Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for X for the week ending September 4, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: Psychedelic screen-printed gig poster of a single ornate songbird perched on a melting branch, its open beak releasing a spiraling jam of empty speech bubbles that bloom into op-art swirls, autumn leaves, and feathers around a decorative border, with bold hand-lettered 'Twitter' title text arcing above in 1960s Fillmore psychedelic style. Electric magenta, acid orange, deep teal, and lime green ink on cream paper stock with visible registration offset and paper texture, flat ink layers, no photorealism.
This Week in X News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Cursor and OpenAI split: OpenAI said it is ending its partnership with Cursor after SpaceX acquired the editor, and under its proposal Cursor's direct access to OpenAI models would end on November 12. OpenAI acknowledged that developers using its models in Cursor are the people most affected.
- Grok gets practical use: Jerry Liu said he unexpectedly enjoyed the Grok bot, mostly for its persistent cloud computer. Elsewhere, the Department of War launched Grok for Government on GenAI.mil, and Elon Musk said Grok 4.7 arrives in 10 days.
- Outages and distillation: Mashable covered outages hitting ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and posters joked about Codex and Grok going down too. Separately, Forbes reported that Musk admitted xAI used OpenAI technology to train its own models, a process called distillation.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to X
Grok bot is surprisingly fun. Coming from Claude Code/Cowork/Codex I wasn’t expecting to like it so much, but I severely underestimated the niceness of having a persistent cloud computer
https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2093200718635335895
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/
We’re ending our partnership with Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. Under our proposal, Cursor’s direct access to our models would end on November 12. We know that the people most affected by this decision are the developers who rely on OpenAI models in Cursor. We care
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2093515564786540695
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini down: What we know about the outages | Mashable
https://mashable.com/tech/openai-chatgpt-outage-updates-grok-gemini
Elon Musk Admits xAI Used OpenAI Technology To Train Its Own Models
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/04/30/elon-musk-admits-xai-distilled-openai-data-to-train-models-heres-what-that-means/
Department of War Launches Starshield AI’s Grok for Government on GenAI.mil > U.S. Department of War > Release | U.S. Department of War
https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4586482/department-of-war-launches-starshield-ais-grok-for-government-on-genaimil/
Game evals for LLMs often stop at “Did the agent finish + win?” Such evals saturate the moment a model groks gameplay enough to crack the happy paths! Our new eval SpeedrunBench asks the next question: Can a model learn to finish a game faster and faster, in other words, can
https://x.com/VarunGangal/status/2095648805031174607
Jensen made a few calls to the partners from OpenAI, Grok, and Anthropic to celebrate the acquisition of Hugging Face 🙃 That’s why Gemini is not down
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2095537216709869572
grok down codex down claude down plot twist: they all run the same AI on the same server
https://x.com/tibo_maker/status/2095531020858622020
Products I use that integrate AI perfectly (use regularly) -Notion AI -Spotify (AI DJ) -Whoop -Slack (Slackbot) -X (Grok) The ones that failed (never use): -Instagram (Meta AI) -Apple Intelligence -DoorDash (AI chatbot) -Gmail “Help me write -Google Meet “take notes for me”
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2095176927879512455
This week on Autonomy Markets, @gbrulte and @WaltLightShed discuss Grayon’s latest Bay Area fieldwork, @Tesla’s Sept 3 Cybercab launch, and @Waymo’s 10 AI Lessons. Episode Chapters 0:00 Grayson’s Latest Bay Area Field Report 19:30 How Many Cars Will Actually Be on the Road when
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2094062589005164707
There is a lot of confusion about how @Tesla will legally deploy the Cybercab. The truth? It’s not a gray area, they are taking the exact same legal path open to all US automakers. 🚗🤖 Here’s how. $TSLA
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2095541276678467823
Look at Ashok’s shirt! Are we going to see the new Optimus today?
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2095629914234044776
Jason Calacanis, after watching the Optimus videos Elon sent him recently: “He’s making sick progress. ” “It’s like whoa, Optimus will be the best-selling product.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2093801735777288575
.@Tesla’s Cybercab strategy isn’t an exemption petition. It’s self-certification. @RobGsix explains why on Autonomy Signals presented by @KPMG.
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2095240343260430763
Grok 4.7 comes out in 10 days
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2094983639780204846
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