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Air Street PressVoicesJoin us 10/27 in NYC for the State of AI 2026 meetup Following our State of AI report launch meetup in SF, we’re running an event in New York City on the Tuesday 27th October.
Air Street PressVoicesThe State of AI Report 2026 After months of research and revisions right up to the last minute, I’m thrilled to bring you the 9th annual State of AI Report.
Air Street PressVoicesJoin us for the State of AI Report 2026 launch meetups On October 8, we’ll publish the 2026 State of AI Report . It covers the most important developments in AI across industry, research, safety, and geopolitics over the last 12 months.
Air Street PressVoicesEurope’s defense startups struggle to test their way to a contract In my conversations with European defense startup founders and operators, real-world system testing has constantly surfaced as a rate limiter to our rearmament ambitions.
Air Street PressVoicesCan AI learn scientific taste? “Actually, that’s where the gold is,” said Alasdair Russell, my graduate school friend who leads a pre-clinical genome editing group at Cambridge.
Air Street PressVoicesPoolside’s Laguna S 2.1: the model factory delivers On May 22, Poolside began pre-training a new model on 4,096 NVIDIA H200s and 60 days later, the weights and every evaluation trajectory were published online, openly.
Air Street PressVoicesFLUX 3: from video generation to robot control In Audi’s Production Lab, a robot arm seats an electronic control unit into a tight-fitting fixture. When it misses a grasp, it corrects itself, grasps again, and completes the task.
Air Street PressVoicesThe case for intelligence beyond language The most important thing Google DeepMind has learned in twenty years, Raia Hadsell argued at this year’s RAAIS, is that a large model trained on enough data from a complex system learns the…
Air Street PressVoicesEurope’s air defense gap A few days before he walked on stage at RAAIS, we led the $60M Series A in Hadrien Canter ’s company, Alta Ares .
Air Street PressVoicesFrom driving the world to dreaming it Jeff Hawke believes AI is missing a form of intelligence. Frontier research, as he sees it, runs on two macro bets: whether AI can bootstrap its own intelligence - the wager behind the labs chasing…
Air Street PressVoicesTurning compute into intelligence Anthropic bet on scale from the start. You can read it in the company’s genealogy: Dario Amodei was first author on Baidu’s Deep Speech 2, back when stacking more data and more compute on a problem…
Air Street PressVoicesAccelerating science and medicine with collaborative agents José Penadés had spent the better part of a decade working out how one family of bacteria smuggles genes across species, the kind of horizontal gene transfer that helps antibiotic resistance spread.
Air Street PressVoicesBeyond hill climbing: the path to superhuman scientific discovery The most capable AI research agents can already nudge the state of the art. Give one an open problem, like optimizing a GPU kernel or fine-tuning a language model, and it will propose a hypothesis…
Air Street PressVoicesState of AI Report Compute Index 2026 Today, we’ve refreshed our State of AI Report Compute Index , in collab w/ Zeta Alpha . You’ll now find updated data for AI research papers using NVIDIA, TPUs, Apple, Huawei, AMD, ASICs, FPGAs, and…
Air Street PressVoicesCompute scarcity is an engineering problem There are not enough GPUs, and no near-term fix. They are hard to find, and once you do, procurement can run for months before they serve traffic. Demand, meanwhile, climbs exponentially.
Air Street PressVoicesSTARK raises €500M to build Europe's next defense prime A modern main battle tank costs several million dollars. The drone that destroys it can cost a few thousand and be assembled in about ten minutes.
Air Street PressVoicesHow Revolut runs AI at scale Revolut ’s AI assistant, AIR, can break down a customer’s spending, answer support questions, route a voice call, and pull in live financial context.
Air Street PressVoicesOdyssey raises $310M Series B for world models Learning the world from pixels A decade ago, the AI community was alight with enthusiasm over the first generative models for images, Generative Adversarial Networks.
Air Street PressVoicesMacrodata: Robots need a data refinery For most of the last few years, the biggest jumps in open language model quality came from better training data.
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