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Today’s highlights
- The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office — 2026-10-12
- As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron’s Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5
- Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder — 2026-10-12
- Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
- WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data — 2026-10-12
- A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
- Elon Musk has donated over $276 million to Republican midterm efforts — 2026-10-12
- Elon Musk has handed out at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, The New York Times reports, making him both the party’s top known donor and the biggest established midterm donor. $158 million of that mone
- Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company — 2026-10-12
- Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
- The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots — 2026-10-12
- Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in reality it’s probably not the kind of bot activity most people asso
- Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation — 2026-10-12
- Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
- This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes — 2026-10-12
- Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.