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Alta Ares: the Iron Dome for autonomous air defense
Air Street Capital has led Alta Ares’s $60M Series A.In this episode, we explain why modern air defense is no longer just about intercepting threats, but doing so affordably, under jamming, and at…
Speech-to-text at conversation speed - Angelos Perivolaropoulos, ElevenLabs
Angelos Perivolaropoulos leads speech-to-text research engineering at ElevenLabs across Scribe v2 and Scribe v2 Realtime. From AA-WER-leading batch transcription to 150ms real-time ASR, his work…
From clip-makers to simulators: Odyssey's new world models
Odyssey just shipped two new world models. Starchild-1 generates synchronized audio and video in real time at up to 24 fps, responding to streaming text, speech, or action input - the first real-time…
What it takes to ship AI under regulation - Nikolay Donets, Revolut
Nikolay Donets leads ML Engineering at Revolut - the platform behind classical ML, fraud detection, time-series foundation models, and the ElevenLabs voice agents now serving customers in 30+…
State of AI · May 2026: cyber threshold, China parity, agents in real markets
The April 2026 issue of State of AI from Air Street Press. The through-line: frontier AI moved from benchmark progress to operational capability across cyber, coding, agents, and capital…
The next gene editor will be designed: Profluent + Lilly, $2.25B
Profluent just announced a multi-program strategic partnership with Eli Lilly to develop AI-designed recombinases for genetic medicine — worth up to $2.25 billion in milestones, plus tiered royalties…
State of AI Report: 2026 newsletter
Episode DescriptionWelcome back to the State of AI! In this packed Q1 2026 episode, we dive into a quarter defined by unprecedented geopolitical friction, staggering capital concentration, and the…
From catastrophic forgetting to frontier AI - Raia Hadsell, Google DeepMind
Raia Hadsell is VP of Research at Google DeepMind, co-leading the Frontier AI unit. Her work spans Siamese nets and elastic weight consolidation to Gemini 2.5, RoboCat, and a UK AI Ambassador role. A…
When agents need to keep learning - Roberta Raileanu, Google DeepMind
Roberta Raileanu leads open-ended learning at Google DeepMind and co-authored Toolformer. From RIDE and AMIGo to Llama 3's tool use and MLGym, her research tackles what it takes for AI agents to keep…
The data centre that orbits Earth - Philip Johnston, Starcloud
Starcloud launched the first NVIDIA H100 GPU in space and trained the first LLM in orbit. CEO Philip Johnston explains why AI's energy bottleneck leads to orbital data centres — with 10x lower energy…
Air Street Capital announces $232M Fund III to back AI-first companies
Air Street Capital has raised a third fund of $232M to back AI-first companies from the earliest stages. In this post, founder Nathan Benaich shares the conviction behind the firm - from his first…
Dreaming in latent space
Sereact's Cortex 2.0 marks a shift in robotics from reactive control to predictive planning. In this episode, we examine how Sereact’s world-model architecture generates and scores imagined futures…
A letter from the Munich Security Conference
European voters say they support higher defense spending. But when higher taxes or welfare cuts are mentioned, support collapses.In this episode from Munich Security Conference 2026, we explore…
State of AI: February 2026 newsletter
In this episode of the State of AI, we break down the growing disconnect between rapid AI capability gains and collapsing software valuations, with nearly $300B wiped from public markets in weeks. We…
Learning from execution: what Sereact Cortex 1.6 reveals about real-world robotics
AI has progressed fastest where the world can be cleanly digitized, but robotics remains stubbornly hard. In this episode, we examine Sereact’s Cortex 1.6 and what its results reveal about learning…
Air Street Capital: 2025 Year in Review
In this episode, Air Street Capital shares its 2025 year in review. We cover what changed as AI moved into large-scale deployment, from the emergence of reasoning models and agents in production to…
European Defense Entering 2026: Spending Is Up, Production Lags
Europe sharply increased defense spending in 2025. But money alone does not produce weapons, stockpiles, or readiness.In this episode, we examine why Europe’s defense build-up is running into…
AI Progress After 2025: From Models to Systems
As 2025 came to a close, conversations about AI swung between excitement and anxiety. Markets debated bubbles, capital cycles, and constraints, while researchers quietly shipped systems that…
Rebuilding high-stakes software AI-first
Delfa is an AI-first clinical trials software company. In this episode, we explore how Delfa’s AI-first Participant Relationship Management system transforms clinical trial operations, speeds…
Can AI generate new science?
New AI research systems are beginning to contribute verifiable results across mathematics, physics, biology, and materials science. How close are we to AI producing genuinely new scientific knowledge?
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