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

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Trump Joins AI CEOs Altman And Amodei At G7 Summit Lunch In France

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Elon Musk Shares Grok Imagine 1.5 AI Video Generation Demo

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Ex-OpenAI Researcher Resigns to Build Final Product Before AGI

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Saylor Explores Bitcoin AI And Digital Finance Strategies At BTC Prague

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Vercel Unveils New Homepage Spotlighting Agentic Infrastructure

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NVIDIA Researcher Unveils ENPIRE For Autonomous AI-Driven Robot Research

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Shopify Drops Everywhere Edition With 150+ Updates And AI Tools

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AI Leaders Reveal Expressions At G7 Working Lunch On AI Policy

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Chamath Palihapitiya Spotlights Elite AI Engineer Sai at 8090 Factory

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Prototype 3D Game Generates Itself To Blend Lessons With Kids Interests

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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.

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Top comment: @FilipBaturan “@thsottiaux Hey Tibo, is it possible to set up a hybrid approach in Codex where we use GPT models as architects and open source models as executors? I'm trying to get it working, but it seems Codex expects the same tool-calling protocol from other models, which they don’t have.”

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Terminal AI coding assistant that inspects codebases edits files and runs multi-step workflows

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Provides terminal AI coding assistant for codebase inspection, file edits, command execution and multi-step workflows.

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Hardware-isolated sandbox with allowlist firewall and monitor for safe Claude Code sessions

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Wraps Claude Code sessions with deterministic checks on commands and writes to limit agent access.

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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

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Top comment: @alexstamos “@DavidSacks So what is your position? Should Fable remain banned for an unwritten standard that no other model is held to and for capabilities that are available from Chinese open-weight models? Should the USG kneecap a US champion the week GLM 5.2 pulls even with Opus?”

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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

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Top comment: @bryantchou “@DarayuthH @ployai @ycombinator that's a good Q and is something that only Ploy can do well. We slurp your site, which is the source of truth (fonts, design tokens, images, etc). we then rebuild pages using the same code. which means we can take a screenshot of that page for any asset generation”

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Former OpenAI Sora developer Gabriel Petersson leaves to launch a no-detail stealth venture and recruit early talentPetersson is conducting interviews in Sweden pending US visas.

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Top comment: @gabriel1 “coding interfaces are 100B+ market cap already (excluding codex and claude code who are the largest) knowledge work interfaces will be even bigger market (coding is a subcategory of knowledge work)”

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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

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Top comment: @TiffanyFong “@olivercameron @jeffrey_hawke @odysseyml sheeesh wild every clip in this announcement was generated in real-time 👀”

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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

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Top comment: @yacineMTB “@suchenzang humour, or deep resentment?”

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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.

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Top comment: @justjuleserc “@elonmusk That’s kukkin awesome !”

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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.

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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.

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Top comment: @WillManidis “@byersblake the complexity of payments will far outlast the singularity for "x the everything app"”

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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.

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Top comment: @rauchg “@kumard_3 Yes. In a very tangible way I can describe in this tweet. Deploying eve basically gives you an API backend. And then you can query it with a 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝙴𝚟𝚎𝙰𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝() hook we produce, for Next, Vite, TanStack to consume. https://eve.dev/docs/guides/frontend/overview”

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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.

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Top comment: @mert “actually it gets better > bam, that's a 0.2% tax bucko > get out money from your pocket to transfer the tax > bam, that's another 0.2% tax bucko > get out money from your pocket to transfer the tax infinite tax achieved”

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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.

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Top comment: @signulll “@lennysan incredible lineup!”

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Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus argues Trump's demand for a jailbreak-proof Anthropic Fable 5 is technically impossibleShakeel Hashim suggests the mandate unfairly targets the company

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DeepSeek's Deli Chen open-sources SKILL, an autonomous ML research framework that executed a 285-billion parameter GRPO experimentThe autonomous agent wrote its own paper, scoring 8.6.

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Top comment: @teortaxesTex “@zephyr_z9 I am not very impressed by the paper granted, this is is "dog playing chess" but I'm sure Deli himself would design better experiments”

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Stanford NLP postdoc Peter Hase joins Schmidt Sciences to fund scientific research on AI systemsHase will maintain his Stanford affiliation for hands-on research

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Top comment: @mohitban47 “@peterbhase Congrats again @peterbhase on the new Program Lead role at Schmidt Sciences -- proud of you for creating these very timely and important grant opportunities for the wider academic/research community!! #ProudAdvisor 🤗”

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Hugging Face founder Clement Delangue calls to end AI "doom marketing" and treat models as standard productsCritics argue existential risk narratives are used for regulatory capture

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Top comment: @DavidSacks “Full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/opinion/ai-dangerous-openai-anthropic.html”

Today's Highlights

SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere, creator of the AI code editor Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock merger

xAI releases Grok 4.3 on Amazon Bedrock to bring real-time X data to AWS developers

Former Webflow CTO Bryant Chou launches Ploy with $27 million in seed funding to automate website operations

LisanBench creator Lisan al Gaib argues prompt engineering is becoming obsolete as LLMs learn to infer user intent automatically

Top Stories

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

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.

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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.

Robotics startup XDOF raises $70M and releases ABC-130K, the largest open-source bimanual teleoperation datasetThe dataset includes 130,000 trajectories spanning 200 complex tasks.

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

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

Former OpenAI Sora developer Gabriel Petersson leaves to launch a no-detail stealth venture and recruit early talentPetersson is conducting interviews in Sweden pending US visas.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus argues Trump's demand for a jailbreak-proof Anthropic Fable 5 is technically impossibleShakeel Hashim suggests the mandate unfairly targets the company

DeepSeek's Deli Chen open-sources SKILL, an autonomous ML research framework that executed a 285-billion parameter GRPO experimentThe autonomous agent wrote its own paper, scoring 8.6.

Stanford NLP postdoc Peter Hase joins Schmidt Sciences to fund scientific research on AI systemsHase will maintain his Stanford affiliation for hands-on research

Hugging Face founder Clement Delangue calls to end AI "doom marketing" and treat models as standard productsCritics argue existential risk narratives are used for regulatory capture

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SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere, creator of the AI code editor Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock mergerThey recently co-trained a new model for Grok Build.

Zai Org releases open-weights GLM-5.2, beating Claude Opus 4.7 on Code Arena with a 1 million-token context windowThe MIT-licensed model is hosted on Modular Cloud.

Trump administration orders Anthropic to suspend global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under a 90-minute deadlineForeign nationals are now barred from training these models.

Nvidia releases ENPIRE, allowing a fleet of eight physical robot arms to autonomously self-improve using Codex agentsThe robots autonomously learned complex tasks like installing GPUs.

Elon Musk proposes capturing space-based solar energy to scale AI computation beyond human capacityThe theoretical roadmap leverages resources from Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI

Cursor announces Origin, a Git-compatible, MCP-extensible code hosting platform built for high-throughput AI agentsThe hybrid NVMe and S3 architecture supports infinite replicas.

Microsoft shifts Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and tests self-hosted DeepSeek V4 to reduce infrastructure costsFlat-rate pricing became unsustainable due to high-volume users.

Voice AI startup Bland raises $100 million Series C to automate complex, regulated telephony workflowsA comedic launch video featured founder Paul Graham.

Andreessen Horowitz releases a custom video tribute tracing SpaceX's trajectory from early failures to aerospace milestonesThe video opens by disclosing a16z's SpaceX shareholder status.

Cursor previews an upcoming 1.5-trillion-parameter custom LLM trained from scratch on more than 100,000 GPUsThe model targets general intelligence and launches within weeks.

xAI releases Grok Imagine Video 1.5, featuring a fast model that generates 720p video in 25 secondsA new canvas mode supports consistent multi-shot sequence generation.

OpenAI resolves Codex capacity issues by resetting model rate limits over a 24-hour windowUsers previously encountered "Selected Model is at Capacity" errors

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces plans for tokenized U.S. stocks backed 1:1 by actual sharesSmart contracts will automatically distribute dividend payments to holders

Anthropic says Claude Code success rates rise from 77% to 91% as user domain expertise increasesCritics question the study's reliance on Claude self-evaluation

Gergely Orosz reports Meta is walking back harsh engineering directives, including 24/7 screen recording and reassignment to AI data labelingReassigned engineers solved LeetCode to train coding AI models

Elon Musk shares a Grok Imagine video generation demo, which investor Steve Jurvetson notes resembles a physical artwork he ownsThe clip showcases detailed rendering of fluids and light.

Thais Branco's Taste Labs emerges from stealth with $18.5 million to build data infrastructure that eliminates 'AI slopInitial applications focus on design and model evaluation.

Coinbase registers its Coinbase Advisor AI agent with the SEC to offer personalized financial adviceThe tool rolls out first to Coinbase One subscribers.

OpenAI rolls out Codex Computer Use, Chrome integration, and Memory to EU and UK users, powered by GPT-5.3-Codex-SparkThe agent controls local Mac applications by capturing screenshots

SpaceX acquires Cursor, sparking debate over the coding assistant's strategy and its origins as a mechanical CAD toolThrive Capital backed founder Michael Truell before the pivot.

Apple plans to launch AirPods with built-in cameras in late 2027 to power visual AI featuresThe cameras are for visual intelligence, not capturing photos.

Leaked audited financials show OpenAI made $13.07 billion in revenue against $34 billion in costs in 2025SoftBank and Microsoft contributed $1.17 billion of that revenue.

DeepSeek raises $7.4 billion at a $50 billion valuation with terms that secure absolute control for founder Liang WenfengWenfeng personally contributed $3 billion of the total capital

OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a safety evaluation method achieving 92% accuracy in predicting real-world AI behaviorIt replays real conversation flows to reduce evaluation-awareness.

Ethan Mollick says open-source models lag closed-source by a year, but investor Ramez Naam argues the gap is only four monthsMollick warns firms have months to harden IT systems.

San Francisco media startup Nell launches with backing from Index Ventures, Soleio Cuervo, and Guillermo RauchSpecific product features and technical details remain undisclosed.

The Boring Company completes commissioning of its Prufrock-MB2 tunneling machine in Nashville after an 11 rpm testThe company plans to ship its Prufrock-MB3 machine in August

Genesis announces Eno, its first general-purpose robot, featuring a non-humanoid design slated for a Q4 releaseObservers praised its physical fluidity compared to Tesla's Optimus

Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch announces a new family of large but sparse models debuting this summerRestricted early access begins in July for key partners.

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.