Meta on Thursday announced the next version of its multimodal Spark AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, calling it a significant upgrade from its predecessor. The model is built specifically for agentic tasks and has promises major gains in areas such as computer use, coding and multimodal understanding.Spark 1.1 follows the launch of Muse Image, its new image-generation tool, which already has some Instagram users opting out. (You can learn how to do that here.) With the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic storming headlines with new and advanced AI models, Meta’s announcement is a sign that the company is jumping back…

Veteran politician Andy Burnham has taken another step towards becoming the UK’s next prime minister, after the majority of Labour MPs nominated him to replace Keir Starmer. The 56-year-old’s Labour leadership bid was backed by 322 Labour MPs on Thursday and he remains the only person to publicly declare themselves…

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