September 8th, 2026
Shownotes
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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