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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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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.

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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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T3 CEO Runs $20,000 In AI Inference Using Coding Agent Loops

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AI-Powered Midjourney Scanner Advances Electronic Medicine Future

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

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Snap CEO Bets On Hardware As AI Erodes Software Moats

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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.

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Top comment: @OpenAI “Rare disease diagnosis is challenging, as sequencing can surface millions of variants, and medical knowledge changes constantly. o3 Deep Research helped connect clinical features, inheritance patterns, variant evidence, and scientific literature into hypotheses for specialists to review. Every result went through human adjudication and clinical confirmation. AI’s role here was to help experts reason through complex, fragmented evidence faster and more thoroughly.”

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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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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: @brian_armstrong “@elonmusk True, i just didn't think it would happen this soon! Maybe space habitats will be the special economic zones (finally some new territory to test governance ideas without prior baggage).”

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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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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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US Commerce Department warns ASML that a restricted EUV lithography machine may have reached ChinaASML is the sole global producer of EUV systems.

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Forward Future founder Matthew Berman launches Loop Library, a directory of repeatable, verified AI agent workflowsWorkflows include automated ticket-to-PR and page-load optimization loops

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Top post: @MatthewBerman “Oh this is SOOO sick: (by 0xUmbra) The Fresh-Clone Loop -- Clone the repository into a clean, empty environment with nothing preinstalled, then follow the README exactly as written to get the project running. Every time a step fails, is missing, or quietly assumes something the README never states, record the gap, fix the setup or documentation to remove that assumption, discard the environment, and start again from a fresh clone. Do not carry dependencies, configuration, credentials, or manual fixes from one attempt into the next. Keep a short log of each gap and how you closed it so it does not return. Stop when a brand-new environment goes from clone to running app in one uninterrupted pass using only the documented steps and no outside fix. Finish with the gaps closed and the exact commands a new contributor now runs from scratch. https://signals.forwardfuture.ai/loop-library/loops/fresh-clone-loop/”

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a16z's independent media division releases its first annual report detailing its direct-to-audience content strategy for foundersThe division operates separately from the core venture firm.

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Today's Highlights

Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead of architecture research

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

OpenAI hires former White House AI adviser Dean W. Ball to lead its new Strategic Futures policy team

Forward Future founder Matthew Berman launches Loop Library, a directory of repeatable, verified AI agent workflows

Top Stories

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Valar Atomics takes its Ward 250 advanced nuclear reactor critical for the first timeThe startup plans to deliver power by July 4.

OpenAI releases beneficial reinforcement learning research evaluating GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 on persistent alignmentThe framework tests how models maintain safe behavior under pressure.

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

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

OpenAI's @tszzl questions the competitive risk of disclosing reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought scaling principles during the o1 launchThe debate highlights the competitive cost of publishing AI research.

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

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

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

US Commerce Department warns ASML that a restricted EUV lithography machine may have reached ChinaASML is the sole global producer of EUV systems.

Forward Future founder Matthew Berman launches Loop Library, a directory of repeatable, verified AI agent workflowsWorkflows include automated ticket-to-PR and page-load optimization loops

a16z's independent media division releases its first annual report detailing its direct-to-audience content strategy for foundersThe division operates separately from the core venture firm.

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Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead of architecture researchHe also pioneered foundational research into mixture-of-experts systems.

Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical and unveils an underwater ultrasonic scanner that completes full-body scans in 60 secondsMidjourney plans a San Francisco spa location by 2027

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 1 million-token context window that beats GPT-5.5 on FrontierSWEThe MIT-licensed model features two distinct reasoning modes.

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

Robotics startup XDOF raises $70M and open-sources ABC-130k, the largest robotics teleoperation dataset to dateCo-training with 2% simulated data yielded strong sim-to-real performance

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.

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.