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Stripe's Nan Ransohoff and Charlie Petty launch Intercept, a $500 million nonprofit backed by OpenAI and Anthropic to eliminate respiratory virusesIt will fund broad-spectrum preventatives and air-cleaning tech.

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Top post: @rivatez “inject this energy into my pathogen-despising veins”

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Qualcomm acquires LLVM and Swift creator Chris Lattner's AI startup Modular, developer of the Mojo languageThe acquisition aims to scale hardware-independent AI compute platforms

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Top post: @clattner_llvm “In a world with a tremendous amount of innovative heterogenous AI hardware, there has always been a gap: existing fragmented software technologies weren't built to scale effectively across this hardware. This gap holds back innovation and choice, and make development painful.”

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Lecture Explains ML Foundations Of LLM Post-Training

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DAIR AI Releases Adaptive /Learn Skill For Personalized Learning Hubs

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Medra Introduces AI Experimentalist Agent For Automated Biology Experiments

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CEO Recommends Award-Winning AI Short Film Costa Verde

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Surge AI CEO Debates If AI Will Soon Replace Human Achievement

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Mutiny CEO Pivots Startup To AI Sales Agent After Firing Customers

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AI Agents Will Run Public Social Media, Human Talk Moves Private

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Alexis Ohanian Hosts Chelsea FCW Partners In Cannes For AI x Sports Lunch

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AGI Bot A3 Humanoid Robot Walks at Chicago Automate Exhibition

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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.

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Top comment: @elonmusk “@ID_AA_Carmack True”

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Anthropic's Mythos model identified vulnerabilities in classified U.S. government systems during a Project Glasswing testing exerciseMythos found the flaws in hours without exploiting them.

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Top post: @scaling01 “no surprise that the whole NSA story was complete clickbait bullshit”

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Rift creates instant copy-on-write workspace clones as a fast alternative to git worktrees

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Creates instant copy-on-write clones of directories via btrfs snapshots, reflinks or APFS as git-worktree alternatives.

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Prompt-free few-shot learning framework for sentence transformers on text classification

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Implements prompt-free few-shot fine-tuning of Sentence Transformers for text classification.

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CEO-Bench evaluates long-horizon LLM agents via 500-day startup simulations with business databases and market dynamics

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Simulates 500-day startup operations to benchmark long-horizon LLM agents via business databases, tools, and market events.

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Swift adapter exposing llama.cpp GGUF models through Apple's LanguageModel protocol

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Implements Apple's Foundation Models LanguageModel API for llama.cpp GGUF models in Swift.

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Collection of normalized two-bar breakbeat audio samples

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Hosts normalized two-bar breakbeat WAV samples plus Strudel config file.

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EU and Germany join Pax Silica, a US-led AI supply chain initiative positioned against independent digital sovereigntyThe coalition now includes 24 participating countries.

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Top post: @kimmonismus “Europe’s digital sovereignty era may have ended before it ever began. The EU, Germany, the Netherlands and Greece have joined Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to secure the AI supply chain across chips, critical minerals, energy and compute. But Pax Silica is not just about supply chains: It is about who gets to define the architecture of the AI economy. Jacob Helberg, the US official behind the initiative, explicitly positions Pax Silica against “digital sovereignty.” His argument: countries should not build duplicative national tech stacks. His alternative: “innovation sovereignty.” Translation: Do not build your own stack. Join ours. Europe spent years talking about technological independence. But when AI became material, when it became about chips, cloud, energy, minerals, fabs and export controls, Europe chose integration into the American system. Europe's AI sovereignty ended before it even began.”

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AI developer Teortaxes says ByteDance's 180 trillion daily Doubao tokens equal 150 million 30-second video generationsOfficial metrics show 1080p video consumes 40,000 tokens per second.

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Top post: @teortaxesTex “ofc really doubao is made up of diverse surfaces But… just imagine anon. ≈11% of the PRC population, 30 seconds of video per day, that's nothing. And we'd still be doing over a *quadrillion* every week. how much would "world models for personal assistants" take? BUY MEMORY”

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Jürgen Schmidhuber, LSTM pioneer, argues Alan Turing's contributions to computer science are oversold compared to Leibniz and GödelResearcher Aran Nayebi countered that Gödel preferred Turing's machines

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Top post: @SchmidhuberAI “Alas, the dominant historical narrative keeps changing. See the first paragraph of the "Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning" "Over time, certain historic events have become more important in the eyes of certain beholders. For example, the Big Bang of 13.8 billion years ago is now widely considered an essential moment in the history of everything. Until a few decades ago, however, it has remained completely unknown to earthlings, who for a long time have entertained quite erroneous ideas about the origins of the universe (see the final section for more on the world's history). Currently accepted histories of many more limited subjects are results of similarly radical revisions. Here I will focus on the history of artificial intelligence (AI), which also isn't quite what it used to be..."”

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US Under Secretary Jacob Helberg warns nations that building domestic AI stacks is a "digital sovereignty trapHe claims duplicating technology leaves countries a generation behind.

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Top post: @teortaxesTex “This is pretty much a supervillain's speech The only way he could twist the knife more is if he just said Europeans are natural slaves (like I do). Why "apply the heresy to nations"? The whole point of the EU is a shared economic and policy bloc that can compete. "No, you can't"”

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ML educator Santiago Valdarrama and founder Bojan Tunguz mock marketing hype framing standard Slack bots as new paradigmsOperators are pushing back against exaggerated branding for routine tools.

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Top post: @tunguz “@svpino Sir, we never had any decency to begin with.”

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Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais says political advocacy fails to fund compute and salaries, forcing research cutsLucas Beyer countered that advocacy is necessary to secure funding

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Top comment: @PITTI_DATA “@Dorialexander Mistral definitely *can* do it but there are no incentives to do it. Because to found a niche where they are sheltered from competition. And so the cambrian explosion cannot happen in Europe (unlike in China)”

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Prime Intellect's @kalomaze highlights GLM 5.2's oscillating chain-of-thought trace, prompting calls for RL-tuned non-verbose modelsResearch engineer @Dorialexander proposed RL to limit repetitive monologues

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Top post: @Dorialexander “someone should really RL-tune a non-verbose GLM…”

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Agility Robotics plans $2.5 billion SPAC merger to become the first public humanoid robotics developerThe deal includes a $200 million Foxconn-led PIPE investment.

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Unitree Robotics launches the R1 humanoid robot starting at $4,900, showcasing real-time acrobatics and one-armed handstand jumpsIt is cheaper and more mobile than the G1

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Rishub, formerly of Google DeepMind, launches an independent AI safety nonprofit focused on scalable human oversight and evaluationsThe research focuses on augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing them

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Top post: @S_OhEigeartaigh “Love to see it. Need more independent AI safety work!”

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Proposed US MATCH Act would block spare parts and servicing for 1,400 ASML lithography machines operating in ChinaThe bill establishes a 150-day compliance grace period.

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Top post: @zephyr_z9 “Looks like the next China-US export control showdown is near MATCH Act has been added to NDAA FY27 Things will start getting interesting after House passes it in July”

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Runlayer raises $30 million from Felicis and Khosla Ventures to secure enterprise AI agents and shadow AIThe platform offers identity-aware controls and runtime security tools

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Top post: @rabois “Super exited about this. Now your enterprise can be transformed w AI rapidly and securely.”

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Google DeepMind's Susan Zhang criticizes peers who share low-quality AI slop, highlighting practitioner fatigue with automated spamResearch engineer kache unfollows users who share the content.

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Top post: @suchenzang “every time i see slop pop up i judge our moots a little was that just a pity follow? or did cogsec die in the middle?”

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Unitree and Hugging Face launch HIW-500, the largest open-source humanoid teleoperation dataset featuring 500 hours of real-world dataThe 10-terabyte dataset spans 23,000 episodes across 12 homes.

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Top post: @julien_c “more and more large-scale robotics datasets on the @huggingface hub!!”

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Washington Post study finds GPT-5.5 generated left-leaning arguments in 80% of responses, while Gemini 3.1 Pro was 93% balancedGrok 4.3 generated right-leaning arguments in 33% of responses.

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Top comment: @SkiMoDee1 “@ianbremmer LOL. If it weren’t for xAI, we would be force fed Marxism”

Today's Highlights

Former Greylock partner Josh Elman joins Andreessen Horowitz to focus on consumer startups

OpenAI announces Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip co-developed with Broadcom that taped out in nine months

Anthropic's Mythos model identified vulnerabilities in classified U.S. government systems during a Project Glasswing testing exercise

ML educator Santiago Valdarrama and founder Bojan Tunguz mock marketing hype framing standard Slack bots as new paradigms

Top Stories

Stripe's Nan Ransohoff and Charlie Petty launch Intercept, a $500 million nonprofit backed by OpenAI and Anthropic to eliminate respiratory virusesIt will fund broad-spectrum preventatives and air-cleaning tech.

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.

Qualcomm acquires LLVM and Swift creator Chris Lattner's AI startup Modular, developer of the Mojo languageThe acquisition aims to scale hardware-independent AI compute platforms

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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.

Anthropic's Mythos model identified vulnerabilities in classified U.S. government systems during a Project Glasswing testing exerciseMythos found the flaws in hours without exploiting them.

EU and Germany join Pax Silica, a US-led AI supply chain initiative positioned against independent digital sovereigntyThe coalition now includes 24 participating countries.

AI developer Teortaxes says ByteDance's 180 trillion daily Doubao tokens equal 150 million 30-second video generationsOfficial metrics show 1080p video consumes 40,000 tokens per second.

Jürgen Schmidhuber, LSTM pioneer, argues Alan Turing's contributions to computer science are oversold compared to Leibniz and GödelResearcher Aran Nayebi countered that Gödel preferred Turing's machines

US Under Secretary Jacob Helberg warns nations that building domestic AI stacks is a "digital sovereignty trapHe claims duplicating technology leaves countries a generation behind.

ML educator Santiago Valdarrama and founder Bojan Tunguz mock marketing hype framing standard Slack bots as new paradigmsOperators are pushing back against exaggerated branding for routine tools.

Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais says political advocacy fails to fund compute and salaries, forcing research cutsLucas Beyer countered that advocacy is necessary to secure funding

Prime Intellect's @kalomaze highlights GLM 5.2's oscillating chain-of-thought trace, prompting calls for RL-tuned non-verbose modelsResearch engineer @Dorialexander proposed RL to limit repetitive monologues

Agility Robotics plans $2.5 billion SPAC merger to become the first public humanoid robotics developerThe deal includes a $200 million Foxconn-led PIPE investment.

Unitree Robotics launches the R1 humanoid robot starting at $4,900, showcasing real-time acrobatics and one-armed handstand jumpsIt is cheaper and more mobile than the G1

Rishub, formerly of Google DeepMind, launches an independent AI safety nonprofit focused on scalable human oversight and evaluationsThe research focuses on augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing them

Proposed US MATCH Act would block spare parts and servicing for 1,400 ASML lithography machines operating in ChinaThe bill establishes a 150-day compliance grace period.

Runlayer raises $30 million from Felicis and Khosla Ventures to secure enterprise AI agents and shadow AIThe platform offers identity-aware controls and runtime security tools

Google DeepMind's Susan Zhang criticizes peers who share low-quality AI slop, highlighting practitioner fatigue with automated spamResearch engineer kache unfollows users who share the content.

Unitree and Hugging Face launch HIW-500, the largest open-source humanoid teleoperation dataset featuring 500 hours of real-world dataThe 10-terabyte dataset spans 23,000 episodes across 12 homes.

Washington Post study finds GPT-5.5 generated left-leaning arguments in 80% of responses, while Gemini 3.1 Pro was 93% balancedGrok 4.3 generated right-leaning arguments in 33% of responses.

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Former Greylock partner Josh Elman joins Andreessen Horowitz to focus on consumer startupsElman previously backed Discord and Medium while at Greylock.

Jack Morris leaves PhD to co-found Engram, an AI startup training personalized models that update every minuteThe continuous training approach aims to enable human-like interaction.

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.

Claude argues Europeans should install air conditioning, dismissing emissions concerns and cultural objections as outdatedThe post sparked debate linking cooling to GDP growth

Google fires JPoehnelt after his open-source Google Workspace CLI gog goes viralThe dismissal came shortly before Google announced its official CLI.

Meta is developing an experimental prediction markets app called Arena to compete with Polymarket and KalshiThe standalone app currently does not support real-money transactions.

EngramLab teases a new project, drawing praise from SWE-bench creator Ofir Press without releasing technical detailsResearch engineer Winnie Xu also congratulated the team on the launch.

Elon Musk defends DOGE funding reviews, claiming no validated medical funding was halted and legitimate programs went to the State DepartmentCritics of the cuts cited a contested Lancet study.

OpenAI postpones GPT-5.6 release to mid-July as Google DeepMind pauses Gemini 3.5 ProAnthropic has started rolling out Claude Sonnet 5.

Southwest Airlines completes its first commercial flight equipped with Starlink satellite internetThe system delivers continuous gate-to-gate connectivity throughout the flight.

Trump administration pressures Meta to submit its AI models for federal safety evaluations as the sole major U.S. holdoutFederal officials recently ordered Anthropic to pull its latest model.

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warns AI firms face a structural 'business model trap' driven by high compute and integration costsHigh token prices discourage the experimentation needed for enterprise customization.

Elon Musk shares a viral parody video juxtaposing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a SpaceX Starship Raptor engine testVenture capitalist Sam Lessin also shared the video.

Mistral AI releases Mistral OCR 4, scoring 85.2% on OlmOcrBench for structured document extraction in 170 languagesThe model outputs bounding boxes and inline confidence scores.

Google's Gemini vision model passes an informal benchmark by identifying tiny ticks camouflaged on a poppy seed muffinIt identified insect legs and advised discarding the food.

Seedance 2.5 announced to generate 30-second 4K videos from up to 50 reference inputsCreator Chubby clarified the tool is not yet released.

Baidu open-sources Unlimited-OCR, a 3B-parameter model that parses 40-page PDFs with a constant KV cacheThe model achieved state-of-the-art performance on OmniDocBench.

New York City blocks Waymo autonomous vehicles, drawing comparisons to early regulatory fights over UberCritics argue local taxi services suffer from declining reliability.

Demis Hassabis rejected Facebook's higher acquisition bid after Mark Zuckerberg failed a private AI strategy testZuckerberg equated AI with trends like VR and 3D printing.

Meta launches $299 own-brand AI smart glasses using second-generation Ray-Ban hardwareMeta is also considering cheaper, camera-free audio-only glasses

U.S. Department of Energy commits conditional $17.5 billion to finance 10 Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactorsThe initiative aims to meet rising AI power demands.

Zynga founder Mark Pincus releases product playbook advising founders to abandon B+ ideas and prioritize retentionHe developed these scaling strategies while building FarmVille.

A pull request in OpenAI's public Codex repository reveals references to an unreleased GPT-5.6 modelThe code changes prevent the model from becoming the default.

Teknium, Nous Research co-founder, launches a `/learn` command that lets Hermes Agent build and test skills from raw filesIt processes raw directories of code, APIs, and PDFs.

AI2 post-training lead Nathan Lambert releases a free lecture on the evolution of synthetic data and on-policy distillationThe curriculum covers constitutional AI, RLAIF, and rubric-based rewards.

Stanford economist Chad Jones will join the Anthropic Institute to research the economic implications of AIHis leave of absence from Stanford begins June 30.

Hivemind launches an AI-enabled social intelligence platform for group event planning and collective discussionsThe platform is now open for public access.

Five Eyes alliance warns frontier AI models will transform offensive cyber capabilities within monthsSusan Zhang criticized the formal advisory as looking AI-generated

Character.AI's 2021 pitch deck surfaces as a deposition exhibit in Garcia v. Character TechnologiesSutter Hill Ventures partner Kevin Kwok shared the slide

Elon Musk confirms Starmind as the name for a planned SpaceX AI satellite constellationNeither company has released technical specs or deployment timelines