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Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Zaharia began building Apache Spark as a doctoral student at UC Berkeley in 2009, a faster alternative to Hadoop MapReduce, which had become the default framework for large-scale distributed data ...
TechCrunch

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah, it was a surprise,” he told TechCrunch. Back in ...
Business Insider

Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Alexandr Wang's AI team

Meta Superintelligence Labs released its first AI model: Muse Spark. Meta says it can deploy multiple agents at once, has better health and coding abilities, and a new shopping mode. Meta invested $14 ...
IT News For Australia Business

NAB is co-designing a SIEM with Databricks

NAB has emerged as one of five “design partners” of a new security information and event management (SIEM) platform being built by Databricks. The bank’s involvement in co-developing the platform - ...
Engadget

Meta's Muse Spark model brings reasoning capabilities to the Meta AI app

Following the icy reception to Llama 4, Meta is releasing the first in a new family of AI systems built by its recently formed Superintelligence team. The company is kicking off its new Muse era with ...
GSM Arena

Tecno Spark 50 5G debuts with a 6,500mAh battery, Dimensity 6400 SoC

As expected, Tecno has unveiled its latest Spark series smartphone in India. The Spark 50 is a 5G phone that comes with a 6,500mAh battery and a Dimensity 6400 chipset. It will be available for ...
ZDNet

Forget Shokz: I tried the Suunto Spark earbuds for a month, and they've sold me on air conduction

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
VentureBeat

Goodbye, Llama? Meta launches new proprietary AI model Muse Spark — first since Superintelligence Labs' formation

Meta has been one of the most interesting companies of the generative AI era — initially gaining a loyal and huge following of users for the release of its mostly open source Llama family of large ...
TechCrunch

Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a ‘ground-up overhaul’ of its AI

Meta released an AI model on Wednesday called Muse Spark, which marks its “first step” toward an “overhaul of [its] AI efforts.” Muse Spark is the inaugural model to come out of Meta Superintelligence ...
9to5Mac

So long, Llama: Meta unveils Muse Spark AI with Contemplating mode

Llama is out; Muse Spark is in. Meta has unveiled its rebooted AI efforts with a new model it calls Muse Spark. Unlike Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview announcement yesterday, Muse Spark is actually ...
Wired

Meta’s New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kid’s Table

Meta on Wednesday announced its first major model since CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebooted the company’s AI efforts last year under a new division called Meta Intelligence Labs. The model, called Muse Spark ...