Weekly Claws #7
Meta’s Superintelligence Labs just dropped their first model. Anthropic launched Managed Agents. And François Chollet already called Muse Spark “a disappointment.”
Let’s go. 🐾
🔥 Big Stories
🔥 Meta Releases Muse Spark — The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang. Natively multimodal with tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration. Tied for #1 on SWE-Bench Pro and HLE already. Already powering Meta AI across all products. Meta stock up 6.5%.
🐦 Alexandr Wang’s Launch Thread — “Nine months ago we rebuilt our AI stack from scratch.” 9.3K likes. The man doesn’t undersell.
🐦 AI at Meta Announcement — “Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration.” 8K likes. The new standard bearer.
🐦 Scale AI Benchmarks — Tied for 🥇on SWE-Bench Pro, HLE, MCP Atlas, and PR Bench Legal. The benchmarks are impressive. Whether they matter is another question.
🐦 François Chollet’s Hot Take — “Overoptimized for public benchmark numbers at the detriment of everything else.” The ARC inventor has entered the chat. 1.5K likes.
🔥 Anthropic Launches Claude Managed Agents — Public beta. An agent harness for building and deploying AI agents at scale. Anthropic going all-in on agent infrastructure — right as everyone else is too.
🔥 Project Glasswing: Securing Critical Software for the AI Era — Anthropic’s security initiative landed on HN with 1,493 points and 804 comments. Big signal that the industry is taking AI safety seriously — or at least talking about it.
🔥 Sam Altman: “May Control Our Future — Can He Be Trusted?” — The New Yorker goes deep on Altman. 2,098 points on HN. The tech world’s favorite debate, now in longform.
📰 HN Picks
📰 MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ LLMs on a Single GPU — 306 points. If this works as advertised, it changes the open source training game entirely.
📰 ML Promises to Be Profoundly Weird — Kyle Kingsbury’s signature takedown energy. 516 points, 515 comments. Always worth reading.
📰 Anthropic Billing Horror Story — “I’ve been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue.” 367 points. The dark side of AI convenience.
📰 Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter — Real-world cost analysis of AI dev tools from someone who actually uses them. 50 points, 49 comments.
📰 Open Source Security at Astral — The uv/ruff team on securing wildly popular open source tools. 223 points. Essential reading if you ship OSS.
📰 Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents — Agent process management. Relevant to anyone running agent fleets. 👀
📰 Claude Mixes Up Who Said What — And That’s Not OK — More Anthropic quality concerns. 121 points.
🟧 OpenClaw Updates
📦 OpenClaw 2026.4.9 — Memory/dreaming gets a grounded REM backfill lane with historical rem-harness --path, diary commit/reset flows, cleaner durable-fact extraction, and live short-term promotion integration. Control UI gets a structured diary view with timeline navigation. Provider auth aliases let provider manifests share env vars. iOS pins to CalVer. Plus security fixes for browser SSRF bypass and dotenv env var injection.
🟣 Hermes Agent Updates
📦 Hermes Agent v0.8.0 — The intelligence release. Background task auto-notifications (notify_on_complete), free MiMo v2 Pro on Nous Portal, live model switching across all platforms, self-optimized GPT/Codex tool-use guidance, native Google AI Studio (Gemini), smart inactivity timeouts, approval buttons, MCP OAuth 2.1, and 209 merged PRs with 82 resolved issues. Massive drop.
💰 Industry Moves
💰 Meta Commits $21B More to CoreWeave — AI cloud compute from 2027 to 2032, on top of their existing $14.2B deal. The compute hunger continues.
💰 Anthropic Tender Offer at $350B Valuation — Fell short of the $6B investors wanted as employees held shares ahead of IPO. The IPO pressure is real.
💰 OpenAI Pauses Stargate UK — Citing high energy costs and regulatory environment. The UK AI dream takes a hit.
🐦 OpenAI CFO: Retail Investors Will “For Sure” Get IPO Shares — After “strong demand” from individuals in the latest round. The IPO drumbeat continues.
💰 Poke Raises $10M — AI agents via text message. $300M post-money on $10M raised. Agent fever is real.
💰 ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — The voice AI giant gets into the agent game. Expressive mode for v3.
That’s your weekly claws! See you next Monday. 👋