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Meta launches Muse Wonder models | 🩸 Cancer Cell Breakthrough | NC State layered material insulates | ⚡ TNO builds first curved roof | Google rolls out Gemini 4 | 🤖 Alexandr Wang unveils Muse Wonder,

Oct '26 – This week, major AI labs released powerful new models designed to handle complex tasks autonomously, from processing insurance claims to analyzing business reports with unprecedented capability. Meanwhile, researchers are engineering.

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Meta Newsroom2 min read

Meta launches Muse Wonder models built to run AI agents

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which it calls its most capable models yet, built for agent tasks like handling an insurance claim or building an app. Meta says they reach state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agent work, a claim based on the company's own testing. Muse Wonder is available now to developers through the Meta Model API and Muse Code, and Muse Wonder Full is open to Muse Code subscribers.

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UCLA Health2 min read

UCLA platform bioprints mini tumors to test cancer drugs faster

UCLA Health researchers bioprint tiny replicas of patients' tumors, called organoids, and track how each one responds to drugs using dye-free imaging. AI follows every organoid individually, so the team can screen hundreds of possible therapies at once and see exactly which tumors respond. The method, described in Nature Protocols, could eventually help match treatments to a patient's own cancer cells.

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New Atlas2 min read

NC State layered material insulates like fiberglass but stays stiff

NC State researchers built a layered perovskite material that blocks heat about as well as fiberglass while staying far stiffer than foams or aerogels. They say it is 700 to 10,000 times stiffer than silicone and five times better at insulating against heat. It could be made as a thin foam or coating for electronics, energy systems and spacecraft.

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Think Energy Media2 min read

TNO builds first curved roof tile with flexible perovskite solar cells

Dutch research institute TNO, working with partner ASAT, put flexible perovskite solar modules on a curved composite roof tile. The modules reached 13.8% efficiency on their own and kept 12.4% after being bent onto the tile. TNO calls it the first working perovskite solar roof tile and says its next step is improving lifespan and reliability.

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Google Gemini2 min read

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to paying Gemini subscribers

Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, which it calls its newest frontier model, built to carry complex jobs like analyzing a business report or building a 3D model from start to finish. Access comes with the Google AI Pro plan at $19.99 a month and the higher Ultra plan. The page also introduces Gemini Omni, which edits and creates video through conversation, and a personalized Daily Brief.

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Markets

Trending stocks and pre-market pulse

Current extended-hours prices plus the plain-English reason each ticker is moving.

Tue, Oct 13, 6:00 PM EDT

S&P 500 Futures$7,855.75regular · -0.03%

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Nasdaq 100 Futures$30,792regular · -0.35%

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Dow Futures$51,935regular · -0.34%

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Gold$4,177.30-0.32%regular · prior market settlement · 5:04 PM EDT

Bitcoin$83,445+1.13%regular · rolling 24 hours · 5:59 PM EDT

LQDAafter hoursafter hours · previous regular close · 6:00 PM EDT

+42.41%

Liquidia and United Therapeutics reached a global settlement resolving their pending litigation, with YUTREPIA remaining available for PAH patients. Traders largely welcome the certainty and continued commercialization, while debating the settlements financial burden and the stocks prospects.

GMEafter hoursafter hours · previous regular close · 5:59 PM EDT

+2.42%

Ryan Cohens latest substantial open-market share purchase is driving attention, with many traders viewing the repeated insider buying as a bullish signal and speculating about a short squeeze. Others question whether the buying is tied to the warrant program and possible dilution, or whether it can

BACafter hoursafter hours · previous regular close · 5:56 PM EDT

-2.41%

Bank of Americas anti-money-laundering and sanctions failures drew attention after regulators imposed a major penalty ahead of its quarterly earnings report. Traders largely criticized the bank and discussed downside risk, while others argued the financial hit was manageable or that the issues had a

04 — Internet: For You

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Alexandr Wang unveils Muse Wonder, his team's largest AI model @alexandr_wang introduces Muse Wonder, which he calls his team's largest and most capable frontier model yet and claims is state-of-the-art for personal and professional AI agents.

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OpenAI says its AI traced a hidden office bug to an employee @OpenAINewsroom says it found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and used its own models to trace it to an employee, who was fired and arrested after OpenAI referred the case to the FBI.

@OpenAINewsroom

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Meta launches Muse Wonder models | 🩸 Cancer Cell Breakthrough | NC State layered material insulates | ⚡ TNO builds first curved roof | Google rolls out Gemini 4 | 🤖 Alexandr Wang unveils Muse Wonder,

Selected articles, synthesized in order

Meta launches Muse Wonder models built to run AI agents

UCLA platform bioprints mini tumors to test cancer drugs faster

NC State layered material insulates like fiberglass but stays stiff

TNO builds first curved roof tile with flexible perovskite solar cells

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to paying Gemini subscribers

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