Meta's AI comeback begins

Anthropic's scariest model yet

Welcome back! Google Finance's AI makeover is going global. After launching in the US and India, Google is bringing its revamped Finance app to more than 100 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and Mexico. Users can now interact with the app in their local language and access a built-in Gemini chatbot, new charting tools, and an upgraded news feed.

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Meta Reenters the AI Race with Muse Spark

Via Business Insider

Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company's AI efforts. Muse Spark now powers the Meta AI app and website in the US, with WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Meta's smart glasses coming in the weeks ahead.

What it does: Meta says Muse Spark is "purpose-built for Meta's products"—similar to how Google Gemini integrates across Google's suite. 

  • The model supports text and image inputs, can run multiple AI sub-agents at once to handle queries faster, and lets users toggle between a faster "Instant" mode and a "Thinking" mode for more thoroughly reasoned results. 

  • Muse Spark can answer complex questions in science, math, and health—potentially positioning it to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT Health and Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare.

Why it matters: After months of restructuring, acquisitions, and layoffs, Meta is finally shipping a flagship model designed to work across its entire product ecosystem. The multimodal capabilities are especially relevant for Meta's AI-powered camera glasses, which the company has bet on as the future of computing. Whether Muse Spark can compete with Claude and GPT remains to be seen—but Meta is clearly back in the race.

Anthropic Launches Project to Secure Critical Software

This week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, an initiative bringing together AWS, Apple, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others to secure the world's most critical software using a new unreleased model called Claude Mythos Preview.

What it does: Mythos Preview is a frontier model that Anthropic says can "surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities." The model has already found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD and a 16-year-old flaw in FFmpeg that automated testing had missed millions of times— plus thousands of other high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities.

How it works: Project Glasswing partners will use Mythos Preview to find and fix vulnerabilities in foundational systems. Anthropic doesn’t plan to make Mythos Preview generally available—instead, it will use the model to develop safeguards that can eventually be deployed with future Claude releases.

The bigger picture: This follows OpenAI's policy proposals from earlier in the week—both labs are positioning themselves not just as model builders but as stewards of how AI reshapes critical infrastructure. As Anthropic put it: the window between a vulnerability being discovered and being exploited has collapsed.

Atlassian Launches AI Visual Tools, Third-Party Agents

Atlassian announced new AI tools on Wednesday, with a focus on turning data into visual assets and embedding third-party agents directly into its collaboration software Confluence.

What's new: 

  • The company rolled out Remix in open beta—a visual tool that turns Confluence data into charts, graphics, and other assets, recommending the best format and creating visuals without requiring users to leave the app.

  • Atlassian also launched three new third-party agents that run within Confluence using MCPs: one connects to Lovable to turn ideas into prototypes, another connects to Replit to convert technical docs into starter apps, and a third works with Gamma to build presentations.

The bigger picture: Atlassian is hopping on the trend of companies embedding AI directly into existing workflows rather than launching separate platforms. Case in point: Salesforce recently turned Slack's chatbot into an AI agent, while OpenAI's Frontier Alliances initiative is tasking consultants with baking OpenAI's tech into clients' existing stacks.

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Journey packages system prompts, skills, tool configurations, and code into installable, versioned bundles that agents can drop into their environment. Kits are safety-scanned, open-source, and installable via CLI, MCP, or API into Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, and more.

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Jobs, announcements, and big ideas

  • Claude Cowork rolls out enterprise-grade controls, usage analytics, and a Zoom integration to support team workflows.

  • Perplexity deepens its Plaid integration, enabling users to connect bank accounts, credit cards, and loans in one place.

  • Alibaba releases its HappyHorse-1.0 video generation model, which quickly rises to the top of performance leaderboards.

  • Upwork introduces a ChatGPT-powered app that helps companies discover and hire freelancers directly through the chatbot.

  • Google brings notebook functionality into the Gemini app, syncing with NotebookLM to better organize chats and documents.

  • Google upgrades the Gemini app with interactive simulations and dynamic models embedded directly in conversations.

  • OpenAI unveils a $100-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan with significantly higher Codex usage limits than the Plus tier.

Can OpenClaw stay on top? Follow along as I break down the agentic revolution and the tools to help you get there.

That’s a wrap! See you next week for more.

—Matt (FutureTools.io)