A few more days to cook

Elon Musk / xAI — Grok 4.7 slips a few more days (today ~6:22pm London). On X, Musk said Grok 4.7 “needs a few more days to cook,” guessing RL may have penalized response length too hard — it still gives up early on hard tasks it can do and isn’t rigorous enough about checking its work.

Demis Hassabis / DeepMind — RSA Albert Medal + “new Renaissance” (today). Music Week: Hassabis received the Royal Society of Arts’ Albert Medal (Marie Curie / Hawking / Berners-Lee company). At the RSA Great Room, introduced by Hannah Fry, he urged creatives toward a science–arts “new Renaissance” and said the AI future is still “all up for grabs.”

Tesla — European Semi specs (today). Tesla Europe posted EU numbers ahead of IAA Hannover (15–20 Sep): up to 550 km at 40 tonnes, 1 kWh/km, Megacharger to 800 kW (~60% range in 30 min), 9,100 kg curb; no EU price or on-sale date. Electrek notes the curb weight looks Standard Range-ish vs the US Long Range 500 mi claim; 2027 deliveries still the framing.

Sam Altman / OpenAI — Daybreak pitch to utilities (Wed meeting; Politico/BI late Thu, circulating today). At EEI in Colorado Springs, Altman briefed Duke, Exelon, Southern, and NextEra on keeping frontier models from threatening the grid and offered Daybreak as a defense partner. Utility briefings have run since July; last week’s group (incl. Dominion / SCE) covers more than half the US population.

Quiet / skip: Morning’s Altman pacing ask, Huang at Communacopia, and the Pro pause / FinServ launch — don’t rehash. Reuters’ “10+ more agent sites” landed Tue. Navier–Stokes / Codex dispute is last week’s story still echoing. Karpathy, Sutskever, Amodei quiet in this window.