Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company t...
Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off
Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agents's promotion across its own apps and beyond.
Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Compute
By Dhruv PratapIntroductionOrganizations that have been around for a while usually run two identity systems side by side. One belongs to the cloud provider: IAM roles, instance profiles, execution roles. The other is your own, and it is the one your internal services actually check when they decide ...
Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates
The following article originally appeared on Elevate and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A software factory is a repeatable loop around software work. If you’re building a software factory, code good enough to ship still needs human taste and ownership. We’ll discuss this includ...
10 Things I’m Learning Beyond AI to Become More Technologically Fluent
Part 1: Understanding the technologies shaping our future
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Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GB
Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to run inside infrastructure the customer controls. Altar-1 powers Aikido Machine, the company’s autonomous pentesting appliance for on-prem and air-gapped networks. Is it ...
Partition Finalization in Pinterest’s Next-Generation DB Ingestion Framework
Qianrui Zhang | Sr Software Engineer, Logging PlatformKanchi Masalia | Software Engineer II, Stream Processing PlatformLiang Mou | Sr Staff Software Engineer, Logging PlatformYi Pan | Principal Engineer, Agent PlatformIntroductionThis is the third post in our series on Pinterest’s next-generation da...
Autoregressive rollout and uncertainty propagation. Second in a series on probabilistic forecasting for physical signals.
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RAG Isn't an Agent — I Built the Layer Between Retrieval and Action
RAG retrieves. Agents act. I built both separately, connected them explicitly, and ran the same nine tasks through all three systems.
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The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learni...
10 Solved Generative AI Projects to Boost your Profile
Projects are the bridge between learning and becoming a professional. While theory builds fundamentals, recruiters value candidates who can solve real problems. A strong, diverse portfolio showcases practical skills, technical range, and problem-solving ability. This guide compiles 10 solved projec...
Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Open-Weight Decision Model That Runs on CPU
Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and returns structured answers. Each answer comes with a probability distribution, a confidence score, and constraint-feasibility metadata. It targets the frequent j...
Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3 Action: A 7B Open-Weights World Action Model That Tops RoboLab-120
Black Forest Labs (BFL), the lab behind the FLUX image models, has released FLUX 3 Action. It is a 7B open-weights World Action Model (WAM) for robot control. The model reads camera frames, robot state and a text instruction. It then predicts future video frames and the next chunk of actions togethe...
SMILESGNN: Interpretable Clinical Toxicity Prediction via SMILES-Graph Cross-Attention Fusion
arXiv:2609.28553v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Drug toxicity prediction is critical for reducing late-stage attrition in drug discovery, yet remains challenging due to severe class imbalance, scaffold-based generalization, and the clinical need for interpretable predictions. Single-modality approa...
CARE: Condition-Aware Representation Regularization for Diffusion Models
arXiv:2609.28561v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models highlight the importance of representation regularization for improving sample quality and training efficiency. However, commonly used regularization methods often overlook the built-in conditions (such as labels or...
SpaFactor: Lightweight Spatial Context-Aware Gene Program Modeling for Histology-to-Transcriptomics Inference
arXiv:2609.28563v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) profiles gene expression within tissue architecture, but its cost and experimental complexity limit routine use. Predicting spatial expression from routinely available hematoxylin and eosin (HE) images therefore offers a s...
When Should Forecasting Agents Reason? Behavioral Stress Tests for Reliability Routing
arXiv:2609.28475v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Forecasting agents increasingly combine language-model reasoning, retrieval, ensembling, and calibration, but it remains unclear when each behavior should be trusted. We study this question on ForecastBench-style binary forecasting tasks, treating the...
TW3Cast: A Frozen Router of Lightly Fine-Tuned Foundation Models for Time-Series Forecasting on GIFT-Eval, Selected Entirely on the Training Split
arXiv:2609.28506v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: TW3Cast is a time-series forecasting system that reaches position 3 of 130 entries on the GIFT-Eval benchmark by mean MASE rank, as of 2026-09-14. The two entries above it belong to the leaderboard's agentic category, multi-step systems that use agent...
arXiv:2609.28547v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Policy interventions propagate through public communication, institutional decisions, and stakeholder responses, yet datasets for financial multi-agent simulation rarely connect these processes to temporally aligned historical evidence. We introduce P...