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

Weekly#692

  • SpaceX Inks $30 Billion Computing Power Deal With Google
  • OpenAI rolls out a Lockdown Mode for extra protection against prompt injection attacks
  • “…Revolut Ltd. is looking to run a secondary share sale that would value the digital bank at $115 billion, on the heels of receiving a UK bank license and applying for a charter in the US…”
  • AI Coding Startup Lovable In Talks To Raise Funding At A $12 Billion Valuation
  • JPMorgan, Citi and Big Banks Plan New Tokenized Deposit System to Answer Crypto
  • Under the new rules, the commission will be required to decide on nuclear reactor licenses within 18 months
  • Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk
  • Google launches Gemma 4 12B: This powerful AI model can run on your laptop
  • The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming
  • Axios AI + NY Summit 2026
  • iOS 27: Seven new iPhone features are coming soon
  • Revenge of the AI bubble
  • “…The rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool…”
  • 1 Company Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in a Single Month: Report Comes as AI Costs Climb
  • Using LLMs to secure source code
  • The Definitive Guide to Harness Engineering

Weekly#691

  • Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them
  • Code Rabbit Report
  • Measuring the Self-Reported Impact of Early-2026 AI on Technical Worker Productivity
  • Debt Behind the AI Boom: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI-Generated Code in the Wild
  • “…Although TikTok is widely described as a social media giant, it’s been gradually moving beyond that category. Over time, the video app added TikTok Shop, a map for local discovery, robust search, games, and so much more. Now, it has recently added hotel booking capabilities and is pursuing a fintech license…”
  • Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
  • Alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2026
  • Zero Trust for AI Agents
  • Dynamic workflows in Claude Code
  • NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base at the Moon’s South Pole
  • Exclusive: Starlink and Amazon may be able to buy into EU mobile satellite spectrum plan
  • Blue Origin faces months of delays after rocket explosion damages launch pad
  • Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
  • Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
  • Foundation Future Industries, a start-up founded in 2024, aims to leverage humanoid robots for military and industrial work
  • The First Class of AI Natives Is Graduating. Offices Are Getting Ready