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Today's topics:

Meta Muse Sparks AI Commerce - Meta's Muse is showing strong early adoption, lifting AI sentiment and helping drive AMD past a trillion-dollar valuation. Shopify wants Muse to handle checkout, but Amazon's reported block and a patched security flaw show how agentic commerce still faces trust and liability questions.

China Builds Full AI Stack - Alibaba introduced the Zhenwu V900 and laid out a chips-to-cloud-to-agents strategy, signaling China's push for an independent AI ecosystem. Xiaomi's new open-weight multimodal models add more competition to the global AI race.

Data Centers Face Power Rules - California signed seven data-center bills covering electricity, water use, and local oversight as AI infrastructure grows. Meanwhile, a new Türkiye-U.S. nuclear cooperation agreement highlights small modular reactors as a possible power source for future data centers.

Cybersecurity Turns More Active - Google says a Mandiant analyst infiltrated TeamPCP, helping disrupt a supply-chain hacking gang and stop a planned zero-day attack. At the same time, the U.K. and U.S. are deepening AI defense ties, while Washington and Beijing discuss an AI incident dialogue.

AI Broadens Languages And Code - The Gates Foundation is working with major AI organizations to improve datasets for underrepresented languages, aiming for fairer and more accessible models. Separately, developer Daniel Lemire says AI coding tools helped deliver real speed gains in widely used open-source libraries.

Space And Robots Meet Reality - A rocket-supply crunch is raising costs and uncertainty across the space industry as launch capacity tightens. In robotics, Agility Robotics is heading to public markets, but its filing shows how early and expensive the humanoid robot business still is.

Episode Transcript

Meta Muse Sparks AI Commerce
Let's start with the consumer AI story everyone is watching. Meta's new Muse assistant appears to be off to a very strong start, with early app estimates suggesting it is attracting users faster than ChatGPT did in its comparable launch window in the U.S. and Canada. That enthusiasm fed straight into the market, lifting Meta and helping push AI-linked chip stocks higher, including AMD, which briefly crossed the trillion-dollar mark. But the rollout also shows how messy real-world AI agents can get. Shopify plans to let Muse complete purchases through its checkout tools, while Amazon has reportedly blocked the agent from shopping on its site. And on the security front, Meta had to patch a flaw in the Mac app that could have exposed authentication tokens. So the demand is real, but the rules, safeguards, and retail relationships are still being worked out in public.

China Builds Full AI Stack
In China, Alibaba used a chip launch to make a much bigger