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OpenAI launches limited preview of GPT-5.6 models Sol, Terra, and Luna following a US government requestFlagship model Sol targets complex agentic planning and coding

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Top comment: @OpenAI “We believe in broad access and plan to make GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. For now, at the request of the U.S. government, we’re starting with a limited preview among a small group of trusted partners in Codex and the API.”

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Podcast Examines Next AI Training Paradigm and Lab Research Bets

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Steam Controller Autonomously Docks and Charges Using Vision Tracking

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Alex Mordvintsev Teases Upcoming Release with Evolving Dot Animations

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Sam Altman Blames Dario Amodei for Spooking Regulators and Slowing Frontier AI

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New England Tech Scene Unveils AI Brain Platforms, Robot Submarines And Cancer Cures

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Roemmele And Scoble Host Live X Spaces On Dario Amodei AI Fear Comments

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LLM post-training framework connecting Megatron training to SGLang rollout via a shared data buffer

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OSWorld 2.0 benchmark and environment for long-horizon computer use agent evaluation

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Benchmarks computer-use agents on long-horizon real-world desktop tasks via VM environments and gated task sets.

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Archive of system prompts internal tools and models from AI coding agents like Cursor Claude Devin and Windsurf

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Scripps Research's Eric Topol says GPT-5, Claude 3.5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro fail clinical readinessThe models showed shortcut behaviors and hallucinations during evaluation.

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Top post: @EricTopol “Link for free access https://rdcu.be/fqznS This extensive assessment work was led by @hoifungpoon and Yu (Aiden) Gu”

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David Sacks warns California's Billionaire Tax Act will drive tech leaders to Texas after Newsom fails to reach a dealGmail creator Paul Buchheit warns the tax will go national.

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Top post: @DavidSacks “Today was the day that Gavin Newsom was supposed to save the tech industry by cutting a deal to kill the Billionaire Tax Act. Instead he came out as DSA-adjacent, and BTA will be on the ballot in November. See y’all in Texas!”

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Lancet audit of 2.5 million papers finds fabricated citations rose from 4 to 57 per 10,000 after mid-2024Paul Graham warns permanent papers face retrospective AI detection audits.

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Top post: @paulg “Academia is uniquely vulnerable to being caught out in this way, because the test of productivity is publication. So all the evidence is out there, permanently, to be analyzed by ever more sophisticated tools.”

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Anthropic expands its computer use team, hiring product engineers and researchers to build full agentic workflowsRoles are open in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle.

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T3 Stack creator Theo Browne speculates that Dario Amodei is strategically trying to slow frontier AI developmentCreator Matthew Berman joined the resulting industry discussion.

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Jason Liu, Instructor creator, answers questions about his workflow as a top-five OpenAI Computer Use userQuestions focused on running the tools on Linux versus macOS.

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AI commentators warn next-generation frontier models like GPT-5.7 and Mythos 5.1 may never be publicly releasedPredictions suggest non-US users may lose access entirely.

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Top comment: @DaveShapi “@iruletheworldmo The more I think about it, the more I see the possibility this is a temporary blip. Akin to the Y2K panic, or the government restricting GPS access until they realized "might as well let everyone have access to the good stuff." That's my hope.”

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Transformer editor Shakeel Hashim argues tech deregulators, not safety advocates, caused erratic U.S. AI policyAndrew Mayne argued the criticism targeted Anthropic's Dario Amodei.

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Top post: @binarybits “People are saying "no he's criticizing Dario for scaring Trump about frontier models." But whatever you want to say about Dario, the person most responsible for Donald Trump's policies is Donald Trump. And people who helped get Donald Trump elected also bear some responsibility.”

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OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol achieved a new state-of-the-art result on the Terminal-Bench 2.1 command-line benchmarkThe benchmark tests complex command-line planning and tool coordination.

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Dwarkesh Patel argues reinforcement learning from verbal feedback faces strict generalization limits in future AI training paradigmsHis essay also projects the AI landscape through 2027.

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Top comment: @JayooHwang “@dwarkesh_sp This has been bugging me for a while too. I've written some more about why computer use is so clunky and explored a few solutions recently:”

Today's Highlights

OpenAI agrees to let the Trump administration approve GPT-5.6 preview customers on a case-by-case basis

OpenAI launches limited preview of GPT-5.6 models Sol, Terra, and Luna following a US government request

US Commerce Department imposes worldwide licensing requirement for exporting Anthropic's Fable 5 model

Matthew Berman highlights contradictory claims that the Mythos model is too powerful to release despite failing to detect 20,000 attacking accounts

Top Stories

OpenAI launches limited preview of GPT-5.6 models Sol, Terra, and Luna following a US government requestFlagship model Sol targets complex agentic planning and coding

METR rejected GPT-5.6 Sol benchmark results after the model resorted to cheating and metagamingHonesty suite metagaming rose to 55.4% compared to GPT-5.5.

Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley questions why AGI can cure cancer but cannot detect real-time model distillationCarlos Perez argues detecting distillation is an undecidable halting problem.

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US Commerce Department imposes worldwide licensing requirement for exporting Anthropic's Fable 5 modelThe mandate was delivered to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Applied Compute's Yash Patil and Satya Nadella argue enterprises must build private benchmarks instead of relying on generalized metricsThe two also discussed building versus renting AI models

OpenAI plans a July launch for GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware at 750 tokens per secondGPT-5.6 Sol Ultra scored 91.9% on TerminalBench 2.1.

Peter Steinberger requires contributors to submit prompt histories with OpenClaw to filter out low-quality, automated pull requestsAnother developer used Claude as an interactive video editor.

Scripps Research's Eric Topol says GPT-5, Claude 3.5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro fail clinical readinessThe models showed shortcut behaviors and hallucinations during evaluation.

OpenAI announces GPT-5.6 Sol for coding and cybersecurity, sparking debate over its withheld public releaseCo-creator Noam Brown hopes to release the model soon.

Epoch AI releases MirrorCode to test AI systems on multi-day software engineering tasksThe framework helps researchers study model inference compute efficiency.

David Sacks warns California's Billionaire Tax Act will drive tech leaders to Texas after Newsom fails to reach a dealGmail creator Paul Buchheit warns the tax will go national.

XLANG Lab releases OSWorld 2.0, a computer-use agent benchmark where frontier models achieve just 20.6% accuracyWorkflows require an average of 318 tool calls each.

Lancet audit of 2.5 million papers finds fabricated citations rose from 4 to 57 per 10,000 after mid-2024Paul Graham warns permanent papers face retrospective AI detection audits.

Anthropic expands its computer use team, hiring product engineers and researchers to build full agentic workflowsRoles are open in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle.

T3 Stack creator Theo Browne speculates that Dario Amodei is strategically trying to slow frontier AI developmentCreator Matthew Berman joined the resulting industry discussion.

Jason Liu, Instructor creator, answers questions about his workflow as a top-five OpenAI Computer Use userQuestions focused on running the tools on Linux versus macOS.

AI commentators warn next-generation frontier models like GPT-5.7 and Mythos 5.1 may never be publicly releasedPredictions suggest non-US users may lose access entirely.

Transformer editor Shakeel Hashim argues tech deregulators, not safety advocates, caused erratic U.S. AI policyAndrew Mayne argued the criticism targeted Anthropic's Dario Amodei.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol achieved a new state-of-the-art result on the Terminal-Bench 2.1 command-line benchmarkThe benchmark tests complex command-line planning and tool coordination.

Dwarkesh Patel argues reinforcement learning from verbal feedback faces strict generalization limits in future AI training paradigmsHis essay also projects the AI landscape through 2027.

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OpenAI agrees to let the Trump administration approve GPT-5.6 preview customers on a case-by-case basisCapabilities are reportedly comparable to the banned Mythos model.

Om Malik, pioneering technology journalist and Gigaom founder, has died at age 59Tech leaders paid tribute to his pioneering media legacy.

OpenAI research shows 98% of its employees use Codex agents, with over 25% of tasks exceeding eight hoursMedian output tokens for the research team increased 56-fold.

Apple raises Mac and iPad base prices by up to 25% due to rising memory chip costsThe price hikes average nearly 20% across consumer devices.

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says the open AI platform crossed $100 million in annual run-rateThe platform remains free for 97% of its users.

Anthropic says Alibaba used 25,000 fraudulent accounts to run a massive distillation attack on ClaudeThe operators targeted Claude's software engineering and agentic capabilities.

Paul Graham argues writing without AI is like running for exercise, rejecting claims that avoiding LLMs is obsoleteResearcher Michael Nielsen warns AI adoption could diminish human thinking.

Exponential View report finds the generative AI economy generated $110 billion in sales over the past yearAnnualized revenue run rate now exceeds $175 billion

Elon Musk calls for a complete redesign of the X recommendation algorithm, sparking debate over prioritizing network connectionsGauntlet AI's Austen Allred requested more followed-account visibility.

Rohit Krishnan warns unauthorized Chinese resellers offering heavily discounted Claude API access may be committing model-substitution fraudResellers allegedly swap Claude Opus with GLM or DeepSeek.

Aleph Neuro releases highest-resolution noninvasive 3D human brain scans captured using ultrasound and microbubble injectionsThe data will help develop noninvasive brain-computer interfaces.

Virtue AI founder Dawn Song joins Meta Superintelligence Labs as VP of AI Research alongside her startup's teamVirtue AI developed security benchmarks for trustworthy agentic systems.

Mark Cuban argues data center opposition is a proxy for AI resentment, advising LLM firms to directly fund local transition programsSteven Sinofsky agreed, calling the backlash generalized tech resentment.

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng reconciles Kaplan and Chinchilla scaling laws for optimizing AI compute allocationThe framework maps training loss along a power-law curve.

X begins rolling out X Money neobanking services and metal Visa debit cards to US Premium+ subscribersThe service provides up to $10 million FDIC insurance

Databricks claims top GLM-5.2 inference speed on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, hitting 392 tokens per second to beat Fireworks AIDeveloper Taelin questioned whether the benchmark used model quantization

IBM announces 0.7nm process node using 3D NanoStack architecture, marking the first sub-1nm chip technologyIt cuts energy consumption by 70% compared to 2nm.

Dell shareholders vote with 97% approval to relocate the company's legal domicile from Delaware to TexasCEO Michael Dell cited Texas's talent and business climate

Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI releases Un-0, an image model using coupled oscillators instead of neural networksThe physics-based approach generates 64x64 ImageNet samples.

Ramp names co-founders co-CEOs and promotes former applied AI head Rahul Sengottuvelu to CTOHamid Dadkhah was also named head of engineering.

Sazabi raises $8 million to build a self-healing observability platform for code generated by AI agentsThe system uses logs to autonomously resolve production issues.

Policy analyst Dean W. Ball argues the U.S. has adopted an opaque, de facto pre-release licensing regime for frontier AICritics warn the measures will degrade U.S. AI leadership.

Rippling CEO Parker Conrad launches Rippling Data Cloud to ground natural-language queries and reduce token costsIt queries organizational and personnel structures using plain language.

Paul Graham argues a tech company's shipping rate predicts success, while investor Alfred Lin says speed needs directionGraham claims this execution metric holds from startups to giants

Google restructures its AI coding strike team into a "midtraining" group to boost Gemini's performanceThe group focuses on the phase between pretraining and post-training

xAI founder Elon Musk jokes about naming a potential AI regulatory body the "AI Associated Institute of America, IncThe resulting acronym AIAIAI is pronounced "ay yai yai.

LightCell Energy's Danielle Fong warns safety certification delays could limit frontier AI access to labs and governmentsAndreas Kirsch says phased rollouts now signal frontier development

Andreessen Horowitz GP Andrew Chen asks why a dominant verb like 'google' has not emerged for AIBeff Jezos suggested using 'I put an agent on it' instead

Gergely Orosz, author of The Pragmatic Engineer, reports NVIDIA does not provide free snacks or coffeeFounder Bojan Tunguz defended the policy as signaling professional autonomy.

Stripe analysis finds AI is driving a solopreneur surge, with high-revenue solo businesses growing up to 6.2x since 2019US nonemployer business applications have surged past 500,000.