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By going into detail about how Muse works under the hood, we hope to give you a sense of how — and how much — you can trust it in practice. Today we launched Muse — our persona…

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Meta Details Safety Architecture for Muse AI Agent

By going into detail about how Muse works under the hood, we hope to give you a sense of how — and how much — you can trust it in practice. Today we launched Muse — our personal agent. We’ve been working on and using Muse ourselves since early 2026.…

Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum’s cryptographic world computer vision

Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum’s cryptographic world computer vision

The cryptographic world computer We talk about Ethereum as "a blockchain", as though it is fundamentally the same technology as the Bitcoin that Satoshi Nakomoto created back in 2009. In many ways it is, and in some ways even the "lean Ethereum" of the future that is being built along the lines of the Strawmap retains the core trappings of a blockchain.…

ONCE Campfire in Rust: one binary, the Rails app's data, 19–44× faster - basecamp/once-campfire-rust

Basecamp Ports Campfire From Rails to Rust

ONCE Campfire in Rust: one binary, the Rails app's data, 19–44× faster - basecamp/once-campfire-rust Campfire in Rust A port of ONCE Campfire from Rails to Rust. It was built to be impossible to tell apart from the Rails app: the same screens pixel for pixel, the same protocols, and the Rails app's existing SQLite database and storage directory.…

Automating eval design and hillclimbing with Claude / claude.dev Blog

Anthropic Details Claude Tools for Automated Eval Hillclimbing

Principles for designing evals and hillclimbing against them without fooling yourself, and how the claude-api skill's build-eval and hillclimb commands put them to work. Automating eval design and hillclimbing with Claude Principles for designing evals and hillclimbing against them without fooling yourself, and how the claude-api skill's build-eval and hillclimb commands put them to work.…

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Finance & Geopolitics

Markets, macroeconomics, capital, policy, conflict, war, security, trade, energy, crypto markets and protocol economics. Use this over DACH when the main angle is macro, war/security, international power politics, or markets. Do not use for personal portfolios or developer tooling merely because they mention Web3.

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SEC clarifies when crypto token buybacks may imply securities promises

SEC clarifies when crypto token buybacks may imply securities promises

Frequently Asked Questions on the Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Certain Types of Crypto Assets and Certain Transactions Involving Crypto Assets Question 2.5: Issuers of non-security crypto assets may conduct buyback programs for several reasons, including treasury management, supply reduction, protocol-funded burns, and rebalancing.…

Oracle Credit Spreads Hit Record Amid Data Center Risks

Oracle Credit Spreads Hit Record Amid Data Center Risks

Rhodie House Options Intelligence | September 27, 2026 Follows March 1 / March 10 / April 26, 2026 reports Oracle (ORCL): Credit Structure and Delivery Risk Rhodie House Options Intelligence | September 27, 2026 Follows March 1 / March 10 / April 26, 2026 reports What I Said, What Happened In my March 1, 2026 Discord report I recommended against entering a short at $145-150.…

AI Agents Raise Bank Deposit and Disintermediation Risks

Agent Wars: The agentic bank run? TL;DR - The agentic bank run is a scenario, not today's reality. Muse's can't move deposits yet. Its current Plaid connection is read-only, and delegating your banking is a much bigger leap than canceling a subscription. - The more immediate threat for banks is losing the customer's next decision.…

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Developer tools, repositories, technical articles, software, hardware, security, science, and technical craft outside AI, including blockchain engineering.

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Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum’s cryptographic world computer vision

Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum’s cryptographic world computer vision

The cryptographic world computer We talk about Ethereum as "a blockchain", as though it is fundamentally the same technology as the Bitcoin that Satoshi Nakomoto created back in 2009. In many ways it is, and in some ways even the "lean Ethereum" of the future that is being built along the lines of the Strawmap retains the core trappings of a blockchain.…

ONCE Campfire in Rust: one binary, the Rails app's data, 19–44× faster - basecamp/once-campfire-rust

Basecamp Ports Campfire From Rails to Rust

ONCE Campfire in Rust: one binary, the Rails app's data, 19–44× faster - basecamp/once-campfire-rust Campfire in Rust A port of ONCE Campfire from Rails to Rust. It was built to be impossible to tell apart from the Rails app: the same screens pixel for pixel, the same protocols, and the Rails app's existing SQLite database and storage directory.…

Celld Offers Self-Hosted Cloudflare Durable Objects Runtime

Celld Offers Self-Hosted Cloudflare Durable Objects Runtime

Your Cloudflare app runs unchanged: Workers, Durable Objects, KV, Queues, D1, R2, Workflows, Cron, static assets (supported APIs →) Your data lives in a bucket you own Orders of magnitude cheaper at scale Get it Key characteristics Speed and density: one node, trivial cells, an Apple M-series laptop over loopback. The measured 2 vCPU fleet node had a slower activation p50 of 35.9 ms.…

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AI

Models, agents, research, infrastructure, products, safety, and the AI economy.

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Concentric blue paths and arrows surround an abstract Muse symbol on a light background.

Meta Details Safety Architecture for Muse AI Agent

By going into detail about how Muse works under the hood, we hope to give you a sense of how — and how much — you can trust it in practice. Today we launched Muse — our personal agent. We’ve been working on and using Muse ourselves since early 2026.…

Automating eval design and hillclimbing with Claude / claude.dev Blog

Anthropic Details Claude Tools for Automated Eval Hillclimbing

Principles for designing evals and hillclimbing against them without fooling yourself, and how the claude-api skill's build-eval and hillclimb commands put them to work. Automating eval design and hillclimbing with Claude Principles for designing evals and hillclimbing against them without fooling yourself, and how the claude-api skill's build-eval and hillclimb commands put them to work.…

Simon Willison Reviews 2026’s LLM and Agent Boom

Simon Willison Reviews 2026’s LLM and Agent Boom

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological … Simon Willison’s Weblog 2026 in LLMs (so far) 27th September 2026 On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose.…

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Vitalik Buterin releases Snowmoon under GPLv3 license

Snowmoon Snowmoon is released under the GPL v3 Yes, I said GPL v3, not CC-BY-SA. My legal theory, which Kimi K3 says is plausible, is that you are free to go turn it into a movie or a vibe-coded anime or whatever, but if you do that, you are required to open-source the pipeline (AI prompts, scripts, task-specific harness, etc) and other non-commodity materials that you used to make it so that other people can build…