BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 13, 2026: Meta’s Watermelon enters the frontier

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Meta’s new Muse Wonder models are claiming a spot near the top of the AI leaderboard, while Microsoft is scaling its in-house Maia chips and Anthropic is studying self-replicating systems. Elsewhere: America’s wealthiest age group is now 75-plus, calendar phishing is exploding, and Starbucks says it is not buying Chipotle.