The Archive

Berkeley BAIR lab celebrates 2026 Ph.D. cohort with work spanning robotics, LLMs, vision, safety, and AI for science.

AI Engineer World's Fair coverage: agent loops, software factories, forward-deployed engineering, and open model adoption emerging as key themes.

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

Latent Space newsletter teases upcoming model releases (Sonnet 5, Fable 5) with minimal detail; appears to be placeholder or speculative content.

Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.

Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.

Sierra's Natalie Meurer discusses convergence of product and forward-deployed engineers in software development.

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow. Anthropic: We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models. In early June, Anthropic sidelined Fable 5 - its consumer-facing model built the same ...

US Department of Commerce lifts export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5; access restoration begins tomorrow.

Ahmad Osman argues local AI inference is rapidly closing performance/cost gap vs. cloud APIs across consumer and enterprise deployments.

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, optimized for fast, low-cost image generation; author tests visual search capability.

The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously carry out meaningful work when given concise, high-level instructions, and it has access…

Claude Sonnet 5 launched with performance near Opus 4.8 at lower cost; includes cyber-task restrictions aligned with Opus 4.7/4.8 safeguards.

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. The example shared by Google details Australia's unsuccessful war on emus, pairing paper cutout-style AI art of emus with narration. It adds to some of the other ways NotebookLM lets you interact with your research, including by generating AI podcasts, cinematic videos, and visual explainers. Doom scrolling but make it educational ...

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.

They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, a frontier model optimized for coding, agents, and professional workflows at scale.

LMs trained on counterfactual explanations from earlier checkpoints produce explanations more faithful to current behavior than source models, advancing mechanistic interpretability.

QVal proposes efficient evaluation method for dense supervision signals in long-horizon LLM agents without expensive end-to-end training.

RL with metacognitive feedback trains LLMs to accurately express uncertainty and improve performance through self-monitoring.

Systematic evaluation reveals data referencing errors (1.7B-20B models misread tables) as overlooked reliability issue beyond final-answer accuracy.

Freeform Preference Learning enables robot policy training from natural-language preference axes instead of binary comparisons.

AdaJEPA adapts latent world models at test time via MPC loop to handle distribution shift in robotic planning.