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AI this week (Oct 12–18): Meta ships new models, Character.AI files for bankruptcy with Disney as opening bidder, Gemini 4 Argon goes wide

I track AI news across ~150 sources and rank topics by trend score. Here's what stood out this week (4,533 articles analyzed). Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Spark Open - Muse Wonder: Meta's first frontier model, aimed at agentic and professional work (financial documents, contracts, coding). I…

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  1. 2026-10-19 14:36 · r/artificial
    AI this week (Oct 12–18): Meta ships new models, Character.AI files for bankruptcy with Disney as opening bidder, Gemini 4 Argon goes wide

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