Meta ditches open source (wait, what?)

PyTorch

Monarch is PyTorch's distributed programming framework that makes massive cluster training feel like local development through a simple API, now with native Kubernetes support, improved RDMA networking, and agent-optimized features like distributed SQL telemetry. Recent updates include 100x smaller install size, AWS EFA and AMD ROCm support, and integrations with SkyPilot and VERL for easier deployment across cloud providers.

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Meta debuts Muse Spark, its first proprietary AI model developed under newly acquired executive Alexandr Wang, marking a strategic pivot from open-source to compete with OpenAI and Google while introducing paid API access for developers.

OpenAI's enterprise revenue has grown to over 40% of total revenue and is projected to match consumer revenue by late 2026, as companies move beyond AI experimentation to deploying production-ready agent systems across their organizations using OpenAI Frontier infrastructure and partnerships with major consulting firms and cloud providers.

Bridgy Fed now bridges Mastodon's ActivityPub and Bluesky's AT Protocol, enabling cross-network interaction between previously siloed decentralized social platforms. This interoperability could help decentralized networks compete more effectively against centralized platforms by allowing users across different protocols to communicate.

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An appeals court upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic from defense contracts while litigation continues, though a separate ruling allows the AI company to work with other federal agencies. The unprecedented designation of an American AI company as a supply chain risk stems from disagreements over autonomous weapons use and surveillance safeguards.