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Friday, September 25, 2026 · 1 min read

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Google's first AI satellite launch is next week
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to clean messy spreadsheet exports with Claude Opus 5.5
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Meta's Connect turns into a Muse takeover
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Meta's AI assistant Muse expands beyond Connect with a new Charm keychain and AI glasses, bringing Meta's viral AI innovation to wearable devices.
😺 Meta unveiled Muse Charm, a pocket AI
NewsletterThe Neuron
An AI you can carry, a world you can play, and a better way to review agent work.
[AINews] The Future of Latent Space
NewsletterLatent Space
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
NewsletterLatent Space
GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.
👨‍🔧 Better MongoDB code from coding agents
NewsletterTuring Post
Official plugins for Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and VS Code bring MongoDB best practices into the workflow.
The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far
PodcastHard Fork · 108 min
Ezra Klein interviews the Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang.
Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 96 min
Earlier this month, world model company Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2 , a research preview that “turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into real-time interactive simulati
AI Agents Are Moving Into the Real World
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 28 min
Meta is bringing Muse to smart glasses and a new wearable, while GrokBot is turning Teslas into voice-controlled personal assistants. As skeptics question whether consumers actuall

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