The concept of "less is more" doesn't seem to have made it to Silicon Valley. Every time I blink, it seems like there's yet another AI agent available on the market. And right on cue, another AI bombshell has entered the villa: Muse is a personal AI agent from Meta (of Facebook fame) that can do things on your behalf, like opening a browser, filling out forms, and sending emails. But a personal…
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Astra leads computer use, Argon leads legal and finance work, and Sol wins on price for coding agents.
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DeepSeek has released official macOS and Windows desktop apps for DeepSeek Harness v0.2, its MIT-licensed agent harness. The preview adds a plugin manager, file and code-change review, and scheduled Automation Tasks. It also supports non-DeepSeek models through OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
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Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: "The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for
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Meta announced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets hobbyists build their own AI hardware using ESP32 boards and connect it to Meta's AI agent Muse. The team also produced 5,000 units of the "Muse Home Link," a USB-C device for smart home control. The open-source approach also helps Meta figure out which AI hardware form factors people actually want.
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Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz used the open-source tool BootLoops and Claude to produce 36 manuscripts across 18 fields in three months, from particle physics to linguistics. But the results often only became scientifically valuable once human experts stepped in. "Look at everything yourself," Schwartz says.
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TL;DR: Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots and Uber’s driver assistant share one bet: the agent speaks first. That moves the hard problem from what to answer to when to interrupt, on which channel, and with what offer. Classic ML and new decision models can solve it. Three launches, one pattern From pull to push Chatbots were […]
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Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or
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It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito - emphasis on work. OpenAI announced
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Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.
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Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026
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Gemini is everywhere in Google apps: it can read your emails, pull in data from your calendar, and find that file you accidentally saved to your work Drive. But no matter how much of your work is in Google, there are always other apps you'll need Gemini to access: things like your CRM, project management tool, marketing automation platform, and help desk, to name a few. Gemini connectors add a…
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Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4.
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Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.
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Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
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