Daily AI RoundupsFriday, 10 July 2026

The 10 Jul 2026 Calathea roundup leads with Meta debuting Muse Spark 1.1 as a coding-model developer preview and separately planning September production for a custom AI chip with Broadcom and TSMC. It also covers Fidji Simo stepping down from OpenAI AGI work due to illness, Ben Bernanke joining Claude maker Anthropic's AI oversight trust, Saw S. Lin and Jyh-Shing Roger Jang's DominoTree paper on GRU-based draft-tree scoring for faster LLM inference, and Hong Zhao's Monte Carlo mutation paper on training deep networks without backpropagation on a single GPU.

• coding models
• AI chips
• AI governance
• AI leadership
• LLM inference
• training methods
• research

Stories in this roundup

1. 01
   Meta debuts Muse Spark 1.1 coding model with developer preview, opening a new paid API revenue streamThe Verge
2. 02
   Meta plans to put custom AI chip into production in September with Broadcom and TSMC, aiming to double computing capacityReuters
3. 03
   OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo steps down from leading AGI work due to illnessThe Verge
4. 04
   Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's AI oversight trustReuters
5. 05
   Saw S. Lin and Jyh-Shing Roger Jang introduce DominoTree, using GRU-based path-dependent draft-tree scoring to accelerate LLM inferencearXiv
6. 06
   Hong Zhao shows Monte Carlo mutation can train deep networks on a single GPU without backpropagation, batch normalization, or residual connectionsarXiv