YouTube lets viewers tweak the front-page algorithm
WIRED reports that YouTube’s latest update allows viewers to adjust what the algorithm shows on the front page and curate it to a specific vibe.
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OpenCode offers Space Bunny free for one week
On September 23, 2026, OpenCode said Space Bunny, a stealth model, would be free for the next week.
AssemblyAI Universal 3.5 Pro shows 1.93% word error rate in a 15-model test
Tarush Agarwal reported a speech-to-text benchmark of 15 models on the same audio and pipeline. On 1,000 read-aloud clips from Pipecat FLEURS, AssemblyAI Universal 3.5 Pro had a 1.93% word error rate and a 489 ms median time to first text, both the best results in that test.
Unauthorized proxies routed user prompts to Claude APIs, DeepLearning.AI says
DeepLearning.AI says Anthropic’s latest report highlights proxy query routing behind massive distillation campaigns on commercial platforms. It says unauthorized proxies forwarded user prompts to Claude APIs, creating severe data-privacy risks.
Runway lists AI Diplomacy session for its AI Summit
Runway listed “AI Diplomacy in a Divided World” for the Runway AI Summit, with Julian Simcock and Rick Ingram. On September 23, 2026, Runway said the summit was one week away.
Runway announces an AI Summit session with Nvidia, Google DeepMind, and Wayve
The Runway AI Summit is one week after September 23, 2026. The announced session is Grounding Intelligence in the Physical World, with Ming-Yu Liu, Jon Barron, and Alex Toshev.
Crabbox now runs on boxd
Peter Steinberger’s CLI crabbox can now run repository commands on boxd. Boxd.sh describes each box as an isolated KVM microVM that boots in milliseconds, gets a fresh SSH key per lease, and is destroyed when it stops.
Polymarket says Amazon has launched AI agents for third-party sellers
Polymarket says the new agents can manage listings and inventory for third-party sellers with little human intervention.
LangChain sets September 30 session on LangSmith Tuned Evaluators
The session covers the key elements of online evals and how teams can use Tuned Evaluators to analyze agent interactions and attach feedback to production traces.
Meta says it issued a fix for a Muse zero-day on Mac
Meta says the Muse flaw would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, and that a fix has been issued.
Harell Data will deploy its platform on CoreWeave Cloud
CoreWeave says Harell Data will deploy its platform on CoreWeave Cloud to run training, fine-tuning, and inference.
Earendil Pi extension pi-voice is available on npm
CJ Pais built pi-voice, a new Earendil Pi extension published as the npm package @earendil-works/pi-voice and installable globally with npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-voice.
Daniel van Strien trains a 194M GLiNER2 model to suggest Hugging Face dataset task tags
Trained on Hugging Face Jobs for about $1.50, the model proposes a task tag and probability from a dataset's column names and first row. Daniel van Strien says 17 minutes of fine-tuning raised its first-suggestion match with an owner's tag from 10% to 69%.
Polymarket says Bain Capital Ventures raises $1.6 billion for post-AGI startups
The $1.6 billion is for investment in startups built for “life after AGI,” according to Polymarket.
Qwen introduces Qwen-Audio-3.1 and cuts TTS, Realtime, and ASR prices
The lineup upgrades ASR, TTS, and Realtime and adds ASR-Next for audio understanding and TTS-Next for audio creation. Qwen puts the cuts at about 70% for TTS, about 85% for Realtime, and up to 95% for ASR.
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on B.AI, with API and Web Chat opening together
B.AI now offers Claude Opus 5.5. According to B.AI, the model supports a 1M-token context and up to 128K output, matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks, and costs about 40% less to run than Opus 5.
CodexBar adds a plugin system for new providers
New providers can be written for CodexBar as JavaScript plugins, using a plugin system intended to make the app more modular.
Peter Steinberger says CodexBar picked up new capabilities in recent weeks
The capabilities named are TypeSafe, Nous Portal, Muse Code, CodeRabbit, Replicate, HuggingFace, Pi, Helmcode, v0, Charm Hyper, GitKraken AI and Bifrost. Keychain alerts in the app are gone.
OpenClaw’s next version uses a decision model to choose steer or queue
OpenClaw’s next version uses a decision model to choose automatically between steer and queue. The lab feature supports Jef*, API-compatible models, including local models such as Kef..., and ONNX variants.
Hy Image3.5 preview is on OnSolo, free for Members for two weeks
OnSoloAI says the exclusive Hy Image3.5 preview supports 5 refs and 2K, with two weeks of free access for Members. Tencent Hy describes it for short-drama character sheets, full-motion video game assets, and keyframes.