Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision

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View this email online in your browser  August 10, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision: Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access. Read More YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money: Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. Read More Clicks' Power Keyboard brings BlackBerry-style typing to any phone — with some compromises: Clicks’ $99 Power Keyboard brings a customizable, slide-out physical keyboard to MagSafe and Qi2 smartphones, but its added heft can make larger phones awkward to use. Read More A message from Alumni Ventures Invest in High-Potential Startups Like These Alumni Ventures is giving readers early access to high-potential startup opportunities across today’s most active sectors, co-invested alongside name-brand VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer, & Y Combinator. You Get: Curated deal flow of high-potential startups, Investing alongside name-brand vc firms, No cost to see deals, No obligation to invest. See Current Deals Afternoon Must-Reads Archer buys former rival Wisk Aero: The two companies were once embroiled in a trade secret theft lawsuit. Now, Wisk is being absorbed into Archer. Read More Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym: An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice. Read More Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI: On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building. Read More Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax: California's Prop 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state's billionaires. Read More A data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, Steam gamers, and beyond: Companies that rely on Ceva Logistics for shipping their physical goods to customers say their personal data was taken during a recent cyberattack. Read More Last but Not Least Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US: Aptoide has brought its games store back to Google Play after more than a decade, as court-ordered changes open Android to competing app stores. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107

This 'adversarial' pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

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View this email online in your browser  August 10, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 This 'adversarial' pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you: A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras. Read More A data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, Steam gamers, and beyond: Companies that rely on Ceva Logistics for shipping their physical goods to customers say their personal data was taken during a recent cyberattack. Read More Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default: Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight. Read More Morning Must-Reads Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy: On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader. Read More Signed up for Klaviyo? Dozens of advertisers may have seen your password: A bug in the tech giant's website mistakenly shared users' sign-up information, including personal data and their password, to third-party companies. Read More Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option: The ability to add Venmo to Google Play comes as people are spending more money on apps and games. Read More Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.: As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States. Read More Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry: The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets. Read More Last but Not Least OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide: NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107