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Decision Models, Muse's Mistake, and Idle Clusters — October 12, 2026

Three new models whose only job is a single yes or no call in under a second. Meta's shopping agent handed a stranger a user's home address mid negotiation. Same week, opposite lessons about giving AI more room. We go through the decision models from Microsoft, Perplexity, and Cloudflare, what Meta's safety review missed before Muse negotiated unsupervised, and how Salesforce cut weekly Spark costs by thirty-one percent just by measuring idle capacity.

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