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Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, an 816-Billion-Parameter Model That Runs on Two Mac Studios

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Meta released Muse Spark Open on Thursday, October 15, calling it the most capable United States open-weight model to date. Unlike a closed system that stays behind a company API, an open-weight release lets developers download the trained parameters, adapt the model, and run it on their own hardware. Meta is aiming this one squarely at coding and agentic work: long, multi-step software tasks that require reasoning, tool use, and sustained context rather than a single quick answer.

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Apple's 'Welcome Home' Event Is Two Days Away — HomeView Takes Center Stage

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Apple's big smart-home moment arrives Tuesday — and this time the company is going all in.

At its "Welcome home" experience in New York on October 13, Apple is expected to unveil HomeView, its first dedicated smart-home hub, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The name surfaced in a trademark filing discovered by MacRumors, and Gurman has now fleshed out the details in his Power On newsletter.

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