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[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time
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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
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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
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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
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2 Sep 2026
Queue the usual rush of model launches...
PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors
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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
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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 to reach AGI bar by end-2026
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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
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27 Aug 2026
Open Source wins!
[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6
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27 Aug 2026
The conference with hot chips and even hotter companies
The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use
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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
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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
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25 Aug 2026
An industry legend starts covering the inevitable!
[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over
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22 Aug 2026
Did you think RSI stopped at model training?
The Evolution of the Agent Harness
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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
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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.
[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud
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21 Aug 2026
Yes, we’re confused too.
The /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning
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20 Aug 2026
Matt Pocock tells us about his /wayfinder skill, for greenfield projects or for when the way forward is unclear.
[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law
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20 Aug 2026
Every lab CEO is on X now
[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months
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19 Aug 2026
the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels
Frontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model Routing
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18 Aug 2026
Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains why model routing helps control AI costs for organizations, and how human feedback loops at scale improve its routing systems.
[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
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17 Aug 2026
No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.
React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue
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15 Aug 2026
Flue 2 takes its inspiration from React. Creator Fred Schott, of Astro fame, tells Latent Space why he added hooks and why agents are defined by their harnesses.
[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot
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13 Aug 2026
AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet
[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace
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12 Aug 2026
Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet
🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
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11 Aug 2026
Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.
[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
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11 Aug 2026
a small win for american open models - Glimmer runs on a fits on a single RTX 3090!
[AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents
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8 Aug 2026
a quiet day lets us find some connections among recent themes
[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
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6 Aug 2026
The end of an era.
[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back
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5 Aug 2026
A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate
Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users
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4 Aug 2026
An external reconstruction of how Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills and Tools work in the new ChatGPT Work.
[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
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4 Aug 2026
Qwen is so back!
The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
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3 Aug 2026
Baseten just raised a $13B Series F and is now one of the leading kings of inference engineering. We go into everything you need to know for autoregressive and diffusion engineering.
[AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization
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31 Jul 2026
Distillation is all you need!
Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web
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30 Jul 2026
AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.
[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open
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29 Jul 2026
a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.
[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack
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29 Jul 2026
The Big Pause is coming.
Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
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28 Jul 2026
OpenAI's core product engineering lead on how they are building ChatGPT Work to make AGI accessible to all of humanity: Sites, OpenClaw, Memory, Subagents, Finance, No-Code and advice.
[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
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28 Jul 2026
Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today
[AINews] Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)
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25 Jul 2026
ain't nobody beats Anthropic at distilling Fable!
[AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model
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24 Jul 2026
A HUGE win for BFL!
[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"
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23 Jul 2026
a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.
Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
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23 Jul 2026
Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model... and this is just the beginning.
[AINews] AI Cybersecurity becomes top of mind
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22 Jul 2026
Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend
