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![[AINews] not much happened today](/media/images/2026/09/e8357327b4721fb2.webp)
if you see this, it’s beacuse you’re a real fan. AI News for 9/16/2026-9/17/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space. You can opt in/out of email frequencies! AI Twitter Recap Agent…
Latent SpaceSep 18
AI search is changing how people discover information and how brands need to think about visibility. Daniel and Chris talk with Liam Dunne and Ben Moore, co-founders of Discovered Labs, about the shift from traditional SEO to AI search, what happens behind the scenes when an LLM generates an answer, and why retrieval…
55 MinutesPractical AI
![[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)](/media/images/2026/09/a4a8dc01820a9f9a.webp)
Steve Yegge has been very popular and loud in his gung ho adoption of tokenmaxxing, so it is sobering to see him now shut down Gas Town and admit that despite spending many thousands a month on coding agent subscriptions… he only ever built Gas Town with it: Similarly, while Astra is often reportedly cheaper than Sol…
Latent SpaceSep 17
Voice AI has gotten remarkably good, but natural conversation remains a high bar. Small delays, awkward interruptions, or the wrong tone can quickly break the illusion—and adding vision and visual presence only raises the stakes. In this episode, Alex Smola, co-founder and CEO of Boson AI, explores the path from…
1h 05mThe TWIML AI Podcast
AIUC first got our attention with the NFDG backing, and have just announced a $40M series A today, with the most impressive industry advisor list we may have ever seen for an early startup behind AIUC-1, their agent standard backed by real insurance: From being Anthropic’s first product hire to building the standards…
Latent SpaceSep 16
![[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs](/media/images/2026/09/3947c7aa3ba892c4.webp)
AIEi Paris (Sep 23-24) and AIE NYC (Oct 12-14) is >50% sold out, AIE CODE (Nov 10-12 in SF) and AIEi Shanghai (Nov 5-6) are next on deck before AIEi Sydney (Dec 7-8 alongside NeurIPS) closes the year! It’s very rare that a new startup launch will make title story, especially on a day when Gemini 3.8 Live and Periodic…
Latent SpaceSep 16
“Games have always been these underrated educational tools. They’re super approachable. They’re very human.” Those are the words of Alex Duffy, co-founder and CEO of Good Start Labs, who spoke to Latent Space about why his company is turning games into training material for AI models . The company was spun out of AI…
Latent SpaceSep 15
![[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign](/media/images/2026/09/b6f0d8d142f4b427.webp)
We last highlighted the pacing debate in July when Pacing the Frontier first emerged: And it seems that we’re in for round 2 as Dario, lead author on the original, wrote a rare personal blogpost to spell out how he sees pacing pan out specifically: Embedded Evaluators. Each frontier AI company commits to giving…
Latent SpaceSep 15
At 1:09:00 we talk about the rise of AI x Finance, and AIE NYC is one month away - our hotel block is 97% sold out, get tix & travel ASAP - we will announce speakers from Bridgewater, Ramp, Coatue, Mastercard, Vanguard, Coinbase, Blackrock, Fidelity, Point72, Capital One, JPMC, Wells Fargo, Bloomberg, A24 (yes the…
Latent SpaceSep 14
FDEs have the hottest job in AI. Labs, startups and PE firms are all hiring engineers to sit inside their customers’ operations and solve their problems . Almost none of them agree on what those engineers are supposed to accomplish, or what the strategy underneath the hiring actually is. I’m Vinoo, CEO of Kepler, the…
Latent SpaceSep 12
![[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale](/media/images/2026/09/d711d0f535136683.webp)
We are late to this but better than never. Have been busy finalizing the second AIE NYC, which is happening in one month. Get your tix before prices go up - we will announce speakers from Bridgewater, Ramp, Coatue, Mastercard, Vanguard, Coinbase, Blackrock, Fidelity, Point72, Capital One, JPMC, Wells Fargo, Bloomberg…
Latent SpaceSep 12
Longtime followers of Practical AI know that multi-repeat guest and friend Demetrios Brinkmann combines brilliant insight and playful banter into one fun-filled show, and this conversion with Chris was no different. They had a blast! As AI agents become more capable of using computers, interacting with software, and…
56 MinutesPractical AI