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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Anthropic told the White House and U.S. senators that Alibaba’s Qwen lab used roughly 25,000 fake accounts to run nearly 28.8 million Claude queries between April and June — harvesting its coding and agent skills in what Anthropic calls the largest distillation campaign it has ever documented. Alibaba declined to comment.
The Next Web
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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
Read more →OpenAI is staggering GPT-5.6’s public release after the Trump administration asked it to limit initial access to government-approved partners on national-security grounds. Sam Altman told staff on June 25 the government will approve access ‘customer by customer’ during a limited preview, with a broader rollout a couple of weeks later — and prediction markets have slashed the odds of a June launch from 83% to 18%.
The Information
Read more →ByteDance launched its Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro and cheaper Turbo models on June 24, built for the “coding and agent era.” Seed 2.1 Pro scored 1539 on the Code Arena: Frontend leaderboard — eighth in the world and level with Claude Opus 4.6 — while ByteDance claims three core capabilities are comparable to GPT-5.5.
AIbase
Read more →OpenAI unveiled its first in-house chip on June 24 — Jalapeño, an LLM-inference ASIC co-built with Broadcom. Designed to tape-out in about nine months with help from OpenAI’s own models, it ships from late 2026 and targets far better performance-per-watt.
TechCrunch
Read more →Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads and home devices on June 25, blaming an AI-driven memory shortage: with DRAM up as much as 98% and chipmakers prioritizing data-center orders, the MacBook Air now starts at $1,299 and the iPhone may be next.
Reuters
Read more →AlphaFold co-creator and 2024 Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic, a marquee hire that hands the Claude maker instant credibility in its growing push into AI for science.
TechCrunch
Read more →Mark Zuckerberg has ordered Meta to build a standalone prediction-market app, codenamed “Arena,” where users bet play money on real-world events — with Llama generating the questions, recommending markets, and resolving outcomes in near real-time.
NPR
Read more →Anthropic launched Claude Tag on June 23 — tag @Claude in a Slack channel and it breaks the task into stages, works asynchronously with a shared team identity, and posts results back in the thread. Running on Opus 4.8 with an optional proactive "ambient" mode, it ships as a research preview for Enterprise and Team customers. Anthropic says 65% of its own product team's code now ships through it.
TechCrunch
Read more →OpenAI says GPT-5 Pro helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz explain a T-cell result that had stumped his Jackson Laboratory lab since 2022 — pointing to disrupted N-linked glycosylation and memory T cells, then correctly predicting that 2-DG priming would sharpen anti-CD19 CAR-T killing of lymphoma. The lab confirmed it at the bench.
OpenAI
Read more →Engram emerged from stealth on June 23 with $98 million from General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia — plus angels including Andrej Karpathy — to build a "learned-memory" layer that it says runs enterprise AI on up to 100× fewer tokens. Microsoft, Notion and Harvey are already testing it.
CNBC
Read more →Reports this week floated Claude Sonnet 5 (codename 'Fennec') for the week of June 23, alongside GPT-5.6 — but Anthropic has confirmed nothing. And the same 'Sonnet 5' leak in February shipped as Sonnet 4.6, a reminder to read codenames with caution.
Crypto Briefing
Read more →An AI agent is a system that uses an LLM to pursue a goal on its own — reasoning, calling tools, observing results, and looping until done. This plain-English guide explains agentic AI from scratch: how agents work, what they can do today, and how to get started.
BitsMinds
Read more →In three days Google lost two AI stars: Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI on June 18, and Nobel laureate John Jumper left DeepMind for Anthropic on June 19. Alphabet shares fell about 7% as the frontier talent war intensified.
CNBC
Read more →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.
Robinhood
Read more →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.
Anthropic
Read more →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
Read more →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.
OpenAI
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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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