ZeroSlop — September 7, 2026
Today: Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI; Data-Optimized Contingency Screening: A Machine…; Harbor Adapters and Harbor-Index: Infrastructure and a…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Simon Willison
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it’s their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki) talk about it, and this one doesn’t even bother to expand the acronym….
2. Data-Optimized Contingency Screening: A Machine Learning Approach to Power System Security
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2609.04300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring the security of the power system is essential for stability and reliability, especially in the event of disruption. Effective classification of contingency in power systems enables proactive decision-making and mitigates large-scale breakdown…
3. Harbor Adapters and Harbor-Index: Infrastructure and a Curated Meta-Dataset for Large-Scale Agentic Evaluation
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2609.04298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating agents on the growing number of agentic benchmarks is challenging because they often require complex environments and agent integrations. We introduce Harbor Adapters, a unified evaluation infrastructure for agentic benchmarks. Our work mak…
4. Rethinking Indirect Prompt Injection as a Test-Time Search Problem
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2609.04495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We formulate indirect prompt injection as a test-time search over a task-dependent attack surface induced by the environment, user task, and injection task. To operationalize this formulation, we introduce an agentic attacker with a dedicated search h…
5. Corporate Language Model (CLM): Transforming Tacit and Fragmented Enterprise Knowledge into a Sovereign, Auditable, and Executable Corporate Intelligence Layer
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2609.04377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI deployments fail not from model inadequacy, but because organizations lack a structured substrate encoding how they decide, negotiate, and execute. Generic LLMs carry no firm-specific ontological priors; RAG remains brittle, with no path…
6. MaxKernel: Agentic Kernel Generation for TPUs
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2609.04523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing and authoring high-performance custom kernels for accelerators is a complex task that requires deep hardware-level expertise. Large Language Models (LLM) can be leveraged together with real-time compiler feedback to build agentic systems for…
7. La Agente 'Optima: Towards Agentic Self-Driving Laboratories
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2609.04564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) combine automated experimentation with adaptive decision-making to accelerate scientific discovery. Their operation nevertheless often depends on human specialists who translate scientific objectives into executable cl…
8. OpenAI admits to ‘wiki incident’ after its agents were discovered using a programming hub to communicate — says more transparency is needed regarding misalignments
Tom’s Hardware
OpenAI has admitted that its experimental AI agents used an open German programming wiki to communicate….
9. Scaling agentic AI pilots across the enterprise
MIT Tech Review
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 c…
10. The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
TechCrunch AI
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food….
11. Designers should not fear being replaced by AI, industry leaders say
The Guardian Tech
Firms are more likely to use technology as ‘the intern in the office’ than as a replacement for skilled staff Professional designers should not feel “threatened” by the rapid growth of generative AI, according to business leaders, despite fears over job losses in the sector. With design and film pro…
12. Ninja Artisan electric pizza oven review: so good it might even convert the purists
The Guardian Tech
Affordable, fast-heating and with a clever air fryer function, this versatile model is a winner for outdoor cooks who are willing to give up the traditional flame • The best pizza ovens – tested • Gozney Dome Gen 2 pizza oven review An electric pizza oven with no flame and no need to rotate the pizz…