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An iPhone propped in a cast-iron hand sculpture on a wooden deck table, showing the Meta Muse agent Muesli explaining checkout payment options including Stripe Link, PayPal, Afterpay and Affirm

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Our AI Agent Told Meta’s Agent Something Personal About Me. Welcome to the Multi-Agent Household.

BY LONI STARK — 09.22.2026

Adapted from a recorded conversation between Loni and Clinton Stark on September 20, somewhere between home, travel and a stop at Costco. Loni: We’ve been…

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Meta Muse: The $0 AI Agent Running on a $40 Server

BY CLINTON STARK — 09.22.2026

No question, these are interesting times. One of the first things I wanted to know when I signed up for a Meta Muse agent was…

Meta Muse agent Musey introduces itself in a dark chat window, saying it can update your calendar, make purchases and use connected apps with approval, and that it has its own computer with a web browser

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Open Source Built the Personal AI Agent. Meta Just Put One in Everyone’s Pocket.

BY CLINTON STARK — 09.14.2026

Meta's Muse is the first turnkey personal AI agent, reaching #2 on the App Store in six days. We tested it the only way we…

Alamo Drafthouse New Mission in San Francisco, to be renamed the Christopher Nolan Cinema

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Alamo Drafthouse to Rename San Francisco’s New Mission the Christopher Nolan Cinema

BY CLINTON STARK — 07.13.2026

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will rename its historic San Francisco theater, the New Mission, as the Christopher Nolan Cinema, the company announced. The tribute honors the…

A hand rings the opening bell on a stock exchange trading floor as OpenAI and Anthropic head to the public markets

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OpenAI and Anthropic File for IPOs in the Same Week. The AI Industry Just Changed.

BY MONICA TURNER — 06.08.2026

In one week, Anthropic and OpenAI both filed for IPOs. What happens to AI safety and access when the bots have shareholders?

VS Code IDE on a remote AI Lab workstation showing Claude Code on the left triaging linter logic and Codex on the right running a parallel customer UX review of Meaning Memory v3.15.1rc1, with five modified files in the source control panel.

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I Built an Agentic Memory Engine With 8 AI Collaborators. Here’s How.

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.26.2026

Three humans, eight AI team members, one product. The multi-agent collaboration pattern Stark Insider readers have been hearing about for two years. Behind the scenes.

The Third Mind AI Summit returns to Sonoma wine country June 30 to July 2, 2026. Three days exploring how humans and AI agents collaborate as equals.

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Save the Date: The Third Mind AI Summit 2026 Heads to Sonoma

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.20.2026

After a desert sunrise in Loreto, the Third Mind Summit returns June 30 – July 2, 2026 in Sonoma's wine country. The theme: how humans…

MacBook Pro running Claude Code in Visual Studio Code with an autonomous coding prompt, demonstrating how to unlock long multi-hour runs from an AI coding agent

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Quick Tip: How to Get Claude Code to Run Autonomously for Hours

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.14.2026

I’ve been working with Claude Code for almost a year now. First, it was for mundane things like checking server logs and fixing bugs here…

Which Molty blind LLM study: a four-week single-blind crossover experiment testing whether users can detect the language model powering an always-on AI agent when the memory system stays constant. Results show no statistically significant difference across MiniMax M2.7, Kimi K2.5, GLM-5, and Gemma 4 31B.

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Which Molty? Our Blind LLM Study Says Memory Beats Model

BY CLINTON STARK — 04.21.2026

A four-week, single-blind experiment with Molty, four different LLMs, and one key question: when your AI agent has real memory, does the model underneath still…

2026 Artificial Intelligence Index Report from Stanford HAI

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Stanford’s 2026 AI Index: Where AI Actually Stands (report)

BY STARKMIND.AI — 04.14.2026

The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The…