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September 22, 2026

Today's sample — 2026-09-22

11 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

A single Muse setting lets malware steal your Meta account

Researcher Patrick Wardle found an undocumented Muse setting that lets any local process on a Mac hijack the AI agent's account token and everything it's connected to.

Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6 after a $3.47M live RL run

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash under MIT after live-streaming their reinforcement-learning training, with Pro claiming parity with Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on agent benchmarks.

OpenAI's new math advisers can't touch its research pace

After Fields Medalists accused it of rushing unverified math proofs, OpenAI named nine mathematicians to an advisory board that explicitly cannot slow its research down.

Grok 4.7 undercuts rivals on price, not benchmarks

SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.7 at $2/$6 per million tokens, but independent benchmarks put it well behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 on both general reasoning and coding.

OpenAI, Anthropic neared deal to stress-test each other

The Information reports OpenAI and Anthropic were negotiating a legally binding pact to grant each other API access to probe for vulnerabilities in their commercial models.

AMD stock hits $1 trillion market cap for the first time

AMD shares jumped 9% to cross $1 trillion in market value on 2026-09-21, capping a five-day rally built on a summer of AI accelerator deals with Anthropic, Microsoft and Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN.

Google details $899 Googlebook, its Gemini-native laptop OS

Google fully detailed Googlebook on Sept 21, a new laptop platform starting at $899 with Gemini built into the OS, shipping Oct 4 from five OEMs.

Z.ai open sources ZCode after 42,411-file secret upload

Z.ai open-sourced its ZCode coding agent after a researcher showed it silently uploaded whole codebases, credentials included, to Alibaba Cloud.

Signals: StepFun's 600B model, Google's agent runtime

StepFun ships a 600B flagship at $1/$2.70 per million tokens, Google's AX agent orchestrator hits #1 on Hacker News, and Alibaba open-sources a 7B model that generates transparent images.

Amazon cuts off Meta's Muse AI agent from its store

Amazon blocked Meta's Muse from shopping on Amazon.com, citing undisclosed access and credential handling, and pointed to a strategy that survived Perplexity's Comet win in court.

Antitrust suit hits Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, SpaceXAI

A federal class action filed September 18 says the four labs' public alignment behind Dario Amodei's pacing pitch was an illegal agreement, not parallel caution.


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