A robot did a backflip on a catwalk this week. It still can't tie its shoes.
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Meanwhile, Meta launched Muse, an AI agent that runs your errands, the FDA approved the first drug for a rare brain disease, and NASA's newest telescope launched eight months early.
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Frontier Reads
OpenAI says an unreleased model proved Navier-Stokes, one of math's seven $1M Millennium Prize problems. An NYU mathematician says OpenAI raced him to it with a week of compute worth about $22.5M. Read it for the fight over credit, which every lab will face next. Link
A new assistant called Instinct went viral with terms that gave it a "perpetual and irrevocable" license to user data. Read this before you connect any agent, Muse included, to your inbox. Link
Deep Current
Meta Launches Muse
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent for US users that does your errands. It sends email, books travel, fills forms and pays through Stripe's Link with a one-time card. It is free to start, with plans at $20 and $100 a month.
Muse works on its own cloud computer with its own browser, and it keeps going after you close the app. Meta says a second agent, Sentinel, runs apart from Muse and checks what it sends out. Muse never sees your passwords or card details.
The hard part is trust. Muse arrived less than two weeks after Meta agreed to an $18B settlement with 29 states over harm to children on its apps.
Robots Walk the IFA Runway
Humanoid robots from 11 companies walked a catwalk at IFA in Berlin, one of the world's biggest tech shows. They posed, danced and did backflips. Unitree, AgiBot and EngineAI were among them.
Walking and balance look close to solved on a clear stage. Hands are next. A backflip follows a set motion the robot controls, but a shoelace moves in ways it can't predict.
China brought most of the machines. Chinese firms made up 932 of the show's 1,900-plus exhibitors, close to half.
Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo
Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, at new CEO John Ternus's first launch event. It opens like a passport to a 7.6-inch screen, the largest on any iPhone. It starts at $1,999, the highest price for an iPhone yet.
Apple is late here. Samsung, Google and Motorola already sell foldables, and foldables are only about 2.2% of phones sold this year, per IDC.
The price may matter more than the volume. IDC expects foldables to grow from 6.9% of smartphone revenue to 10% by 2030.
In Radar
First drug for Alexander disease. The FDA approved Zanvastro from Ionis, the first drug for this rare, often fatal brain disease. It tells brain cells to make less of the protein that clumps and damages them. Read more
OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5. It cuts wait time by up to 50% and edits only the part of an image you ask it to change. People already make more than 3 billion images a week with OpenAI's image tools. Read more
Roman telescope launches early. NASA sent it up on a Falcon Heavy eight months ahead of schedule. It sees a patch of sky 100 times wider than Hubble's. Read more
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