🧠 Meta AI model predicts human brain reactions
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Meta's FAIR lab built an AI model called TRIBE v2 that predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech, often matching the typical brain response better than any single person's fMRI scan.
TRIBE v2 was trained on over 1,000 hours of fMRI data from 720 subjects and predicts brain maps with 70,000 voxels, a huge jump from TRIBE v1, which covered just four subjects and 1,000 voxels.
The model still has significant limitations: fMRI only tracks blood flow with a seconds-long delay, three sensory channels are missing, and it treats the brain as a passive receiver without modeling decisions or actions.
An Iranian government-backed hacking group called Handala claims it broke into FBI director Kash Patel's personal Gmail account, posting pictures of him and a link to leaked files.
TechCrunch verified several leaked emails using cryptographic signatures in the message headers, which strongly suggests the messages from both Patel's Gmail and FBI accounts are authentic.
Since the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran started in February, Handala has ramped up its hacks, including a destructive attack on medical tech giant Stryker that wiped tens of thousands of devices.
Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk in February 2025 praising DOGE's progress and offering to help, including having Meta teams remove content doxxing or threatening DOGE employees, according to court documents.
The texts surfaced in Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, and they also show Musk asking Zuckerberg if he was open to bidding on OpenAI's IP together.
Musk's lawyers argued the private exchanges with Zuckerberg should be excluded from trial, calling them tangential and saying OpenAI's team is trying to stoke negative sentiments toward Musk.
👓 Meta plans Ray-Ban smart glasses for prescription wearers
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Meta is preparing to release new Ray-Ban smart glasses built specifically for people who already wear prescription lenses, according to a report from Bloomberg.
FCC filings for two models called "Scriber" and "Blazer" show they are production units with Wi-Fi 6 UNII-4 band support, which could enable faster data transfers and livestreaming.
The new glasses would be sold through traditional prescription eyewear channels, though it remains unclear how their design will differ from existing Ray-Ban Meta models beyond the prescription focus.
Yahoo has launched Scout, an AI-powered answer engine now available to its 250 million U.S. users, aiming to simplify online search and deliver more personal results tied to each person's interests.
CEO Jim Lanzone, who took over after Apollo Global Management bought Yahoo for $5 billion in 2021, has been cutting dysfunctional parts and overhauling services like email and fantasy sports.
Scout runs on AI technology licensed from Anthropic and will compete against Google's Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and the answer engine Perplexity in a crowded market.
Anthropic throttles Claude as demand for ChatGPT rival surges
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Windows PCs crash three times as often as Macs, report says
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Meta's hyperagents improve at tasks and improve at improving
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>Repeating prompts multiple times boosts accuracy by up to 4.7% on tasks like translation and summarization in smaller language models that lack chain of thought reasoning capabilities.
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