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Friday, September 25, 2026
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★ Must ReadCan Muse make us forget the metaverse?

Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself.

“I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the Risk”
— WIRED AI

Instinct saved me $550, booked my restaurant reservations, and warned me about a phishing scam. It also wasted $64 and might be a security nightmare.

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“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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“I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang

OpenAI hacks a foreign government — and the US faces its most critical AI test yet.

Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science

Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.

There and Back Again: Tracking Global AI Talent Flow

Arguably the most often-uttered piece of factoid about the global AI landscape is that China produces 50% of the world’s AI talent.

★ Must ReadBoosting Agentic Coding with LLM Retries: Lessons from Qwen3.8 27B on DeepSWE

Qwen3. 8 27B can reach >90% accuracy on DeepSWE 1.

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

Quantized Qwen3.

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.

★ Must ReadRunway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.

“Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?”
— Casey Newton, Platformer
“Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Googles AI a face”
— Emma Roth, The Verge AI
“Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds”
— Richard MacManus, Latent Space