THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES • Meta launches Muse Spark — a new multimodal model for Meta AI, with reasoning, visual understanding, and subagents. • CoreWeave signs a $21B deal with Meta — a major reminder that AI is now a compute-and-power business. • Anthropic pushes agents further with Claude Managed Agents and also restricts Claude Mythos Preview to a defensive cyber program under Project Glasswing. • Perplexity launches Billion Dollar Build — an 8-week startup competition with funding and credits. • Project Prometheus shows Jeff Bezos aiming at industrial AI and manufacturing automation. • DeerFlow keeps rising as an open-source super-agent harness. • xAI Colossus 2 appears to be training multiple next-gen models at once, based on public claims and secondary reporting.

5-STEP ACTION PLAN 1 Sort your AI stack into assistants, agents, and infrastructure. 2 Test one workflow that needs an agent, not just a chatbot. 3 Review vendor concentration and compute risk. 4 Treat AI as a security issue, not just a productivity tool. 5 Watch industrial AI even if you are not in manufacturing.