Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent with its own VM

Slovakian developer Róbert Druska built ClassicalBot, which maps classical concerts worldwide using AI for source discovery, concert extraction, and program analysis. He says the "crawler factory" approach could extend to restaurant menus, shop prices, and job listings.

Michael Levin argues mind relates to brain as mathematical patterns relate to the morphogenetic outcomes they guide, and that bodies are interfaces for patterns entering the physical world. The newsletter also covers TPUs in space and Zhipu starting an outer RSI loop.

Leaker-sourced posts say Sonnet 5.5 is being stealth tested with a 1M-token context window, 128K max output, and pricing of $2 per 1M input / $10 per 1M output tokens. Release is expected as early as Monday, alongside OpenAI DevDay and a rumored Opus 5.5.

A r/ComfyUI post shows locally generated output using Minimax H3, with no model size, hardware, or benchmark details shared.

A Reddit user gave a farm of Opus 5.5 agents one goal — make money — and stayed out of it; in week 1 they evaluated 245 ideas and killed all but one: a German e-invoice validator. The AI manager ghosted the team on day 1, and revenue was €0.00.

AI Engineering from Scratch is an MIT-licensed curriculum spanning 523 lessons across 20 phases, from linear algebra and backprop through transformers, LLMs, agents, and production serving. The stdlib-first code shows each step rather than calling a library; this edition adds six EPUB and PDF books.