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Latent Space

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] LLMs can read & write neural network weights: "Weight Space Programming" cuts Autoresearch out of the RSI loop Amid a deepening bear market for AI/tech (worthy of dark humor ) with Anthropic bonds receiving a “junk” rating and OpenAI fundraise headlines , we continue to see very surprising capability finds in…

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Latent SpaceVoicesBuilding AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora In this episode, we chat with Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, following the announcement of their $550M Series E at an $8.8B valuation a couple weeks ago.

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Latent SpaceVoicesBuilding Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora Legora can’t read a single trace of what its agent does for a lawyer. The data belongs to the law firm’s clients. How do you build and test an agent when you can’t see its work?

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Latent SpaceVoicesAgents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work At AI Engineer New York this month, we sat down with Aman Singh , the lead AI Engineer at Arca , an “AI-native” company providing wealth management services.

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Google admits AI Mode hurts Search revenue; -15% $500B drop worst since 2004 IPO. AI Bear Market coming? As an engineer-focused newsletter we only very rarely let financial stories through (our last example was Jan 2025 ), but when this is about the future of Google and Google Search , with a recently…

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference It’s a quiet day, so as we have done once per conference, we’ll do a behind the scenes look at AI Engineer , now serving 6M views a month for 1.8M monthly unique viewers .

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Latent SpaceVoicesCan Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning This month Elorian launched its first visual reasoning model , Glimpse . It’s being promoted as “a new category of visual thinking model: a system that reasons about the physical world from what it…

10.29

Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Gemini 4 Carbon tops leaderboards, launches for cyber defenders It’s a good thing we published our Opus 5.5 podcast calling it the world’s best model before today’s launch.

10.29

Latent SpaceVoicesWhy Agents Love Supabase I first met Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson in Singapore, shortly after they finished YC as the hottest startup of YC S20 . Six years later, we finally got them on the podcast!

10.28

Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure" Several midsize headlines today; on top of some impressive Math verification , Google Genie and Artificial Analysis and FrontierCode all shipped major version bumps of their top offerings, all of…

10.28

Latent SpaceVoicesHow Anthropic ships Claude with Claude: Separating the Brain from the Hands Watch the full episode on YouTube As we learned from the Anthropic S-1 filings yesterday , the lab has some of the highest revenue and research efficiency in human history, particularly with -126%…

10.27

Latent SpaceVoicesHow Anthropic ships the #1 LLM in the World safely: Separating the Brain from the Hands Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang join Latent Space to explain the engineering behind the Claude Platform: launching Opus 5.5, separating the model’s “brain” from the agent’s “hands,” scaling APIs, and…

10.27

Latent SpaceVoicesCoding From the Himalayas With an Offline AI Agent When we talk about working remotely , we take a lot of things for granted, especially reliable internet and power.

10.27

Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Anthropic files for $2T IPO in 2 weeks: 1400% growth rate, 48% of revenue through cloud partners, 85% margin, $1B op profit in Q2, $134B cash in bank and $10B lifetime burn Today is one of those days that is tougher to cover for a normally-engineer audience that isn’t used to reading most S-1’s, let alone 350 pages of one of the most unusual S-1’s of all time : Better…

10.27

Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3× speed 2 months ago we covered Z.ai CEO Prof Jie Tang’s prediction that we’d get a Fable-class open weights model by year end .

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Latent SpaceVoicesAI Is Getting Good at Math. Here’s Why. In May, an internal model at OpenAI found a counterexample to Erdős's unit distance conjecture . Open since 1946. Many experts had tried to prove it. OpenAI found a counterexample instead.

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Black October If you are reading this, you’re receiving this from our new provider, Beehiiv! We are making progress on our redesign — if you have a friend that didn’t receive AINews, please find us in Spam filter…

10.23

Latent SpaceVoicesWhy AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO Warm welcome to Basil Chatha , our newest cohost from the Forward Deployed side of the AI Engineering world!

10.22

Latent SpaceVoicesYou are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi Tickets and applications now live for AIE CODE - the last flagship AIE of the year. When Anekha Sokhal traded energy derivatives, staying on top of the market meant tracking more information than any…

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months Almost 2 months ago, OpenAI introduced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders , a $1B subsidy for access to Daybreak cyber models and products.

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