Thursday, September 24, 2026
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta expanded its AI agent, Muse, and unveiled several new devices. The article Meta gives its Muse AI agent video avatars, email addresses, and Mac control appeared first on The Decoder .
Yesterday at Connect, we announced that we're bringing Muse to our AI glasses, launched Meta VR Glasses, and more.
A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.
Generative AI
Leading AI experts have consistently underestimated how fast AI is advancing, according to the Forecasting Research Institute. AI reached gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad five years ahead of the median expert forecast, and Anthropic's annualized revenue is about five times what experts…
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Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana calls him the "father of modern AI." He'll help lead the company's new RSI Lab, which works on recursive self-improvement, meaning AI that keeps developing itself.
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.
Round 2: black holes, Cat Doom, Dark Souls, broken apps, and a model that may be in a league of its own.
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Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna got cheaper
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PLUS: OpenAI Voice, Gemini TTS, Qwen mobile agents, and a 950-agent research workflow.
A belated discussion of Astra’s release, a bunch of AI incidents, and the broader situation we are in with regards to AI safety.
PLUS: Your go-to guy lives in the browser
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