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The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al!

[AINews] not much happened today

3 Oct 2026

a quiet day.

Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience

2 Oct 2026

After leading Meta’s Llama models, Ahmad Al-Dahle is now transforming Airbnb with AI — from how its teams develop products to how it serves guests.

[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC

2 Oct 2026

the minimalist harness goes stable... and TypeScript!

Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

2 Oct 2026

We catch up with RLM first author Alex Zhang, MIT PhD, on Jev, PhD masxing, and the future of harnesses.

[AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M output

1 Oct 2026

... but you can’t try it yet unless you are “government users and trusted cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program”

Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week

30 Sep 2026

Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.

[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU

30 Sep 2026

the most confident DevDay yet.

[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more

29 Sep 2026

Congrats team!

[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

29 Sep 2026

a rare feature of a capability

Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic

29 Sep 2026

Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier

OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha

25 Sep 2026

In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.

[AINews] The Future of Latent Space

25 Sep 2026

a quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!

Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

25 Sep 2026

GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.

Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science

24 Sep 2026

Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.

[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm

24 Sep 2026

Team Zuck is absolutely on fire.

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

23 Sep 2026

Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.

[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%

23 Sep 2026

overshadowing more efficient GPT6 models from OpenAI

🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science

22 Sep 2026

We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the age of superintelligent AI

[AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M

22 Sep 2026

crowning a new Chinese frontier lab

Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI

21 Sep 2026

The definitive Jev podcast with its lead creator.

[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days

19 Sep 2026

Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery

[AINews] not much happened today

18 Sep 2026

a quiet day

[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)

17 Sep 2026

A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.

Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC

16 Sep 2026

We sit down with AIUC’s CEO on their Series A!

[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs

16 Sep 2026

congrats to TypeSafe!

Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?

15 Sep 2026

Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.

[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign

15 Sep 2026

Pacing gathers pace.

Why you should work on AI for AI Research — Richard Socher of Recursive

14 Sep 2026

Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You.com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!

The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right

12 Sep 2026

Before co-founding Kepler, Vinoo Ganesh led compute at Palantir and built Project Frontline — a pioneering program for Forward Deployed Engineers. He takes us through the best practices of FDEs.

[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale

12 Sep 2026

We agree with Sebastian: this should have been DeepSeek v5

[AINews] not much happened today

10 Sep 2026

a quiet day

[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded

9 Sep 2026

Overshadowing Cognition's $48B Series E, Mistral's $24B Series D, Meta's Muse agent, and GPT Image 2.5. The most jam packed, feel the AGI day in the history of AI.

The Frontier AEO Tracker: What Astra Chooses (and every other frontier model, and what you can do about it)

7 Sep 2026

Our first Astra project dives into AEO trends, a top asked topic from founders and DX leaders we talk to.

OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot

5 Sep 2026

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.

[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time

4 Sep 2026

new SOTA computer use and coding, 2.5x pricier per token, but WAY cheaper per task, less monitorable. overall, a very successful launch of OpenAI’s new frontier model class.

GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour

3 Sep 2026

We spent 20B+ tokens of GPT-6 Astra to explore everything. Here’s our learnings.

[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training

3 Sep 2026

an epic comeback story for Meta

[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens

2 Sep 2026

Queue the usual rush of model launches...

PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors

1 Sep 2026

Vercel’s AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw are replacing drive-by community PRs with software factories, where teams of agents apply fixes and features.

[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier

1 Sep 2026

You can now create decent video faster than you watch it. This is the start of... something. We’re not sure what.

[AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor

29 Aug 2026

Elon v Altman has a real consequence.

[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026

28 Aug 2026

It’s Time. We’re in the Endgame now.

[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro

27 Aug 2026

Open Source wins!

[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6

27 Aug 2026

The conference with hot chips and even hotter companies

The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use

26 Aug 2026

Lovable is branching out from AI-powered web app creation and into MCP-powered ‘capabilities’. We talk to CTO Fabian Hedin.

🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing

26 Aug 2026

Anima Anandkumar has spent two decades in AI, from classical math to deep learning and back. Now she's using it to model the physical world, from weather to fusion reactors.

[AINews] Andrew Ng gets into AI Engineering

25 Aug 2026

An industry legend starts covering the inevitable!

[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over

22 Aug 2026

Did you think RSI stopped at model training?

The Evolution of the Agent Harness

22 Aug 2026

Models keep absorbing the harness into their weights — soon, it will be a harness for human attention rather than for the model.

Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI

21 Aug 2026

Simile’s CEO about his journey from the viral Generative Agents to creating 8 Billion Digital Twins of every living human... and why it’s gone from fun exploration to very serious business.