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

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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.

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

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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Today's Highlights

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

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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.

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

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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Robots Operate Almost Unmanned Logistics Factory in China

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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 to integrate its AI assistant as a tool-using collaborator inside Slack channelsUsers trigger the agent by tagging @ClaudeAI in threads.

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

Google fired engineer J. Poehnelt after he released an open-source Workspace CLI optimized for AI agentsGoogle now plans to release its own official Workspace 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 launches Mistral OCR 4, taking the top spot on OlmOCRBench for structured document processingIt beat competitor models in 72% of blind tests.

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