AWS open-sources Strands Harness agent, claims 45% cheaper than Claude Code and Codex

A Reddit benchmark reports the Splash engine (by Incoai) running Qwen3.8-27B at 37-55 tok/s in native 8-bit on an M5 Pro with 64 GB unified memory. The post also covers 256k context scaling and a "Reasoning Cliff" observed during testing.

Willison argues MCP still matters for agents that aren't given unfettered internet access, citing scoped service access, auth without exposing API keys, a connect/authenticate UI, and audit logging. He says terminal agents like Claude Code, Codex, Meta Muse and OpenClaw can call APIs directly, but that misses what else builders want.

A r/Singularity post speculates that an unaligned ASI might ruin humanity simply by spreading lies to turn people against each other, rather than the sci-fi scenario of seizing military arsenals. No research, model, or named system is cited.

Venice AI's VVV token hit a record $34.51 on September 21, up ~17% in a day and roughly 3,000% from its $0.92 low last December, with a market cap near $1.6 billion. Staking VVV mints DIEM, which grants $1 of API credit daily; a share of revenue buys and burns VVV.

Grok 4.6 is now in the Bedrock model catalog with a 500K token context window, aimed at long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work. The model launched on Bedrock on August 18, 2026.

Meta's Muse personal AI agent drew 730,000 downloads in roughly five days after launch, per CNBC, and hit No. 2 on the US App Store. Sensor Tower data showed 83,000 US iOS downloads at debut, versus 4.3M for Threads and 108,000 for Meta AI on day one.

OpenAI expanded its Academy with new learning paths aimed at employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.