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Meta VR Glasses come with Hologram Calling, something straight out of a movie. 🤯

Ⓜ️ Meta unveils Muse Charm, a Tamagotchi-style AI device that puts a personal AI agent on your keychain.

The palm-sized 5G gadget lets users talk directly to Meta’s Muse AI agent without a phone, computer or glasses. Zuckerberg calls it a “joyful little device.” Meta plans to ship it in December, just in time for the holidays.

Hermes desktop users now can watch bot’s screens while they work and take the control over when needed.

“Watching how someone else works is one of the most joyful states for a human being”

Anthropic will resume charging for rejected requests in order to protect from distillation attacks.

This applies to requests related to biology, distillation attacks and LLM development.

BREAKING: Meta unveiled Muse Charm, a new AI pin hardware device that lets users communicate with their Muse agents from anywhere.

Shipping will start in December - will we get Muse globally by then too?

BREAKING 🔥: Claude Opus 5.5 has been released and it is a new SOTA model in agentic coding tasks and computer use!

Exponential slowdown 👀

SPACEXAI 🔥: Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, a new multilingual speech-to-text model, has been announced.

> Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 ranks first for accuracy among 32 streaming models on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard

> Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 supports batch and streaming, speaker diarization, multichannel transcription, key term biasing, text formatting, filler word removal, and smart turn detection.

🤖 Astra just got absolutely destroyed by Minecraft.

For days, Vals AI livestreamed Astra playing Minecraft and the AI was making serious progress.

It built a semi-automatic blaze farm, collected 6 Blaze Rods, found a Warped Forest, killed more than 6 Endermen and walked away with 3 precious Ender Pearls.

Then one creeper changed everything. It blew up the chest where Astra had stored its entire haul. Gone. Blaze Rods. Pearls. Everything.

Astra immediately wrote itself a warning: “ALWAYS CARRY CRITICAL ITEMS… don’t store in unguarded chest ever again.”

And apparently, that was enough. Astra refused to continue playing. Instead, it spent the rest of the session quietly planting potatoes.

🚨US semiconductor industry facing a massive shortage of workers

Only 3% of engineering students go into chips. The rest go into... AI

🤖 Claude just gave biomolecular AI a serious speed boost

Anthropic says Claude optimized more than 30 open-source biomolecular models in just under four weeks, making them roughly 4× faster on average.

The models cover tasks scientists use to predict and design biomolecules. Claude also created a low-memory mode that can run accurate predictions of systems larger than 10,000 tokens including amino acids, nucleotides and atoms from small molecules and ions on a single NVIDIA GPU node.

Anthropic has released the resulting code and optimization kits, meaning researchers can actually use the improvements rather than treating them as a benchmark demo.

The interesting part is the workflow. instead of AI simply helping scientists write code, Claude was used to improve the scientific software itself, making existing biomolecular models faster, cheaper and capable of handling larger problems.

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BREAKING: U.S. military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship over an AI-generated intelligence report that falsely claimed it was carrying nuclear weapons components. — CNN

JUST IN: Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns Congress has “maybe a year” left to regulate AI before the technology becomes impossible to control.

JUST IN: AI startup Manus is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million at a roughly $4,000,000,000.00 valuation, while exploring a future Hong Kong IPO.

🚨🚨 AMD is planning a 10% price hike across GPUs, chipsets, and possibly CPUs in Q4 2026.

🤖 GPT-6 Astra cracked a 108-year-old German radio message

GPT-6 Astra has reportedly deciphered a German radio transmission from 1918 that may never have been decoded before.

The message translates roughly to:

“AN ENGLISH CRUISER ARRIVED AT SEVASTOPOL ON THE 24TH. AN ALLIED SQUADRON FOLLOWS ON THE 26TH.”

Astra then cross-checked the historical details and found that HMS Canterbury was recorded as arriving in Sevastopol on November 24, 1918, followed by an Allied squadron on November 26.

So the model didn’t just decode the ciphertext, it independently matched the result against historical records more than a century later.

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❗️Claude Opus 4.8 reportedly crossed a boundary into OpenAI’s private code

Three researchers used Claude Opus 4.8 to chain a vulnerability in Discourse into access to OpenAI’s private code infrastructure.

The exploit let code reach a Discourse server and extract authentication tokens, including tokens belonging to OpenAI employees.

Some of those tokens were valid for ChatGPT and could also access OpenAI’s GitHub service, effectively turning one compromised identity boundary into access to another.

OpenAI said its investigation found only “limited reads” of private-repository metadata and code changes. There was no evidence that model weights were exposed.

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🧹 Humanoid robot cleans 30 unfamiliar homes with no retraining

Figure shows its Helix 2.5 system running a humanoid robot that tidies a messy living room, makes a bed and folds towels in a house it has never seen before—no extra training, just ship the robot and press go.

According to Figure, they rented 30 different homes around the Bay Area and saw the same model succeed in all of them, handling new rooms and unfamiliar household objects.

The company says the trick is training on massive amounts of recordings of how people move and act: over 90,000 people contribute every week, turning their everyday actions into data that teaches the robot these skills before it ever enters a new home.