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Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineering

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AI technologist @deepfates requests community recommendations for digital audio workstations, drawing an endorsement for AbletonCreator @viemccoy recommended the software as a comprehensive solution

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Extropic AI founder Guillaume Verdon backs Elon Musk's call to rebuild X's recommendation algorithm, while t3.gg creator Theo defends itTheo argues the system adaptively tracks real-time tech developments

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SoftBank's bizarre shareholder slide depicting Masayoshi Son as an undervalued goose becomes a viral tech memeSon used the deck to pledge ten more years.

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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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OpenAI announces Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip co-developed with Broadcom in nine monthsThe design was accelerated using OpenAI's own models.

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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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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 AI advises Europeans to install air conditioning, sparking debate over climate adaptation and economic productivityElon Musk cited Singapore's AC usage as a productivity driver.

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Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2 scores 22.8% on ARC-AGI-2, trailing GPT-5.5 but running 7.5 times cheaperIt is the top-performing Chinese model on ARC-AGI-2.

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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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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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Arthur Conmy, formerly of Google DeepMind, joins Anthropic to align frontier models during trainingHe argues current models cannot safely automate AGI development

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Qualcomm agrees to acquire Modular, the AI software company co-founded by Chris Lattner, to unify edge-to-cloud computeThe deal targets generative and agentic AI solutions.

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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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AI PACs spent $20 million in a New York congressional primary, raising questions about the efficacy of industry political spendingLeading the Future spent $8 million opposing candidate Bores

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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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Andrej Karpathy proposes shifting LLMs from personal chatbots to persistent, asynchronous organizational teammatesSkeptics dismissed the concept as marketing for existing workflows.

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

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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.

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Andrej Karpathy says X's reinforcement learning algorithms drive unprecedented toxicity by rewarding negative behaviorConsequently, Karpathy has reduced his activity on the platform

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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to bypass geoblocks and scrape Claude to train QwenThe campaign generated 28.8 million interactions between April and June.

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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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OpenThoughts releases OpenThinkerAgent-32B, an open terminal and coding agent model post-trained from Qwen-3-32BIt achieves a 26% score on Terminal Bench.

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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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Political theorist Francis Fukuyama proposes an international treaty to ban the development of superintelligent AI systemsThe proposal calls for a global moratorium on advanced systems

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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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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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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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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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Runlayer raises $30 million to secure AI agents by replacing standard employee logins with dedicated, scoped identitiesFelicis and Khosla Ventures led the funding round.

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Blueprint founder Bryan Johnson rebrands his longevity company to Immortals to focus on biological immortalityJohnson previously founded payment platform Braintree and neurotech startup Kernel.

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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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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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