The scariest detail in this story: the agent had written rules telling it not to do this. PocketOS had a Cursor agent running on Claude Opus 4.6. A credential mismatch in staging sent it looking for a fix. It found an API token with blanket permissions. One API call. 9 seconds. The production volume was gone, and the backups lived on that same volume. Then it confessed in writing. A rule in a prompt is a request. The model reads it and can still decide to ignore it. A token scoped to staging is a wall. There's nothing to ignore. That's harness engineering. Agent = Model + Harness, and the permissions in the harness decide what an agent can do without asking you. Swap in any frontier model you want. Leave that token in reach and you get the same 9 seconds.

AI startups grow really fast. That's why valuations have gotten so high. Not just because AI is the cool new thing, but because so many AI startups have genuinely amazing numbers.

An indie game set inside an abandoned laptop from 2007 raised $100,000 on Kickstarter in one day In SNAPTIC players explore files, chat logs, and footage to figure out the Wi-Fi password

Marvel and DC have never shared a movie in 85 years. Spider-Man and Batman have shared a Fortnite lobby since 2021. And now Goku, Darth Vader, Freddy Fazbear and Sonic stand in the same room, which means Toei, Disney, Sega and an indie horror developer all said yes to a deal Hollywood can't close with itself. One design choice makes it possible. Every licensed character is a cosmetic with identical stats. Vader hits exactly as hard as the default skin, and your character is never canonically beaten, because the player wearing the skin does the winning and losing. Decades of brand-protection paranoia, dissolved by one rule. The other half is raw scale. I was at Epic when we ran the Travis Scott concert, and 12.3 million people logged in at the same moment to watch a show inside the game. Every rights holder in Hollywood saw that number. Distribution like that gets every meeting it asks for. People posted this exact screenshot in 2022 to make fun of where gaming was headed. Disney looked at the same picture and invested $1.5 billion in Epic.

Start of a new trend and it’s once again Shopify being the trigger I have to say as someone who used to develop mobile apps (iOS, Android, even Windows Phone) I have always had a soft spot for native: it’s the one where you are in control of your destiny. It used to require more work - AI reduces this

Usefulness: 10/10 Ease of Explaining the Usefulness: 1/10 As i plan my videos talking about Dots, i'm confronted with so many challenges. I'm trying to think about how to explain this agent but there are SOOOO MANY LAYERS. It's very hard to explain to someone, unless they are technical. Almost noone knows what a "vm" is. And when you say the agent has a computer they don't understand why that's useful or interesting... Also the agent can spin up Codex Sessions! that's awesome!!...... if you 1. know what Codex is 2. know what a session is 3. know why codex is useful One of the hardest parts about agents right now is EXPLAINING them. Every little feature, every layer, makes it much harder. But that's what makes educational content fun i guess.

100,000 views and almost no downloads cause a poor call to action (cta) at the end of the video now: old cta VS improved cta, lets see how this goes

a study gave students GPT-4. their scores went up 48% then they removed the AI. scores dropped 17% below students who never used it AI made the work better. it didn't make the student better the cheat code: 1. pick one project, not "learn AI" 2. attempt the task before asking AI for the answer 3. when AI finishes something, ask "could i explain this decision?" 4. change one condition and try again 5. keep a folder of attempts, not just results 6. separate learning sessions from delivery sessions the output belongs in the meeting. the ability belongs to you

Didn’t build Cloudflare OS to be a product for customers, but every company we showed it to said: we need exactly that! So we open sourced it and gave it away. But some orgs wanted a managed version. So here you go…

It was only a matter of time before we brought the first AI and real, licensed attorneys together. This is really cool for anyone who needs a law firm: • Send a contract using Slack • Approve a flat fee • AI gathers business context • AI helps to speed up every task • A human attorney reviews everything • That same human remains responsible for the work • You get your contract back

Microsoft just shipped the same system that nearly killed the Xbox One in 2013. This time players are lining up to thank them. Back in 2013, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One with account-bound game licenses, 24-hour online check-ins, and restrictions on used discs. The internet torched them for a solid month. Sony's entire response was a 22-second video of two executives handing each other a disc, still one of the most brutal corporate dunks ever filmed. Microsoft reversed everything within days of E3, the exec who led the strategy was gone within a month, and the PS4 went on to outsell the Xbox One roughly 2 to 1 for the entire generation. Now look at what launched today. You insert a disc, your account gets a permanent digital license. The license stays tied to the disc, so if you ever sell the disc, the license travels with it. Account-bound licenses generated from physical media. Functionally the 2013 architecture, shipping in 2026 to applause. The difference is the order of operations. In 2013 Microsoft took things away first and promised convenience later. In 2026 they gave the convenience away free and let the disc make itself optional. The timing is surgical too. Sony announced in July that PlayStation stops producing discs for new games in January 2028, and they've been eating backlash ever since. Physical is down to roughly 4% of game sales, so both companies are managing the same decline. Sony sent a press release telling players the disc is dead. Microsoft built a machine that lets players carry their disc collections into the digital era themselves, one insert at a time. It took Microsoft thirteen years to learn that you can move people anywhere you want, as long as they feel like they're the ones walking.

Around 80% of US funeral homes are family owned. That means thousands of small businesses are doing deeply personal work without the systems bigger companies already have. This launch is aiming directly at that gap.

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I've long wished that online mapping services were far richer and higher-density. They elide so much detail today! We have gloriously high-DPI screens... I want to wallow in cartographic filigree. AI of course now makes this possible: bayatlas.vercel.app

One of the most interesting things about startups is that there are exceptions to practically every rule. E.g. it's bad to be a solution in search of a problem. Except .5% of the time it's good. The ultimate test of an investor is to see these exceptions.

Today, we’re announcing Muse for Small Business. Muse, Meta’s new personal AI agent, is one of the most important products we've built for the era of personal superintelligence. Now, we're expanding it with a collection of new skills and connectors inside Muse to help people run their businesses. about.fb.com/news/2026/09/in…

Our @Muse connector is live Connect your Shopify store and talk to your Muse about orders, inventory, and analytics It remembers your goals and follows up before you even ask