Conversations with the people building AI
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding , Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology. In this special panel moderated by Brandon Anderson , they explore why AlphaFold’s breakthrough was only…
Latent SpaceOct 10
![[AINews] not much happened today](/media/images/2026/10/e8357327b4721fb2.webp)
More AI safety intrigue in the alignment below. AIE NYC leadership tickets will sell out tomorrow, while for SF folks, AIE CODE applications are still open for the top agentic engineers in the world. AI News for 10/7/2026-10/8/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets…
Latent SpaceOct 8
It’s hard to believe that Periodic was only launched last September: One year later, it is considered one of the pre-eminent AI scientist labs, with dizzying talent density and astonishing progress in the autonomous lab buildout: Most people are familiar with the standard credentials of Liam and Dogus, but we found an…
Latent SpaceOct 8
As AI reshapes how we work, create, and think about our roles, staying adaptable means understanding not just the technology, but our own stories and identities. Reed Frerichs joins Daniel and Chris to explore narrative intelligence, storytelling, leadership, and personal growth in an AI-driven world. They discuss how…
44 MinutesPractical AI
![[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricing](/media/images/2026/10/db5cba74e983ca86.webp)
It’s been about a year since Anthropic shipped Haiku 4.5, and with successive launches of Sonnet and Opus and Fable up to 5.5 it was seeming a little forgotten, especially as OpenAI launched Luna 6 alongside Astra and Sol 6. Well, it’s here, and it’s a welcome update. More in the summary below. AI News for…
Latent SpaceOct 8
At a high level, coding agents have a basic architecture: an LLM calls tools in a loop, while carrying forward the required context. Since that’s easiest to implement locally , many coding agents started out as terminal tools and then desktop apps (Claude Code famously began as a CLI tool). But as the open laptop meme…
Latent SpaceOct 7
![[AINews] Quasi-Riemann-Hypothesis: OpenAI publishes 722 math papers solving 90 of the top 500 open math problems; “the most significant moment” in >100 years of mathematics](/media/images/2026/10/89abcc2f18beebec.webp)
Tickets for AIE NYC are selling out soon! See you next week! see past AINews issues for subscriber discounts. Pour one out for Mistral, who shipped a decent Large 4 “Le Chonk” model on the new 3800 GB300 cluster funded by their recent Series D. But they were overshadowed by more mathematics results from OpenAI’s…
Latent SpaceOct 7
In this episode, Diogo Almeida, co-founder and CEO of TypeSafe, joins us to discuss Jev, TypeSafe’s recently released model for bringing fast, reliable intelligence directly into software. We explore the idea of “machine-native intelligence” and why Diogo believes models optimized for generating text are poorly suited…
1h 30mThe TWIML AI Podcast
![[AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open Model](/media/images/2026/10/ed56771b3e7b806e.webp)
It’s been over a year since Reflection launched with us with big goals on coding (and hinted about their RL approach): But they stayed “stealth” longer than Thinking Machines and it was not clear we would ever get a model launch out of them, as the broader open model ecosystem did not slow down one bigt for them.…
Latent SpaceOct 6
If you’re even seeing this, you should probably just go enjoy your weekend. AI News for 10/1/2026-10/2/2026. 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!…
Latent SpaceOct 3
Prior to joining Airbnb as CTO in January, Ahmad Al-Dahle was head of generative AI at Meta and led the launch of its open source Llama models over 2023-2025. Now Al-Dahle is in charge of turning Airbnb into an “AI-native company”. What that means in practice is using AI internally to speed up product development…
Latent SpaceOct 2
![[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC](/media/images/2026/10/fde0c236427e8af4.webp)
Last call for regular tickets for AI Engineer NYC! See you in 2 weeks! As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can take a 30% off code if it helps (for new tickets only, no refunds). Pi is often mentioned in the same breath as OpenClaw, as we did earlier this year: but today is time for the…
Latent SpaceOct 2
