State of AI 2026: My conversation with Matt Turck

On AGI in 2027, scientific superintelligence, world models, and putting AI to work.

Oct 30 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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Join us in Paris on November 3 for the State of AI 2026 meetup

With Guilherme Penedo of Macrodata Labs and Jules Giraud of Alta Ares.

Oct 25 • Air Street Press

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Runway's Anastasis Germanidis joins us in NYC on October 27

Video models, world models, and embodied AI at the State of AI 2026 meetup.

Oct 24 • Air Street Press

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Join us 10/27 in NYC for the State of AI 2026 meetup

27 October with Lead Economist at Ramp, Ara Khazarian.

Oct 18 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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The State of AI Report 2026

AI is building AI, physical AI, booming inference, and escalating cyber risks.

Oct 8 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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September 2026

Join us for the State of AI Report 2026 launch meetups

San Francisco, Paris, New York, and more soon!

Sep 20 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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Our investment in Jack & Jill: a job market that works for you

Air Street Capital leads Jack & Jill’s $40M Series A to put an agent on both sides of the job market.

Sep 15 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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August 2026

Europe’s defense startups struggle to test their way to a contract

I spoke with a dozen founders and operators on background at Europe’s major defense startups and neoprimes. Accessible and realistic testing ranges are…

Aug 26 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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Can AI learn scientific taste?

Research papers are the happy path. If we want AI with research taste, it has to learn from the branches that were considered, rejected, and never…

Aug 13 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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July 2026

Poolside’s Laguna S 2.1: the model factory delivers

The lab with the fastest AI model factory has a shot to the top.

Jul 29 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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FLUX 3: from video generation to robot control

The same multimodal backbone that generates 20-second video with audio is being tested on industrial manipulation at Audi Production Lab.

Jul 27 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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The case for intelligence beyond language

With Raia Hadsell, VP of Research at Google DeepMind, at RAAIS 2026.

Jul 21 • Air Street Press and Nathan Benaich

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