ThursdAI: Cognition SWE-2 nears frontier, safety week drama and OpenAI's Navier-Stokes claim
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-09-11
ThursdAI's Sep 10 episode roundup:
- Coding models: Cognition's SWE-2 / Devin team model is catching up to frontier level
- Math claim: OpenAI says a 10k-agent swarm produced a forced Navier-Stokes blowup proof with Lean formalization; the show stresses the forced vs unforced distinction for the Clay statement
- Meta Muse: more than a chat wrapper — a personal AI agent with its own Linux VM and native Stripe Link, demoed live producing show chyrons
- Safety week: seven AI insiders ran a multi-day public extinction-risk cascade, plus the "I quit after six weeks" Anthropic thread
Also covered: Desert Ant Labs on-device stack, CoreWeave Agent Loops hackathon (Sep 12-13, SF), Google Lyria 2.5, and ChatGPT Voice adding Sol and Astra voices.
Related event: ThursdAI Recap: 10,000-Agent Millennium Claim and AI Safety Week(8 posts)→
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