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Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open on October 15, 2026, a natively multimodal open-weight model with 816B total parameters, 42B active parameters, and a 1M-token context window. Meta AI Research describes it as the most capable US open-weight model to date, built for coding and agentic work such as long-horizon tasks, complex software…

Anthropic announced on October 15, 2026 that it has started giving employee-like access to an embedded team from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models. Six METR employees have been onboarded with company hardware, office space, and access to internal tools and systems.

Volvo Cars announced on October 15, 2026, that it is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to advance the safety of automated driving in future Volvo cars, combining its vehicle safety systems with the NVIDIA Hyperion sensor and compute architecture, Halos OS, and the Alpamayo Stack driving software.

Google published consumer guidance on October 15, 2026 explaining how Android users can review suspicious text messages for scams with Circle to Search, which returns an AI Overview with guidance and suggested next steps before a user clicks a link or shares personal information.

Juan E. Riojas, Chief Information Officer at Bland, is an experienced technology and data executive with a career spanning enterprise IT, data management, analytics, operations, and digital transformation. Before joining Bland in December 2025, he served as Chief Information Officer at Twilio and Rackspace Technology, following earlier leadership roles as Chief Data Officer at Informatica…

A good sales meeting can create an afternoon of administrative work. The buyer wants a revised business case, finance needs a calculator, and the purchasing timeline has changed. An AI assistant may produce a useful draft, but a salesperson still has to move it into the documents and plans everyone is using.

Oyster‘s 2026 Global AI Talent Report points to a mismatch at the center of workplace AI adoption: the skills employees are expected to use are changing faster than the jobs employers formally describe. AI requirements appeared in 15% of roles filled through Oyster’s platform in the first half of 2026, up from 5% in 2022.…

Microsoft has been working on some Windows 11 updates that it’s starting to bring to all users after testing them with Windows Insiders. Among other things, the company said it made the operating system up to 20 percent more responsive, in part by improving memory efficiency and management. For instance, Windows 11 “can now keep…

Welcome toAI Decoded,Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer atFast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy.

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