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Meta Muse hits Mac: agent acts in native files, messages, calendar

Meta shipped Muse for Mac (Sept 17–18): the agent can use files, Messages, Calendar, Notes, and Mail in their native apps, with opt-in access and approval prompts before sensitive actions. It follows the earlier mobile/web launch that topped the U.S. App Store.

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KVARK Sparkle 1.0 is an Apache-2.0 Qwen3.8-27B tune that thinks up to 67% less for about the same accuracy

Egzakta AI Lab's first open weight model, posted Nov 2 in BF16, FP8 and GGUF with an MTP head for speculative decoding, cuts median reasoning tokens 34–67% across five benchmarks and answers in 13.7s versus 28.1s for Qwen3.8 27B on one H200, with accuracy within a point except a +5.3 on a 50 problem LiveCodeBench subset. All numbers are the lab's own, and the GGUF runs locally via llama server hf Egzakta/Kvark Sparkle 1.0 27B GGUF:Q4 K M…

vLLM 0.33 release notes drop CUDA 12.9 builds and remove draft-slot reservation for DFlash/DSpark speculative decoding

Posted Nov 2 with 927 commits, the notes move vLLM to PyTorch 2.14 with CUDA 13.0 only wheels and images, and say DFlash/DSpark drafters no longer reserve token budget slots, lifting DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on GB300 from 1,373 to 3,390 output tok/s in the PR's own benchmark. The GitHub tag is still v0.33.0rc3 , and Medusa, the MLP speculator and the Ray compiled graph executor are removed, so check your setup before upgrading…

Maat lets AI agents diagnose Ubuntu from a no-network strict snap, with fixes you approve through polkit

Shown on HN Nov 2 under GPL 3.0, the MCP server reads the journal, units, processes and disks from a strictly confined snap where AppArmor blocks writes and internet sockets, and the model can only propose typed plans like restarting one failed service, which you apply with maatctl and a polkit prompt into a hash chained audit trail. It's a developer preview tested only on Ubuntu 24.04 arm64, and the author's first local model runs ( gpt oss:20b found the root cause 28 of 30 times) cover ten admittedly easy scenarios (Show HN)…

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