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Thursday, September 24, 2026

18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadEverything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse

CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses.

TechCrunch AI· Kirsten Korosec, Lucas Ropek· 2 min· 16d agoSource →

01QUICK HITS

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Trending on Hacker News with 532 points and 558 comments.

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I don't want the details

Trending on Hacker News with 369 points and 200 comments.

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Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

Trending on Hacker News with 455 points and 260 comments.

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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

Trending on Hacker News with 261 points and 124 comments.

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GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Trending on Hacker News with 1736 points and 822 comments.

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03THE TENSION2▸

PERSPECTIVE A

“Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses”

— The Verge AI

The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses have no cameras. | Photo by Brett Putman / The Verge Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech bubble where "pervert glasses" are not a concern.

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PERSPECTIVE B

“Why We’re Melting Down Today’s Software to Forge the Interface of Tomorrow: Meet Nautilo, the Open Org Harness for Everyone”

— Daniel Jeffries

AI will be our interface to the world. But today’s software was built for yesterday’s world. To realize AI’s potential, we’ve got to accelerate the SaaSpocalype and reforge software for the agent age.

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04RESEARCH3▸

★ Must ReadHistoric UN Security Council Briefing on AI

We all agree on what needs to be done. Now let’s do it.

Gary Marcus· 3 min· 16d agoSource →

★ Must ReadDear President Trump, here’s a deal you can actually make that will make you look great

An open letter about how you could change the world, tomorrow

Gary Marcus· 3 min· 17d agoSource →

[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%

Latent Space — [AINews] Claude Opus 5. 5, the new default model for AINews —...

Latent Space· 3 min· 17d agoSource →

05BUILDERS3▸

More Tokens Won't Replace Your Point of View

Getting good at delegation can make it easier to skip the work that gives your writing a point of view.

Louis Bouchard· Louis-François Bouchard· 2 min· 17d agoSource →

Fastest Qwen3.8 27B Quantization? Benchmarking NVFP4, INT4, GSQ, and MTP

Quantized Qwen3.

Kaitchup· Benjamin Marie· 2 min· 17d agoSource →

Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models

Plus Gemini Live, and a pelican riding a bicycle in 1988

Simon Willison· 2 min· 18d agoSource →

06GO DEEP1▸

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.

Latent Space· RJ Honicky· 3 min· 17d agolong readSource →

07VOICES3▸

“Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse”

— Kirsten Korosec, Lucas Ropek, TechCrunch AI

“Meta is making a standalone Muse AI gadget”

— Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge AI

“Claude Opus 5.5: The System Card”

— Zvi Mowshowitz

SIGNAL — September 24, 2026 | SIGNAL