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Introducing Optimus-1, the first swarm harness for autonomous research. Generally available in ArkenOS, starting now.
Optimus-1 lets ArkenOS spawn a swarm that runs the entire discovery loop on hard research problems autonomously. The harness samples the hypothesis space in parallel and works the tails of the distribution, chasing every anomaly until it resolves into an artifact or a discovery. We want every researcher to have a lab of their own, and to see how far their curiosity can go.
Unlike coding agents, Optimus-1 is designed for long-horizon discovery, where most branches fail, and the hard part is knowing which result to believe. It keeps what replicates and keeps pushing past the edge of what's known.
We're still early, but ArkenOS is helping hundreds of teams, from RL environments and data labs to frontier research groups, scale the alpha in their core research.
If you're working on a hard research problem and want to try it, my DMs are open. I'd love to hear what you'd point it at.
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South African builders: shipping is fast now. With Lovable, Cursor and Supabase, one weekend is enough to launch a product that collects personal information.
POPIA applies from the first sign up.
So I built something. POPIA Kit is out now. Free and open source.
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One of the tricks I picked up from working at Google is a very simple way to make sure your interface feels on-brand:
Start with the core brand colour.
Let's say it's blue.
You create a palette of blue shades from light to dark, almost white to almost black, all with a blue tint.
The text isn't just pure white.
It's a very light blue.
The background isn't pure black.
It's a very dark blue.
Using these throughout the core elements will create an almost unnoticeable but present brand 'feeling' through the interface.
It works especially well for trading interfaces where the positive/negative colours can easily dominate, making it hard to incorporate your brand without it being jarring.
This technique works perfectly for any product and industry.
And if you're building with AI, you can just prompt it in:
"Take my brand's base colour and generate a tinted scale from near-white to near-black. Use those tints for every background, surface, border and text colour in the interface instead of pure greys."
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As a reminder, this is at stake with Brazil’s elections next weekend too. Will the second largest rare earth reserves in the world be used for the benefit of Brazilian people? Or will they be funnelled out of Brazil, Venezuelan-oil-style, to let the US compete with China?
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Several days ago, I received a threatening letter informing me that I am "moving up on 'the List," and that I am "fucked."
The letter calls me a "kapo," indicating its authorship by a Zionist fanatic, possibly affiliated with an outfit like JDL Brotherhood 613, or from Betar dead-enders who advocate violence against perceived enemies of Israel.
I opened this letter as Israel-backed Trump admin allies like Laura Loomer portrayed me as a national security threat and demanded my persecution for reporting from Iran, and as the Trump admin harassed me by illegally seizing my phones.
I am not the only person to have received these letters. Howard Heath, a state representative in New Hampshire who is campaigning for Congress on a pledge to cut off military aid to Israel, also reported receiving a letter from the same "Yoor Dedmeet."
The return address applied to the letter is the field office of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of Congress. To me, this indicates that she and her staff could also be targets of whichever malicious individual or group sent the letter.
I have filed a report with local police and informed the US Postal Service Inspector of this threatening letter.
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Good find, it's so underrated the amount of amazing typefaces you can find.
typefree.org/
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Muse Spark 1.3 is gone from the free OpenCode lineup.
here’s what i’d replace it with:
1. planning → GLM 5.3 Flash
it’s slower, but i prefer it when the task is well-defined and i want a more structured plan first.
2. building → DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
this is still my default for implementation. faster, more creative, and better suited for actually pushing code.
3. long-context work → Space Bunny
the big advantage is the 1M context, especially when 200K on DeepSeek starts forcing compaction too early.
4. backup → MiMo 2.6 Flash
i’d use it when DeepSeek gets too steer-heavy or starts producing weird implementation decisions.
5. best free combo → GLM plans, DeepSeek builds
that’s the cleanest Muse replacement right now.
Muse was really good.
but the free stack is still very usable if you split the roles properly.
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We have laws to govern pathogen research that Anthropic is also keen to regulate. Unlike their plan for their product, we don’t wait for a court order to maybe shut down unsafe work on a dangerous virus. It’s a federal crime to start it at all. It’s called safety, not “alignment”
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
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Like the EU, Canada is diversifying away from Starlink to reduce reliance on U.S. defence and technology, especially in areas where that reliance comes with risks to Canadian sovereignty.
cultmtl.com/2026/09/canada-c…
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The iconic Israeli "Song for Peace", from 1970, is literally a song by an IDF band, Lehakat HaNahal. Now, self-proclaimed "leftist" youth sings it while partying outside the Gaza extermination camp. By the way, this was apparently the most "political" moment of the festival. Ugh.
A video of young Israelis singing "Song for Peace" at InDNegev, ain indie music festival in the Negev Desert, near Gaza has gone viral, stirring nostalgia for a time when Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed possible | Video by @tomerappelbaum
🔗haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
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Russian Kosmos 2612 and ICEYE-X36 (providing Ukraine military support) are now in perfect sync with each other. The Russian military satellite is intentionally stalking and tracking the Western radar satellite. Keeping a satellite "bumper-to-bumper" in this manner allows Russia to intercept or jam data transmissions, physically inspect Western technology, or quickly pivot to execute a kinetic or non-kinetic anti-satellite (ASAT) attack with very little warning or fuel expenditure.
Kosmos 2612 executed a series of highly precise, fuel-heavy maneuvers to force itself into a "coplanar" orbit—matching ICEYE-X36's exact altitude (~555 km), speed, and inclination (~97.8°). The ICEYE-X36 satellite is giving the Ukraine military support.
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Tech blogger 神奇阿宇 from Hubei, China, built a working hoverboard.
Electric, with 10 brushless motors pushing over 30kg of thrust each—enough to lift 4 people—and peak current hitting 2,000 amps.
2 STEPX Neo phones as the board's brain. One inside the board reads posture data in real time; the other on his wrist feeds AI voice prompts through his earbuds—"Weight's shifting left!" "Bend your right knee!"
After 10+ days of brutal training and AI-assisted correction, he achieved man-machine sync.
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Netanyahu apparently displayed this map as part of his national security policy presentation.
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This is what billionaire ownership of the media means:
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta shut down the No Kings account for hours during the height of their protests.
Meta suppressed accounts supporting Brazil President Lula da Silva in the recent election.
Larry Ellison’s TikTok blocked advertising for a documentary criticizing Elon Musk.
Fight back. Defeat oligarchy. Preserve democracy.
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My RTX 3090 made a melancholic music video. Song, pictures, video, upscale. Not a single frame or note from a cloud model.
About 11 hours of pure generation time, including failed takes.
Video: Minimax H3, Minimax H3 Latent Upscaler
Images: Qwen2.1 Image, MOSS Image, Flux 3 Klein
Music: YuE2