Zuckerberg manifesto pushes an open-source approach on AI as Meta releases its latest model

August 11, 2026

Meta Platforms on Monday announced the release of a new artificial intelligence model that’s open for other software developers to use as CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned of the risks if control of advanced AI is concentrated under a select few companies, institutions or governments. The tech company included a “permissive” open source license for Muse Glimmer, a lightweight AI model that can run on a personal computer. Zuckerberg said the company would also would provide a way for developers to access a more powerful AI model, Muse Spark 1.2. Meta has long been a proponent of ...

From Uniqlo to Zara, clothing brands try to win over Gen Z with a needle and thread

August 11, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Encouraging customers to mend worn clothes instead of buying new ones might seem like a self-defeating sales strategy. But in-store repairs and sewing workshops are becoming essential retail services for clothing brands as they try to appeal to young consumers who want to ...

Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO Greg Abel spends a chunk of the company’s massive cashpile

August 11, 2026

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO Greg Abel spent a significant chunk of the company’s massive pile of cash as it invested $10 billion in Google’s parent company and repurchased about $4.5 billion of its shares. The conglomerate that legendary investor Warren Buffett built reported its second-quarter earnings Saturday morning and disclosed that its cash holdings had shrunk to $365.5 billion from nearly $400 billion at the end of March. Berkshire’s report suggested that it had added more than $21 billion worth of commercial, industrial and other stocks to its ...

Kent State indictments

August 11, 2026

AP Photo/Gene Herrick Ohio Attorney General Paul Brown, center, poses in his office in Columbus, Aug. 11, 1970, with Robert L. Balyeat, right, Lima attorney, and Seabury H. Ford, Ravenna attorney, as they start to go over the huge file of data on the shooting deaths of four Kent State ...

Defense lawyer takes aim at psychiatrist’s care before Lindsay Clancy killed her 3 kids

August 11, 2026

Lindsay Clancy ’s lawyer probed her psychiatrist’s expertise, prescribing decisions and overall treatment as the defense sought Monday to suggest that the mental healthcare system overlooked and even accelerated the Massachusetts mother’s decline in the months before she killed her three young children. In questioning Dr. Jennifer Tufts, defense lawyer Kevin Reddington spotlighted her use of 25-minute video appointments with limited time for talk therapy, the computerized forms that documented her observations, and the series of pharmaceuticals she recommended as Clancy reported ...

A man accused of orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing is on trial. Here’s what to know

August 11, 2026

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur has been a mystery for decades; now the man accused of orchestrating the 1996 shooting near the Las Vegas Strip is on trial. Family members of the famed rapper were among supporters who gathered outside a Las Vegas courthouse Monday morning for the beginning of jury selection, which could continue through much of this week. “Whoever had anything to do with it, whoever set it up, whoever had any hand in it should be locked up in prison,” said Shakur’s cousin, Kendrick Lesane. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, has pleaded ...