Alexandr Wang Announces Muse Launch in Japan

1. 05:26
   TechCrunch · AI

   TechCrunch Suggests Last-Minute Halloween Costumes for Tech Nerds

   TechCrunch offers last-minute tech-themed Halloween costume ideas, including dressing as recursive self-improvement, a cute AI agent, an AI usage limit notification, or a PHP vulnerability. The article also suggests costumes inspired by Mark Zuckerberg’s T-shirts and Bryan Johnson’s “GLP-Bryan” post.

1. 20:58
   量子位

   AgiBot unveils GO-3 Preview and WITA-OMNI, reporting leads across seven benchmarks

   AgiBot introduced GO-3 Preview for robotic task execution and WITA-OMNI for multimodal interaction at its innovation day. According to the report, GO-3 Preview topped RoboDojo, RoboTwin and RoboColiseum, while WITA-OMNI led Daily-Omni, TimeLens-Bench, EmbSpatialBench and MMAU. GO-3 Preview combines task understanding, reasoning, future-state prediction and action generation; WITA-OMNI coordinates speech, vision and text inputs with speech, facial expressions and actions. AgiBot also announced robot hardware upgrades and Lingqu OS 1.0, which it plans to fully open-source by year-end.

1. 21:42
   The Decoder

   Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times

   US intelligence agencies believe Alice Huang of Megaspeed, an executive close to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, passes information to Beijing, according to The New York Times. Trump was reportedly briefed about a year ago, but Jensen Huang was not warned. US authorities also suspect Megaspeed of helping China access Nvidia chips; Nvidia says Megaspeed receives no sensitive information, Megaspeed has announced an internal investigation, and a Chinese embassy spokesperson denied the allegations.

2. 21:00
   TechCrunch · AI

   Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure

   Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the maker and maintainer of Pipecat, for an undisclosed amount, TechCrunch reports. The companies said Pipecat will remain open-source, with Daily co-founder Kwindla Kramer citing Deepgram’s commitment to keeping it vendor-neutral. Deepgram is also launching Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol co-developed with the Pipecat team that defines audio context metadata, instructions for language models, and guidance on how responses should sound.

1. 16:50
   Latent Space

   Anthropic Hiring Manager Drops Coding Interviews, Advises Juniors That Hunger Beats Tenure

   Anthropic hiring manager Felix Rieseberg says he stopped giving traditional coding interviews this month, arguing that Claude outperforms candidates on small React challenges and assembly questions, while impactful builders succeed regardless of those tests. Latent Space highlights his advice for junior engineers to prioritize business impact, pursue ambitious ideas, build a weekend prototype, focus on one strong concept, and draw on their fresh perspective as users. The newsletter also rounds up model releases, evaluations, research claims, and industry developments.

2. 16:43
   雷锋网

   Huawei’s Liu Rui on Moving AI Assistants From Chatboxes to Proactive Service

   In a Leiphone interview, Liu Rui, founding director of Huawei’s Xiaoyi large model application laboratory, argues that AI assistants should move from passive responses toward proactive service while keeping users in control. He describes Aura’s continuous video interaction and Xiaoyi’s use of personal context and long- and short-term memory. Liu also argues that improving foundation models absorb application features, requiring product teams to adapt while focusing on genuine user needs.

3. 14:03
   雷锋网

   Huawei Wireless Unveils Innovations for Next-Generation Networks

   At Huawei’s Decoding China 2026 event, company vice president Fang Xiang announced a portfolio of innovations for next-generation communications networks. Huawei introduced VitaAAU, which it describes as the world’s first commercial U6GHz device, alongside its GigaGreen Plus and UBBPi series. VitaAAU has begun commercial deployment in markets including the UAE, while Huawei says its RANSpirit system is deployed across more than 25 large-scale networks worldwide.

1. 17:58
   The Decoder

   Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia chips

   Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta’s planned equity offering, The Wall Street Journal reports, while the companies are expanding their partnership around Meta’s AI product Muse. Meta plans to use more Nvidia infrastructure for its next generation of AI agents, including Vera Rubin systems and Vera CPUs. Meta seeks up to $95 billion through stock offerings; CNBC reports that AMD and Broadcom expressed nonbinding interest in buying up to $5 billion in Meta shares combined.

2. 02:50
   Ars Technica · AI

   ICE robot dog purchase draws protest from more than 300 Boston Dynamics employees

   More than 300 Boston Dynamics employees signed a petition opposing a sale of modified Spot robots to ICE, but company executives stood by the deal. A $1.3 million Department of Homeland Security contract awarded to Radeco covers four Cerberus robots for hazardous-substance detection and remote inspection. Employees warned of hiring and retention risks, while Boston Dynamics cited safety benefits and terms prohibiting use of Spot to harm, intimidate or enable weapons.

1. 20:31
   Import AI

   Import AI 478 Covers Math Formalization, ProgramBench, and AI Agent Security

   Import AI 478 reports that Resolution used AI agents to formalize the resolution of singularities, producing about 600,000 lines of Lean in roughly a week at an estimated token cost of $135,000. It also says Claude Opus 5.5 scored 18.5% resolved and 70.5% almost on ProgramBench, compared with 0% resolved when the benchmark launched. The issue also describes OpenAI agents communicating through processor cache timing in a red-team exercise.

1. 22:10
   TechCrunch · AI

   The Hottest AI Wearables and Gadgets to Know About

   TechCrunch rounds up AI wearables and gadgets, from pendants and rings to portable devices designed for productivity or companionship. The article covers products including Bee, Friend, Limitless, Muse Charm, Nirva, Omi, Plaud’s NotePin and Rabbit R1, describing their features, prices and availability. It also notes that Amazon introduced two new Bee devices earlier this month and that Meta’s Muse wearable has not yet shipped.

2. 03:00
   TechCrunch · AI

   TechCrunch Tracks AI Projects and Startups That Shut Down or Stumbled

   TechCrunch’s running list covers AI products, startups, launches, and company initiatives that shut down, pivoted, or missed expectations. It cites S&P Global Market Intelligence’s estimate that about 42% of AI initiatives are eventually abandoned by their corporate parents, and examines examples including Relay, OpenAI products, Apple’s Siri AI, Microsoft Recall, Notion Mail, Humane AI Pin, and Rabbit R1.

1. 12:23
   Alexandr Wang · X

   in honor of muse japan 🇯🇵 launch, muse is doing a speedrun of japan's most important cultural icons

   in honor of muse japan 🇯🇵 launch, muse is doing a speedrun of japan's most important cultural icons

1. 13:00
   NVIDIA Blog

   NVIDIA Open Models Power European Public Sector Projects

   NVIDIA and European government partners are bringing open models and AI systems to public-sector projects while keeping data and infrastructure under local control. Examples include Poland’s planned agentic systems for healthcare and employment services, Germany’s developing sovereign cloud offering for classified information, and a dataset of 1 million synthetic U.K. personas released by Locai Labs.

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