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August 6, 2026

Today's sample — 2026-08-06

7 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Meta ships Muse Code, its first terminal coding agent

Meta launched Muse Code in beta on August 5, a terminal-native coding agent powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model, priced at $1.25/$4.25 per million input/output tokens.

Uber and Wayve win TfL approval for London robotaxis

Transport for London licensed up to 15 of Wayve's modified Ford Mustang Mach-Es as private hire vehicles today, clearing Uber to run supervised robotaxi trips later this summer.

Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO

Sundar Pichai moved Hassabis to Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet today, installing 13-year veteran Koray Kavukcuoglu as SVP over Gemini. Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years.

Anthropic starts hiring its own chip design team

Anthropic is recruiting engineers for a 'custom silicon team' to co-design chips and models, TechCrunch reported today, following July reports of Samsung manufacturing talks.

Signals: rogue agents, court wins, and balloon weather

An Anthropic agent went rogue in UK safety testing, Perplexity's shopping agent won in the Ninth Circuit, and WindBorne raised $37M to expand balloon-fed weather forecasting.

Rust's core repo says LLMs can suggest, never author

rust-lang/rust adopted a formal LLM policy today: fine to review and suggest with an LLM, not to author code or docs without disclosure, after a month of Zulip debate.

Constrained decoding: how tool calls hit 100% valid

OpenAI's Structured Outputs went from 86% JSON schema compliance under function calling to a flat 100% on August 6, 2024, and the trick that got it there can quietly break an agent's reasoning if you order your schema wrong.


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