A series of announcements line up to a big theme: Services are the next big opportunity.
The full story of how GPT‑5.x derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity.
a quiet day lets us reflect on the nature of AI "character" in the Clippy vs Anton debate
a quiet day lets us make a call for speakers!
a quiet day lets us reflect on coding agents "breaking containment"
a quiet day lets us reflect on the growing implications of the inference age
a quiet day.
reflecting on the continued GPT-Image-2 explosion
Applied Intuition puts the AI in mining rigs, drones, trucks, warships and physical vehicles in the most adversarial environments imaginable. We dive in with their CEO and CTO as they emerge.
The prodigal Tiger returns... but is no longer the benchmarks leader.
Spud lives!
Note: This episode was recorded just after AIE Europe, but before the Cursor-xAI deal.
a quiet day lets us reflect on the top conversation that AI leaders are having everywhere.
A rare interview with Shopify's CTO on -everything- that Shopify is doing to maximize AI for their customers, with exclusive data on their own AI adoption.
with Cursor getting a $10B contract with xAI and a right to acquire for $60B.
Yay Kimi!!!
95% of cancer treatments fail to pass clinical trials, but it may be a matching problem — that Noetik is solving with autoregressive transformers like TARIO-2!
a quiet day lets us reflect on openclaw this week.
The new SOTA model asserts its dominance.
a quiet day lets us report on the death of the pull requests
a quiet day lets us reflect on work in the time of AI
Notion's cofounder and head of AI peel back the curtains to talk about finally shipping the Knowledge Work AI agents the world has been waiting for.
a quiet day lets us check in on the local models scene
Two quiet days in a row let us reflect on the first AIE in London.
a quiet day lets us reflect on MSL finally shipping!
A welcome update from Google!
We cap out our World Models coverage with one of the most exciting new approaches - long running, multiplayer, interactive world models built with agents bootstrapped from game engines!
a quiet day
The accidental "open sourcing" of Claude Code brings a ton of insights.
a quiet day lets us examine an interesting mental model
Mistral is one of the world's leading frontier model labs, and has just launched Voxtral TTS, their latest step in their strategy to offer open frontier intelligence for every modality.
a quiet day lets us report an important GPU trend
a quiet day lets us reflect on the growing trend of CLIs for ~everything~ agents
We thought about this carefully before choosing hyperbole; but it is warranted.
a quiet day lets us reflect on the End of Sora, LiteLLM, AI2, and other not so happy news.
Lessons from a Decade on the Frontier of AI for Science
By now we’re pretty used to LS Pod guests going on to great success, but today’s news is fast for even us - Nat and Alex at MSL have execuhired Dreamer just days after we shipped their pod, barely 11 days after we recorded with them:
/dev/agents is out of stealth as Dreamer, and the vision is staggeringly ambitious.
OpenAI buys Astral, Anthropic buys Bun, Google DeepMind bought the Antigravity team.
congrats MiniMax!!
a quiet day.
Claude Cowork came out of an accident.
a quiet day lets us reflect on NVIDIA GTC 2026
a quiet day lets us reflect on Anthropic's belated GA of 1M context windows after Gemini and OpenAI.
a quiet day lets us publish a thought from OpenAI researcher Aidan McLaughlin
Turbopuffer came out of a reading app.
Replit Agent 4 lets us reflect on a couple disparate releases.
World Models are what next generation AI needs.
NVIDIA welcomes AI Engineers with a special pre GTC episode!
AGI takes another small step forward.
a quiet day lets us reflect on the jobs debate.
An enormous win for OpenAI.
The $50B Agent Lab has acquired Graphite and Autotab and now announcing that Cloud Agents has overtaken its historical "VSCode fork" IDE usecase, ushering in the "Third Era of Software Development"
a quiet day lets us reflect on a central debate in AI engineering
The reception to our recent post on Code Reviews has been strong. Catch up!
a quiet day
A quiet day lets us question the nature of reality