Conversations with the people building AI
![[AINews] Agents disprove Polysemanticity; greatly improve Interpretability & Alignment](/media/images/2026/10/0d6c4caf13ff2757.webp)
A version of Muse Spark Open was released today, fulfilling their original promise but with a model weaker than their Spark 1.3. It’s also worth watching the Tesla Roadster demo - not strictly AI but nothing cooler than real life flying cars. Our title story today is a rare one on interpretability and alignment. We…
Latent SpaceOct 16
Schools and universities are failing to adapt to our modern world, in which AI is becoming increasingly pervasive in all aspects of life and work. In fact, AI may be changing what should be considered foundational knowledge that all students must learn. In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore the…
44 MinutesPractical AI
In this episode, Zoe Weil, co-founder and CEO of Sequen, joins us to discuss how ranking systems can use live behavioral signals to optimize for purchases rather than clicks or search relevance alone. Zoe explains why approaches developed at data-rich social platforms don’t necessarily translate to retailers and how…
53 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast
![[AINews] Modal’s $1B ARR, $16B Series D makes it NYC’s newest AI Infra Decacorn, 3x usage and 3x valuation in 5 months, 15x in 1 yr](/media/images/2026/10/7374127e4c88e4d9.webp)
Today Modal switches from our infra unicorn category to infra decacorn. We last caught up with Modal CTO Akshat in July: On the last day of AIE NYC, Akshat had a lot to share about the kind of infrastructure agents are needing for “ millions of concurrent sandboxes, launch RDMA clusters securely and elastically for…
Latent SpaceOct 15
One of the key themes at the AI Engineer New York conference this week was how to balance agent autonomy with security and safety . Both frontier labs and financial firms focused on this issue in their presentations this week. The main lesson: safe autonomy depends on where you put controls and human judgment , rather…
Latent SpaceOct 14
A few years ago I stumbled upon Leash Bio’s Substack, and was hooked. Be it their Kaggle competition that showed that no, we really haven’t solved protein-ligand binding, or their crazy discovery that knowing a molecule’s author is perhaps all you need to know to predict how good it is. Their substack — or at least…
Latent SpaceOct 14
![[AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks](/media/images/2026/10/9d67ac8227dab6da.webp)
Gemini 4 Argon went GA today, but we already gave it title story 2 weeks ago and most benchmarks, like CursorBench, simply independently confirm their claims. About 20,000 joined AIE NYC today for keynotes from the frontier of AI x Finance, from Anthropic showing how they are building the modern AI Financial Services…
Latent SpaceOct 14
Watch along AIE NYC and join us at AIE CODE in SF next month! This episode includes a live demo of the Taku robot that is best enjoyed on YouTube. Last month, Dyna made waves by announcing Dyna-2 , a world-action model pre-trained on one million hours of human video, claiming several new scaling laws on human data…
Latent SpaceOct 13
![[AINews] Meta Muse Wonder & Wonder Full: MSL’s Claude 5.5-tier Frontier Model](/media/images/2026/10/f15f858d1e796cd0.webp)
We have been coveringe MSL’s 14 month journey to becoming a frontier lab, but only today did the final ball drop: Meta’s Muse Wonder to match Spark and Glimmer, the way that OpenAI has Sol/Terra/Luna and Anthropic has Opus/Sonnet/Haiku. Interestingly, while Muse doesn’t claim a specific size, Muse Wonder Full does…
Latent SpaceOct 13
The AI Engineer New York 2026 conference kicked off this morning with a series of workshops, including Anthropic discussing how to orchestrate its Claude Managed Agents . Of particular interest was a brand new feature, announced on Friday, called dynamic workflows — or simply “flows,” as the presenters repeatedly…
Latent SpaceOct 12
When you think of robotics and AI, you probably first think of full humanoid robots like Figure’s AI-powered machines and 1X’s NEO home robots. Those may well be the future, but arguably more important in 2026 is industrial robots — which are typically not humanoids. Standard Bots claims to be “America’s largest…
Latent SpaceOct 10
![[AINews] TypeSafe/Jev at >$100M ARR, $7.5B valuation 3 weeks after launch](/media/images/2026/10/336c6c3db397f3d2.webp)
As you can see in the AINews X recap section below, everyone on earth has cloned the Jev API, but only one company can ever create the category. TypeSafe announced their “Series AI” and Sequoia “leaked” that they crossed 100M ARR in their first week. Although there are cynics and accusations of astroturfing, we hope…
Latent SpaceOct 10
