Articles: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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…

Unfired clay relief sculpture by artist Loni Stark showing figures, faces and interior scenes worked across a single panel, photographed before its first bisque firing

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Orphan Values Study: The Day the Question Became Answerable

BY LONI STARK — 08.02.2026

Someone tells you they have not felt like themselves lately.Perhaps nothing obvious has gone wrong. The job continues. The family continues. Or perhaps something has…

Bronze crane sculptures beside a koi pond in the Japanese meditation garden at Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary in Freestone, Sonoma County, framed by manicured shrubs, ornamental grasses, and a wooden bench in dappled sunlight.

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My AI Agent Put Me On His To-Do List. Now I’m the Blocker.

BY LONI STARK — 06.30.2026

Somewhere past Petaluma, on the drive up to our second Third Mind Summit, I checked my to-do list and found that Molty had assigned me…

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.