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ThursdAI - May 14 - TML Interaction Models, Musk v Altman Disclosures, CW Sandboxes & /goal Takes Over
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- May 15, 2026
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Summary
Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 I am back live on ThursdAI after a week off, and yes, I am now a married man! Thank you for all the congrats, and also thank you to Ryan and Yam for holding down the fort last week while I tried very hard to disconnect. This week was a relatively chill one in AI land (no, really, for once), which actually let us go deep on some really fascinating stuff. We’ve got Thinking Machines Lab finally shipping their first real research with these wild interaction models, Meta Muse Spark showing up in actual products (and it’s surprisingly good!), the Musk v. Altman trial dropping juicy disclosures, and probably the biggest narrative shift on the show today: all of us are quitting OpenClaw . Yeah, you read that right. We’ll get into why. Also! and this is breaking news from this morning, CoreWeave just launched Sandboxes for your agents. I’ll cover that in This Week’s Buzz, but if you’ve been waiting for production-grade sandbox infrastructure that powers 9 out of 10 major AI labs, today’s your day. Oh, and we had Vic Perez from Krea on to talk about Krea 2 , their first foundation image model trained completely from scratch. Let’s dig in. ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Great OpenClaw Exodus towards Hermes 🫠I’m going to start with what was honestly the most emotional thread of the entire show, because three of us, me, Ryan, AND Wolfram; all independently switched away from OpenClaw this week. And we kicked off the show literally processing this together on air. The story is the same across all of us. OpenClaw was magical back in February when we first brought it to you. Things just worked . But after Anthropic’s p…