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CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, and Mistral meet at G7 amid Trump administration dispute over model accessThe dispute centers on models with elite cyber capabilities.

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OpenAI Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux says Codex tools can now be configured to run any open-source modelUsers can route client traffic to self-hosted local endpoints.

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Top comment: @FilipBaturan “@thsottiaux Hey Tibo, is it possible to set up a hybrid approach in Codex where we use GPT models as architects and open source models as executors? I'm trying to get it working, but it seems Codex expects the same tool-calling protocol from other models, which they don’t have.”

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David Sacks, former White House AI czar, warns defensive teams to secure codebases before Anthropic Mythos-level capabilities diffuse to ChinaHe rejected media reports claiming he dismissed these cyber threats

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Top comment: @alexstamos “@DavidSacks So what is your position? Should Fable remain banned for an unwritten standard that no other model is held to and for capabilities that are available from Chinese open-weight models? Should the USG kneecap a US champion the week GLM 5.2 pulls even with Opus?”

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Trump Joins AI CEOs Altman And Amodei At G7 Summit Lunch In France

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Saylor Explores Bitcoin AI And Digital Finance Strategies At BTC Prague

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Vercel Unveils New Homepage Spotlighting Agentic Infrastructure

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Shopify Drops Everywhere Edition With 150+ Updates And AI Tools

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Chamath Palihapitiya Spotlights Elite AI Engineer Sai at 8090 Factory

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MaineCoon Unveils First Unlimited-Duration Real-Time Interactive Audio-Visual AI Model

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AI Leaders Reveal Expressions At G7 Working Lunch On AI Policy

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HOI-DETR Detects Hands Objects And Interactions From Single Images

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Graham Neubig Releases Agent Canvas Frontend For Building AI Agents

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DAIR AI Academy Showcases Interactive Neural Network Lessons With Code Editor

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Former Webflow CTO Bryant Chou launches Ploy with $27 million in seed funding to automate website operationsEarly adopters of the platform include Hex and Clay

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Top comment: @bryantchou “@DarayuthH @ployai @ycombinator that's a good Q and is something that only Ploy can do well. We slurp your site, which is the source of truth (fonts, design tokens, images, etc). we then rebuild pages using the same code. which means we can take a screenshot of that page for any asset generation”

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Capital Factory co-founder and CEO Joshua Baer dies in a business jet crash near Laredo, TexasTech and investment leaders shared tributes honoring his legacy.

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Top comment: @Scobleizer “@Jason @JoshuaBaer Huge loss for Texas and America. Devastating loss.”

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Terminal AI coding assistant that inspects codebases edits files and runs multi-step workflows

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Next.js creator Guillermo Rauch's Vercel launches Eve, a file-based AI agent framework with a unified Agent StackIt uses Markdown for instructions and TypeScript for tools.

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Top comment: @rauchg “@kumard_3 Yes. In a very tangible way I can describe in this tweet. Deploying eve basically gives you an API backend. And then you can query it with a 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝙴𝚟𝚎𝙰𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝() hook we produce, for Next, Vite, TanStack to consume. https://eve.dev/docs/guides/frontend/overview”

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Leaked Anthropic Slack messages reveal employee panic over Trump administration restrictions and a disputed $200 million defense contractOver-aggressive cyber protections in Fable 5 drew industry mockery

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Top comment: @yacineMTB “@suchenzang humour, or deep resentment?”

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Robotics startup XDOF raises $70 million and releases ABC-130k, the largest open-source robotics teleoperation datasetThe funding will back infrastructure for robot foundation models

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Top comment: @philippswu “ABC-130K is the largest open bimanual manipulation dataset. It combines dataset scale (4x larger than the next YAM dataset) and quality on a low-cost embodiment (YAM from I2RT). This size and depth allows researchers to conduct a wider range of experiments and achieve better policy results. The dataset is released under the highly permissive Apache 2.0 license and can be accessed below. Let us know what you think! http://xdof.ai/blog/abc-130k”

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Europe 2031 initiative warns three individual US AI labs each control more compute than all of Europe combinedMIT's Michiel Bakker backed the warning about Europe's trajectory.

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Top comment: @bakkermichiel “Scenario: https://europe2031.ai Summary: https://europe2031.ai/summary Audio: https://europe2031.ai/audio/ The ⭐⭐⭐ team: Daan Juijn, Stan van Baarsen @DadaJudith Lily Stelling, @philip_fox_ @AlexTPet @TomChivers”

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DeepSeek's Deli Chen open-sources SKILL, an autonomous ML research framework that executed a 285-billion parameter GRPO experimentThe autonomous agent wrote its own paper, scoring 8.6.

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Top comment: @teortaxesTex “@zephyr_z9 I am not very impressed by the paper granted, this is is "dog playing chess" but I'm sure Deli himself would design better experiments”

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Z.ai's GLM-5.2 Max takes third on Artificial Analysis Index, delivering 112 tokens per second for $0.41 per taskThe standard GLM-5.2 variant scored ahead of Gemini 3.5 Flash.

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Top comment: @kimmonismus “https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-2”

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Gavin Baker, Atreides Management CIO, argues AI revenue per gigawatt can rise if token throughput gains outpace falling token pricesDavid Lee compares falling token prices to Google's CPC decline.

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Odyssey ML raises $310 million to develop general world models using real-time video generationAmazon, GV, and AMD participated in the funding round

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Top comment: @TiffanyFong “@olivercameron @jeffrey_hawke @odysseyml sheeesh wild every clip in this announcement was generated in real-time 👀”

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PPO creator John Schulman says the foundational reinforcement learning paper was originally rejected from NIPS 2017The algorithm eventually became the RLHF standard for ChatGPT.

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Top comment: @thegautamkamath “@johnschulman2 I know people would be interested to see the reviews if you still have them!”

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GLM-5.2 reintroduces critic and value models to reinforcement learning, moving away from GRPO for long-horizon tasksJeremy Howard highlighted the limitations of group-based variance reduction.

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Top comment: @hallerite “It's the same principle behind ECHO (SFTing on tool-call outputs), if you understand RL in an information theoretic way. We simply need to get as much out of every rollout as possible. Naive GRPO is unbelievably wasteful.”

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Superintelligence newsletter's Kim Isenberg warns that Anthropic's undisclosed private talks with US officials lack critical policy transparencyBoth parties have maintained absolute silence on the discussions' substance

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Stanford NLP postdoc Peter Hase joins Schmidt Sciences to fund scientific research on AI systemsHase will maintain his Stanford affiliation for hands-on research

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Top comment: @mohitban47 “@peterbhase Congrats again @peterbhase on the new Program Lead role at Schmidt Sciences -- proud of you for creating these very timely and important grant opportunities for the wider academic/research community!! #ProudAdvisor 🤗”

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OpenAI joins the Rust Foundation as a Platinum Member, committing $600,000 to support open-source maintainersOpenAI is adopting Rust for its systems programming infrastructure.

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AI2 post-training lead Nathan Lambert argues that the core efficacy of both PPO and GRPO relies on policy gradient methodsHe authors the RLHF Book and Interconnects.ai newsletter.

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Top comment: @MRashadnow “@natolambert People will read an experiment from an ai lab and start announcing the death of stuff”

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Lenny Rachitsky, creator of Lenny's Podcast, teases upcoming guest lineup featuring AI leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMindGuests include Jeff Dean and Netflix's Elizabeth Stone.

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Today's Highlights

SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere, creator of the AI code editor Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock merger

OpenAI Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux says Codex tools can now be configured to run any open-source model

CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, and Mistral meet at G7 amid Trump administration dispute over model access

PPO creator John Schulman says the foundational reinforcement learning paper was originally rejected from NIPS 2017

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CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, and Mistral meet at G7 amid Trump administration dispute over model accessThe dispute centers on models with elite cyber capabilities.

OpenAI Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux says Codex tools can now be configured to run any open-source modelUsers can route client traffic to self-hosted local endpoints.

David Sacks, former White House AI czar, warns defensive teams to secure codebases before Anthropic Mythos-level capabilities diffuse to ChinaHe rejected media reports claiming he dismissed these cyber threats

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Former Webflow CTO Bryant Chou launches Ploy with $27 million in seed funding to automate website operationsEarly adopters of the platform include Hex and Clay

Capital Factory co-founder and CEO Joshua Baer dies in a business jet crash near Laredo, TexasTech and investment leaders shared tributes honoring his legacy.

Next.js creator Guillermo Rauch's Vercel launches Eve, a file-based AI agent framework with a unified Agent StackIt uses Markdown for instructions and TypeScript for tools.

Leaked Anthropic Slack messages reveal employee panic over Trump administration restrictions and a disputed $200 million defense contractOver-aggressive cyber protections in Fable 5 drew industry mockery

Robotics startup XDOF raises $70 million and releases ABC-130k, the largest open-source robotics teleoperation datasetThe funding will back infrastructure for robot foundation models

Europe 2031 initiative warns three individual US AI labs each control more compute than all of Europe combinedMIT's Michiel Bakker backed the warning about Europe's trajectory.

DeepSeek's Deli Chen open-sources SKILL, an autonomous ML research framework that executed a 285-billion parameter GRPO experimentThe autonomous agent wrote its own paper, scoring 8.6.

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 Max takes third on Artificial Analysis Index, delivering 112 tokens per second for $0.41 per taskThe standard GLM-5.2 variant scored ahead of Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Gavin Baker, Atreides Management CIO, argues AI revenue per gigawatt can rise if token throughput gains outpace falling token pricesDavid Lee compares falling token prices to Google's CPC decline.

Odyssey ML raises $310 million to develop general world models using real-time video generationAmazon, GV, and AMD participated in the funding round

PPO creator John Schulman says the foundational reinforcement learning paper was originally rejected from NIPS 2017The algorithm eventually became the RLHF standard for ChatGPT.

GLM-5.2 reintroduces critic and value models to reinforcement learning, moving away from GRPO for long-horizon tasksJeremy Howard highlighted the limitations of group-based variance reduction.

Superintelligence newsletter's Kim Isenberg warns that Anthropic's undisclosed private talks with US officials lack critical policy transparencyBoth parties have maintained absolute silence on the discussions' substance

Stanford NLP postdoc Peter Hase joins Schmidt Sciences to fund scientific research on AI systemsHase will maintain his Stanford affiliation for hands-on research

OpenAI joins the Rust Foundation as a Platinum Member, committing $600,000 to support open-source maintainersOpenAI is adopting Rust for its systems programming infrastructure.

AI2 post-training lead Nathan Lambert argues that the core efficacy of both PPO and GRPO relies on policy gradient methodsHe authors the RLHF Book and Interconnects.ai newsletter.

Lenny Rachitsky, creator of Lenny's Podcast, teases upcoming guest lineup featuring AI leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMindGuests include Jeff Dean and Netflix's Elizabeth Stone.

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SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere, creator of the AI code editor Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock mergerThey recently co-trained a new model for Grok Build.

Z.ai releases open-weights GLM-5.2 with a 1-million-token context window, beating Claude Opus 4.7 on Code Arena FrontendThe MIT-licensed model features two cost-balancing reasoning modes.

Trump administration orders Anthropic to suspend global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under a 90-minute deadlineForeign nationals are now barred from training these models.

NVIDIA's GEAR Lab launches ENPIRE for autonomous robot policy self-improvement in the real worldEight parallel agents autonomously learned to install physical GPUs.

Elon Musk proposes capturing space-based solar energy to scale AI computation beyond human capacityThe theoretical roadmap leverages resources from Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI

Cursor announces Origin, a Git-compatible, MCP-extensible code hosting platform built for high-throughput AI agentsThe hybrid NVMe and S3 architecture supports infinite replicas.

Microsoft shifts Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and tests self-hosted DeepSeek V4 to reduce infrastructure costsFlat-rate pricing became unsustainable due to high-volume users.

Voice AI startup Bland raises $100 million Series C to automate complex, regulated telephony workflowsA comedic launch video featured founder Paul Graham.

Andreessen Horowitz releases a custom video tribute tracing SpaceX's trajectory from early failures to aerospace milestonesThe video opens by disclosing a16z's SpaceX shareholder status.

Cursor previews an upcoming 1.5-trillion-parameter custom LLM trained from scratch on more than 100,000 GPUsThe model targets general intelligence and launches within weeks.

xAI releases Grok Imagine Video 1.5, including a fast model that generates 720p video in 25 secondsIt includes multi-agent tools for consistent multi-shot narrative sequences.

OpenAI resolves Codex capacity issues by resetting model rate limits over a 24-hour windowUsers previously encountered "Selected Model is at Capacity" errors

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces plans for tokenized U.S. stocks backed 1:1 by actual sharesSmart contracts will automatically distribute dividend payments to holders

Anthropic says Claude Code success rates rise from 77% to 91% as user domain expertise increasesCritics question the study's reliance on Claude self-evaluation

Gergely Orosz reports Meta is walking back harsh engineering directives, including 24/7 screen recording and reassignment to AI data labelingReassigned engineers solved LeetCode to train coding AI models

Elon Musk shares a Grok Imagine video generation demo, which investor Steve Jurvetson notes resembles a physical artwork he ownsThe clip showcases detailed rendering of fluids and light.

Thais Branco's Taste Labs emerges from stealth with $18.5 million to build data infrastructure that eliminates 'AI slopInitial applications focus on design and model evaluation.

Coinbase registers its Coinbase Advisor AI agent with the SEC to offer personalized financial adviceThe tool rolls out first to Coinbase One subscribers.

OpenAI rolls out Codex Computer Use, Chrome integration, and Memory to EU and UK users, powered by GPT-5.3-Codex-SparkThe agent controls local Mac applications by capturing screenshots

SpaceX acquires Cursor, sparking debate over the coding assistant's strategy and its origins as a mechanical CAD toolThrive Capital backed founder Michael Truell before the pivot.

Apple plans to launch AirPods with built-in cameras in late 2027 to power visual AI featuresThe cameras are for visual intelligence, not capturing photos.

Leaked audited financials show OpenAI made $13.07 billion in revenue against $34 billion in costs in 2025SoftBank and Microsoft contributed $1.17 billion of that revenue.

DeepSeek raises $7.4 billion at a $50 billion valuation with terms that secure absolute control for founder Liang WenfengWenfeng personally contributed $3 billion of the total capital

OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a safety evaluation method achieving 92% accuracy in predicting real-world AI behaviorIt replays real conversation flows to reduce evaluation-awareness.

Ethan Mollick says open-source models lag closed-source by a year, but investor Ramez Naam argues the gap is only four monthsMollick warns firms have months to harden IT systems.

San Francisco media startup Nell launches with backing from Index Ventures, Soleio Cuervo, and Guillermo RauchSpecific product features and technical details remain undisclosed.

The Boring Company completes commissioning of its Prufrock-MB2 tunneling machine in Nashville after an 11 rpm testThe company plans to ship its Prufrock-MB3 machine in August

Genesis announces Eno, its first general-purpose robot, featuring a non-humanoid design slated for a Q4 releaseObservers praised its physical fluidity compared to Tesla's Optimus

Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch announces a new family of large but sparse models debuting this summerRestricted early access begins in July for key partners.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel debuts thick-framed Spectacles AR glasses as stock drops following the announcementThe bulky rectangular frames drew comparisons to theatrical 3D glasses