AI ASSEMBLED - AIA041326

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.