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OpenAI hires former White House AI adviser Dean W. Ball to lead its new Strategic Futures policy teamHe previously authored the White House AI Action Plan.

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JD Vance Labels AI A Communist Technology Over Surveillance Fears

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Builder Releases Interactive 3D Midjourney CT Scanner Model

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Midjourney Visualizes Sound-Based Full Body Medical Scanner Concept

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Midjourney Launches Midjourney Medical Division With Cinematic Trailer

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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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New Method Converts Human Videos Into 4D Robot Hand-Object Trajectories

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LlamaIndex Launches LiteParse V2.1 For Fastest PDF To Markdown Parsing

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Bryan Johnson Reviews David Holz's New Midjourney Machine at Event

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MagicPath Adds Skills Feature To Boost AI Agent Performance

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

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US Vice President JD Vance warns that AI functions as a communist technology by enabling deep corporate and government surveillanceHe warned the technology could enable social credit systems

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Top post: @GaryMarcus “says a man in a government that is at war with @AnthropicAI for refusing to do … exactly this.”

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xAI integrates Grok models into Databricks Agent Bricks to let enterprises build AI agents on proprietary dataThe integration maintains secure enterprise control over private data.

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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 post: @kimmonismus “Anthropics founder and co founder are working hard to get fable 5 back for everyone. Looking good, security issues are being addressed. Via Bloomberg”

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Elon Musk argue orbital datacenters will surpass terrestrial compute to bypass Earth's regulatory bottlenecksArmstrong proposed capping regulatory growth in Mars legal frameworks

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Top post: @elonmusk “@brian_armstrong It was always going to be space compute, as you can scale a trillion times more than you could on Earth”

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Accenture stock drops 20% as consulting firm lowers revenue outlook and blames AI disruptionNew bookings fell 2% as clients paused business.

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Top post: @GaryMarcus “Accenture, $ACN, heavily involved in AI consulting, is down nearly 20% after AI fails to magically transform their business.”

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Founders Fund releases final "MAFIA" episode featuring Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel playing the social deduction gameThe 24-minute production features group discussions and card reveals

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a16z releases "New Media" playbook arguing startups must establish direct audience relationshipsThe division uses software and AI to scale portfolio branding.

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Theo, T3 Stack creator, uses OpenAI Codex and orchestrator scripts to automate GitHub PR triageParallel threads build and review revived pull requests.

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Top post: @theo “How did I do it? Handful of things: 1. Bumped the subagent parallelism limit in Codex from 3 to 20 2. Set up a well defined goal to port a big piece of software to Rust (more coming soon) 3. Revived an old project that needs a LOT of work 4. this”

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A resurfaced post shows Midjourney co-founder David Holz proposed launching a biomedical imaging division to reduce scan false positivesThe March 2024 proposal targeted annual cancer scans.

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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 post: @kimmonismus “Viktor is now showing up in Microsoft Teams, Agents are thus entering the next significant work environment. The promise is exciting: one AI the whole team shares, that remembers your work and ships finished output, not just answers. They proved that on Slack and reached $20M+ annualized revenue run rate since launching. Now we get to see if it holds up at Teams scale.”

Today's Highlights

Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer leaves Google to lead architecture research at OpenAI

Senator Bernie Sanders proposes giving the public a 50% equity stake in AI companies exceeding $200 million in revenue

xAI integrates Grok models into Databricks Agent Bricks to let enterprises build AI agents on proprietary data

Claude Code releases Artifacts beta to convert active coding sessions into interactive, shareable HTML pages

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OpenAI hires former White House AI adviser Dean W. Ball to lead its new Strategic Futures policy teamHe previously authored the White House AI Action Plan.

Thomas Dimson, who works on OpenAI's Sora, launches In The Weights to visualize individual representation in AI training dataThe platform generates custom pixel-art cards featuring representation percentiles.

Senator Bernie Sanders proposes giving the public a 50% equity stake in AI companies exceeding $200 million in revenueTech investors warned the mandate would deter new startups

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OpenAI launches Record and Replay for Codex, allowing users to turn manual tasks into reusable, editable skillsIt automates repetitive administrative tasks like expense reports.

Claude Code releases Artifacts beta to convert active coding sessions into interactive, shareable HTML pagesThe beta is exclusive to Team and Enterprise plans.

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.

OpenAI and Boston Children's Hospital use o3 Deep Research to diagnose 18 unsolved pediatric genetic casesThe findings were published in the journal NEJM AI.

US Vice President JD Vance warns that AI functions as a communist technology by enabling deep corporate and government surveillanceHe warned the technology could enable social credit systems

xAI integrates Grok models into Databricks Agent Bricks to let enterprises build AI agents on proprietary dataThe integration maintains secure enterprise control over private data.

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

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Elon Musk argue orbital datacenters will surpass terrestrial compute to bypass Earth's regulatory bottlenecksArmstrong proposed capping regulatory growth in Mars legal frameworks

Poolside AI releases Laguna M.1, a 225B-A23B open-weights MoE model with a 256K context windowThe model is licensed Apache 2.0 for codebase exploration.

Elon Musk argues an Anthropic model release by Q1 would be highly impressive when measured by actual usefulness rather than benchmarksCommentators suggested trading Colossus compute for Anthropic's training techniques

Accenture stock drops 20% as consulting firm lowers revenue outlook and blames AI disruptionNew bookings fell 2% as clients paused business.

Google DeepMind releases its first AI Control Roadmap, detailing 15 practical defenses against adversarial and misaligned agentsThe controls serve as backup if standard alignment fails

Founders Fund releases final "MAFIA" episode featuring Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel playing the social deduction gameThe 24-minute production features group discussions and card reveals

a16z releases "New Media" playbook arguing startups must establish direct audience relationshipsThe division uses software and AI to scale portfolio branding.

Theo, T3 Stack creator, uses OpenAI Codex and orchestrator scripts to automate GitHub PR triageParallel threads build and review revived pull requests.

A resurfaced post shows Midjourney co-founder David Holz proposed launching a biomedical imaging division to reduce scan false positivesThe March 2024 proposal targeted annual cancer scans.

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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Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer leaves Google to lead architecture research at OpenAIHe previously pioneered mixture-of-experts and efficient decoding techniques.

Midjourney founder David Holz launches Midjourney Medical, unveiling an ultrasonic scanner that performs full-body scans in 60 secondsThe radiation-free system uses only sound waves and water.

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.

Trump administration issues 90-minute ultimatum to Anthropic, forcing global suspension of Fable 5 and Mythos 5 modelsThe order bars non-US employees from training the models.

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.

Joshua Baer, co-founder of Austin startup accelerator Capital Factory, dies in a private jet crashFederal authorities are investigating the Texas crash

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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

OpenAI commits $600,000 to the Rust Foundation to fund independent maintainers of its core systems languageThe investment grants OpenAI a Platinum membership in the foundation

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OpenAI releases LifeSciBench, a biology benchmark where specialized GPT-Rosalind outperforms GPT-5.5 on expert tasksThe benchmark's evaluation paper completely omits Anthropic's Claude models.

Teortaxes says zAI's GLM-5.2 matches Claude Opus, narrowing the Chinese-Western AI development gap to seven monthszAI founder Jietang predicts a Mythos-class model before Q1 2027.

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.

Former xAI post-training lead Dustin Tran joins Elorian AI as Chief Reasoning Architect to build natively visual modelsTran will design models that reason in physical environments.