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Mark Chen@markchen90AI score49AIOpenAI has welcomed Noam Shazeer as its new lead for architecture research, citing his work on transformers, MoE, and efficient decoding. Shazeer announced he is leaving Google to join OpenAI.
Midjourney@midjourneyAI score22AIMidjourney will livestream its first hardware project announcement from an in-person San Francisco launch event, with the stream link promised soon. The company's background post says the announcement is set for tomorrow, Wednesday 6/17, at 6pm PT.
Midjourney@midjourneyAI score42AIMidjourney will announce its first hardware project tomorrow, Wednesday June 17, at 6pm PT. The reveal will be an in-person launch event in San Francisco, with a livestream available. A few invitation slots remain for attendees in town.
Arthur Mensch@arthurmenschAI score44AIMistral states that this model and upcoming ones will be open-weight. The company argues that open weights are critical for customer confidence and for research and developer communities. It contends that systems reachable only through someone else's interface cannot be owned, inspected, audited, or improved, especially if data recording can no longer be turned off.
Arthur Mensch@arthurmenschAI score10AIArthur Mensch, owner of the account for Mistral, thanks the organizers of an AI show for recently putting the company in the spotlight. He says he will share a few points about where Mistral stands and what it does, but the post itself gives no specifics.
Yi Tay@YiTayMLAI score12AIYi Tay says he moved from an individual contributor role into management, with Qx Dong bringing him into the role a few months ago. He describes watching researchers join the team, building its culture, and stepping onto the frontline, and calls the concentration of talent in Singapore unprecedented.
Aman Sanger@amanrsangerAI score55AISpaceX has exercised its option to acquire Cursor in an all-stock transaction, aiming to build highly useful AI models. The quoted announcement says SpaceXAI has spent several months jointly training a model with Cursor, to be released soon in Cursor and Grok Build.
Michael Truell@mntruellAI score62AISpaceX has exercised its option to acquire Cursor in an all-stock transaction, with the stated goal of building the world's most useful AI models. Over the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
BAAI@BAAIBeijingAI score38AIBAAI President Wang Zhongyuan announced a shift in AI from token prediction to physical state prediction in the institute's 2026 annual research report. The report unveiled the full-stack WuJie architecture spanning foundation models, autonomous agents, and hardware-software infrastructure, and noted that BAAI has open-sourced over 200 models with global downloads exceeding 1 billion.
AIZed's 12-week Guild program, its first cohort run this spring, had 33 active contributors merge 148 pull requests into the open-source editor. The top contributor, feitreim, merged 23 PRs, including fixes for Vim mode screen flickering and terminal ANSI rendering, and won a trip to Rust Week in Utrecht. Zed plans to organize Cohort 2 work into tighter groups around specific parts of the codebase.
BAAI@BAAIBeijingAI score22AITuring Award winners Whitfield Diffie and Andrew Barto delivered keynotes at the BAAI Conference on AI security and reinforcement learning. Diffie argued that today's feedback-based approach only patches programs after they fail, and that formal methods offer a path to substantially more reliable intended behavior. Barto framed reinforcement learning around control, search, and associative memory, describing its core insight as caching search results rather than searching continuously.
BAAI@BAAIBeijingAI score18AIThe Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) kicked off its 8th BAAI Conference on June 12–13, 2026, at the Zhongguancun International Innovation Center. The post argues that world models are moving AI from token prediction toward physical state prediction, bringing the field closer to physically grounded AI.
Jeremy Howard@jeremyphowardAI score72AIThe US government issued an export control directive suspending access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, inside or outside the United States. Anthropic says the order forces it to disable both models for all customers, while other Claude models are unaffected. Anthropic calls the directive a misunderstanding and says it is working to restore access as soon as possible. The author disagrees with the decision and questions why Anthropic did not anticipate it, given its claim that only it can safely handle these models.
AIThe essay argues that AI compresses the execution layer of software work while decision-making and accountability remain human, so AI is not yet replacing software engineers. It cites AI-attributed layoffs at Block, Snap, and Intuit that the authors say were not driven by AI, and WARN Act filings in which only one company checked an AI box. A Federal Reserve analysis is cited as finding software engineer employment growing about 3 percentage points per year more slowly after ChatGPT than a no-AI counterfactual.
Dario Amodei@DarioAmodeiAI score38AIAnthropic is releasing a proposal on how governments can address risks posed by frontier AI, alongside a policy framework for job displacement. The company says it intends to provide substantial financial backing for the job displacement framework.
Andy Jassy@ajassyAI score37AIAmazon Web Services has released Graviton5 into general availability, its custom CPU chip built for EC2 instances. Andy Jassy says Graviton offers about 30-40% better price-performance than comparable instances, and that more than 120,000 customers use it, with Meta committing to tens of millions of Graviton cores for agentic AI.
Jeremy Howard@jeremyphowardAI score12AIJeremy Howard posts a sarcastic jab suggesting an unnamed AI developer is silently sabotaging experiments to slow scientific progress and protect its technology lead. He pairs the remark with the mocking nickname "Sophanthropic," a play on Anthropic, and the post names no specific evidence.
Jeremy Howard@jeremyphowardAI score8AIJeremy Howard posts that readers will know which company he means, though he never names it. The quoted reply from @pjreddie criticizes a group that believes it is morally superior and that its actions are therefore correct.
Fei-Fei Li@drfeifeiAI score13AIFei-Fei Li praised World Labs for partnering with Lore to turn creative ideas into interactive experiences for users. A linked World Labs post describes worlds running directly in a browser rather than as video, populated with history's greatest minds.
Microsoft@MicrosoftAI score29AIMicrosoft's Project Ex Vivo is helping researchers uncover patterns in cell behavior, according to new findings published in Nature Methods. The work may lead to more personalized therapies for cancer patients.
Microsoft@MicrosoftAI score12AIMicrosoft says roughly 2,000 people at Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 turn thousands of simulations into a single race car. The post frames the team's engineering work behind race-day performance as powered by Microsoft.
Microsoft@MicrosoftAI score8AIMercedes-AMG F1 and Kimi won the Monaco Grand Prix, and Microsoft credited preparation done well before lights out for the result. The post gives no further details on the race or the work involved.
Microsoft@MicrosoftAI score14AIUSC graduate Darnell Adler won this year's Red Bull Basement competition, which drew students from more than 40 countries, with Lifeline AI. The personal safety app sends silent emergency alerts without requiring the user to unlock a phone or speak.
Jim Fan@DrJimFanAI score34AINitroGen, an embodied agent project, received a CVPR Best Paper Honorable Mention, marking progress toward general-purpose agents that master real-world physics and a range of simulated physics. The post also notes that MineDojo, the team's earlier Minecraft agent, won a NeurIPS Best Paper award four years ago.
Soumith Chintala@soumithchintalaAI score14AISoumith Chintala congratulated Reardon and the team behind Flourish AI, saying that matching human-level sample efficiency and energy consumption in AI would change many things. The post links to a Wired story on Jeff Bezos funding a search for the brain's core algorithm.
BAAI@BAAIBeijingAI score20AIThe 8th BAAI Conference will be held June 12–13 at the Zhongguancun Innovation Center in Beijing, with Turing Award laureates and China's large-model leaders attending. Core focuses include world models and agents, plus two new flagship sessions on AI-native education and the token economy. The event will feature 25 forums, over 200 speeches, and a first-ever on-site AI agent conference companion for real-time listening and summarization.
Microsoft@MicrosoftAI score16AIMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella joined swyx, Sarah Guo, and Elad Gil for a wide-ranging podcast episode covering AI, platforms, builders, and future directions. The episode was released as a special MSBuild crossover pod.
AICognition introduced the AI Productivity Guarantee, under which it will issue credits up to $10M if Devin delivers less engineering value than enterprise customers pay for. The company uses an AI estimator to measure hours of productive output, validated against engineers' own estimates of how long the same work would have taken by hand. Value is converted to dollars at a standard global rate and compared against each customer's consumption near the end of the annual contract.
Why it matters: The post explains how Cognition estimates Devin's output in hours and backs the estimate with a $10M credit commitment, a concrete model for measuring AI vendor value.
Xiaomi MiMo@XiaomiMiMoAI score22AIXiaomi MiMo will credit a free Token Plan of the same tier to users whose plan expired before May 27. Users who renewed after May 27 will receive a balance matching their renewal amount, usable toward API usage, and both are valid for one calendar month.
PaddlePaddle@PaddlePaddleAI score18AIZack Williams built NabuOCR with PaddleOCR to help read cuneiform from tablet images, and it won the ERNIE AI Developer Challenge. PaddlePaddle congratulated him on the project, which applies text recognition to one of the world's oldest writing systems.
AICognition raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC. Enterprise Devin usage grew more than 10x since the start of this year, and run-rate revenue reached $492M. The company also said it launched SWE-1.6, which reaches up to 950 tok/s and has become the most used model in Devin Desktop.
Andy Jassy@ajassyAI score5AIAmazon CEO Andy Jassy joined Amazon teammates to prep meals at Community Lunch on Capitol Hill in Seattle during Global Month of Volunteering in May. The nonprofit serves free, made-from-scratch meals to 200-300 low-income and unhoused neighbors each weekday, and nearly 2,000 Amazonians have volunteered there since 2023. Amazonians completed more than 500,000 volunteer activities across 55 countries last year.
AIBenedict Evans argues that predicting AI's job impact by occupation is mostly impossible, citing accountants: despite a century of accounting automation from calculators to spreadsheets and ERP systems, the number of accountants kept rising. He says job titles and business models change over time, so exposure scores based on census categories can mislead.
Google Labs@GoogleLabsAI score10AIGoogle Labs asked team members to name the most underrated or surprising feature of their products and shared the responses in a post. The post itself names no specific product, feature, or figure, so the summary stays limited to this framing.
Reflection@reflection_aiAI score18AIReflection AI says its open models are designed to support the Genesis Mission by giving scientists at national labs flexibility and sovereignty to work on their own terms. The post invites readers to learn more through a linked article, but gives no further details on models, benchmarks, or availability.
Reflection@reflection_aiAI score38AIReflection, an open-source AI lab, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the US Department of Energy to explore strategic collaborations under the Genesis Mission. Through the partnership, Reflection will provide open-weight models to the DOE's 17 National Laboratories, customizable on lab-specific scientific data and deployed into researcher workflows. The Genesis Mission focuses on advanced nuclear, fusion and grid modernization, quantum ecosystem growth, and national security AI.
Mark Chen@markchen90PickAI score92AIAn OpenAI model disproved Erdős's longstanding planar unit distance conjecture, which Paul Erdős posed in 1946, by discovering a new family of constructions that performs better than the square grids mathematicians had long assumed. Mark Chen says the proof draws on algebraic number theory and describes it as the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
Why it matters: The post names the specific open problem and the approach used, giving readers a concrete case of AI producing a research proof in mathematics.
Mira Murati@miramuratiAI score22AIThinking Machines is offering grants of $100,000 plus Tinker credits to researchers advancing human-AI interactivity, with proposals due June 19th. Mira Murati's post frames collaborative AI as real-time interaction between machines and people across every modality, and invites a community to help solve it.
Lilian Weng@lilianwengAI score22AIThinking Machines is offering grants of $100,000 plus Tinker credits to researchers advancing human-AI interactivity, with proposals due June 19. Lilian Weng's post urges more collaboration and research in this field.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathyAI score38AIAndrej Karpathy announced that he has joined Anthropic and is excited to return to research and development work on frontier LLMs. He said he remains passionate about education and plans to resume that work in time.