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🤿Deep Dive: Meta's superintelligence chief says its next model matches OpenAI's current flagship
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🤿Deep Dive: Amazon quietly retires its human task marketplace
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Meta Says its Next AI Model Watermelon Has Caught Up to OpenAI's GPT 5.5
Intelligence: Meta superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang told employees that the company's upcoming model, codenamed Watermelon, has caught up to OpenAI's GPT 5.5 based on closely followed benchmarks. Watermelon follows Muse Spark and uses an order of magnitude more compute, while Wang also said a coding and agentic capability update to Muse Spark is coming soon.
Watermelon is Meta's model after Muse Spark and uses an order of magnitude more compute.
Wang said an update to Muse Spark is coming soon with major gains in coding and agentic capabilities.
Wang said a Meta coding model on par with Anthropic's Claude Opus would arrive pretty soon.
Meta expects to spend between $125 billion and $145 billion this year on chips and data centers, up from its earlier forecast.
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Amazon's Mechanical Turk Will Close to New Customers Starting July 30, 2026
Intelligence: Amazon will close Mechanical Turk to new customers starting July 30, 2026, though existing customers can continue using it as normal. The service launched in 2005 as a marketplace for simple tasks like CAPTCHA completion, and later became a tool for annotating data used to train AI models through Amazon's SageMaker service.
Existing customers can continue using the service, and AWS says it will keep investing in security and availability but not new features.
The platform launched in 2005 and was originally used for simple tasks like CAPTCHA challenges and sentiment identification.
Starting in 2018, Amazon began marketing it as a way for companies to annotate data for training neural networks through SageMaker.
A 2023 analysis found that between 33 and 46% of workers on the platform were using large language models to complete their tasks.
⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity
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💼 WorkBuddy - Get an AI team to help with everyday office work.
🌅 Sunrise - Plan your day better with a smarter Google Tasks companion.
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📱 CodeMote - Manage coding sessions and AI agents from your iPhone securely.
🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
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