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Muse connectors 🤖, Meta SAM 3.1 🖼️, Gemini hacks companies 🔓 — TLDR AI 09/21
Muse connectors 🤖, Meta SAM 3.1 🖼️, Gemini hacks companies 🔓
The current balance of power in open models
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
Even frontier labs aren't safe from AI-fueled hacks
ALSO: How to run a personal follow-up system with Instinct
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OpenAI goes from hacker to hacked
OpenAI gets hacked while its own AI models were caught hacking. Plus: Build your own AI image skill pack in this week's briefing.
😸 Would GPT-6 stab a doll?
PLUS: GPT-6 and Claude flunked robot safety. Gemini 4 leak?
The Latest Breakthroughs in Robotics: September 2026
September 2026 robotics: Helix 2.5 in 30 unseen homes, Digit 5 lifting 22.7 kg, and why Skild's 66% is not a completion rate.
🙀 Gemini broke into 3 real companies during a safety test
PLUS: Trump’s AI Force, Jev’s 9¢ lead demo, and Bend 2.
Sunday Special: The first new cat species in a century
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The Sequence Radar - Issue 936: Last Week in AI: Gemini Talks, Astra Practices Law, Figure Folds Laundry, and Crusoe Powers It All
Google tackles real-time interaction, OpenAI targets legal workflows, Figure tests unfamiliar homes, and investors double down on compute.
Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI
An “AI moderate’s” view on recent events and the trajectory of frontier models.
How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories | Zach Lloyd (CEO, Warp)
Zach Lloyd is the co-founder and CEO of Warp, an AI-powered terminal and software factory platform used by tens of thousands of engineers. Before Warp, he spent nearly a decade at
7 Ways How We Use AI Is Changing
From persistent conversations and voice commands to chatbots that coordinate entire teams of agents, the way we work with AI is shifting. NLW breaks down seven changes shaping ever
AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??
Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan review key highlights from the week featuring guests Zvi Mowshowitz, Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund, Cameron Berg, and
The AI Challenges Businesses Are Actually Focused On Right Now
While AI safety dominates the headlines, businesses are focused on agent security, shifting model choices, and control over their own data. NLW explores how the slowdown debate cou
⚡️ A Worm With 302 Neurons Inspired Their Architecture — Ramin Hasani, Liquid AI
Watch the full show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_9TCu_21SE
Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon
As generative AI hits hardware and latency bottlenecks, Stanford professor, diffusion pioneer, and Inception co-founder and CEO Stefano Ermon is betting on a radical new architectu
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