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October 16, 2026

10 curated links on AI agents, Python, security, Google Cloud, and engineering, selected by Médéric Hurier.

  1. Introducing Muse Spark Open

    research.meta.ai

    Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an open-weight foundation model featuring advanced reasoning and agentic execution optimized for desktop Apple Silicon.

  2. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

    x.com

    NVIDIA introduces Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open-weight 120B parameter model with 12B active parameters combining multimodal reasoning and tool use for long-running AI agents.

  3. Evaluating AI agents: moving past the vibe check

    developers.googleblog.com

    Google Cloud presents a rigorous methodology for evaluating multi-turn AI agents using synthetic user simulations, critical user journeys, and boolean objective judges.

  4. agent-eval

    github.com

    Google Cloud open-sources agent-eval, a CLI toolkit that automates scaffolding and multi-turn agent evaluation loops with the Vertex AI Gen AI Evaluation Service.

  5. Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos

    cnbc.com

    Bank of America contracted 1,000 engineers to patch internal code vulnerabilities surfaced by Anthropic's Mythos model, underscoring the mounting enterprise costs of AI-driven defensive security.

  6. The Changing Physics of Cybersecurity and Drug Development with OpenAI President Greg Brockman

    youtube.com

    OpenAI President Greg Brockman outlines how generative AI shifts software economics toward defensive verification and accelerates pharmaceutical development timelines.

  7. Credit stress in AI trade deepens as Oracle, CoreWeave CDS spreads hit record levels

    tradingview.com

    Credit default swap spreads for Oracle and CoreWeave surged to all-time highs as debt markets reflect growing scrutiny over capital expenditure returns in AI infrastructure.

  8. Google Launches Universal Cart

    blog.google

    Google launches Universal Cart in the U.S. across Search and the Gemini app to streamline multi-merchant checkout.

  9. More ways to connect with the web from Search

    blog.google

    Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews with clearer source links and publisher context to expand web exploration.

  10. Hyperoptimized Engineer 2026

    youtube.com

    Kai Lentit releases a satirical sketch poking fun at the relentless tooling sprawl and productivity obsession of modern AI-assisted software engineering.