Emails from sender «AINews».
Source: Readwise Reader export, ingested 2026-10-29. Entries: 27. Summaries are truncated from frontmatter summary; absent ⇒ omitted.
- (AINews) Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50% — 2026-09-23
OpenAI made a valiant effort with GPT-6 Sol and Luna launching 50% lower than GPT-5. 6, but with 17M views on the launch and counting, today…
- (AINews) Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M — 2026-09-22
This is a first for the “Apple of China” phone maker-turned-frontier lab: “The MiMo-V2. 6 series includes two natively omnimodal models: MiM…
- (AINews) Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days — 2026-09-19
We covered Jev’s launch on Wednesday, and they have completely taken over the timeline, with 36M views of their launch video (by comparison,…
- (AINews) Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost) — 2026-09-17
- (AINews) Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than s… — 2026-09-16
It’s very rare that a new startup launch will make title story, especially on a day when Gemini 3.
- (AINews) AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign — 2026-09-15
Embedded Evaluators.
- (AINews) DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return… — 2026-09-12
We are late to this but better than never. Have been busy finalizing the second AIE NYC, which is happening in one month.
- (AINews) OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130… — 2026-09-09
Today was a tough news cycle to launch anything; we ordinarily promise to cover any new decacorn fundraises so Cognition’s $48B round and Mi…
- (AINews) GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time — 2026-09-04
AI News for 9/2/2026-9/3/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords.
- (AINews) Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% di… — 2026-09-03
Launch season continues from yesterday, with Gemini 3. 8 Flash as rumored today, but Muse Spark 1.
- (AINews) Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens — 2026-09-02
With Astra clearly finally warming up for a full launch (with @sama and @openai writing about it again after a month of self imposed pacing)…
- (AINews) Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier — 2026-09-01
For the entirety of the history of Generative Media, you basically had to design around the inconvenient fact that generating images and vid…
- (AINews) OpenAI shuts off Cursor — 2026-08-29
- (AINews) OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026 — 2026-08-28
Normally we eschew AGI timeline talk on Latent Space, because it is so ill defined and unaccountable, but, well, missing it would probably b…
- (AINews) NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro — 2026-08-27
TheInformation had the scoop, and now they have the confirmation — Nvidia is buying HuggingFace for $13B, roughly 80x their $150M ARR, havin…
- (AINews) Andrew Ng gets into AI Engineering — 2026-08-25
We’ve lost count of how many adoption milestones have been passed since the original Rise of the AI Engineer post, but surely Andrew Ng, cof…
- (AINews) 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over — 2026-08-22
By AI standards today is a pretty quiet Friday, so it’s time to take a step back and reflect on what is really going on. If you read our 202…
- (AINews) Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scal… — 2026-08-21
Eiso Kant (01:52:31): We are hiring on every possible role in applied research and engineering in the company, from training all the way to…
- (AINews) Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law — 2026-08-20
We’ve covered GLM 5.
- (AINews) Memory prices up 500% in 12 months — 2026-08-19
Even as Sama follows through on the Great Pacing, and Etched becomes a double unicorn and Cerebras announced CS4 running 10T models at 1000…
- (AINews) Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B — 2026-08-17
TheInformation had the scoop last month, but OpenRouter’s acquisition by Stripe for $7B was seems all but closed this weekend, 90 days after…
- (AINews) SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot — 2026-08-13
One of our top recurring themes of the year has been coding agents breaking containment into knowledge work, and it’s clear that the AI team…
- (AINews) How to steal a Reasoning Trace — 2026-08-12
It’s not very often that a paper breaks through to become headline story of the day.
- (AINews) Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise — 2026-08-11
Last week was the 1 year anniversary of Zuck’s original Personal Superintelligence essay, and MSL seems to be feeling a second wind this yea…
- (AINews) Zawinski’s Law of MultiAgents — 2026-08-08
- (AINews) AMD buys Taalas — 2026-08-07
In The Custom ASIC Thesis we said Taalas was worth paying attention to, and in the Inference Inflection we said everything would go vertical…
- (AINews) Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM??? — 2026-08-06
It’s tempting to give Meta Spark 1. 2 and Muse Code the title story today because of their success launching a 5.