September 8th, 2026

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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