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Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineering

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Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineering

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Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineeringThe startup aims to automate complex scientific pipelines like AlphaFold

OpenAI announces Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip co-developed with Broadcom that taped out in nine monthsEarly samples are currently running in OpenAI's laboratory.

Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Bill Gates back Intercept, a $500 million fund to eliminate respiratory virusesIt will fund far-UVC light and advanced air filtration

Claude AI advises Europeans to install air conditioning, sparking debate over climate adaptation and economic productivityElon Musk cited Singapore's AC usage as a productivity driver.

Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2 scores 22.8% on ARC-AGI-2, trailing GPT-5.5 but running 7.5 times cheaperIt is the top-performing Chinese model on ARC-AGI-2.

Claude Code CLI updates suggest Anthropic is preparing to bundle Fable 5 into standard subscriptionsAnthropic has not yet officially announced the return.

Trump administration reportedly prefers meeting with Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown over CEO Dario Amodei for Fable 5 discussionsGovernment satisfaction reportedly improved after Brown led the talks

Arthur Conmy, creator of Automated Circuit Discovery, joins Anthropic to focus on aligning models during trainingHe previously researched mechanistic interpretability at Google DeepMind.

Qualcomm Acquires Modular to Advance AI Solutions from Edge to Cloud

Figma releases Weave Generator, Figma Motion, and an integrated AI agent to build plugins and shaders directly in its canvasThe updates consolidate creative, generative, and code-based canvas workflows

AI PACs spent $20 million in a New York congressional primary, raising questions about the efficacy of industry political spendingLeading the Future spent $8 million opposing candidate Bores

Two recent xAI employees say more than half of Grok usage is driven by adult and NSFW contentThe trend mirrors parent platform X's high NSFW traffic

Andrej Karpathy proposes shifting LLMs from personal chatbots to persistent, asynchronous organizational teammatesSkeptics dismissed the concept as marketing for existing workflows.

John Carmack argues id Software should have upgraded the Doom engine instead of rewriting technology during Quake's developmentHe also admitted pushing the development team to burnout

Key Gemini model contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel leave Google to join AnthropicThe departures continue a trend of staff leaving Google AI.

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, embedding its AI assistant into Slack channels to act as an active team memberThe integration lets users delegate tasks like writing code.

Andrej Karpathy says X's reinforcement learning algorithms drive unprecedented toxicity by rewarding negative behaviorConsequently, Karpathy has reduced his activity on the platform

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to harvest Claude data for training Qwen modelsThe campaign bypassed geographic blocks to extract coding capabilities.

A game engine lineage chart maps how id Software's original Quake codebases spawned Valve's Source and the Call of Duty franchiseThe genealogy tracks forks powering Half-Life, Apex Legends, and Warzone.

OpenThoughts releases OpenThinkerAgent-32B, an open terminal and coding agent model post-trained from Qwen-3-32BIt achieves a 26% score on Terminal Bench.

OpenAI's roon argues that accepting the likelihood of near-term AGI is too psychologically difficult for most intelligent observersObservers increasingly rely on coping mechanisms instead of acceptance.

Political theorist Francis Fukuyama proposes an international treaty to ban the development of superintelligent AI systemsThe proposal calls for a global moratorium on advanced systems

OpenAI study finds reinforcement learning targeting beneficial traits produces robust, emergent alignmentThe alignment gains generalize and resist adversarial pressure.

Google integrates native computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash with built-in safeguards against prompt injectionThe model scored 78.4 on the OSWorld-Verified benchmark

Nathan Lambert, AI2 post-training lead, releases an ML foundations lecture to kick off his 11-part post-training courseThe video lecture covers KL divergence, cross-entropy, and MDPs.

Zvi Mowshowitz says Polymarket odds for Claude Fable 5 returning to US users by August are overconfident due to KYC hurdlesThe Polymarket contract reached $1.9 million in trading volume.

Runlayer raises $30 million to secure AI agents by replacing standard employee logins with dedicated, scoped identitiesFelicis and Khosla Ventures led the funding round.

Blueprint founder Bryan Johnson rebrands his longevity company to Immortals to focus on biological immortalityJohnson previously founded payment platform Braintree and neurotech startup Kernel.

Notion launches External Agents to integrate Claude and Cursor directly into shared team workspacesThe integrated agents can triage bugs and generate pull requests.

Keen Technologies founder John Carmack reflects on how Jerry Pournelle's pessimistic 1970s sci-fi contrasted with the subsequent tech boomSteven Sinofsky highlighted Pournelle's influential Byte magazine column.