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September 8th, 2026

September 8, 2026 · 49 min

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Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp co-founder and platform engineering wizard John Watson.

  • OpenAI ends access through Cursor due to the SpaceX acquisition
  • Debian adopts the most sensible AI policy possible
  • OpenClaw releases version 2
  • Nvidia licenses Poolside's technology, and absorbs a bunch of their workforce
  • Claude Fable 5.1, OpenAIs GPT-6-Astra, Gemini 3.8 and Meta Spark 1.3
  • World Labs launches Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligence
  • The AI model security concerns continue
  • cdleary writes about AI as a stochastic optimizer, and the AI built MLA kernel in OpenAI Jalapeno

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