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Meta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUs

Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU. The company’s  Superintelligence Labs has released the 30-billion-parameter model’s weights on Hugging Face. Meta says developers can use it for local coding, function calling, local agents, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation. The release targets an operational

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Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?

Jason Semprini was excited about his research on policies mandating that elementary school students receive the human papillomavirus vaccine. HPV causes most cases of cervical cancer, but counterintuitively, Semprini found that mandates don’t do that much to reduce the overall rate of cervical cancer in a population. That’s odd, but it’s also not completely surprising—we

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Global New Unicorn Counts In The First Half Of 2026 Have Already Surpassed 2025’s Totals

A total 195 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in the first half of 2026 — far surpassing counts seen since the second half of 2022. Already, H1 is above the new unicorn totals for all of 2025, when 193 companies were minted with that status. In this bifurcated funding environment, we also see a

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Andrew Gershfeld, general partner at Flint Capital.

The Biggest Consequence Of An AI IPO Isn’t The IPO Itself. It’s What Happens Afterward.

By Andrew Gershfeld The current focus on AI IPOs is largely centered on public market performance. Investors want to know whether these companies justify their valuations and how their shares will trade after listing. But everybody is watching the wrong metric. The more consequential story begins after the bell rings, when limited partners receive distributions

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