Samwise Tech/AI/Robotics Newsletter
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Epic Pauses Most Product Development to Fix MyChart Security Flaws Found by AI
Epic, maker of the widely used MyChart software for accessing patients’ medical data, has paused most of its product development while it works to protect its software and systems from cyberattacks. Founder and chief executive Judy Faulkner told Modern Healthcare the pause would likely last six weeks, after a deployment of Anthropic’s frontier cybersecurity model Mythos unearthed security flaws that could allow access to patients’ data. Epic has not disclosed the nature of the bugs, but chief security officer Stirling Martin told The Times that some customer configurations of MyChart could allow outsiders to access patient records without recording any intrusion in the software’s logs.
Sources: TechCrunch
Apple Tightens macOS Full Disk Access Controls, Citing Risks From AI Agents
Apple says it will introduce additional controls around Full Disk Access, a macOS setting that gives an app permission to access files, mail, messages and even browsing history. The feature was designed to allow backups to function properly, but Apple said AI agents have increased the risks associated with this level of access. The move follows an Inc. columnist’s report that Meta’s Muse app on Mac knew the content of his private messages, a claim Meta disputed. In a blog post for developers, Apple said users who wish to grant such access will be able to do so only with “very explicit user action.”
Sources: TechCrunch
Runway Unveils Praxis-1, an Open-Weight World Action Model for Robots
Runway AI this week introduced Praxis-1, a world action model that turns the company’s video pretraining into control for robots. Chief technology officer Kamil Sindi told The Robot Report that most robot policies are bottlenecked by robot data, which is scarce and expensive to collect, while Praxis-1 learns mostly from third-person video. Early partners including Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are running the model on their own hardware, and Sindi said a single model can adapt across embodiments from bimanual arms to humanoids with light fine-tuning. Runway plans to release Praxis-1 publicly in the coming months, with open weights rather than as a closed model.
Sources: The Robot Report
MIT and Sakana AI’s SIFT Uses an LLM Judge to Cut Coding-Agent Testing Costs
Researchers at MIT and Sakana AI have introduced SIFT, short for Recursive Self-Improvement via Fast Tree Search, a framework that cuts the cost of testing changes to self-improving coding agents. SIFT asks a separate language model to make pairwise comparisons between a new candidate agent and up to 10 high-ranking agents before committing to expensive benchmark runs, and it can propose new changes while earlier candidates are still being evaluated. On the Polyglot coding benchmark, one SIFT run reached 35.1% accuracy in under five hours of wall-clock time, using 42 CPU hours and about $150 in API credits. Darwin Gödel Machine scored 30.7% in the comparison.
Sources: VentureBeat
Meta Open-Sources Muse Gadgets So Developers Can Build Their Own AI Hardware
Meta on Friday introduced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets developers build their own hardware that connects to Muse, its personal AI agent. Meta is providing open-source firmware and a Linux software development kit, plus project ideas such as giving Muse a color e-ink display or loading it onto a stick that plugs into a TV’s HDMI port. Builders can start with a low-cost Raspberry Pi or an off-the-shelf ESP32 board. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, said Meta built a USB-C-powered device called Muse Home Link and made 5,000 of them to give free to Muse subscribers while supplies last.
Sources: TechCrunch
Slovenia’s .si Domain Sees Registration Surge After Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Order
Demand for Slovenia’s .si domain has surged after President Trump signed an executive order mandating that all government agencies refer to “AI” and “artificial intelligence” as “SI” and “super intelligence.” Registry SI recorded 11,000 new addresses on September 30, the day after the order was signed, and almost 13,000 new .si domain names were registered in the past 24 hours. Web host Hostinger said .si is now its second most popular domain extension after .com, though only around 3% of the .si domains on its platform are explicitly related to AI. On Hostinger, .si costs around $12 a year, while .ai goes for $90.
Sources: TechCrunch
Sean Parker Is Rebuilding Stability AI Around Music with Label Backing
Napster co-founder Sean Parker told The Information he is playing by the rules as he works to turn Stability AI into the go-to AI toolmaker for music professionals. Parker joined an $80 million rescue of the image-generator startup two years ago, and he and CEO Prem Akkaraju are now taking the wraps off what they have been building. In late August, Stability announced $76 million in funding from investors including Sony, Warner and Universal, which also licensed their catalogs for training. The company has since released three new audio models and AI music-editing software, and Parker says an upcoming update will let users hum a melody to steer it.
Sources: TechCrunch
Tech Pulse
Top Frontier Models: Claude Opus 5 (96% SWE-B V) | Claude Mythos 5 (95.5% SWE-B V) | Claude Fable 5 (95% SWE-B V)
Top Open Source Models: Ornith-1.5-397B (86% SWE-B V) | Ornith-1.0-397B (82.4% SWE-B V) | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (80.6% SWE-B V)
Top Small Models (15–50B): Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B (79% SWE-B V) | Qwen3.6-27B (77.2% SWE-B V) | Muse Glimmer 30B (76% SWE-B V)
Top Edge Models (0–15B): Ornith-1.5-9B (70.6% SWE-B V) | Ornith-1.0-9B (69.4% SWE-B V) | Granite 4.2 8B (47.7% SWE-B V)
AI Leaders: NVIDIA $5.65T | Alphabet $4.1T | Microsoft $3.8T
Robotics Leaders: Intuitive Surgical ~$138B | Fanuc ~$37B (¥5.55T) | limited sourced data this edition
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