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Charlie Petty and Nan Ransohoff launch Intercept, a $500 million pathogen-defense fund backed by Stripe and AnthropicIt funds vaccines, treatments, and far-UVC air-cleaning technologies.

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Top post: @eigenrobot “god i hope this works. finally EA that benefits me specifically”

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Figma Agent Generates Custom Shaders And Visual Effects

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Animator Uses Seedance AI to Render Anime from 3D Previz Preserving Motion

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Lecture Explains ML Foundations Of LLM Post-Training

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Adds Computer Use for Cross-Platform Automation

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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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DAIR AI Releases Adaptive /Learn Skill For Personalized Learning Hubs

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Printing Press Made Written Word Authoritative, Fueling Scientific Revolution

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GPT-Realtime-2 Enables In-Context Wake Words And Simon Says Games

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Surge AI CEO Debates If AI Will Soon Replace Human Achievement

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

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Top post: @kimmonismus “This Fable 5 update sounds almost too good to be true: The latest Claude Code update does not only include some interesting hints about Fable 5’s return. It also suggests that the model may be permanently added to the subscription plan. That would be fantatic. And I hope it's true insofar as Anthropic generates good PR with it.”

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

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Top post: @livgorton “@ArthurConmy yooo welcome!!”

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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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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

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Top post: @zoink “Everything you saw today: code, motion, shaders, your own tools... It all lives together in the canvas. For the first time, in one place. Today we announced ways to: → explore with code → generate with Weave → build plugins and shaders with the Figma agent → animate with Figma Motion”

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

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Top post: @Noahpinion “I continue to suspect that AI, in most cases, will simply be an Average Dude, and that an Average Dude is a Pretty Good Dude”

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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

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Top post: @teortaxesTex “one of the two must stay in the locker either Fable, or Dario Dario is a weirdo, so Fable gets to walk”

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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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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 post: @ID_AA_Carmack “I was delighted the first time he mentioned one of my shareware games in Byte, and it was a pleasure to later get to know him personally when he was a fixture at the Space Access conferences. On SpaceX -- The idea that a single commercial company would eventually be launching over five times as much payload to orbit as every government on earth combined would have seemed outlandish in a story!”

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

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Top post: @ryolu_ “use cursor in notion use notion in cursor”

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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: @pmddomingos “Schmidhuber is right for once.”

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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

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Top post: @osanseviero “Excited to introduce Computer Use support for Gemini 3.5 Flash!🔥 This enables Gemini to reason and act across platforms (browser, mobile, and desktop environments) We see significant improvements across many work-related automation tasks, from filing tickets and more. Enjoy!”

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OpenThoughts releases OpenThoughts-Agent, open-sourcing a 32B model scoring 26% on Terminal Bench and full training recipesIt features over 100 ablations on RL data curation

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Top post: @natolambert “A much needed data release! Excited to tinker with the data.”

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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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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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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

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Top post: @DKThomp “The trillionaire who believes declining fertility is the most important problem in the world has devoted enormous time and treasure toward building what is essentially a next-generation porn website. People are complicated.”

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Steven Sinofsky argues wearable health metrics are inconsistent, while Bryan Johnson defends single-device relative trackingSinofsky noted devices frequently contradict how users physically feel

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Top post: @bryan_johnson “I wouldn't worry about this. Wearables are valuable for their relative tracking. They help you compare yesterday to today and learn things like how your sleep changes when you drink alcohol before bed. A device that is consistent is reliable. It reproduces its own reading from the same conditions. The most commonly worn wearables are sufficiently reliable to make relative measurement useful. There are many engineering, data analysis, and algorithm reasons why two brands generate different numbers but that doesn't really change the value much. It's helping people develop intuitions about what helps or hurts their health.”

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Philips launches Skylight, an LED panel designed to simulate natural daylight cycles in windowless roomsThe panels use Signify's NatureConnect technology to mimic sky depth.

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Top post: @alth0u “i wish Plato were alive to see this”

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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”

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

Figma releases Weave Generator, Figma Motion, and an integrated AI agent to build plugins and shaders directly in its canvas

Ethan Mollick, Wharton associate professor, uses Codex's computer-use feature to diagnose and fix a Windows USB selective suspend mouse issue

Top Stories

Charlie Petty and Nan Ransohoff launch Intercept, a $500 million pathogen-defense fund backed by Stripe and AnthropicIt funds vaccines, treatments, and far-UVC air-cleaning technologies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

OpenThoughts releases OpenThoughts-Agent, open-sourcing a 32B model scoring 26% on Terminal Bench and full training recipesIt features over 100 ablations on RL data curation

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.

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.

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

Steven Sinofsky argues wearable health metrics are inconsistent, while Bryan Johnson defends single-device relative trackingSinofsky noted devices frequently contradict how users physically feel

Philips launches Skylight, an LED panel designed to simulate natural daylight cycles in windowless roomsThe panels use Signify's NatureConnect technology to mimic sky depth.

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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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 engineer J. Poehnelt, creator of open-source Workspace CLI 'gog', over AI agent concernsThe dismissal preceded Google's own official Workspace CLI announcement.

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, the sole major U.S. holdout, to submit AI models for federal safety reviewsAnthropic was recently ordered 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