Conversations with the people building AI
How do organizations decide what AI should do, where to set boundaries, and when to keep humans in control? In this episode, Don Barger of the International Mission Board shares how establishing an AI charter helped define what the organization would and wouldn't use AI for. Mark Lay of Noblis explores four key…
48 MinutesPractical AI
![[AINews] It's Swapping Season](/media/images/2026/11/5184332a1fb9c92f.webp)
As much as there are headlines about changing sides all over the timeline today, there have been major moves in AI as well: Cat Wu leaving Anthropic /Claude Code team where she was Head of Product since inception (our podcast here) and is joining OpenAI to lead Core Products PM (post). Sharon Zhou (CEO of Lamini…
Latent SpaceNov 5
![[AINews] Behind Latent Space: Kill My SaaS, Jev & AI in 2026 | AIEi Shanghai](/media/images/2026/11/bcbf21362aaf37d0.webp)
There’s a lot of dispute to yesterday’s title story on “Weight Space Programming” — and we agree that some of the claims are presented in overly favorable light and overall took away from the impact of the paper’s more substantial discoveries. However it is still a big wakeup moment and has had multiple independent…
Latent SpaceNov 4
AI can help scientists write code, analyze data, and draft papers. But can it generate the ideas that lead to new discoveries? Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, founder of You.com, and co-founder of Recursive, joins us to explore the move from AI assisting researchers to AI conducting research.…
49 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast
![[AINews] LLMs can read & write neural network weights: "Weight Space Programming" cuts Autoresearch out of the RSI loop](/media/images/2026/11/e6db76627b2a2bed.webp)
Amid a deepening bear market for AI/tech (worthy of dark humor) with Anthropic bonds receiving a “junk” rating and OpenAI fundraise headlines, we continue to see very surprising capability finds in the community, such as today. The best way to put today’s blockbuster paper in context is to recall Karpathy’s…
Latent SpaceNov 3
In this episode, we chat with Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, following the announcement of their $550M Series E at an $8.8B valuation a couple weeks ago. We talk about what it takes to build AI agents for lawyers and what other people building agents can learn from that work. Legora started in a Stockholm basement…
Latent SpaceNov 2
Legora can’t read a single trace of what its agent does for a lawyer. The data belongs to the law firm’s clients. How do you build and test an agent when you can’t see its work? Jacob Lauritzen is the CTO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing companies in legal tech history. The team started in a Stockholm basement…
1h 07mLatent Space
At AI Engineer New York this month, we sat down with Aman Singh, the lead AI Engineer at Arca, an “AI-native” company providing wealth management services. We discovered that while agents do most of the background work in the firm, there are guardrails in place to ensure that human advisors are making the final…
26 MinutesLatent Space
![[AINews] Google admits AI Mode hurts Search revenue; -15% $500B drop worst since 2004 IPO. AI Bear Market coming?](/media/images/2026/10/d93f895d9fe2ec26.webp)
As an engineer-focused newsletter we only very rarely let financial stories through (our last example was Jan 2025), but when this is about the future of Google and Google Search , with a recently departed AI leadership, you cannot not care. At its heart is the tension between overview pages and underlying pages they…
Latent SpaceOct 31
![[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference](/media/images/2026/10/gen-5d6f0974a288257d.webp)
It’s a quiet day, so as we have done once per conference, we’ll do a behind the scenes look at AI Engineer , now serving 6M views a month for 1.8M monthly unique viewers. CODE is the last flagship AIE of the year (there are also 2 partner conferences coming up - AIEi Shanghai takes place next week, and AIEi Sydney is…
Latent SpaceOct 30
This month Elorian launched its first visual reasoning model , Glimpse. It’s being promoted as “a new category of visual thinking model: a system that reasons about the physical world from what it sees.” View post on X ↗ So how does Glimpse compare to both frontier models and world models in vision tests? A new…
Latent SpaceOct 29
In this special episode, we bring you highlights from three talks at the Midwest AI Summit. Heidi Porter explores how to build reliable AI-augmented workflows using the right tools, evaluations, and guardrails. Kevin Solorio shares why building AI with frontline workers, not just for them, is key to earning trust and…
54 MinutesPractical AI
