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Transformer co-author and Gemini co-leader Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAIGoogle reportedly spent $2.7 billion to rehire Shazeer.

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Top comment: @gdb “@NoamShazeer welcome to the team!”

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Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical and unveils a hardware concept for a one-minute, full-body ultrasonic scanner with 0.5mm resolutionIt marks the generative AI company's first hardware venture.

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Elon Musk Shares Grok Imagine 1.5 AI Video Generation Demo

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

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Ex-OpenAI Researcher Resigns to Build Final Product Before AGI

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Saylor Explores Bitcoin AI And Digital Finance Strategies At BTC Prague

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Midjourney Releases CGI Animation of Ultrasonic Body Scanner

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Site Launches Digital Graveyard Tracking OpenAI's Discontinued Products

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NVIDIA Researcher Unveils ENPIRE For Autonomous AI-Driven Robot Research

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David Sacks Says AI Leaders Fail Rabois Communication Test

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Vercel Unveils New Homepage Spotlighting Agentic Infrastructure

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

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Hardware-isolated sandbox with allowlist firewall and monitor for safe Claude Code sessions

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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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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 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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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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Top comment: @gabriel1 “forgot to add here: for cold inbound, education and CVs don't have enough information best is a finding a mutual we both know that can make intro if not possible, would love to watch a short video of a project you built or a concise summary of something very impressive in dm!”

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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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Top comment: @paulitoi “@blocks would love to know more details, will it be open source?”

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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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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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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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PPO creator John Schulman reveals the foundational Proximal Policy Optimization paper was rejected from NIPS 2017He shared the anecdote while posting new RLVR research.

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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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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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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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Today's Highlights

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

Transformer co-author and Gemini co-leader Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI

Former Webflow CTO Bryant Chou launches Ploy with $27 million in seed funding to automate website operations

Leaked Anthropic Slack messages reveal employee panic over Trump administration restrictions and a disputed $200 million defense contract

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Transformer co-author and Gemini co-leader Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAIGoogle reportedly spent $2.7 billion to rehire Shazeer.

Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical and unveils a hardware concept for a one-minute, full-body ultrasonic scanner with 0.5mm resolutionIt marks the generative AI company's first hardware venture.

CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Mistral meet privately at G7, raising antitrust concernsThey discussed infrastructure and AI risks with world leaders.

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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.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis propose a US-led coalition to block China from frontier AI and chipsThe pitch was made during a closed-door G7 meeting.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Trump officials demand Anthropic guarantee Fable 5 guardrails cannot be bypassed, which security experts call technically impossibleThis absolute security standard could delay the release indefinitely.

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.

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.

Odyssey ML raises $310 million Series B to develop general world models that simulate physical environmentsCEO Oliver Cameron and Jeffrey Hawke co-founded the startup

PPO creator John Schulman reveals the foundational Proximal Policy Optimization paper was rejected from NIPS 2017He shared the anecdote while posting new RLVR 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.

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.

OpenAI releases LifeSciBench, a benchmark of 750 expert tasks to evaluate AI in life science researchThe benchmark covers seven distinct biological research workflows

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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 launches GLM-5.2, an open-weights LLM with a 1-million-token context window that beats GPT-5.5 on FrontierSWEChris Lattner's Modular Cloud provides day-zero serving.

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.

Nvidia releases ENPIRE, allowing a fleet of eight physical robot arms to autonomously self-improve using Codex agentsThe robots autonomously learned complex tasks like installing 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 a 1.5 trillion parameter general model pre-trained on 100,000 GPUs for Composer 3The model transitions Cursor away from its Kimi base.

xAI releases Grok Imagine Video 1.5, introducing an image-editing agent mode and 25-second 720p generationThe release also includes a faster 1.5-fast variant

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

Coinbase launches tokenized U.S. stocks backed 1:1 by physical shares with onchain dividend payoutsThe roadmap includes building dedicated infrastructure for AI financial agents

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

Meta walks back policies that reassigned core engineers to AI training and enforced 24/7 screen recordingEngineers were forced to solve LeetCode to train AI.

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 launches an SEC-registered AI investment advisor to analyze portfolios and execute trades via natural languageThe tool is initially rolling out 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 bulky new Specs AR glasses, triggering design criticism and a stock declineCritics compared the bulky frames to IMAX 3D glasses.