Almost 2 months ago, OpenAI introduced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders , a $1B subsidy for access to Daybreak cyber models and products.
That funding came into use almost immediately, as major vulnerabilities in PHP were independently discovered by two parties: Ryan Austin, a researcher at the security firm Calif, as part of the OpenAI “ Patch the Planet…
Claude Mods is an early form of the Attention Interface. It flips the agent harness paradigm from the harness facing the machine, to the harness facing the human.
For the last few weeks I’ve used Claude Mods to mold Claude Code to my AI engineering workflow.
Claude Code is great out of the box, but every engineering workflow is different.
Proudly brought to you by SerpAPI: Today’s release covers a LOT of ground, but you can scrape all this into markdown for your agents !
We last covered the Inference Inflection in April , and historically most of the advances have been closed source decacorns from Fireworks to Baseten to Modal .
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Last year , Alex Lieberman and his cofounder joined us to explain Tenex’s unusual bet: pay AI engineers for the work they deliver, rather than the hours they spend at a keyboard.
If AI makes an engineer faster, an hourly rate can make the engineer less money for the same job.
Congrats to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and Mercury 3 (details below) but they’re not going to be in super wide use just yet.
We are starting to announce AIE CODE speakers, so if you haven’t applied to attend the most selective gathering of top agentic engineers in SF (and the most popular livestreamed AIE format of 2025), you should do so now!
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We are piloting a new show on Latent Space: High Taste Testers, a variant of our food show where we pull you in to a typical lunch conversation in San Francisco.
All your favorite talking points, starting with Dev Day and going into the latest models and assistants, are here: AI News for 10/15/2026-10/16/2026.
