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Updated 13 hours ago- 1Apple and Meta partner to run Meta's Muse model on Mac computers
- 2Meta releases Muse Spark Open, claiming most capable US open-weight model
- 3TSMC's record quarter masks fierce AI chip capacity battle among Nvidia, Apple and AMD
- 4Nvidia releases 120B-parameter open model for enterprise AI agents
- 5Portland AI startup Mueon raises $65M for denser server racks
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AI agents are now bait, scammed on purpose to map fraud tactics
What it is
Apate.ai deploys AI agents designed to look like vulnerable targets so scammers take the bait, then turns the resulting fraud interactions into data for banks and fintechs.
Why now
Fraud tactics evolve faster than detection systems can keep up, and this flips the usual AI-for-efficiency playbook into AI-for-intelligence-gathering at the source.
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Watch whether banks and fintechs adopt this kind of adversarial, bait-based data collection as a standard layer in fraud prevention rather than a one-off experiment.
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- Nvidia (investments in multiple startups)Other, led by Nvidia$2B
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- CMR SurgicalOther, led by Stryker$400M
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- VayoOther, led by Booking Holdings$100M
- Multiply LabsSeries B, led by NantWorks$75M
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- Meta releases Muse Spark Open, claiming most capable US open-weight model
New 816B parameter model with 1M-token context window runs on Apple Mac Studios and emphasizes agentic capabilities.
13 hours ago
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Nemotron 3.5 Super VL claims to outperform larger frontier models on specialized benchmarks for document and data analysis.
14 hours ago
- Figma launches Specs editor to define how AI agents work on its platform
New Markdown-based tool lets teams document design systems and control AI agent behavior within Figma.
24 hours ago
- Flox Intelligence deploys AI to protect wildlife from infrastructure collisions
Startup uses edge devices and species-specific audio to identify and deter animals from trains, airports, and roads.
2 days ago
- Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B for fast, private on-device AI agents
New 24-billion-parameter model designed to run AI agents locally without sending data to external servers.
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