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Meta Launches Muse Spark Open, First Desktop AI Model

Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled by The Fly.MUSE SPARK OPEN:Meta Platformsannounced that Muse Spark Open is available today and brings leading agentic capabilities to users desktop for the first time on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios. The company is releasing the weights for Muse Spark Open, what Meta calls "the most capable US open-weight model to date." Muse Spark Open is a natively multimodal model with 816B total parameters and a 1M-token context window. Muse Spark Open is the first model in its class to run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework. Muse Spark Open is available today through API platforms at Baseten, Fireworks AI, Groq, Modal, Nebius, OpenRouter and Together AI. Model weights are available for download on Amazon SageMaker AI, Google Cloud Model Garden, Hugging Face, and Microsoft Foundry Models. It runs on leading inference engines like SGLang, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Hugging Face Transformers, Apple MLX, llama.cpp, and Unsloth with optimizations for AMD, Apple, Intel, and Nvidiasilicon. Developers can easily further customize the model using the PyTorch framework.SAFETY:NvidiaCEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker "absolutely must" work with Chinese AI companies on monitoring risks, telling CNBC that AI is "potentially dangerous," and that he has ongoing "dialogues" with researchers in China, Kai Nicol-Schwarz. "We absolutely should work with each other so that we advance the technology safely," he told CNBC.BEE FRONTIER, ECLIPSE:Amazonis introducing two new AI products from Bee: Bee Frontier, the next generation of its AI wearable, and Bee Eclipse, an all-new design that attaches magnetically to your phone. Bee Frontier is personal AI users can wear on their wrist or clip on to clothes. Bee Eclipse is a new addition to the Bee lineup, giving customers more options beyond a wearable. It's a slim, lightweight device about the size of a credit card that attaches to the back of your phone magnetically. "Bee Eclipse works like Bee Frontier, helping you turn conversations into useful summaries, insights, and to-dos," the company explained. In addition to a new generation of hardware, Bee is introducing the ability to connect to Alexa+ and Amazon.com. By connecting Bee to Alexa+, users can get hands-free access to their summaries, insights, and to-dos, so instead of pulling out their phone, users ask Alexa for a meeting summary, check their to-dos, or pull up the name of the book their friend suggested. Bee Frontier is available now for $74.99 in Onyx, Lavender, and Sage at Amazon.com. Bee Eclipse will be available soon, starting at $99.99 in Silver, Midnight, Honey, and Blush.QUANTUM AI:Google Quantum AIsaid in a blog post that it has "demonstratively opened up a key bottleneck in quantum computing." The company explained, "We've shown that 'magic state cultivation' works in practice on our Willow processor, reducing errors about 40x compared to without it. This breakthrough, published today in Science, is a crucial step towards scaling up quantum computing to practical use." Stocks in the quantum computing space include IonQ, D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, Quantum Computingand Xanadu Quantum.SPACE AI SANDBOX:Perplexity has open-sourced its SPACE AI sandbox to contain rogue agents, securing distribution partnerships with CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe as the industry increasingly emphasizes security guardrails alongside model alignment, Semafor's Reed Albergotti. "A lot of companies are thinking about how to build secure AI agents, and in many cases they hit a wall," said Zibi Braniecki, a member of the technical staff at Perplexity, in an interview with Semafor. "We have a solution." Publicly traded companies in the cybersecurity space include Check Point (CHKP), CrowdStrike, CyberArk, F5, Fortinet, Gen Digital, Okta, Palo Alto Networksand Qualys.

Perplexity Opens SPACE AI Sandbox, Cybersecurity Stocks Drop

Shares of cybersecurity companies are moving lower after Semafor's Reed Albergotti reported that Perplexity is giving away SPACE, its AI sandbox used to combat rogue AI agents. SPACE is now an open source project, allowing outside developers to use the tool, and Perplexity has lined up CoreWeave (CRWV), Akamai (AKAM), and Crusoe to offer SPACE to customers, according to the report. Other companies like Nvidia (NVDA) have also released open-source security tools, such as Nvidia OpenShell, which runs AI agents in a sandbox and limits what they can reach, Albergotti says. Publicly traded companies in the space include Check Point (CHKP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), CyberArk (CYBR), F5 (FFIV), Fortinet (FTNT), Gen Digital (GEN), Okta (OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and Qualys (QLYS).

Major Indices Decline as Oil Prices Surge

Major indices started the week on a downswing as oil prices sprang higher after President Donald Trump rejected conditions for a ceasefire presented by Iran and Treasury yields extended their upward jolt for the 5th consecutive session.  Defensively oriented Healthcare and Consumer Staples were the best-performing sectors on the benchmark, while Basic Materials was the worst area of the market, though Communication Services was not far behind as traders booked profits from the recent surge in shares of Meta Platformsfor the second consecutive day.   Precious metals stocks tracked the prices of Gold and Silver - both of which slipped to multi-week lows - to the downside.In the opening hour of the evening session, index futures are marginally higher, with S&P e-minis and Nasdaq 100 contracts up 0.1%.  KarMaxand Carnivalare the most notable earnings reports expected on Tuesday morning.Check out this evening's top movers from around Wall Street, compiled by The Fly.HIGHER AFTER EARNINGS -Sangoma Technologiesup 37.3%IDT Corporationup 4.2%ALSO HIGHER -Summit Therapeuticsup 18.5% after AstraZenecainvestment of $2.0BAAR Corp.up 2.5% after agreement to acquire 65% interest in MRO Holdings for $1.8B and Q1 pre-announcementNeurocrine Biosciencesup 2.0% after naming new Chief Medical OfficerGen Digitalup 1.6% after positive Q2 pre-announcementRTX Corporationup 1.0% after being awarded $20.7B U.S. Air Force multi-year contractDOWN AFTER EARNINGS -Vail Resortsdown 2.0%Jefferies Financialdown 1.4%ReposiTrakdown 1.2%