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Josh Elman, former Apple product leader and Greylock partner, joins a16z to back consumer startupsHe previously led Greylock's investments in Discord and Medium.

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Top post: @gregisenberg “@joshelman @a16z This is iconic. They are so lucky to have you.”

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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.

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Top post: @elonmusk “All DOGE required was contact information of the recipients to confirm that funding was not fraudulent. No validated medical funding was stopped. Anything that appeared to be legitimate lifesaving funding continued and is now administered by the State Department. If anyone had actually died as a result of DOGE, their names would be worldwide headline news! On the other hand, USAID did help fund the Wuhan Virology Institute, which caused the deaths of millions, and the revolution that started the Russia-Ukraine war.”

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Seedance 2.5 AI Video Model Releases with Stunning Demo

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Midjourney Stands Out For Unique Atmospheric AI Images And Animations

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OpenAI Tests Bidirectional Voice Model Bidi 1 for ChatGPT

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New Lecture Traces Synthetic Data Evolution in AI Post-Training

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Alibaba Launches HappyHorse 1.1 Video Synthesis Model via API

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Liberty Mutual's Vlad Barbalat Discusses AI Impact on Equity Multiples

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Coatue's Philippe Laffont Shares SpaceX Plans And Nvidia Tesla Lessons

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GLM-5.2 Runs Fast on Modal With Parallel Code Agents

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Player Piano Protests Echo Modern AI Automation Fears

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Gemini App Adds Soccer Templates For Custom Trading Cards And Plushies

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

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Top post: @Scobleizer “It is glorious in Silicon Valley.”

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Claude argues Europeans should adopt air conditioning to adapt to rising temperatures, calling cultural resistance outdatedStripe CEO Patrick Collison shared the AI's response.

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Top post: @CJHandmer “I'm going to build 1000 ships and show up at the beaches of Normandy with 10 million ACs powered by rooftop solar. Make France Cool Again!”

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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.

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Top post: @natolambert “Something I should add -- on-policy distillation was the last content I got to sneak into the book before going to print. Felt very important to have this method covered, it's growing rapidly and used in distinct ways. So you can also read what is covered in this lecture!”

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Google's Logan Kilpatrick says developers created over 1 million native Android apps inside Google AI Studio in one monthMost of the development activity featured Kotlin applications.

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Top post: @OfficialLoganK “you too could build your own native app! https://ai.studio/build”

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OpenAI tests "Bidi 1," a bidirectional ChatGPT voice model that can speak and listen simultaneouslyEarly demonstrations show fluid counting without conversational pauses.

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Top post: @tunguz “All voice models are bi - either bimodal or bidirectional.”

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AMP PBC's Anjney Midha claims tech executives over 50 are irrelevant to AI pricing, drawing pushback from Nikesh AroraArora argued curiosity and adaptability matter more than age.

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Top post: @nikesharora “When I was your age - I was perhaps of similar opinions, life teaches you that age is not a disqualifier, lack of curiosity is. Time will tell what is right, but in a market that is evolving fast, having a POV is important and being able to pivot is equally important. Many of the largest tech companies are run by us old guys :). Older perhaps, irrelevant - trying not to be.”

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

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Top post: @AndyMasley “They can't keep getting away with this”

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Alibaba Cloud launches HappyHorse 1.1, a production-ready AI video generation model with character consistency and native audioEmad Mostaque says it validates his Chinese AI predictions

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Top post: @EMostaque “The upcoming @Seedance 2.5 model looking insane as well with multi asset input, way longer outputs etc I would expect @grok imagine to keep pace and real time of this quality by end of next year (!) Every pixel will be generated And that has a lot of implications”

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Probook AI raises $34 million Series A led by a16z to automate dispatch and scheduling for home servicesSequoia also participated, bringing total funding to $40 million.

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Top post: @dhaber “1/ Excited to announce @a16z is leading @probookai's $34M Series A (alongside my partners @omooretweets and @arampell)!”

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Founder Ryan Petersen argues remote work with young kids is impractical, while ml.school's Santiago Valdarrama says offices destroy productivityValdarrama argued that office spaces systematically diminish employee motivation.

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Top post: @typesfast “@HarryStebbings 🤔”

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Mistral AI launches Mistral OCR 4, taking the top spot on OlmOCRBench for structured document processingIt beat competitor models in 72% of blind tests.

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Top post: @sophiamyang “Introducing Mistral OCR 4! ✅ 72% preferred over competitors in blind tests (600+ docs, 12+ languages) ✅ #1 on OlmOCRBench ✅ 170 languages, with breakthroughs on rare/low-resource ones”

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OpenAI's Gabriel Petersson proposes using AI agents on every pull request to catch 80% of UI issuesCursor's team already uses its own AI for self-testing.

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Top post: @gabriel1 “using my codex to take screenshots of my screen with my electron app as feedback loop which works ok but it's just so stupid”

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Maksym Andriushchenko of ELLIS Institute says GLM-5.2 hits a 74.8% hallucination rate on HalluHard without web searchGPT-5.4-Thinking registered a 46.8% rate under the same conditions.

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Top post: @scaling01 “hallucination final boss”

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SpaceX completes a controlled flight demonstration of a new spacecraft designed for microgravity manufacturingThe vehicle successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean

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Top post: @zebulgar “So you're telling me it's time for humanity to build some Space Factories?”

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Google DeepMind's Séb Krier argues polarized AI narratives fill an existential or religious void for advocatesHenry Shevlin countered that grand AI narratives track historical reality

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Top post: @AndrewCurran_ “@sebkrier It's different for everyone. For me it's because I had forsaken the world. I regret it deeply, but I did. I could see no way to change our path, and finally, I gave up. Then ten years later, using GPT for the first time in 2022, I realized there was hope.”

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Momentic launches AI-powered testing agents that ingest PRDs and PR diffs to automate software QAIt achieved a 73% PR merge rate for Notion.

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Top post: @rohanpaul_ai “AI coding has a QA problem. And Momentic just released a testing platform around that bottleneck: faster code means little if QA cannot scale with it. So Momentic's testing agents read the same product memory humans use, including Linear tickets, Notion PRDs, and PR diffs, so tests are based on intended behavior rather than blind script matching. They are claiming in the past few weeks, its agents analyzed 70K+ test failures, created 600 tests, and reached a 73% PR merge rate.”

Today's Highlights

OpenAI partners with Trail of Bits to automatically patch open-source vulnerabilities, merging 37 fixes in its first week

Elon Musk defends DOGE funding reviews, claiming no validated medical funding was halted and legitimate programs went to the State Department

Claude argues Europeans should adopt air conditioning to adapt to rising temperatures, calling cultural resistance outdated

Momentic launches AI-powered testing agents that ingest PRDs and PR diffs to automate software QA

Top Stories

Josh Elman, former Apple product leader and Greylock partner, joins a16z to back consumer startupsHe previously led Greylock's investments in Discord and Medium.

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.

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

Claude argues Europeans should adopt air conditioning to adapt to rising temperatures, calling cultural resistance outdatedStripe CEO Patrick Collison shared the AI's response.

AI researcher Jack Morris co-founds Engram to build personalized models that update continuously to solve memory limitsEach user gets a dedicated model updating every minute

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.

Google's Logan Kilpatrick says developers created over 1 million native Android apps inside Google AI Studio in one monthMost of the development activity featured Kotlin applications.

OpenAI tests "Bidi 1," a bidirectional ChatGPT voice model that can speak and listen simultaneouslyEarly demonstrations show fluid counting without conversational pauses.

AMP PBC's Anjney Midha claims tech executives over 50 are irrelevant to AI pricing, drawing pushback from Nikesh AroraArora argued curiosity and adaptability matter more than age.

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

Alibaba Cloud launches HappyHorse 1.1, a production-ready AI video generation model with character consistency and native audioEmad Mostaque says it validates his Chinese AI predictions

Probook AI raises $34 million Series A led by a16z to automate dispatch and scheduling for home servicesSequoia also participated, bringing total funding to $40 million.

Founder Ryan Petersen argues remote work with young kids is impractical, while ml.school's Santiago Valdarrama says offices destroy productivityValdarrama argued that office spaces systematically diminish employee motivation.

Mistral AI launches Mistral OCR 4, taking the top spot on OlmOCRBench for structured document processingIt beat competitor models in 72% of blind tests.

OpenAI's Gabriel Petersson proposes using AI agents on every pull request to catch 80% of UI issuesCursor's team already uses its own AI for self-testing.

Maksym Andriushchenko of ELLIS Institute says GLM-5.2 hits a 74.8% hallucination rate on HalluHard without web searchGPT-5.4-Thinking registered a 46.8% rate under the same conditions.

SpaceX completes a controlled flight demonstration of a new spacecraft designed for microgravity manufacturingThe vehicle successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean

Google DeepMind's Séb Krier argues polarized AI narratives fill an existential or religious void for advocatesHenry Shevlin countered that grand AI narratives track historical reality

Momentic launches AI-powered testing agents that ingest PRDs and PR diffs to automate software QAIt achieved a 73% PR merge rate for Notion.

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OpenAI partners with Trail of Bits to automatically patch open-source vulnerabilities, merging 37 fixes in its first weekThe initiative uses GPT-5.5-Cyber to secure Python, Go, and cURL.

Sakana AI launches Fugu orchestration platform, but critics dispute its frontier-level performance claimsFugu Ultra coordinates existing frontier models using test-time compute.

SpaceX signs $6.3 billion deal to lease Nvidia GB300 GPUs from Colossus 2 to Reflection AIReflection AI will pay $150 million monthly through 2029

Ai2 launches TMax, an open-source terminal agent whose 27B model matches systems 40 times its size on Terminal Bench 2.0The suite includes a 14,600-environment dataset and complete training weights

Meta invests $900 million in Indian fintech CRED as founder Kunal Shah steps down to lead WhatsApp globallyThe deal values the fintech platform at $4.5 billion.

Finbarr Timbers of the Allen Institute for AI advises candidates to secure other job offers before applying to top-choice labsThe advice follows an engineer's failed nine-round Anthropic interview.

University of Washington PhD student Alisa Liu, joining OpenAI, details her 57-interview job search at frontier labsHer guide notes one referral equaled 40 cold applications.

OpenClaw steward Peter Steinberger reports the non-profit AI agent project just hit its strongest week of performanceIts non-profit model avoids external venture capital agendas

Google DeepMind partners with film studio A24 to develop creative AI tools based on filmmaker feedbackScott Belsky's Labs team is also collaborating.

Dean W. Ball argues the US AI industry has frozen public releases until the Claude Fable 5 impasse is resolvedPolymarket odds for the model's return dropped to 39%39.

Stripe's Patrick Collison launches Stripe Directory, an experimental tool for AI agents to discover payment-supported businessesThe tool provides machine-readable business profiles via a CLI.

US official clarifies that Senator Warner misunderstood a briefing claiming the AI model Mythos breached classified NSA networksThe briefing actually described an internal network red-teaming exercise

Google's Philipp Schmid announces general availability of Gemini Interactions API with a remote Linux sandboxA background parameter supports asynchronous, long-running agent interactions.

20VC founder Harry Stebbings marks his 30th birthday by sharing his decade record of raising $1 billionHis portfolio includes 18 startups that reached unicorn status.

Ghostty creator Mitchell Hashimoto pledges $400,000 to Zig Software Foundation despite its strict anti-AI policyThe donation brings his family's total contribution to $700,000

Micron partners with Anthropic to design AI-optimized memory architectures and invests in its Series H roundMicron will deploy Claude models across its enterprise operations.

Zai_org's open-weights GLM-5.2 ranks third overall on the GDPval-AA v2 benchmark, beating GPT-5.5 on agentic tasksIt scored 1524 Elo, trailing only two Claude models

Academic Emma Pierson argues AI development should be slowed, claiming societal risks outweigh breakthroughs like curing cancerThe essay triggered sharp criticism from venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

Open-source AI builder @xlr8harder argues that doctors' poor statistical literacy blocks adoption of new diagnostic imaging toolsCreator @eigenrobot agreed, warning of higher public comprehension barriers.

Entropix creator xjdr announces Noumena has integrated GLM 5.2, splitting its API to isolate 1-million context spamThe update makes GLM the default model for ncode.

Ethan Mollick and Peter Steinberger find Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra struggles on complex coding tasks, lagging behind GPT-5.5One complex prompt exhausted Fugu’s five-hour usage quota

ML journal TMLR launches authorship quotas to combat an unsustainable surge of 500 submissions every 19 daysAuthors must manage a pool of paper submission credits.

Peter Wildeford argues Anthropic has trained a Mythos successor projected to top four hours on the METR benchmarkThe New Carlisle data center expanded to 687,000 H100-equivalent GPUs.

Paul Graham compares AI interfaces like Claude Code to early web browsers acting as a new software layerAusten Allred runs most daily tasks via Claude Code.

Coinbase launches pre-IPO perpetual futures contracts for OpenAI and Anthropic for non-US customersThe synthetic contracts are executed entirely on-chain.

Google invests $75 million in studio A24 to build AI film production and distribution toolsThe joint research partnership targets production and distribution workflows.

Hermes Agent overtakes OpenClaw on OpenRouter's agent rankings with 911 billion tokensOpenClaw reached a record 4.27 million weekly NPM downloads.

AI2's Nathan Lambert argues GLM-5.2 shows frontier agentic capabilities have transitioned to open-source modelsHe urges developers to help regulators build safety frameworks

Michael Dell commemorates Dell's 1988 IPO, which raised $30 million at an $85 million valuationShares were priced at a split-adjusted nine cents today.

Defense technology and battlefield AI startups raise $12.3 billion YTD, up from $9.95 billion last yearPaul Graham and Katherine Boyle debated historical VC expectations.