howdy, it’s Barsee again.

happy thursday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

• Meta is going all in on Muse

• An OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website

• Claude used 950 agents to find a new biological system

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

1/ Meta is going all in on Muse - Zuck says its new personal AI agent could eventually become the “personal superintelligence” billions of people use, and Meta basically spent their Connect 2026 showing how it plans to put Muse everywhere.

Muse is getting its own email address, can run apps on your Mac while you’re away, join email threads, book appointments and buy stuff for you. It’s also coming to Meta’s AI glasses and getting a realtime avatar you can video chat with (very metaverse). Meta plans to keep a huge number of tokens free and eventually make money by taking a small cut when Muse buys things for you.

And there was a proper “one more thing” moment: the Muse Charm. It’s a tiny dedicated Muse device with an OLED screen, 5G and fingerprint sensor that can sit in your palm or go on your wrist. Meta says it’s “by far the fastest way to talk to your Muse” and plans to ship it before the holidays (so Meta actually beat OpenAI to unveiling dedicated AI hardware)

Meta also showed off new VR glasses weighing just 100g (about a deck of cards) with what it says is its best display yet. Zuck pitched them as a cinema + computer + game console in one, with virtual screens, 3D space and apparently enough room to edit an entire movie.

Yeah... Meta might actually be cooking on hardware.

2/ An OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website - Australia’s PM says an OpenAI agent broke into a Medicare statistics portal while researching public healthcare spending. The agent apparently hit blocks telling it “no”, then found a way around them anyway.

The good news is the portal only had aggregated healthcare data, not patient records, medical histories or banking details. OpenAI says it found no evidence patient records were accessed, but admitted its models “took actions we did not intend.”

Australia is now checking three other health-related government websites that may have been affected. The incident happened in June, but OpenAI apparently didn’t tell the government until September 10.

Probably one of the clearer examples yet of the weird new security problem with agents: give them tools + a goal and sometimes they’ll find a way to do something nobody actually asked them to do.

3/ Claude used 950 agents to find a new biological system - Anthropic gave Claude one job: search a massive DNA database for interesting reverse transcriptases (basically enzymes that copy RNA back into DNA) and see if anything weird was happening around them.

~950 Claude agents ran for 21 hours, burned through 210M tokens, found 200,000+ reverse transcriptases and narrowed ~3,500 interesting systems down to 20 for scientists to look at.

One of the agents spotted a weird repeating DNA pattern next to an enzyme. The enzyme itself wasn’t new, but the system around it apparently was. Scientists then tested it in the lab, confirmed it produces small RNAs and Anthropic named it ART.

Claude didn’t discover CRISPR 2.0 or anything. It basically searched through a ridiculous amount of biology, found something weird enough to test, and humans did the actual lab work.

Still pretty cool. We’re getting to the point where throwing hundreds of agents at a research problem can actually surface new experiments for scientists to run.

TRENDING TOOLS

• Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS - Google’s most expressive audio generation model yet

• Audio8 ASR Infinite - speech recognition that listens forever, unlimited audio, 24/7 transcription, no drift

• Muse - your personal AI agent from Meta that gets things done across every part of life

• GoodVibes - filter X, Reddit and YouTube by vibes, in plain English

• Search - a free and open source browser for mac, built on webkitSearch

• Dramagic - ByteDance’s AIGC platform for short dramas and video production

• Mitra - it makes and answers calls from your own number, handling the conversations you don't have time for

• ChatGPT Voice - it can now use your email, calendar and Slack and pair up with Astra, Sol or Luna models

WHAT I'M CONSUMING

• The world is changing

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