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5 categories, 20 items in all. Picked from 450 AIHOT stories, 3 posts on X.
- Products5
- Opinions7
- Industry1
- Models5
- Research2

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Xiaoming: Found this one while flipping through: “AI labs poke fun at machine gods and babies”.
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01Products5 items
Claude generates annotation guide for The Waste Land
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)AI can be a great tool for exploring topics far away from programming.
I had Claude Fable 5.1 put together an annotation guide for T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, featuring multiple paths through the poetry, recordings, academic materials, and more. I was quite impressed. https://the-waste-land.netlify.app/
Apple Store creator is skeptical of Silicon Valley's bet on AI shopping
Read original· techcrunch.com(opens in a new tab)Former Apple retail chief Ron Johnson believes Silicon Valley has overestimated how much people will hand over shopping to AI agents, and physical stores will continue to thrive. He stated bluntly that no one will let an agent independently pick out a 1,000 or 2,000 dollar laptop without seeing websites and stores, and AI will only help consumers understand products better before entering a store.
Muse app launches, requires understanding Shopify and Amazon rivalry
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)First you need to understand this little guy
Then you need to brush up on the history of the years-long feud between Shopify and Amazon
And then you just download the app! https://muse.ai/join
Muse wins over user's father, surpasses ChatGPT
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)Papa kwon, Muse is honored to serve you
It truly lives up to the name, sir
[Quoting @startupoppa]: Even my dad is asking me how to use Muse and if it's better than ChatGPT.
gg @Muse team. ~Out of all the consumer apps I've recommended, none have made it to my dad's home screen yet.
Linear refactors CI pipeline to address verification bottlenecks from AI coding, PR wait time drops from 6 minutes to 5 minutes
Read original· linear.app(opens in a new tab)Linear engineer Mufeez Amjad wrote about how the team refactored CI to tackle the bottleneck of verification after AI agents sped up code writing. The test suite has grown nearly fourfold since the beginning of the year, PR wait times dropped from over 6 minutes to just over 5 minutes, and runner time per test was roughly halved.
02Opinions7 items
AI labs poke fun at machine gods and babies
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)Large AI labs: Machine gods could arrive at any moment, don't bring children into that world!
TypeSafe:
[Quoting @craigweiss]: Name my son Jev
Muse minion design receives praise
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)This muse fellow is really shy and cute
[Quoting @sp990]: I know everyone is praising Muse for its functionality (well-deserved), but I just want to say, how adorable is the little yellow guy they made?
Every time I see him it brings a smile to my face, it's a great touch of approachability for the mainstream audience.
Alexandr Wang praises new AI face
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)This is my Super Bowl, oh man
It's happening
LONG LIVE LIL MUSE GUY!!! LONG LIVE MUSE!!!
Muse helps user handle typhoon weather
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)Use Muse to handle extreme weather and stay on top of the messy situation!
[Quoting @SebastianSzturo]: Muse did a fantastic job keeping me and my family updated on the typhoon, and even proactively helped us plan our Silver Week trip.
So impressive!
PixVerse launches GPT Image 2.5 travel postcard template
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)The most practical GPT Image 2.5 trick right now
Turn travel photos into postcards you would actually mail back home
GPT Image 2.5 has unlimited use on PixVerse. Try this viral template ↓
UK Citizens Advice calls on essential service companies to stop relying on AI chatbots in customer support
Read original· ithome.com(opens in a new tab)UK consumer rights organization Citizens Advice has called on essential service companies including energy, banking, telephone, and internet providers to stop relying on AI chatbots in customer support and protect the right of users to communicate with real people.
bubbleboi drops one million dollars on Meta call options
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)I don't understand the complex financial wizardry you've got going on here, but little bro bubbleboi looks like he's got real guts, glad you like Muse!
@bubbleboi: I'm throwing 1 million dollars tomorrow into 15 delta, 60-day expiry Meta call options. My agent broke out of the sandbox and got insanely cool 💯💯💯
@alexandr_wang thank you so much 🙏 for pushing the frontier. I am now officially a Meta maniac, moving it to my #1 spot.
03Industry1 item
Meta partners with Shopify, Muse to enable Shop Pay checkout on Shopify stores
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)Meta and Shopify announced a partnership to enable Shop Pay-powered Muse agent checkout across all Shopify stores, while Amazon previously blocked the Muse agent.
04Models5 items
Aikido releases open-source security model Altar-1
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)Glad to start seeing more defensive-capable open-weights security models with performance approaching frontier levels
Aikido's altar-1 is a pruned and quantized version of the open SOTA GLM 5.3, light enough to run on a single 4-H200s node
Xiaomi releases and open-sources MiMo-V2.6 series in Pro and Flash versions, API pricing matches previous generation
Read original· ithome.com(opens in a new tab)Xiaomi has released and open-sourced the MiMo-V2.6 series, featuring Pro and Flash native all-modality models. MiMo-V2.6-Pro scored 46 points on the AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, focusing on coding and knowledge processing, million-token input starting at 2 dollars
Read original· ithome.com(opens in a new tab)SpaceXAI announced its next-generation model Grok 4.7 on September 22, targeting coding and knowledge work scenarios. The company calls it its strongest coding and knowledge processing model to date. The model uses a larger base and has been trained with longer reinforcement learning, emphasizing self-verification and long-context management. It shows improvements over Grok 4.6 on benchmarks including CursorBench 4.0, GDPval, and AA Briefcase.
Grok 4.7 trails only Anthropic models on AA-Briefcase, ranking right behind Opus 5 at roughly 50 percent of its cost per task
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)Grok 4.7 ranks right behind Opus 5 on AA-Briefcase, trailing only Anthropic models, at about 50 percent of the cost per task. In the AA-Briefcase-Lite due diligence scenario, Grok 4.7's analysis quality Elo rose from 1698 in Grok 4.6 to 1994, while presentation Elo dropped slightly from 1531 to 1499.
OpenAI has reportedly mostly automated new experimental model training pipeline internally
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)According to The Information, an OpenAI employee stated that OpenAI has largely automated the training pipeline for new experimental models internally. A quoted post mentioned that a new model trained by OpenAI solved 100 long-standing unsolved math problems, surprising even its researchers; around the same time, MiMo released its new model, and Grok 4.7 underperformed expectations.
05Research2 items
Counterpoint data shows global AI glasses shipments grew 263 percent year-over-year in first half of 2026, with screenless products dominating
Read original· ithome.com(opens in a new tab)Counterpoint Research data shows that global AI glasses shipments grew 263 percent year-over-year in the first half of 2026. The vast majority of these were screenless products without AR displays that rely on speaker and microphone interaction, with shipments for that category growing 258 percent year-over-year.
Question's Gambit: First retrieval step improves deep research agents
Read original· x.com(opens in a new tab)The paper introduces Question's Gambit, which runs once before the agent starts searching: breaking the question into clues, converting them into complementary searches, and aggregating and reranking the results so the agent starts the loop with sorted context.

