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Last 90 daysMeta Superintelligence Lab released a new AI model on Monday called Muse Ember, the lab’s lightest and most cost-efficient AI model yet. In its release, Meta said Ember was “designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing.” Meta particularly emphasized…
← The conversations Latent Space Podcast What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team Handshake went from launch to $1B in one year pushing the envelope of specialized data for frontier labs. Our first deep dive into a data lab with specific examples across Finance, Bio, and Alignment Listen to this conversation 164 min…
Our first deep dive with an AI data company. In roughly a year, Handshake built an AI training business doing nearly $1 billion in gross annualized revenue.
Online publishing platform Medium on Monday launched a new app, called TK, which aims to bring AI technology deeper into the writing process. The idea behind TK is to make it easier to turn ideas into written words by incorporating an AI assistant into the editor itself, allowing users to ask for help by typing “@TK” followed by their request or prompt.
Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA. This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s villain for suing kids for downloading music.
With Adobe Firefly Foundry, Disney will work directly with Adobe on generative AI models tailored to Disney’s properties that are human-centered and artist-led. Customized on Disney properties, these proprietary models are trained on unique world knowledge (character attributes, environments, visual styles) to generate commercially safe and…
A compound AI approach to Japanese personas grounded in real-world distributions Open Data Breaking Down Privacy Barriers to Pave the Way for AI in Finance In the financial sector, the utilization of real-world data faces significant constraints due to strict privacy regulations, compliance requirements, and the need for advanced domain expertise. In this…
Despite Amazon and other retailers filling the summer and fall months with more sales than ever before, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year. And, in recent years, the sale periods have started earlier, giving you more time to take advantage of the deals.
For the first time ever, Medium is becoming more than just a blogging platform. The company is launching a new app, called TK , that combines note taking and journaling with something resembling a private social network.
When Jonathan Kanter stepped down as head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in 2024, he set out to keep fighting to dismantle illegal monopolies. But this time, he’s continuing the fight in the private sector, and with a perhaps unexpected tool: AI.
WordPress has been a crucial technology and content management system for websites like TechCrunch. Now, WordPress.com owner Automattic is responding to the changing state of the web by debuting a new service called Spacefast , which will allow users to deploy vibe-coded websites and apps.
Pomera’s digital typewriters are a cult hit with those craving a distraction-free writing experience. Dedicated word processor devices never caught on in the US the way they did in Japan.
Meta is globally expanding the age estimation technology it uses to find teenagers on Instagram who haven’t correctly disclosed their age. The rollout will automatically place “millions more teens on Instagram into Teen Account protections,” according to Meta’s announcement , after launching the AI-powered age assurance updates in the US, EU, and Brazil…
When Jane first heard about Memory and Imagination , a rare 1990s documentary about the Library of Congress, she was intrigued. But the Canadian writer in her 30s couldn’t find the movie anywhere — not on streaming services, not on YouTube, not on pirate sites — and her intrigue turned into obsession.
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[Submitted on 5 Nov 2026] Title: Semantic Conditional Similarity (SCS): A Formal Mathematical Framework View a PDF of the paper titled Semantic Conditional Similarity (SCS): A Formal Mathematical Framework, by Mehmet Murat Albayrako\u{g}lu View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) operates on document pairs, returning a…
Soul Glo has a new record called NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT coming out in January, and I, for one, can not wait. While two singles have dropped, it’s not enough to truly tide me over, so I’ve been revisiting Songs to Yeet at the Sun and my favorite album of 2022 — Diaspora Problems .
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What do you assign when a coding agent can finish last year’s homework in one prompt? In the second run of Stanford’s CS146S, Mihail Eric brought open-source maintainers into the course.
On November 4, 2026 , Bloomington, Indiana’s Common Council voted unanimously to prohibit superintelligent artificial intelligence inside city limits — not only in a data center on Main Street, but also when a resident opens a browser or API session to a model hosted anywhere else. The Indiana Daily Student reported the vote during a long council night…
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI’s Dots or Meta’s Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it’s keeping pace with its…
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. Lao Tzu & Le Guin, Tao Te Ching , page 38 “Artificial intelligence” is not a technology.
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Knowledge: We continue our series about recursive self-improvement. Learning Loop: We dive into GPT-6 Cyber and the new Thinking Machines and Gemini models.