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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI, two years after Google spent $2.7 billion to bring him back

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Anthropic's Chris Ciauri says blocked frontier models Mythos and Fable 5 will regain availability in South Korea within days

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Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical to deploy 50,000 rapid ultrasound scanners with Butterfly Health

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Open-source builder xjdr launches Noumena Code to manage AI coding agents and resolve Git workflow bottlenecks

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Elon Musk predicts a Chinese 'Fable-class' AI by Q1 2027, prompting Tsinghua University's Jie Tang to say it will arrive soonerChinese AI organization Z.ai accepted the Q1 2027 challenge.

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Top comment: @jietang “@flyingpetal472 @elonmusk @teortaxesTex add oil”

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Anthropic's Chris Ciauri says blocked frontier models Mythos and Fable 5 will regain availability in South Korea within daysAccess restoration follows positive G7 negotiations with President Trump

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Top comment: @kimmonismus “@MaaSonder True. And only avail until June 22nd”

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AI employee platform Viktor launches on Microsoft Teams after reaching $20 million ARR on SlackThe integration opens access to Teams' 320 million users.

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Top comment: @svpino “Try it free. $100 in credits, no card: http://viktor.com/microsoft-teams”

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Builder Releases Interactive 3D Midjourney CT Scanner Model

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Midjourney Scanner Delivers 60-Second Full-Body Imaging Cheaper Than MRI

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AI-Powered Midjourney Scanner Advances Electronic Medicine Future

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GLM-5.2 Runs Locally On Mac With 1-Bit GGUF Quantization

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Hugging Face Open-Sources Ml-intern Agent to Automate ML Research

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Podcast Covers $2.25B AI Gene Editor Deal And Protein Model Advances

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Claude AI Discovers It Runs GLM-5.2 via Zhipu Instead of Anthropic

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NVIDIA Unveils Isaac GR00T Open Humanoid Robot Reference Design

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Yann LeCun calls xAI a failure and warns of an AI bubble, prompting Gary Marcus to claim intellectual priorityLeCun cited escalating costs and high startup valuations on CNBC.

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Top comment: @AndrewCurran_ “https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/yann-lecun-elon-musk-xai-failure-ai-labs-bubble-risk.html”

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Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical to deploy 50,000 rapid ultrasound scanners with Butterfly HealthThe proprietary hardware completes full-body scans in 60 seconds

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Top comment: @graphtheory “@tunguz Holz used to go to Alchemy a lot. I’d be surprised if they didn’t have a hand in this buildout”

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Wraps Claude Code sessions with deterministic checks on commands and writes to limit agent access.

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General Reasoning's Ross Taylor says updated KellyBench shows leading open-source models remain six months behind closed frontier modelsTaylor says benchmark optimization pressure hides the true performance gap

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Top comment: @teortaxesTex “@ThainRos I don't measure against only public models”

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Open-source builder xjdr launches Noumena Code to manage AI coding agents and resolve Git workflow bottlenecksIt includes a cloud workspace and terminal UI.

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Top comment: @_xjdr “@xlr8harder shouldnt be, i'll take a look”

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Sutter Hill's Kevin Kwok and fofr question the skull-penetration capabilities of David Holz's open-scanner medical hardwareThe design aims to keep patients outside traditional scanning tubes.

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Top comment: @DavidSHolz “@fofrAI @ruima hold ur breath ig”

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Eric Topol of Scripps Research argues a Midjourney-generated ultrasound 'Full Body Scanner' concept is physically and clinically impracticalUltrasound cannot penetrate the skull to image the brain.

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Top comment: @ivorkovic “@EricTopol @midjourney Same gut feeling this morning. First post I saw and said great. Then saw dozens of hype posts without any understanding of physics and clinic which irritated me.”

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Mistral AI founder Arthur Mensch to discuss potential AI partnershipsThe meeting sparked developer speculation of a Sarvam AI merger.

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Top comment: @filibluster “@narendramodi India has 500 million tech support scammers and doesn't have a single frontier AI lab. That's kind of embarrassing for a country of your size. You should stop fake university scams and from letting your best and brightest leave if you want your country to prosper.”

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Simo Ryu, Stable Diffusion LoRA creator, sparks debate over whether the original Transformer's encoder stack is inelegantMost modern models favor simpler decoder-only designs over dual-stacks.

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Top comment: @giffmana “@cloneofsimo They said at deepmind.”

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Yann LeCun argues that exceptional AI research culture is pointless if findings are shielded from the scientific communitySebastien Bubeck defended the culture, inviting LeCun to visit.

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Top comment: @ylecun “@SebastienBubeck (not mentioning, there are no parallel anything inside a black hole)”

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Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf says biotech startups are migrating up to 90% of their stacks to open source to avoid API revocationRecent API access cuts by Anthropic drove the transition

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Top comment: @kimmonismus “Oh and btw big fan of @nvidia Nemotron! What makes NVIDIA Nemotron special is that it is not just another open-weight model. With Nemotron, NVIDIA provides not only the weights but also training data, recipes, and technical details. They are pushing U.S. open models forward.”

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A satirical Effective Altruism memo addressed to Samuel Hammond mocks shifting AI safety arguments for Donald TrumpIt followed rumors of a White House frontier AI pause.

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Prominent AI researcher Noam Shazeer departs Google to join OpenAI as competition for top talent intensifiesCommentators frame Shazeer's departure as a notable Google setback

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Top comment: @A_K_Nain “@kalomaze I would rather be more worried about the fact that 3.1 pro generates worse code than the free version of chatgpt.”

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Meta reportedly reassigns 30% to 50% of core software engineers to AI data labeling and RLHFThe reassigned staff will label AI-generated GitHub repositories.

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Top comment: @mimighost008 “@deedydas One thing makes me dislike Meta is the neglect of humanity of its employees beyond their monetary pursuit. Once the money is paid, you are no difference than an EC2 host to them. No wonder this starts to backfire”

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Neuralink's Shivon Zilis and investor Sarah Guo joke on X that a Midjourney demo resembles Dune's Bene Gesserit testZilis shared a meme of the fictional pain-testing box

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Top comment: @saranormous “@shivon @midjourney I choose consciousness!”

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MIT's Phillip Isola and Guanya Shi launch ABC, an open-source robotics stack featuring the largest teleoperation dataset to dateCo-training with 2% simulated data yields strong sim-to-real performance.

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Top comment: @ritvik_singh9 “Check out our paper, more videos, and our more than 3.5K hour dataset here https://abc.bot”

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Simo Ryu argues raw chain-of-thought traces are unreadable and only look legible due to UI summarization layersRaw internal traces contain excessively long and bizarre terminology

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Top comment: @teortaxesTex “@cloneofsimo I understand you and I have seen raw CoTs they're terse, that's about it. Words are just high-signal”

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Noam Shazeer, known for foundational work on the Transformer architecture at Google, has joined OpenAIOpenAI engineers and prominent investors welcomed the high-profile hire

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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI, two years after Google spent $2.7 billion to bring him backThe departure directly impacts Google's Gemini initiative.

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Midjourney launches a medical division to develop radiation-free "Ultrasonic CT" scanners using sound and waterThe company aims to deploy 50,000 scanners within six years.

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AI CEOs Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Arthur Mensch met privately and with President Trump at the G7 summitThe two-hour session covered regulatory challenges and export restrictions.

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Z.ai releases GLM-5.2, an open-weights model with a 1M-token context window that beats GPT-5.5 on FrontierSWEModular Cloud provides Day Zero inference support for the model.

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US orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally over foreign national access restrictionsThe government gave Anthropic a 90-minute compliance deadline.

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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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Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis propose a U.S.-led AI coalition to control hardware and exclude ChinaThe proposal was pitched during a closed-door G7 summit.

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Digg Deeper question: “Why did Dario and Demis take this stance? What's their argument?”

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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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Elon Musk predicts complete AI-generated movies by the end of the year following a brief xAI video model teaserThe prediction followed a trailer showcasing xAI's video model.

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Cal Newport argues AI companies must either halt development or accept full product liability instead of warning about existential doomHugging Face founder Clement Delangue supported ending "doom marketing.

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Former OpenAI Sora developer Gabriel Petersson leaves to found a startup building a final product prior to AGIThe startup is flying candidates to Sweden for interviews

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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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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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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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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel debuts bulky new Specs AR glasses, triggering design criticism and a stock declineCritics compared the bulky frames to IMAX 3D glasses.

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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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Martin Shkreli claims WSJ reporters hold liberal biases while its favorable editorial profile of Elon Musk is accurateMusk joked the paper might not be so unfavorable

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Trump administration demands Anthropic guarantee Fable 5 cannot be jailbroken, a mandate experts call technically impossibleThe mandate effectively requires solving the AI alignment problem.

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Block deploys Builderbot, an internal AI agent system that makes 15% of its production code changesThe system merges 1,500 pull requests weekly via Slack.

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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signs a 0.2% cryptocurrency transaction tax that applies to personal wallet transfersThe Crypto Council calls it the most punitive US tax.

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xAI releases Grok 4.3 on Amazon Bedrock to bring real-time X data to AWS developersAzure, Google Vertex, and Oracle also host the model.

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Odyssey ML raises $310 million Series B to develop physical-world simulation modelsInvestors in the round include Amazon, GV, and AMD.

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Robotics startup XDOF exits stealth with $70 million and releases ABC-130K, the largest open-source bimanual robot manipulation datasetThe dataset was gathered using the YAM hardware platform.

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PPO creator John Schulman reveals his foundational reinforcement learning paper was rejected from NIPS 2017OpenAI initially underappreciated the algorithm before GPT-3.5's success.

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Will Manidis, ScienceIO founder, argues SpaceX could leverage its cheap capital to acquire Stripe and FigmaLevelsio suggested Stripe could power X as an everything app.

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Mark Zuckerberg's memo urging Meta employees to "have fun" at an AI hackathon draws pushback following 8,000 layoffsThe internal memo aimed to revive Meta's "hacker culture.

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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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OpenAI releases LifeSciBench, a 750-task biology benchmark, drawing criticism for omitting Anthropic's ClaudeEvaluations included xAI's Grok but excluded Anthropic's models.

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AI commentator @teortaxesTex says GLM 5.2 has a seven-month developmental lag, predicting Chinese frontier parity by late 2026Elon Musk expects parity to take until early 2027.

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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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