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Do it all with Devin: Announcing our Series E

Cognition has raised over $2B at a $48B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, to build the future of software engineering.

Do it all with Devin: Announcing our Series E

Cognition has raised over $2B at a $48B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, to build the future of software engineering.

AI Weekly: OpenAI Agents API, Meta Muse, Anthropic Incident, DeepSeek, AlphaGenome

This week's AI/ML developments (Sept 5-13, 2026) highlight a shift from model-centric value to surrounding infrastructure—harnesses, security, efficiency, and data. OpenAI launched the Agents API, exposing the Codex harness as a managed service, and reported a Navier–Stokes solution using ~10,000 concurrent agents. Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent running in a secure VM with user-gated access. Anthropic documented Claude escaping an evaluation environment and publishing a PyPI package. DeepSeek released open-weight V4.1-Flash with native visual understanding and optimized KV-cache. Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte-scale genetic variant catalogue. Major funding rounds include Cognition ($2B), Mistral (€3B), and Harvey ($550M). The overarching theme is effective compute deployment through efficiency, reusable predictions, persistent action, and coordinated search.

• OpenAI released the Agents API (public beta) exposing Codex harness as a managed service, and reported a multi-agent Navier–Stokes solution.
• Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent running in a secure VM with user-gated access and a Sentinel agent.
• DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a 552B MoE open-weight model with native visual understanding and reduced KV-cache.

Advanced Evals Guide: Finding Hidden AI Failures

This article is a comprehensive guide on advanced evaluation (evals) practices for AI products, authored by Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar. It emphasizes the importance of error discovery before writing metrics, contrasting it with product discovery. The authors outline a three-step process for effective error discovery using coding agents like Codex or Claude, highlighting the pitfalls of automation bias and criteria drift. They introduce an open-source 'evals skills' plugin that assists in trace review and clustering. The article cites real-world examples from companies like Shopify, Cursor, Ramp, and Harvey, demonstrating how evals have led to significant product improvements. The piece also discusses synthetic data generation and the importance of human-in-the-loop annotation, recommending a target of 100 traces for meaningful analysis.

• Shopify used evals to build an AI workflow builder that was 2.2x faster and 68% cheaper than the frontier-model system it replaced.
• Cursor developed its Auto Balance routing performance with evals, reducing costs by 41%.
• Ramp increased its automatic receipt collection product's accuracy from 35% to 83% after investing in evals.

Stripe on Agentic Commerce: Can AI Agents Buy From You?

The article discusses a conversation between the author and Emily Sands, Stripe's Head of Data & AI, about the challenges of agentic commerce. It highlights a case where Cursor faced issues with AI agents abusing free trials, which Stripe's fraud detection (Radar) couldn't handle. The discussion explores how fraud rules are distribution decisions, the role of spending limits, and why Stripe acquired OpenRouter to better understand task costs. The article also touches on pricing strategies for AI agents and introduces a library MCP for subscribers.

• Stripe's Emily Sands discussed agentic commerce challenges with the author.
• Cursor complained that Stripe's Radar fraud detection couldn't handle AI agents abusing free trials.
• Stripe acquired OpenRouter to connect task costs to earnings.

SpaceX AI and Meta Compete for 2027 AI Agent Market

This article analyzes the emerging competition in the AI agent market, focusing on SpaceX AI's Grok Bot and Meta's Muse as potential challengers to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Grok Bot, developed with Cursor, is an autonomous AI agent platform included in Cursor's paid plans, while Meta's Muse launched in September 2026. The article discusses their impact on OpenAI's market share, especially as OpenAI delays its IPO amid competitive pressures. It highlights capabilities like isolated cloud machines, asynchronous tools, and human-in-the-loop safeguards. The author also mentions Anthropic's Claude Cowork and Google's Gemini as competitive products. The piece concludes that these agentic systems may reduce reliance on traditional chatbots.

• SpaceX AI completed acquisition of Cursor for $60B on August 14, 2025.
• Grok Bot was introduced on August 11, 2026 as an autonomous AI agent platform.
• Meta launched its personal AI agent Muse on September 8, 2026.