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This Meta Muse Invite Code Gives You 1 Billion Free Tokens (CC2P24)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Hot Deals, Internet, Artificial Intelligence,
Meta launched Muse on September 8. It's the company's personal AI agent, and the pitch is that it does the task instead of telling you how to do it. Meta has now switched on invite codes, and mine gets you 1 billion free Muse tokens. I get the same, so read this as a referral post that also tells you what you're signing up for.
The steps, in order. Sign up at muse.ai/join or in the app. You need a Meta account, not a Facebook or Instagram login, and on the web you sign in with your phone number. Once you're in, open Settings and enter CC2P24 as your invite code. Do that within 48 hours of creating the account, because the window closes after that. When it goes through, you get 1 billion tokens and so do I.
Muse lives at muse.ai and in iOS and Android apps, with a WhatsApp option and support for Meta's AI glasses promised for later. You hand it a job (send this email, book that flight, fill out this form, turn this recipe into a shopping list) and it works in a browser on your behalf, keeps going after you close the app, and comes back when it needs your sign-off. It runs on Muse Spark, which Meta calls its most capable model to date, and it's US only for now.
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Meta’s Muse AI Agent Will Book the Flight and Haggle the Bill (Invite Codes!)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
You know the part of a chatbot conversation where it hands you a tidy plan and then you go do all the work yourself? Meta's new Muse is built to skip that part. It's a personal AI agent, a separate product from the Meta AI app, and its pitch is that it goes and does the thing: sends the email, books the trip, fills out the form, negotiates the bill.
It launched September 8 in the US on iOS, Android. You can sign up at muse.ai/join or in the app. You need a Meta account, not a Facebook or Instagram login, and on the web you sign in with your phone number.
Once you're in, open Settings and enter CC2P24 as your invite code. Do that within 48 hours of creating the account, and you get 1 billion free tokens.
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Safari 27 Lets an AI Agent Drive Your Browser. Apple Built the Hook Itself.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple doesn't usually hand out keys to Safari. So it's strange to open the Safari 27 release notes and find instructions for letting Claude Code or Codex open tabs, click buttons, run JavaScript and read the console in your actual browser window. Two checkboxes and one terminal command, and your coding agent is driving.
The feature is the Safari MCP server, and it shipped with Safari 27.0 on September 17. It's the most interesting thing in a release that is otherwise a very large pile of bug fixes, and most of the coverage has filed it somewhere below the new <select> styling.</select>
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Apple Reportedly Wants to Sell M8 Ultra AI Servers, and Nvidia May Be Wiring Them Together
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Rumors, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple has not sold a server since the Xserve was discontinued in 2011. According to a report from The Information, it is thinking about going back, with a machine built for AI developers, businesses and governments. Apple has confirmed none of it, and the earliest anyone expects the thing to exist is 2029.
The report describes two configurations: a smaller one with two M8 Ultra chips clustered together, and a larger one with four. They would be built for inference, the running of trained models rather than the training of them. Apple has reportedly been at it for about a year, with backing from John Ternus while he was still running hardware engineering. He is CEO now. The report also says the project could be scrapped before it ships.
Lucid and Bolt Want 25,000 Robotaxis in Europe. Lucid Built 18,378 Cars All Last Year.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Transportation, Artificial Intelligence,
Bolt wants at least 25,000 driverless Lucid cars working European streets. Lucid built 18,378 cars in all of 2025: every model, every market, every customer on earth combined.
That is the deal the two companies announced Thursday morning. Lucid's stock went up on it.
Snap’s Specs Cost $2,195 and Run Four Hours. Pre-Orders Are Open.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Artificial Intelligence,
Snap thinks you are going to stop looking at your phone and start looking through a pair of glasses. It wants $2,195 for the privilege. Pre-orders for Specs opened today with a $200 refundable deposit, and the first pairs ship later this fall in the US, the UK and France.
The case for Specs is that everything happens on your face. Two Snapdragon processors sit in the arms, two cameras watch your hands, and a liquid crystal on silicon display covers a 51-degree field of view in 16 million colors, with dimming you can adjust. There is no puck in your pocket and no cable down your neck. The glasses weigh 132 grams in the smaller of two frame sizes (47mm and 52mm), and Snap rates them at up to four hours of mixed use.
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iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max Review: THIS is What We’ve Been Waiting For! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Features, Product Reviews, Videos,
Better battery life. When I polled my YouTube community on the one upgrade they wanted most from a new phone, that answer beat everything else by a mile, and the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are the first iPhones where I think Apple has delivered it. After a week with the 18 Pro Max, on days when I didn't top it up, I was ending the night in the high 20s to low 30s. That's while hammering it nonstop to prepare this review.
He Worked on AGI Safety at Google DeepMind. Now He Says AI Might Kill Us All.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Google, Artificial Intelligence,
Bilal Chughtai spent about a year and a half at Google DeepMind working on AGI safety and alignment. He resigned in July. On Monday he said why, publicly, under his own name: "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome."
Researchers leaving AI labs with a warning attached is not new this year. Doing it from inside Google's lab is. Chughtai appears to be the first DeepMind employee to quit and say this on the record, which is how a post from a research engineer most people had never heard of ended up in Bloomberg within a day.
GM Brings CarPlay Back to Its Trucks, and This Time It Shares the Screen
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Google, Transportation,
Three years ago GM decided it was done with phone projection. Today it announced the opposite. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are coming back to its cars, though they no longer get the whole screen.
The new interface debuts on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500, with other GM models to follow. CarPlay and Android Auto now run in a window alongside GM's own software, so the map, the trailering readouts and the truck's settings stay visible while your phone's apps do their thing next to them.
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Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max Has Three 200MP Cameras, Including the Ultrawide. It Lands September 22.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Smartphones,
Your phone's ultrawide is almost always its worst camera. It's the lens you reach for when you want the whole room or the whole mountain, and the one you regret the second the light drops. Oppo's answer on the Find X10 Pro Max is to stop treating it like the cheap seat.
Oppo confirmed this week that the Find X10 line arrives in China on September 22, and that the Pro Max carries three 200MP rear cameras: main, ultrawide, and periscope telephoto. The company says no phone has done that before. Find X series product lead Zhuo Shijie posted the specifics on Weibo, so this is Oppo talking, not a tipster.