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Elon Musk says xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter Grok 4.5 has entered private beta testing at Tesla and SpaceX

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8090 Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures

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Chart Shows AI Uses Far Less Water Than Beef or Sugar

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Anthropic CEO Warns Open Source AI Moves Down Dangerous Path

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One Model Controls Multiple Robots in UMI-Style Mobile Manipulation Demo

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Omni AI Video Tool Renders Text Accurately In Prompt Demo

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DIY Builder Shares Sim2Real Quadruped And Biped Robot Walking Tests

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1,372 Humanoid Robots Set Guinness Record With Synchronized Dance

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Google Builds Always-On AI Agent That Acts With Phone Locked

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Students Design AI-Powered Robot That Picks and Shoots Moving Balls

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Software-Defined EVs Transform Driving With Centralized Computing And ML

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Kim Isenberg and Peter Wang argue the US is losing the AI race due to energy and data center constraintsChina uses free models to promote domestic Huawei hardware.

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Top comment: @NikiBelokopytov “@kimmonismus @quxiaoyin That's why the US and the EU will likely turn to regulations instead of continuing to compete”

Chinese DRAM manufacturer CXMT signs $3 billion supply deal with Tencent amid talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and XiaomiCXMT's DDR5 chip yields currently lag behind global competitors.

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Top post: @zephyr_z9 “But a memory tourist told me CXMT will flood the market with cheap DRAM 😱😱😱”

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OSWorld 2.0 benchmark and environment for long-horizon computer use agent evaluation

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Benchmarks computer-use agents on long-horizon real-world desktop tasks via VM environments and gated task sets.

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Full-stack Python codebase for training and evaluating draft models used in speculative decoding

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Independent AI researcher Richard Ngo argues David Ricardo's 1817 framework shows capital owners remain vulnerable to expropriation under AGIThe critique challenges whether AGI lab jobs offer protection.

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Top comment: @alexolegimas “I would really recommend that you read the essay, and especially note the link of where the essay comes from. There is only one place currently hosting the essay in full is http://marxists.org. Why? Because Marx used the *premise* of the essay to argue quite literally the same point on political economy. This debate has been happening for more than 200 years: it starts with premise, work out political economy, and on and on. So I'm saying it might be kind of useful to first examine why that premise might be wrong, given how consequential it has been to be wrong about the premise in the past. Every single job that held value in Ricardo's time *was* automated. What is our current prime age employment rate? (it is near an all time high). If you start with the wrong premise, you will get to the wrong political economy implications. It is not "cope" to recognize this. It is also not "cope" to recognize that the economy is not just supply, it is supply and demand, which is why this premise has been shown to be wrong again and again despite the jobs available at the time of these essays (every 30-40 years btw) were actually automated. None of this is to say automation will be good for inequality, or it won't be hugely disruptive. I and many others have been writing about this for a long time. See Mead for example.”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues open-source AI cannot be monitored, revoked, or patched for safety after releaseThe clip reignited debate over open-source AI safety risks

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Top post: @yacineMTB “For every software provider, your biggest competitor is the customer themselves -- building it for themselves and thereby reducing reliance on you. Instead consider making a net positive business that helps your customer, instead of trying to rent seek forever”

e/acc founder Beff argues employing genius physicists to work on incremental LLM mutations is a tragedyTeortaxes sparked the debate, noting many physicists join Anthropic.

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Top post: @beffjezos “At Extropic, we have a whole team of physicists trying to understand the fundamentals of intelligence from first principles of thermodynamics and imbuing these principles in novel hardware. We are unapologetically anti-incrementalist and dissatisfied with "the current thing".”

Teortaxes argues export controls on Chinese memory manufacturers have reversed overcapacity concerns, leaving them unable to meet global demandThe supply gap fuels intense competition for critical fabrication tools

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Top post: @zephyr_z9 “Everyone is fighting for the same DUVi, etch/deposition tools WFE sub systems are going to rip hard in the next 2 years”

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X's Premium+ subscription provides up to $286 in retail API tokens for under $15 in backend compute costsThe package includes developer access to Composer 2.5 Fast.

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Top post: @zephyr_z9 “"that's roughly $268-$286 in token prices" The production cost of those 70M tokens are less than $15”

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Teortaxes argues 3D printing drives rapid FPV drone iteration, countering skepticism over consumer printing utilityThe drone-building workflow is highly popular in Ukraine and Japan

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Top post: @yacineMTB “@teortaxesTex Super super popular hobby in Japan too. I've been absolutely shocked with what some of the twitter hobbyists are capable of”

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XLang NLP releases OSWorld 2.0 to test computer-use AI agents on complex, multi-hour workflowsTop-performing Claude Opus achieved only 20.6% accuracy.

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Top comment: @XLangNLP “🧵[2/8] What does "long-horizon and real-world" mean here? In one reimbursement task example, the agent must: 📄 follow a tutorial PDF 🏢 operate a legacy ExpenseFlow portal 📬 extract amounts from noisy receipt emails 🏦 cross-check evidence across bank transactions and email 📨 notice a new email that changes the task mid-execution 🔎 recover hidden employee info from a prior report 🧾 prepare valid supporting documents ⚠️ detect inconsistent evidence 🙋 ask the user instead of guessing ✅ complete final review and submission This is the kind of workflow where current agents still break.”

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Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais argues large corporations have the compute but lack the specialized engineering talent to scale LLMsServing GLM-5.2 concurrently requires specialized inference provider expertise.

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Top post: @_xjdr “@Dorialexander there are probably not a whole lot of people i would imagine could serve glm5.2 to more than a handful of concurrent users who's full time job isn't currently at an inference provider”

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Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais and builder @xlr8harder say standard Slurm schedulers struggle with synthetic data generation workloadsA custom orchestration tool is being built to bypass Slurm

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Top post: @xlr8harder “@Dorialexander HPC solution for this is much harder. Slurm is not shaped well for this workflow. I might have a useful tool for that environment, will DM you.”

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Elon Musk says xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter Grok 4.5 has entered private beta testing at Tesla and SpaceX

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Former Meta PM Xiaoyin Qu predicts US and European enterprises will adopt Chinese AI models to self-host on private GPUsQu cites enterprise distrust of Anthropic's data retention policies

Startup 8090 raises $135 million in Series A funding led by Salesforce VenturesThe capital will fund hiring and infrastructure development

DeepSeek's upcoming V4 models will introduce peak-hour pricing that doubles API rates during peak Beijing hoursThe models support a 1M token context window.

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Kim Isenberg and Peter Wang argue the US is losing the AI race due to energy and data center constraintsChina uses free models to promote domestic Huawei hardware.

Chinese DRAM manufacturer CXMT signs $3 billion supply deal with Tencent amid talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and XiaomiCXMT's DDR5 chip yields currently lag behind global competitors.

Independent AI researcher Richard Ngo argues David Ricardo's 1817 framework shows capital owners remain vulnerable to expropriation under AGIThe critique challenges whether AGI lab jobs offer protection.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues open-source AI cannot be monitored, revoked, or patched for safety after releaseThe clip reignited debate over open-source AI safety risks

e/acc founder Beff argues employing genius physicists to work on incremental LLM mutations is a tragedyTeortaxes sparked the debate, noting many physicists join Anthropic.

Teortaxes argues export controls on Chinese memory manufacturers have reversed overcapacity concerns, leaving them unable to meet global demandThe supply gap fuels intense competition for critical fabrication tools

X's Premium+ subscription provides up to $286 in retail API tokens for under $15 in backend compute costsThe package includes developer access to Composer 2.5 Fast.

Teortaxes argues 3D printing drives rapid FPV drone iteration, countering skepticism over consumer printing utilityThe drone-building workflow is highly popular in Ukraine and Japan

XLang NLP releases OSWorld 2.0 to test computer-use AI agents on complex, multi-hour workflowsTop-performing Claude Opus achieved only 20.6% accuracy.

Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais argues large corporations have the compute but lack the specialized engineering talent to scale LLMsServing GLM-5.2 concurrently requires specialized inference provider expertise.

Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais and builder @xlr8harder say standard Slurm schedulers struggle with synthetic data generation workloadsA custom orchestration tool is being built to bypass Slurm

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Today's Highlights

Elon Musk says xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter Grok 4.5 has entered private beta testing at Tesla and SpaceX

Top Stories

Former Meta PM Xiaoyin Qu predicts US and European enterprises will adopt Chinese AI models to self-host on private GPUsQu cites enterprise distrust of Anthropic's data retention policies

Startup 8090 raises $135 million in Series A funding led by Salesforce VenturesThe capital will fund hiring and infrastructure development

DeepSeek's upcoming V4 models will introduce peak-hour pricing that doubles API rates during peak Beijing hoursThe models support a 1M token context window.

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Kim Isenberg and Peter Wang argue the US is losing the AI race due to energy and data center constraintsChina uses free models to promote domestic Huawei hardware.

Chinese DRAM manufacturer CXMT signs $3 billion supply deal with Tencent amid talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and XiaomiCXMT's DDR5 chip yields currently lag behind global competitors.

Independent AI researcher Richard Ngo argues David Ricardo's 1817 framework shows capital owners remain vulnerable to expropriation under AGIThe critique challenges whether AGI lab jobs offer protection.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues open-source AI cannot be monitored, revoked, or patched for safety after releaseThe clip reignited debate over open-source AI safety risks

e/acc founder Beff argues employing genius physicists to work on incremental LLM mutations is a tragedyTeortaxes sparked the debate, noting many physicists join Anthropic.

Teortaxes argues export controls on Chinese memory manufacturers have reversed overcapacity concerns, leaving them unable to meet global demandThe supply gap fuels intense competition for critical fabrication tools

X's Premium+ subscription provides up to $286 in retail API tokens for under $15 in backend compute costsThe package includes developer access to Composer 2.5 Fast.

Teortaxes argues 3D printing drives rapid FPV drone iteration, countering skepticism over consumer printing utilityThe drone-building workflow is highly popular in Ukraine and Japan

XLang NLP releases OSWorld 2.0 to test computer-use AI agents on complex, multi-hour workflowsTop-performing Claude Opus achieved only 20.6% accuracy.

Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais argues large corporations have the compute but lack the specialized engineering talent to scale LLMsServing GLM-5.2 concurrently requires specialized inference provider expertise.

Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais and builder @xlr8harder say standard Slurm schedulers struggle with synthetic data generation workloadsA custom orchestration tool is being built to bypass Slurm

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Elon Musk says xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter Grok 4.5 has entered private beta testing at Tesla and SpaceXEarly evaluations indicate performance approaches or exceeds Opus.

Weijia Shi defends University of Washington PhD thesis on decomposing large language modelsShi has made her complete defense slides publicly available.

Essay Argues AI Can Replace All Human Workers Under Bold Premise

Austria lobbies the EU to host Anthropic on European infrastructure to bypass US regulatory limitsSkeptics question if EuroHPC supercomputers can run Claude Opus.

Steven Sinofsky and Guillaume Verdon argue breaking up Apple would raise consumer costs, disputing Ocasio-Cortez's antitrust proposalThe proposal followed reports of anticipated hardware price increases.

Next.js creator and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch argues professionals should replace LinkedIn with self-owned personal websitesCreator Sophie backed this, citing career success from Twitter.

PCAST Co-Chair David Sacks argues US regulations failed to prevent China from matching Anthropic in cybersecurityInvestor Sheel Mohnot questioned the origin of current export controls.

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, proposes five product team archetypes for modern AI developmentThe framework defines prototypers, builders, sweepers, growers, and maintainers.

Resurfaced 2015 email thread reveals "AI Summer" was a top name candidate for OpenAITechEmails published the archive of the early branding brainstorm.

Noah Smith argues merit-based immigration policies should target candidates who possess greater talent than the selectors themselvesMike Maples Jr. compared the approach to corporate hiring.

OpenAI's Andrew Ambrosino says the Codex desktop app has grown sixfold since February to 5 million weekly active usersNearly all OpenAI employees, including non-engineers, use it daily.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues open-source AI is a distraction because model weights do not grant true transparencyCritics argue open weights allow local deployment and fine-tuning

Investor Vijay Pande argues distributed AI inference will succeed on consumer edge devices rather than decentralized computing networksApple M-series chips could run local workloads for free.

OpenAI Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux says his team is investigating unexplained token usage spikesAn engineer jokingly blamed his own high token consumption.

AVERI's Miles Brundage offers a 100-to-1 bet disputing WSJ's claim that Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 matches Anthropic's Mythos in cybersecurityThe wager hinges on UK AISI cyber range tests.

Geoffrey Hinton recommends physicist Adam Brown's lecture on how AGI will transform physics researchThe lecture covers AI scaling to Olympiad-level mathematics.

Databricks' Yuchen Jin says GLM-5.2 matches Claude's impact as enterprises adopt open-source models to own their weightsGary Marcus argues the trend proves a lack of moats

Khosla Ventures' Keith Rabois endorses Jaya Gupta's guide to building iconic companies in the AI eraExecutive Josh Elman also agreed, calling the guide timeless.

XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis says data centers are being sent into space because Earth cannot generate energy fast enoughElon Musk agreed, calling the orbital transition inevitable.

Elon Musk confirms xAI will release a 1.5-trillion parameter model in July and a 2-trillion parameter model in AugustThe 1.5T model uses training data from Cursor

DeepSeek releases DeepSpec, a collection of accelerated open-weight models optimized for local deployment based on Qwen3 and Gemma4The four models range from 4B to 14B parameters

Zhipu AI model reportedly matches Claude Mythos in cybersecurity vulnerability detection, sparking debate over dual-use risksCritics question if the benchmark evaluated Zhipu's GLM 5.2-Cyber.

Wharton's Ethan Mollick argues AI model routers systematically underestimate the difficulty of qualitative and non-coding tasksThis routing mistake deprives creative tasks of advanced models

Sensor Tower data shows WhatsApp leads global apps with an 87% DAU/MAU ratio and 86% retentionThe messaging platform has 2.7 billion monthly active users.

Independent ML consultant Hamel Husain says Codex's cross-device remote sessions are superior to ClaudeThe system synchronizes local and remote projects via mobile.

Theia Vogel, repeng maintainer, argues that tool-like AI safety plans fail because future systems will inevitably become autonomous agentsSafety researcher j⧉nus called mainstream human-control predictions contradictory.

Marathon Management Partners' Gokul Rajaram backs Coach to replace traditional PRDs with structured, four-part product specsThe new spec format is optimized for AI agents.

DeepSeek-AI and Peking University open-source DSpark, using speculative decoding to boost LLM inference throughput by up to 400%The method also accelerates Gemma and Qwen model inference.

Chinese "transfer stations" bypass Anthropic's KYC to resell Claude API access at 5% to 10% of retail pricesProxy operators harvest user prompts and swap models.

AI safety researcher David Manheim proposes a consensus statement to standardize AI evaluations and require replication packagesElon Musk suggested publishing evaluation frameworks directly on X