Latent Space reports that the AI industry is increasingly replacing human-made components of the machine intelligence pipeline with model-made ones, a trend it calls 'human simulation' that is 10% wor…
Matt Pocock, creator of the AI Skills for Real Engineers project with over 220,000 GitHub stars, released a new skill called /wayfinder to help developers and AI agents navigate projects where the end…
The Semantic Web's failure was not due to flawed ontologies but because maintaining them required human effort that couldn't keep pace with business changes, according to a former Microsoft employee w…
AMD has acquired Taalas, a company previously highlighted in Latent Space's custom ASIC thesis, signaling AMD's commitment to custom silicon for AI inference. The acquisition was announced amid ongoin…
Baseten, an AI infrastructure company, has raised a $13 billion Series F round, becoming one of the new AI infrastructure decacorns. In a recent episode of the Latent Space podcast, Baseten's Philip K…
A developer's inbox filter reveals 26 engineering newsletters that survived a strict three-week unsubscribe rule, with AI engineering emerging as its own discipline. The list includes newer publicatio…
Codex hit 7 million active users on July 13, 2026, a 10x surge from 600,000 at the start of the year, while Claude Code reached $2.5 billion in annualized revenue by February. The divergence between u…
Vercel Chief of Software Andrew Qu argues that AI agents represent a new form of software distinct from traditional web applications, citing their dynamic interaction and unpredictable outputs. Qu led…
Adobe is experimenting with 'agentic sites' that generate personalized web pages in real time based on a visitor's intent, using LLMs to assemble content from existing material. Principal Scientist Ca…
Paul Bakaus, creator of the open-source design skills system Impeccable, argues that AI agents require human steering and domain-specific vocabularies rather than one-shot design. He advocates for ski…
Cursor's VP of Forward Deployed Engineering, Pauline Brunet, detailed how the company deploys AI agents across the enterprise software development lifecycle, building teams of experienced engineers to…
Warp CEO Zach Lloyd announced at the AI Engineer World's Fair that the company is pivoting to a software factory platform called Oz, which automates the entire software development loop from triage to…
Natalie Meurer, Head of Agent Engineering at Sierra, argues that forward deployed engineering is defined more by customer accountability than by a specific skill set, and that product and customer-fac…
The AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 sold out all ticket tiers before opening, drawing over 6,000 attendees to Moscone West in San Francisco. Founded by Shawn 'swyx' Wang, the conference features 29 trac…
Sarah Guo, a prominent AI investor and Cognition backer, published an essay arguing that the most defensible AI companies will be those focused on "untrainable" work—integrating models into messy, pri…
Anthropic published research on recursive self-improvement (RSI) while OpenAI's ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users five months behind schedule and announced improved memory features. NVIDI…
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella joined podcast hosts swyx, Sarah Guo, and Elad Gil for a crossover episode of No Priors and Latent Space following his Build keynote. The discussion focused on…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined the No Priors and Latent Space podcasts for a live crossover episode at Microsoft Build, where he discussed the company's strategy as a "Frontier Intelligence Platfo…
Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at its Build conference, including the flagship MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model built with clean data lineage and no third-party distillation. The company relea…
Ethan He, an engineer at xAI who built Grok Imagine in three months, argued that video models derive their intelligence primarily from large language models rather than video training data, and predic…