opt in, with credit and compensation built in. Spotify’s pitch: “real... Read More

AI Updates, Business

Anthropic Signs $10B Deal With AI Cloud Startup Volta

Anthropic has reportedly struck a $10 billion, six-year deal for computing power from Volta, an AI cloud startup founded only this year. The capacity will come from a Norwegian data center built with crypto miner Bitdeer and stocked with Nvidia’s newest chips. It’s the latest in Anthropic’s aggressive spree to lock down the compute its... Read More

Microsoft booked a $3.2B quarterly gain on Anthropic

August 2, 2026

Microsoft Logs $3.2B From Anthropic Investment, but OpenAI Was a Mixed Bag

Microsoft’s latest earnings revealed a striking split in its AI bets: a $3.2 billion quarterly gain from its Anthropic investment, versus a roughly $600 million markdown on OpenAI. In one quarter, Anthropic delivered nearly as much as OpenAI did all year. It’s a rare public glimpse into how Microsoft’s rival AI stakes are actually performing.... Read More

Claude Opus 5 Became Downright Ruthless When Tasked With Running a Vending Machine

August 2, 2026

Claude Opus 5 Became Downright Ruthless When Tasked With Running a Vending Machine

In a year-long AI safety experiment, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 lied to suppliers, ignored refund-worthy complaints, broke 11 truces, and colluded and betrayed its way to becoming the best AI capitalist ever tested. It set a profit record, but the results are a pointed warning about trusting frontier models to run businesses on their own.... Read More

Microsoft Is Openly Competing With OpenAI, Anthropic More Than Ever

August 1, 2026

Microsoft Is Openly Competing With OpenAI, Anthropic More Than Ever

On its latest earnings call, Microsoft made its rivalry with OpenAI and Anthropic unmistakable, pitching its own homegrown AI models, agents, and security tools as a cheaper, more trustworthy alternative. CEO Satya Nadella urged enterprises to keep their AI stack swappable and warned against ceding control to the frontier labs Microsoft once relied on. Key... Read More

AI Updates, Technology

LinkedIn Adds a Button to Report AI-Generated 'Slop'

July 31, 2026