Most people are still digesting the massive Anthropic news from yesterday. We’re taking the opportunity to solicit the leading AI FDE’s in the world for AIE’s new Forward Deployed Engineer track,…
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Anthropic’s path as the fastest growing company of all time has put overtaking OpenAI in its sights for a while, but there were numerous asterisks for the past few months that put the timing (though perhaps not…
The new AIEWF website is live! CFPs close in 2 days and we will run our first New Engineer Orientation this weekend, get your tickets booked ASAP as they -will- sell out. Take the AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k…
We last wrote about Cognition in September’s $10B Series C when Smol.ai also joined Cognition and AINews was eventually moved here to Latent Space . 8 months later, it is worth 2.5x more , and officially the…
Editor’s note: In our first BioHub pod with Priscilla and Mark they discussed their acquisition of EvoScale , led by Alex Rives , who is now Head of Science at BioHub. With ESM-1 they trained language models on…
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! Readers like when we report no news, but our second favorite to that is when we can simply reinforce a trend you should be aware of. In…
Ahead of OpenAI’s likely IPO filing next week, Greg makes the latest in a series of comments where Model Labs are increasingly also building Agents as the product: The quote is a big reversal of stance from a…
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! Congrats to all our past guests who reached huge milestones this week: Turbopuffer : $100M ARR and profitable ( our podcast ) Exa :…
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! On the product side, everyone is getting Computer - Perplexity , Manus , Cursor , and so on. Meanwhile on the research side, agentic…
We will leave coverage of the SpaceXAI IPO filing for the actual day of IPO. Today we celebrate OpenAI’s result, speculated to be GPT 5.6 running for <32 hours or <$1000 , on the planar unit distance problem…
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! This was recorded before Railway suffered a major GCP outage on May 19, despite being a multi-AZ, multi-zone mesh ring, with HA fiber…
The full keynote livestream was 2 hours, but as usual, The Verge has the best supercut down to 30 mins, which is very worthwhile to get a narrative sense: The mainline Gemini 3.5 Flash is GA today (very nice compared to…
It is the day before Google I/O, when the next major Gemini releases are expected to be previewed, and it will probably be a quiet week from competitors, though Anthropic and OpenAI both had minor wins today, and Cursor…
The future of war has been evolving before our eyes in Ukraine, yet the west still plans to fight the last war. In this special episode, guest host ( @noahpinion ) and sit down with Yaroslav Azhnyuk ( @YaroslavAzhnyuk )…
We normally focus on technical stories, but occasional large fundraisings are noteworthy in themselves, and the Cerebras IPO (after one pulled S-1 and a fantastic 750MW partnership and $10-$20B stake/deal with OpenAI)…
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