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Wednesday 28 October

  • ArticleLatent Space

    [AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure"

    Latent Space's AINews episode covers several AI developments. Anthropic hiring manager Felix Reiseberg announced he has stopped asking candidates to do coding interviews, arguing Claude now outperforms people at React and assembly tasks; he advises junior engineers to prioritize business impact over backlog, pursue ambitious ideas, build working prototypes over a weekend, and lean into their fresh user perspective ('Hunger beats tenure'). Google DeepMind introduced Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio, physics, and Gemini-based planning, positioned toward testing agents and robots. In AI for science, Axiom announced a Lean auto-formalization of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups (~15,000 pages across ~500 papers, ~50M lines of Lean produced by agent swarms in 24 days), displacing the four-color theorem as the largest computer-verified proof, while OpenAI and Anthropic reported independent claims related to disproving the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Independent evals were updated: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, FrontierCode 2.0, and results for a new GPT-6.1 model.

Wednesday 30 September

  • VideoMatthew Berman

    OpenAI COOKED

    A recap of OpenAI Dev Day 2026 by Matthew Berman covering several announcements. DOTS is OpenAI's always-on personal AI assistant competing with Grok, Muse, and Instinct and inspired by OpenClaw; it lives within ChatGPT, controls ChatGPT and Codex threads, connects to personal accounts (Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar), and its conversations don't count toward usage unless they control threads. Ultrafast is GPT-6 Astra powered by Cerebras chips, running eight times faster but at six times the cost; a new Pro 500 plan ($500/month) offers 25x usage limits. GPT-6.1 is described as affordable, fast, and near GPT-6 Astra quality at a fraction of the price ($2 per million input, $10 per million output). Codex updates include Codex in the Cloud, a refreshed Codex CLI with voice control, Codex code review, a Decisions API, a plugins relaunch, 'Sign in with ChatGPT + bring your tokens,' and ChatGPT Space Links.