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Autonomous and semi-autonomous software agents.
DeepSeek’s MIT agent harness leaves the terminal: official macOS and Windows apps, plugin everything, and a preview that still warns about breaking changes.
Researchers pulled Muse’s own instructions: an hourly page for every person in your life — Facts, History, Open threads, Strengthening — built from whatever you plug in.
Muse, Dots and Uber’s driver assistant all speak first — MarkTechPost argues the hard problem is no longer the sentence, it’s when to interrupt and on which channel.
Meta open-sources Muse gadget SDKs for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi, and waitlists a Home Link box — putting the always-on agent on your workbench, screen, and light switch.
The Verge’s hands-on: OpenAI’s Dot is Codex-for-everyone — strong on your site and desktop, clumsy on CAPTCHAs and checkouts, and gated behind Pro-tier money.
NVIDIA’s DOCA agent skills turn BlueField coding agents from guessers into checklist passers — 19% to 100% on a 65-prompt eval.
Dots vs Muse: OpenAI’s cute GPT-6 Astra agents chase Meta’s free VM — but start at ChatGPT Pro’s $100/month gate.
WIRED hands-on: OpenAI’s Dots — Pro-only, Astra-powered, cute and proactive — land in a market Meta’s free Muse already primed, with Altman eyeing a future mass-market wave.
TechCrunch: Meta says Muse’s Mac Messages access is multi-step opt-in after a journalist claimed the agent read private texts with Full Disk Access off.
DoorDash opens a U.S. waitlist for an Apple Messages agent that can reorder “the usual,” build carts, and juggle group dietary preferences — plus Northern California drone tests.
NeMo Relay gives Hermes Agent ordered lifecycle traces and trajectories — so you can tell whether a harness change fixed tasks or just burned more tokens.
The Verge’s Muse liveblog: Marketplace address leak, small-business app connectors, enterprise platform plans, and Charm hardware notes in one creeping timeline.