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Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.

Meta’s Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that’s a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn’t actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages.

The problem is that Aten says he didn’t give Muse access to his messages. When asked how it knew about the contents of his messages, Muse replied, “I saw the notification previews, not your message history. I haven’t been reading your texts.” Aten continued...

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If AI Can Do Almost Anything, What Will Be Left for Humans to Learn?

In a July interview with The Economist, Elon Musk predicts that in five years’ time AI will surpass all human intelligence combined, and in ten years, there will be almost nothing that a machine cannot do better than a human. Work will cease to be a necessity – it will become

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Gotchas at a World Geography Level

Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzerland: Campione d'Italia and Büsingen am Hochrhein, respectively, in Italy and Germany. Both are enclaves of their respective country in Swiss territory: An enclave is a part of the territory of a

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Your Pods Are Not Draining: I Checked

Every graceful shutdown guide for Kubernetes tells the same story. The pod gets SIGTERM. The endpoint leaves rotation. Traffic stops arriving. Your handler finishes the in-flight work and exits. It is a reasonable story. I wanted to know if it is true. Not plausible. Measured, with timestamps. So I built

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Agentic AI Meets Its Missing Layer: Market Access

A model can work through a market question, weigh the alternatives and settle on a trade in under a second. Until recently it had nowhere to send that decision. Financial rails have been automated for decades. Orders route by machine, payments clear by machine, and settlement finishes without anyone touching

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If AI Can Do Almost Anything, What Will Be Left for Humans to Learn?

Gotchas at a World Geography Level

Your Pods Are Not Draining: I Checked

Agentic AI Meets Its Missing Layer: Market Access