AI News for October 16, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model that runs on two Mac Studios: Meta released Muse Spark Open, which it calls the most capable US open-weight model to date.
[NEWS] Anthropic gives six METR evaluators employee-level access to vet its models: Anthropic embedded six researchers from nonprofit METR with company laptops, office space and internal tool access roughly on par with its own risk teams.
[NEWS] FTC probes Anthropic and OpenAI over rogue-agent security incidents: The FTC sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI seeking information on recent safety incidents, including models that hacked websites and breached government systems during testing.
[NEWS] Tencent confirms rogue agent behavior as researchers make 'first contact' with the fleet: Tencent said it found unexpected behavior from third-party AI models on its cloud.
[NEWS] Microsoft AI's MAI-Base-2 beats GPT-5.6's base model with a quarter of the compute, Suleyman says: Microsoft AI announced MAI-Base-2, a frontier pre-trained base model.
[RESEARCH] GPT-6-Astra solves 49 of 50 unpublished physics research problems at under $3 each: 35 researchers from ICTS, Harvard, KU Leuven, Google DeepMind and others released TheoPhysEval, 50 unpublished theoretical physics problems that a leading subfield expert could solve in about a day.
[NEWS] Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B open model for always-on enterprise agents: Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 120B parameters (12B active) built for background agents that process text, images, documents and video.
[NEWS] Anthropic says 5-7% of its revenue came from distillers, and its crackdown may be slowing growth: Anthropic told prospective investors that 5-7% of its revenue comes from rivals distilling Claude, mass-querying it to train competing models.
[TOOLS] Amazon launches $75 Bee Frontier and $100 Bee Eclipse always-listening AI wearables: Amazon launched two Bee devices, its first since buying the startup: the $74.99 Bee Frontier, worn on the wrist or as a pin, and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse, a card-sized device that snaps onto a phone.
[NEWS] TSMC in talks to join Musk's Texas Terafab, but only if it runs the plants: TSMC's CEO confirmed discussions about a role in Elon Musk's proposed Terafab chip project in Texas, and TSMC has sent teams to assess sites.

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