SED News: Jev, Meta’s Muse, and the AI Slowdown Paradox
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SED News: Jev, Meta’s Muse, and the AI Slowdown Paradox

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 13, 202649 min
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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, Gregor and Sean cover a wave of new product drops, including Jev from TypeSafe AI, a model that returns scored, type-safe structured responses for machine-to-machine tasks like routing and classification rather than human-style chat. They also dig into Meta‘s Muse, a personal AI assistant with a companion keychain device, and the upcoming IPO of Nscale, a former crypto-mining outfit turned “neocloud” infere...

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Hello and welcome to SED News. This is the monthly installment of SEDaily with a slight twist, which is that we go through the main tech headlines, we then dive into a deeper topic in the middle, and then we take a spin around our favourite Hacker News.

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of the month in Hacker News Highlights, as usual. It's myself, Gregor Vand, and with me is Sean Falconer. Hey, Gregor. Hey, everyone out there.

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Yeah, so I'm going to be seeing you soon, Sean. I think I'm coming in. I'm actually heading off on a flight after this to SF, going to our Superbase conference on Friday.

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