Conversations with the people building AI
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
![[AINews] not much happened today](/media/images/2026/09/e8357327b4721fb2.webp)
Congrats to Harvey but we covered that already. AI News for 9/8/2026-9/9/2026. 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 Frontier Lab…
Latent SpaceSep 10
As reasoning models consume more tokens and AI systems become more expensive to run, understanding what those tokens actually buy is becoming increasingly important. In this episode, Stanford professor and Big Spin co-founder Chris Potts joins us to discuss AI tokenomics and his research into “tokenflation”—the…
59 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast
![[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded](/media/images/2026/09/e335bd13df55cc95.webp)
Today was a tough news cycle to launch anything; we ordinarily promise to cover any new decacorn fundraises so Cognition’s $48B round and Mistral’s $24B round would normally have made it; we love imagegen so GPT Image 2.5 would have been its own headline; we covered the Dreamer story closely so their relaunch as…
Latent SpaceSep 9
