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Today's Highlights

Transformer co-author and Gemini co-leader Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI

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Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical, debuting conceptual designs for advanced diagnostic scanning pods and holographic interfacesThe launch featured cinematic renderings of cyberpunk-style research labs.

Sutter Hill's Kevin Kwok and fofr question the skull-penetration capabilities of David Holz's open-scanner medical hardwareThe design aims to keep patients outside traditional scanning tubes.

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Today's Highlights

Transformer co-author and Gemini co-leader Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI

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Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical, debuting conceptual designs for advanced diagnostic scanning pods and holographic interfacesThe launch featured cinematic renderings of cyberpunk-style research labs.

Sutter Hill's Kevin Kwok and fofr question the skull-penetration capabilities of David Holz's open-scanner medical hardwareThe design aims to keep patients outside traditional scanning tubes.

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Yesterday's Top Stories, Jun 17, 2026.

Transformer co-author and Gemini co-leader Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAIGoogle reportedly spent $2.7 billion to rehire Shazeer.

Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical, unveiling a conceptual full-body ultrasonic scanner that claims 60-second radiation-free scansThe system uses sound and water instead of magnets.

CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Mistral meet privately at G7, raising antitrust concernsThey discussed infrastructure and AI risks with world leaders.

Z.ai launches GLM-5.2, an open-weights LLM with a 1-million-token context window that beats GPT-5.5 on FrontierSWEChris Lattner's Modular Cloud provides day-zero serving.

US orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally over foreign national access restrictionsThe government gave Anthropic a 90-minute compliance deadline.

Capital Factory co-founder and CEO Joshua Baer dies in a business jet crash near Laredo, TexasTech and investment leaders shared tributes honoring his legacy.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis propose a US-led coalition to block China from frontier AI and chipsThe pitch was made during a closed-door G7 meeting.

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 joins the Rust Foundation as a Platinum Member, committing $600,000 to support open-source maintainersOpenAI is adopting Rust for its systems programming infrastructure.

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

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

Trump officials demand Anthropic guarantee Fable 5 guardrails cannot be bypassed, which security experts call technically impossibleThis absolute security standard could delay the release indefinitely.

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 general world models that simulate physical environmentsCEO Oliver Cameron and Jeffrey Hawke co-founded the startup

Robotics startup XDOF exits stealth with $70 million and releases ABC-130K, the largest open-source bimanual robot manipulation datasetThe dataset was gathered using the YAM hardware platform.

PPO creator John Schulman reveals the foundational Proximal Policy Optimization paper was rejected from NIPS 2017He shared the anecdote while posting new RLVR research.

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 benchmark of 750 expert tasks to evaluate AI in life science researchThe benchmark covers seven distinct biological research workflows

AI commentator @teortaxesTex says GLM 5.2 has a seven-month developmental lag, predicting Chinese frontier parity by late 2026Elon Musk expects parity to take until early 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.