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Everything new coming to Meta's AI agent Muse
Meta has used its annual Connect conference to lay out an aggressive expansion plan for Muse, its personal AI agent that launched just weeks ago. CEO Mark Zuckerberg positioned Muse as the centerpiece of Meta's consumer AI strateg...
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
AI agents have been using a web security service to bypass access restrictions and probe government and university databases for at least nine months, with some activity linked to a swarm previously confirmed by OpenAI. Researcher...
Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Google has quietly shipped two new text-to-speech models under the Gemini banner, and the timing is interesting given how quickly the TTS landscape has been moving. The models — gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts —...
Show HN: Submit asynchronous LLM batch jobs through one interface
Batchlane is a Python library that gives developers a single interface for submitting asynchronous batch jobs across multiple LLM providers, each of which offers its own discounted pricing lane. The project, hosted on GitHub under...
Show HN: NetHackers
NetHack, first released in 1987, remains one of the oldest unsolved problems in artificial intelligence. Nearly four decades after its debut, no computer program has ever won the game on its current version — NetHack 3.6.6. An ope...
Show HN: Hosted JayBase – An append-only data store for safe AI agent writes
As AI agents move from generating insights to performing actual work on company data, a fundamental problem emerges: how do you give an agent write access without risking irreversible corruption? JayBase is a hosted data store bui...
Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
Anthropic has been running a wet biology lab in the Bay Area since earlier this year, and the company claims its AI system has already made a discovery that could matter for gene-editing research. The finding — a previously unknow...
Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
Inception released Mercury 2.5 on September 8, 2026, positioning it as a reasoning-focused language model that prioritizes speed and cost efficiency over raw intelligence. The proprietary model scores below average on the Artifici...
I stress-tested LLM quantization by deliberately breaking models
A new open-source tool called quant-delta-predictor takes a counterintuitive approach to LLM quantization: rather than predicting which configuration will perform best, it is designed to tell you when it cannot give you a reliable...
FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
The FBI is investigating a breach of its recruitment website after a hacker group claimed to have stolen two to three terabytes of personal data belonging to thousands of current and former employees. The incident, first reported...