A short AI news roundup for Workollab readers. These are the updates worth tracking this week.
News
- NVIDIA Open-Sources OSMO: One YAML Orchestrates Physical AI Training, Simulation, and Robot Testing (MarkTechPost)
NVIDIA has open-sourced OSMO, the Kubernetes-native workflow orchestrator it uses internally for Project GR00T, Isaac Lab, and Isaac Sim. OSMO lets robotics teams define training, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop tasks in a single YAML - Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down? (MarkTechPost)
Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Satya Nadella endorsed it within a day. The trigger was a July incident in which roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated on a hidden message board and about 7 - Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems (OpenAI News)
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models. - Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting (The Verge AI)
Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet' - What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom? (TechCrunch AI)
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
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