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Straight from the source · Everything about one person
swyx (Shawn Wang)
Vol. I No. 26
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC
Co-host of the Latent Space podcast on AI engineering.
Oct 17, 2026Columns
[AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1Oct 16, 2026Columns
[AINews] Agents disprove Polysemanticity; greatly improve Interpretability & AlignmentOct 15, 2026Columns
[AINews] Modal’s $1B ARR, $16B Series D makes it NYC’s newest AI Infra Decacorn, 3x usage and 3x valuation in 5 months, 15x in 1 yrOct 14, 2026Columns
Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial AgentsOct 14, 2026Columns
Lab-in-the-Loop at Compute Speed — Ian Quigley, Leash BioOct 14, 2026Columns
[AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI BenchmarksOct 13, 2026Columns
Dyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy — Jason Ma, Dyna RoboticsOct 13, 2026Columns
[AINews] Meta Muse Wonder & Wonder Full: MSL’s Claude 5.5-tier Frontier ModelOct 12, 2026Columns
How Anthropic’s Dynamic Workflows Coordinate Claude AgentsOct 10, 2026Columns
[Subscriber Exclusive] NYC Subscriber Meetups!Oct 10, 2026Columns
Building AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial RoboticsOct 10, 2026Columns
[AINews] TypeSafe/Jev at >$100M ARR, $7.5B valuation 3 weeks after launchOct 10, 2026Columns
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, BiohubOct 8, 2026Columns
[AINews] not much happened todayOct 8, 2026Columns
Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus CubukOct 8, 2026Columns
[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricingOct 7, 2026Columns
Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?Oct 7, 2026Columns
[AINews] Quasi-Riemann-Hypothesis: OpenAI publishes 722 math papers solving 90 of the top 500 open math problems; “the most significant moment” in >100 years of mathematicsOct 6, 2026Columns
[AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open ModelOct 3, 2026Columns
[AINews] not much happened todayOct 2, 2026Columns
Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest ExperienceOct 2, 2026Columns
[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYCOct 2, 2026Columns
Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MITOct 1, 2026Columns
[AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M outputSep 30, 2026Columns
Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 WeekSep 30, 2026Columns
[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAUSep 29, 2026Columns
[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and moreSep 29, 2026Columns
[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videosSep 29, 2026Columns
Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, AnthropicSep 25, 2026Columns
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha