/Dispatch #117
Meta's Superintelligence Labs released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, claiming internal test scores comparable to OpenAI's and Anthropic's best.

In a virtual office experiment, 189 workers gave real money to AI assistants. Coauthor Mary Hausfeld says the technology was identical, yet the male-presenting avatar, Johan, earned about 10% more than the female-presenting one, Johanna.





Character.AI, the roleplaying chatbot app, filed for US bankruptcy protection. Disney, which sent it a cease-and-desist letter, is lead bidder, offering $20 million for a license to some assets.




+15Anthropic bans sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude, effective November 12, and ends conversations as enforcement. A spokesperson says the company is uncertain whether models can experience harm. The update also restricts election interference and tracking.




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