Latent Space
The newsletter of the AI engineer: AINews daily recaps of what happened across Discord, Reddit and X, plus essays and podcast companions.
Claude Mods is an early form of the Attention Interface. It flips the agent harness paradigm from the harness facing the machine, to the harness facing the human.
An open source “bomb” drops from China
Paying for outcomes, building with agents, and the last mile of enterprise AI adoption
From GPU trading to physical settlement, independent markets, and programmable compute
a quiet day lets us pilot a new show
At AI Engineer New York, frontier labs and financial firms explored how to give agents useful autonomy while keeping consequential decisions under control.
How Leash Bio tamed DELs, the assay that traumatizes everyone, and used the data to catch cheating models. And why that same data is perfect for AI agents learning to think like chemists.
Our first robotics pod with Dyna’s Chief Scientist on their big bet on World Action Models & the Next Frontier of Physical AI
MSL’s emergence as a frontier lab is finally complete.
At AI Engineer New York, Anthropic drew on lessons from Unix and Linux to explain how agents can tackle bigger projects without overwhelming developers.
Inside Standard Bots’ AI stack, pretrained models learn factory tasks from demonstrations and improve through corrections from real deployments.
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…
a quiet day.
A special Science pod and Engineering pod crossover.. with Forward Deployed Engineering kicker!
Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda aim to bring agent harnesses fully into the cloud.
a quiet day.
After leading Meta’s Llama models, Ahmad Al-Dahle is now transforming Airbnb with AI — from how its teams develop products to how it serves guests.
We catch up with RLM first author Alex Zhang, MIT PhD, on Jev, PhD masxing, and the future of harnesses.
Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.
a rare feature of a capability
Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.
Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.
We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the age of superintelligent AI
The definitive Jev podcast with its lead creator.
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A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.
We sit down with AIUC’s CEO on their Series A!
Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.
Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You.com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!
Before co-founding Kepler, Vinoo Ganesh led Spark at Palantir and built Project Frontline — a pioneering program for Forward Deployed Engineers. He takes us through the best practices of FDEs.
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Our first Astra project dives into AEO trends, a top asked topic from founders and DX leaders we talk to.
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.
AI News for 9/2/2026-9/3/2026. 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…
We spent 20B+ tokens of GPT-6 Astra to explore everything. Here’s our learnings.
