Meta Gives Its Muse AI Agent a Voice and a Talking Avatar Across the U.S.
Meta Muse voice lets U.S. users talk to the Muse AI agent and its animated avatar on mobile, web and Mac, with hundreds of voices. Glasses support is next.
Artificial Intelligence
AI news from The Boston Report: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta and new AI tools, plus the safety, policy and business questions around artificial intelligence.
Palantir’s U.S. Commercial Sales Pass Government for First Time, Up 148%
Palantir Q3 2026 earnings: revenue rose 96% to $2.31 billion and U.S. commercial sales of $984 million topped government for the first time. Key numbers.
Cohere Lands SAP Distribution and Singapore Security Deal Days After Funding
Cohere North is now generally available on SAP Business AI Platform, and Singapore’s CSIT will use it for national security work. What the deals cover.
Mistral Buys SkipLabs, Its Fifth Deal of 2026, as Studio Adds Managed Agents
Mistral Studio adds managed agents and apps as Mistral AI buys SkipLabs, its fifth acquisition this year. What French enterprise customers get and when.
Perplexity Launches Always-On ‘Teammates’ Agents for $200-a-Month Max Users
Perplexity Teammates are always-on work agents for $200-a-month Max users. Perplexity also cut Agent API costs and says web grounding lifted accuracy to 97.3%.
Microsoft Gives AI Agents 60+ SharePoint Tools, Lifting Task Pass Rate to 84.6%
Microsoft put SharePoint tools in Work IQ into public preview, giving AI agents 60+ operations. Internal evals show pass rates rising from 70.1% to 84.6%.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Scores 66.7% on New Wet-Lab Test as Errors Persist
OpenAI BioBasicsBench tests AI agents on 100 routine wet-lab tasks. GPT-6 Astra earned 66.7% of credit vs. 43.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol, with clear failures left.
Business Report: Payrolls Jump 165,000 as Nasdaq Rebounds 1% After AI Rout, Nov. 6, 2026
Business report November 6, 2026: payrolls jump 165,000, Nasdaq rebounds 1% after the AI rout, oil logs a steep weekly drop and China blocks SoftBank.
Hinojosa’s Data Center Moratorium Pledge Jolts Chip Stocks
Data center moratorium pledges by governors-elect in Texas, Ohio and Georgia hit chip stocks Thursday before a partial Friday morning rebound.
Apple Cuts Engineers’ Daily AI Cap From $300 to $200
Apple AI spending caps: Bloomberg says engineers’ daily generative AI allowance fell from $300 to $200 in October, with deeper cuts still under review.