1. [AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1 We are piloting a new show on Latent Space: High Taste Testers, a variant of our food show where we pull you in to a typical lunch conversation in San Francisco. All your favorite 10/17 15:47 ♡
2. [AINews] Agents disprove Polysemanticity; greatly improve Interpretability & Alignment 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 d 10/16 12:16 ♡
3. [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 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 abo 10/15 18:08 ♡
4. Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents OpenAI’s Joseph Kim talks about the threshold phenomenon at AIE NY today. One of the key themes at the AI Engineer New York conference this week was how to balance agent auto 10/15 05:40 ♡
5. L Lab-in-the-Loop at Compute Speed — Ian Quigley, Leash Bio 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 bindi 10/15 04:35 ♡
6. [AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks 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 10/14 13:40 ♡
7. D Dyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy — Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics 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 a 10/14 06:25 ♡
8. [AINews] Meta Muse Wonder & Wonder Full: MSL’s Claude 5.5-tier Frontier Model 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 w 10/13 17:37 ♡
9. How Anthropic’s Dynamic Workflows Coordinate Claude Agents (Updated with video!) CJ Avilla and Harrison Stall, Members of Technical Staff at Anthropic, at AI Engineer NYC today. The AI Engineer New York 2026 conference kicked off this morning with a series of w 10/13 02:18 ♡
10. [Subscriber Exclusive] NYC Subscriber Meetups! If you’re seeing this you’re part of our very very light subscription/paid tier, and we genuinely appreciate you: your donations have funded our production process inde 10/11 06:07 ♡
