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Monday, September 28, 2026

18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadCan Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?

On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.

TechCrunch AI· Anthony Ha· 2 min· 12d agoSource →

01QUICK HITS

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Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump

This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump

TechCrunch AI · 2 min

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Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music

Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though.

The Verge AI · 2 min

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Why Okta Says AI Security's Next Signal Is Intent

For AI agents, zero trust comes down to one question: "Should this agent be doing this?

The AI Economy · 2 min

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The Quest for Embedded Evaluators

Dario Amodei’s essay We Must Pace the Frontier committed Anthropic to embedded evaluators, who would be placed inside Anthropic and given employee-level access, so they could provide outside perspective and also reports on what was happening.

Zvi Mowshowitz · 2 min

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Autoregressive

AI by Hand — Autoregressive

AI by Hand · 2 min

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03THE TENSION2▸

PERSPECTIVE A

“BREAKING: OpenAI’s security fiasco explodes — and could tank Jensen Huang’s reputation”

— Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus — BREAKING: OpenAI’s security fiasco explodes — and could tank...

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PERSPECTIVE B

“The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures”

— Hacker News

Trending on Hacker News with 248 points and 103 comments.

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04RESEARCH3▸

[AINews] The Future of Latent Space

A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!

Latent Space· 3 min· 15d agoSource →

BREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands

Meanwhile, the US government appears to be paralyzed

Gary Marcus· 3 min· 13d agoSource →

Analysis: AI Agents Are Having Their Metaverse Moment

BlackRock is publishing the Machine Economy thesis while Meta launches an AI agent already connected to Stripe, Shopify, PayPal, and Mastercard.

Lex Fridman· Lex Sokolin· 3 min· 15d agoSource →

05BUILDERS3▸

★ Must ReadRNNs by Hand, in Excel

From a small neuron to a small language model

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 12d agoSource →

★ Must ReadSmall Language Model

AI by Hand — Small Language Model

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 12d agoSource →

Loss

AI by Hand — Loss

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 12d agoSource →

06GO DEEP1▸

OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha

In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.

Latent Space· 3 min· 14d agolong readSource →

07VOICES3▸

“Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?”

— Anthony Ha, TechCrunch AI