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Issue #68  ·  October 4th, 2026
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The Brief

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.

Leading today: The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.. Also in this issue: Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’; Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations. 16 stories in total, selected automatically from 39 candidates across the day's feeds.

Headline News
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huggingface.co
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.

A Blog post by Microsoft on Hugging Face

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theverge.com
Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’

Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech.

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theverge.com
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations

Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops.

New Today
the-decoder.com
"Muse Gadgets" turns AI hardware into an open-source DIY project

Meta announced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets hobbyists build their own AI hardware using ESP32 boards and connect it to Meta's AI agent Muse.

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the-decoder.com
Open-source "BootLoops" harness supports AI models in performing precise scientific calculations

Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz used the open-source tool BootLoops and Claude to produce 36 manuscripts across 18 fields in three months, from particle physics to linguistics.

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news.google.com
Meta's AI Spending Has a $3.9 Billion Tax Perk — Mark Zuckerberg-Led Company Reportedly Classified Data Centers as ‘Pilot Models’

Meta's AI Spending Has a $3.9 Billion Tax Perk — Mark Zuckerberg-Led Company Reportedly Classified Data Centers as ‘Pilot Models’    Yahoo Finance

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news.google.com
Morocco Releases First Open-Source Darija AI Tools From Mistral Partnership

Morocco Releases First Open-Source Darija AI Tools From Mistral Partnership    iAfrica.com

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news.google.com
Moonshot AI launches open-source Kimi K2.6 with up-to-1,000 mini-agent helpers

Moonshot AI launches open-source Kimi K2.6 with up-to-1,000 mini-agent helpers    NewsBytes

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news.google.com
Aleph Alpha launches Kolibri, a sovereign German AI model for government use

Aleph Alpha launches Kolibri, a sovereign German AI model for government use    Startup Fortune

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Research & Engineering
simonwillison.net
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps .

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simonwillison.net
September sponsors-only newsletter

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simonwillison.net
Rex's Dino Store

Museum: Rex's Dino Store Located just before the turnstiles in the Grand Army Plaza subway station at the north end of Brooklyn's Prospect Park is this former newsstand which is now operated by a dinosaur.

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news.google.com
Why Anthropic Is Asking Religious Leaders About AI Consciousness

Why Anthropic Is Asking Religious Leaders About AI Consciousness    NDTV

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science.org
An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why

Trending on Hacker News (49 points, 78 comments).

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news.google.com
Billionaires Are Suddenly Dressing Like They Deal Weed. I Have a Theory Why.

Billionaires Are Suddenly Dressing Like They Deal Weed. I Have a Theory Why.    slate.com

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Project Highlights
pipod.dev
Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

Trending on Hacker News (77 points, 30 comments).

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