Weekly#698

  • The dangers of token usage in billing
  • OpenAI’s First Device Will Be a Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as an AI Companion
  • Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
  • Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3. Kimi K3 contains 2.8 trillion total parameters with a 1-million-token context window.”…In blind testing by AI evaluator Arena, developers preferred Kimi over every leading U.S. model for front-end coding — including Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol…”
  • Uber in $15 billion deal for Delivery Hero to create global takeout giant
  • Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro…”…because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter…”
  • Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production
  • Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the ‘fastest’ access to Trump’s posts
  • Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
  • Two futures for jobs in an AI era
  • AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes

Weekly#697

  • AI Training Startup Mercor Discusses $20 Billion Valuation
  • OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work tool
  • OpenAI to Retire ChatGPT Atlas Browser Less Than a Year After Launch
  • OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations
  • SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history
  • Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels
  • China Successfully Launches Reusable Rocket (WSJ)
  • Microsoft to retire the OWA Light client in Exchange Server
  • Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs
  • The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement
  • Apple says it will spend $30 billion to design US-made Broadcom chips
  • China’s DeepSeek developing its own AI chip
  • Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World In places with unreliable networks and no data-center infrastructure, smaller is better
  • Anthropic’s Reflection: AI gets its screen-time moment
  • Career advice in the age of AI…”…The most important skills will be the ones related to problem selection and resource allocation…evaluate whether the company is working on the most ambitious form of their problem, and then whether they actually have a shot at solving it. To choose a role, think about whether the role will allow you to work directly on the frontier of whatever problem the company is solving.”
  • 10 Claude Code Steering Mechanisms That Stop Agents From Ignoring Instructions

Weekly#696

  • Tesla Caps Employee AI Spend at $200 per Week After Adoption Push
  • Smooth AI criminal drives ‘first’ end-to-end agentic ransomware attack
  • Summer Reading List
  • Alexandr Wang says Meta’s coming AI has caught up with OpenAI’s flagship model
  • Meta’s Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected…”…”trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected…”
  • Scientists Say They’ve Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch
  • Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
  • Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket
  • Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
  • Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back online
  • PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028
  • AI is ‘not smart’ so what’s next in artificial intelligence?
  • South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

Weekly#695

  • OpenAI releases powerful new GPT-5.6 model under restrictions. Sol, Terra and Luna. Sol is the most powerful. Terra offers a balance of efficiency and power and Luna is designed for speed and affordability.
  • OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents…Within OpenAI, 97.9 percent of employees are now using Codex, up from around 40 percent in August 2025
  • SoftBank Shares Tumble After Report of OpenAI’s IPO Delay
  • Revolut scraps ‘remote-first’ working for graduate hires (FT)
  • “…A high-severity flaw in Amazon’s AI coding assistant for Visual Studio Code meant that opening the wrong Git repository could allow an attacker to execute code on a developer’s machine and potentially hand them the keys to the dev’s cloud environment…”
  • OpenAI and Anthropic face new AI reality as users shift from ‘tokenmaxxing’ to efficiency
  • Spain will require carriers to keep mobile networks live during power outages
  • Ford’s AI Hiccups Lead Carmaker to Rehire ‘Gray Beard’ Engineers
  • Bob Iger’s long goodbye (FT)
  • Digital euro: MEPs want to ensure sovereignty, privacy and financial stability
  • SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US
  • Qualcomm plans new chip architecture for phones
  • US releases powerful Anthropic model Mythos to some US companies
  • The AI price shock is here: Apple and Microsoft hike prices
  • “…Chinese models don’t have to beat OpenAI or Anthropic to reshape the global AI order. They just have to be useful, available and widely adopted…”
  • Harnessing AI for the Real Economy
  • NVIDIA Announces Halos for Robotics, the Industry’s First Full-Stack Safety System for Physical AI
  • Harness engineering for coding agent users

Weekly#694

  • Top AI researcher leaves Google for OpenAI
  • Nobel Winner John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic
  • Accenture fall 18% as CEO says the IT consulting firm will bring in less revenue than expected in coming months (WSJ)
  • Turkey clears Uber’s acquisition of Getir’s delivery business
  • Aura’s impressive e-ink photo frame
  • Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
  • GTA 6 pre-orders open on June 25
  • Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million
  • NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX
  • Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis
  • Apple to raise prices as AI boom pushes up chip costs
  • Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says
  • AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
  • SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion
  • Cell-Based Architecture for Resilient Payment Systems

Weekly#693

  • SpaceX market cap tops $2 trillion
  • SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It
  • Anthropic disables top-tier AI models after US order limiting foreign access
  • Jeff Bezos’ AI startup aims to build an ‘artificial general engineer…Prometheus, aims to develop AI-powered engineering tools to aid in the design of physical products.
  • Tokenminimizing: Meta Moves to Curb Employee AI Usage as AI Costs Reach Billions
  • Everything announced at Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote
  • Huawei arms HarmonyOS with 2,000 AI agents
  • Like US models, Chinese AI is learning to ‘game’ safety tests, research lab says
  • “…Optimizing AI spending can make for complex math. Open-source models cost far less per token, the basic unit of AI computing. Anthropic’s recently-released Fable 5 model is more than 50 times more expensive per token than DeepSeek’s V4 Pro, for example…”
  • Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact