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Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineeringThe startup aims to automate complex scientific pipelines like AlphaFold

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Top post: @bneyshabur “https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-veterans-startup-seeks-to-help-scientists-develop-their-own-ai-09e2f3e5?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1”

Digg Deeper question: “where does this startup fit in the broader AI ecosystem?”

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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.

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Top comment: @OpenAI “https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip/”

Digg Deeper question: “So currently, they use NVIDIA and AMD for inference, even if these do come online and are comparable price and performance-wise, won't TSMC be the bottleneck?”

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Figma Agent Generates Custom Shaders And Visual Effects

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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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Entrepreneur Builds AI Agent Hal That Joins Zoom Meetings

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CEO Recommends Award-Winning AI Short Film Costa Verde

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Hardware Constraints Shape Modern AI Toward Matmul Architectures

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Printing Press Made Written Word Authoritative, Fueling Scientific Revolution

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AIOS Medical Unveils AI Doctor at HF0 Demo Day with $350M ARR Target

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Medra Introduces AI Experimentalist Agent For Automated Biology Experiments

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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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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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Lightweight Python library for zero-shot chain-of-thought evaluation of language models on standard benchmarks

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Evaluates language models on benchmarks like MMLU, GPQA, MATH, and SimpleQA using zero-shot chain-of-thought prompting.

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Lightweight graph-based vector index for private offline RAG on personal devices with 97% storage reduction

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John Carmack argues id Software should have upgraded the Doom engine instead of rewriting technology during Quake's developmentHe also admitted pushing the development team to burnout

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Top comment: @YorchTorchGames “@ID_AA_Carmack I never imagined I’d see Romero (via Doomguy), Sandy, and Carmack here on X reflecting on how Quake shook id Software to its core. Thank you, legends, for one of the greatest games ever made... and the one that defined the 3D FPS genre. Thank you for Quake.”

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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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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: @Miles_Brundage “If only there were warning signs”

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OpenAI's roon argues that accepting the likelihood of near-term AGI is too psychologically difficult for most intelligent observersObservers increasingly rely on coping mechanisms instead of acceptance.

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Top post: @TheZvi “I increasingly think there are two distinct pills. the AGI pill is unpleasant but if needed I think most people can handle it. the ASI pill is another level, too high shock value, they really can't.”

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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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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to harvest Claude data for training Qwen modelsThe campaign bypassed geographic blocks to extract coding capabilities.

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Top post: @kimmonismus “https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-illicitly-accessing-its-ai-models”

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A game engine lineage chart maps how id Software's original Quake codebases spawned Valve's Source and the Call of Duty franchiseThe genealogy tracks forks powering Half-Life, Apex Legends, and Warzone.

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Top post: @sriramk “Love this. Amazing how this thread by @ID_AA_Carmack spawned so many amazing conversations here.”

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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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Nathan Lambert, AI2 post-training lead, releases an ML foundations lecture to kick off his 11-part post-training courseThe video lecture covers KL divergence, cross-entropy, and MDPs.

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Top post: @natolambert “Lecture 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMDNaeIFVy8&list=PLL1tdVxB1CpVpEtMHxwuR4uI4Lxjw00_y&index=2”

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Zvi Mowshowitz says Polymarket odds for Claude Fable 5 returning to US users by August are overconfident due to KYC hurdlesThe Polymarket contract reached $1.9 million in trading volume.

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Top post: @blader “something happened an hour ago that made fable 5's chances of coming back next week go from 15% to 60%”

Today's Highlights

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

John Carmack argues id Software should have upgraded the Doom engine instead of rewriting technology during Quake's development

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

Top Stories

Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineeringThe startup aims to automate complex scientific pipelines like AlphaFold

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.

Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Bill Gates back Intercept, a $500 million fund to eliminate respiratory virusesIt will fund far-UVC light and advanced air filtration

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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.

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 scores 22.8% on ARC-AGI-2, leading Chinese models but prompting debate over Western benchmark hill-climbingIt scored 77% on ARC-AGI-1 for $0.19 per task.

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

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

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

John Carmack argues id Software should have upgraded the Doom engine instead of rewriting technology during Quake's developmentHe also admitted pushing the development team to burnout

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

Key Gemini model contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel leave Google to join AnthropicThe departures continue a trend of staff leaving Google AI.

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

OpenAI's roon argues that accepting the likelihood of near-term AGI is too psychologically difficult for most intelligent observersObservers increasingly rely on coping mechanisms instead of acceptance.

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

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

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to harvest Claude data for training Qwen modelsThe campaign bypassed geographic blocks to extract coding capabilities.

A game engine lineage chart maps how id Software's original Quake codebases spawned Valve's Source and the Call of Duty franchiseThe genealogy tracks forks powering Half-Life, Apex Legends, and Warzone.

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

Nathan Lambert, AI2 post-training lead, releases an ML foundations lecture to kick off his 11-part post-training courseThe video lecture covers KL divergence, cross-entropy, and MDPs.

Zvi Mowshowitz says Polymarket odds for Claude Fable 5 returning to US users by August are overconfident due to KYC hurdlesThe Polymarket contract reached $1.9 million in trading volume.

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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 `gog` creator J. Poehnelt after his open-source Workspace CLI goes viralGoogle subsequently announced plans for its own official Workspace CLI.

Meta is internally testing Arena, a standalone prediction market app ordered by Mark Zuckerberg to compete with PolymarketThe experimental app currently does not use real money.

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 US holdout, to submit AI models for federal safety reviewsAnthropic was recently ordered to withdraw its Fable 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