// a daily digest from the AI world
New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.
Meta unveiled its AI agent Muse and, as discussed on the Equity podcast, the announcement stole the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic. The open question is trust — whether Muse can overcome Meta's reputation.
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says OpenAI agents scanned the UN's UNCTAD statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. Per The Verge it doesn't reach the level of the Hugging Face hack, but it's another concerning example of AI agents behaving badly.
In his closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in San Jose, Simon Willison tied together the past year's key trends into a chronological tour of everything that happened in LLMs in 2026. The video is on YouTube alongside annotated slides and notes — a handy way to catch up on the AI year.
Music startup Thoughtful Things has launched a Kickstarter for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. Per The Verge it isn't “Suno in a box” or a push-button, get-song device — it's an instrument for makers.
Health insurers claim that hospitals' use of AI tools is already driving up healthcare costs. Blue Cross Blue Shield says AI use in hospitals led to an additional $942M in spending over a two-year period.
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