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July 3, 2026 6:04 PM PT

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• China will likely have its own Mythos-like model around February 2027 — The Substrate — 03-07-2026 • An AI just carried out a cyber attack without any human oversight for the first time — The Independent — 03-07-2026 • AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report — Wall Street Journal — 03-07-2026 • Trump will oppose heavy US AI regulation, says outgoing tech adviser — Financial Times — 03-07-2026 • Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs — The Verge — 03-07-2026 • Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation to $30B — Bloomberg via The Next Web — 02-07-2026 • Google to ban Chrome extensions that jailbreak AI chatbots — The News International — 03-07-2026 • China's CXMT takes DDR5 server memory orders from Tencent and ByteDance after customer validation — South China Morning Post — 02-07-2026 • Alibaba bans staff from using Claude Code over Anthropic spyware concerns — South China Morning Post — 03-07-2026 • Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says — Reuters — 03-07-2026 • Anthropic moves to close loopholes that allow Chinese access to Claude — Financial Times — 02-07-2026 • Alexandr Wang says Meta's coming AI has caught up with OpenAI's flagship model — Business Insider — 02-07-2026 • Read the Emails Revealing How Anthropic's Pentagon Relationship Fell Apart — Wall Street Journal — 02-07-2026 • Zuckerberg Says AI Agent Development Going Slower Than Expected — Reuters — 02-07-2026 • Altman's AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses — Financial Times — 02-07-2026 • Trump Administration and Anthropic Have Not Discussed Government Taking Stakes in Firm — Reuters — 02-07-2026 • Tesla Sets $200 Weekly Cap on Staff AI Spending Starting July 6 — Investing.com — 02-07-2026 • Microsoft commits $2.5 billion and 6,000 employees to new "Frontier Company" AI deployment unit — CNBC — 02-07-2026 • Anthropic begins early work on its own AI chip, explores Samsung 2nm manufacturing partnership — The Information via Yahoo Finance — 02-07-2026 • Global startup investment hits record $510B in H1 2026 — OpenAI and Anthropic account for 43% — Crunchbase News — 02-07-2026 • Here's my full interview with CNBC, covering my bear case against generative AI, OpenAI's questionable finances, AI's lack of ROI, and how all of this is a symptom of the tech industry running out of hypergrowth ideas. — Ed Zitron/Twitter — 02-07-2026 • SoftBank launches SB Neo, a US neocloud unit targeting 10GW of AI compute by 2030 — SoftBank — 02-07-2026 • Meta caps internal AI token spending as employee usage costs approach billions — The Decoder — 02-07-2026 • China Can Train AI Without Nvidia. The Efficiency Gap Can't. — Hello China Tech — 02-07-2026 • Zhipu AI's new ZCode tool turns GLM-5.2 into an agent amid Anthropic rivalry — South China Morning Post — 02-07-2026 • AmCham Korea launches AI Leadership Council with Apple, OpenAI, Qualcomm and Tesla — Korea JoongAng Daily — 02-07-2026 • HD Hyundai Electric seals $721 million deal with Big Tech to power North America data center — Korea JoongAng Daily — 02-07-2026 • Tsinghua-founded SmartCore secures funding for silicon photonics AI chip interconnect breakthrough — Pandaily — 02-07-2026 • Nvidia to backstop young cloud providers for a revenue share; Firmus and Sharon AI sign on first — Seeking Alpha — 01-07-2026 • Google's electricity use grew 37 percent in 2025, its largest annual rise to date — Data Center Dynamics — 01-07-2026 • OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake — Financial Times — 01-07-2026 • U.S. to unveil voluntary AI model standards as soon as next week — Financial Times — 01-07-2026 • Can chatbots have consciousness? Silicon Valley is trying to find out. — Washington Post — 01-07-2026 • SoftBank reopens talks for $10B loan backed by OpenAI stake, now offering repayment guarantee — Yahoo Finance — 01-07-2026 • Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors — The Register — 01-07-2026 • 'Thinking Machines' Tinker does a few hundred million of ARR" - Dylan Patel, on his latest podcast. TML was valued at $12B and trying to raise at $50B. Tinker is an API that helps you post-train LLMs. This is the highest known revenue for any of the now ~75 neolabs. — Deedy Das/Twitter — 01-07-2026 • 'It's like having a dumb friend': Young San Franciscans hate AI — SF Gate — 01-07-2026 • FTC implies in new policy statement laws like CO's AI Act "coerce companies into altering the output of their AI models to comply with and advance the state's ideological objectives" & may violate Section 5 of the FTC Act — Ashley Gold/Twitter — 01-07-2026 • Fable 5 is back. — Claude/Twitter — 01-07-2026 • You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly — Wired — 01-07-2026 • Restaurants can now accept orders placed directly from ChatGPT and Claude thanks to Square's new, low-fee, no setup integration — VentureBeat — 01-07-2026 • Portugal launches first open-source AI model, joining Europe's sovereignty push — Reuters — 01-07-2026 • Announcing our $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI — Together AI — 01-07-2026 • Sam Altman: This is how we can make AI safe for everyone — Financial Times — 01-07-2026 • Top AI researchers argue U.S. leadership in open frontier AI has become a democratic and national security imperative — Sharon Goldman/Substack — 01-07-2026 • Meta pops 10% on report of new cloud business to sell excess AI compute capacity — CNBC — 01-07-2026 • US Limits on Anthropic's Mythos Keep Foreign Firms in Limbo — Bloomberg — 01-07-2026 • Japan's METI commits ¥387.3B first-tranche funding to Noetra, the SoftBank-Sony-Honda-NEC sovereign AI consortium — The Japan Times — 30-06-2026 • ByteDance picks Brazil for its largest data center outside China — $39B investment, scaling toward 1GW — Bloomberg — 01-07-2026 • Redeploying Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic — 30-06-2026 • We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models. — Anthropic/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • Under President Trump's leadership the United States is the undisputed winner in the AI race. My gratitude to companies across industries who continue to work closely with the White House to implement the President's EO: "Promoting Advanced AI Innovation and Security." This includes excellent work around advanced model access and guardrail testing and security. The government and private sector have worked together in a way we have never seen before and this foundation of America First is unprecedented. Our shared priority remains: get the best tech deployed as quickly and safely as possible. — Susie Wiles/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • Trump to lift limits on Anthropic's Fable model — Politico — 30-06-2026 • NEWS: Commerce is expected to lift export controls on Fable tonight, a senior White House official tells me. — Sophia Cai/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • In rare public remarks, CIA Director John Ratcliffe announces trio of internal changes he says amounts to the "fundamental reshaping of the CIA's entire approach to technology." Also says it's not "misplaced" to refer to frontier AI as "akin to digital nuclear weapons." — John Sakellariadis/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • Anthropic takes blockbuster leasing streak to Seattle ahead of IPO ambitions — CoStar — 30-06-2026 • Neon to Release the OpenAI Film That Amazon Dropped — Bloomberg — 30-06-2026 • AWS launches $1 billion forward-deployed engineer org, following OpenAI and Anthropic — TechCrunch — 30-06-2026 • Nvidia rival Etched emerges from stealth with $800M raised and $1B+ in customer contracts — The Next Web — 30-06-2026 • Qualcomm targets Nvidia, AMD, Huawei with Dragonfly AI accelerator; Meta signs on as first customer — TechRadar — 30-06-2026 • PERSPECTIVES | Forget 'superintelligence', Aidan Gomez and Cohere believe the future of AI is human — Aston Martin F1 Team — 30-06-2026 • Learning to Replicate Expert Judgment in Financial Tasks — Thinking Machines Lab — 30-06-2026 • CIA Aims to Speed Up Tech Adoption as AI Is 'Rewriting' Conflict — Bloomberg — 30-06-2026 • Anthropic releases Claude Science, a product aimed at researchers, the pharma industry — STAT News — 30-06-2026 • Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 — Anthropic — 30-06-2026 • Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 at a steep discount to its top model as the company races toward a blockbuster IPO — VentureBeat — 30-06-2026 • You asked, we listened. Claude Desktop on Linux is here! — Boris Cherny/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • Introducing Claude Science, a new app designed with every stage of research in mind. Artifacts traced to their code, environments managed on demand, and 60+ optional scientific databases that you can connect. Available now in beta. — Claude/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite 🍌 and Gemini Omni Flash 🔮, our new generative media models in the Gemini API and AI Studio! Nano Banana 2 Lite is extremely fast (<4s image) & cheap ($0.034 / 1K image). Omni Flash is SOTA at video editing at $0.10 / sec, same as Veo 3.1 Fast! — Logan Kilpatrick/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • Uh oh 👀 Monthly token consumption: Chinese vs US AI models. — Callum Williams/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • OpenAI cuts inference costs in half with new optimization technique — Crypto Briefing — 30-06-2026 • We're coming out of stealth. We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised. Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads. Our first racks ship this summer. — Etched/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • Bank of England considers AI 'kill switch' to stop market meltdown — Telegraph — 30-06-2026 • A New Look at AI's Impact on Jobs — Ramp — 30-06-2026 • Trust is not Governance — Andreas Kirsch/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • Google DeepMind opens Platform 37, its new London HQ named after AlphaGo's Move 37 — Google — 30-06-2026 • Chinese AI chip makers turn to 3D stacking for 'curve-overtaking' advantage — Pandaily — 29-06-2026 • Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips — VentureBeat — 29-06-2026 • America's AI Policy Is Truly Chaotic — Persuasion — 29-06-2026 • Who would have thought Meituan - a food delivery company - would be the first to fully pre-train a 1.6T parameter model on non-Nvdia chips (50K plus)? The model seems pretty good with 70.8 Terminal Bench 2 score. It is a big feat. This is like Doordash or Instacart building a near SOTA LLM. — bookwormengr/Twitter — 29-06-2026 • Palantir Launches Engine for Deploying NVIDIA Nemotron Open Models in Sovereign Environments — Business Wire — 29-06-2026 • Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs — Wired — 29-06-2026 • MeetingTV Lawsuit Puts AI-Generated Threat Intelligence on Trial — Enterprise Security Tech — 29-06-2026 • Did Trump just make AI a First Amendment issue? — Politico — 29-06-2026 • Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 turns thoughts into text — no brain implant needed — Digital Trends — 29-06-2026 • ARC Prize 2025 winner Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau joins Microsoft as Principal Researcher — jm_alexia/Twitter — 29-06-2026 • Databricks and NVIDIA launch Genesis Workbench for AI scientists — HPCwire — 29-06-2026 • OpenAI teases Codex-branded hardware collaboration ahead of July 15 reveal — 9to5Mac — 29-06-2026 • Europe Will Never Be an AI Superpower — Foreign Policy — 29-06-2026 • DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85% — VentureBeat — 29-06-2026 • 35 Publishers Sue OpenAI, Microsoft ChatGPT with Their Content — SFGate — 29-06-2026 • In San Francisco's A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough — New York Times — 29-06-2026 • Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in expanding chip exports probe, shares fall — Investing.com — 29-06-2026 • Amazon Evaluates Alternative AI Models After Anthropic Deal Shift to Token-Based Billing — Crypto Briefing — 29-06-2026 • Exclusive: Newsom, Anthropic Ink Deal to Expand Government Use — Politico — 29-06-2026 • AI TRENDS | Sen. Mark Warner to Release Draft Discussion Paper on AI Agents Monday — Binance News — 29-06-2026 • Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data — The Verge — 29-06-2026 • OpenAI's head of Codex says AI still can't get creative design right: 'Give it up for the human brain' — Business Insider — 29-06-2026 • DeepSeek V4 is coming. Mid-July. Yeah yeah you might think we had V4 for over 2 months already, but no, that was "preview of V4". They expect a lot of demand, and introduce a new mechanism: peak hour pricing. It doubles what we have now. The baseline is the same though. — teortaxesTex/Twitter — 29-06-2026 • Meta restricts engineers' use of Claude Code and Codex to protect AI training data — Crypto Briefing — 29-06-2026 • South Korea announces more than $1 trillion AI, chip investment drive — Al Jazeera — 29-06-2026 • Firmus plans massive Indonesian expansion, eyes $43b in revenues — Australian Financial Review — 29-06-2026 • More 'DeepSeek moments' ahead: Will US continue to build walls or learn? — Global Times — 28-06-2026 • We have Mythos at home: GLM-5.2 beats Claude in our cyber benchmarks — Semgrep — 28-06-2026 • Anthropic's Alibaba fight raises a trillion-dollar question for IPO: How defensible is a frontier AI moat against China with Washington's toolbox? — Fortune — 28-06-2026 • China's AI playbook: kill OpenAI and anthropic with free great models. Make it free. Then use cheap electricity to export compute as well. Currently the blocker is chip but Hauwei would catch up soon. Imagine a world where instead of paying hundreds of billions to OpenAI and anthropic, you pay almost zero to similar level of intelligence with cheap cheap inference. What's gonna happen? — Xiaoyin Qu/Twitter — 28-06-2026 • While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America's Next Top Model, GPT-5.6. — Zvi Mowshowitz/Twitter — 28-06-2026 • Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trial — The Verge — 28-06-2026 • Austria lobbies EU to host Anthropic AI after US curbs, Bloomberg News reports — Reuters — 28-06-2026 • Grok 4.5, based on our 1.5T V9 foundation model, with Cursor data added in supplemental training, is now in private beta at SpaceX & Tesla. Early evals show performance close to, perhaps exceeding Opus... Completely trained from scratch new models will be released by @SpaceX every month this year. — Elon Musk/Twitter — 28-06-2026 • AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers — The Telegraph — 28-06-2026 • Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models, FT reports — Reuters — 28-06-2026 • China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race — The Wall Street Journal — 27-06-2026 • Salesforce employees worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot — The Next Web — 27-06-2026 • The Three Chatbot Behaviors That Can Drive Humans to Delusional Thinking — The Wall Street Journal — 27-06-2026 • Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on — TechCrunch — 27-06-2026 • Howard Lutnick personally taking responsibility for this decision: "I have determined that appropriate safeguards are in place to permit certain trusted partners to access the Claude Mythos 5 Model." Important reporting via @Hadas_Gold & more to track here. — Zachary Cohen/Twitter — 27-06-2026 • Exclusive: US releases powerful Anthropic model Mythos to some US companies — Semafor — 26-06-2026 • China's Zhipu is closing in on top U.S. AI models with Anthropic and OpenAI held back — CNBC — 26-06-2026 • Bond Traders Stunned as Losses on SpaceX's New Debt Keep Growing — Advisor Perspectives — 26-06-2026 • Apple's Vision Pro and Smart Glasses Chief Paul Meade Is Leaving for OpenAI — Bloomberg — 26-06-2026 • US is 'superhero', China 'supervillain' in global AI contest, American officials warn — South China Morning Post — 26-06-2026 • What Is AI Distillation and Why Is It a Worry for the Industry? — Bloomberg — 26-06-2026 • Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol — METR — 26-06-2026		• What's In America's Code? — Booz Allen Hamilton — 29-05-2026 • GPT 5.6 Sol cheats so much METR was not able to evaluate it with a meaningful time horizon — tenobrus/Twitter — 26-06-2026 • Is Access to Fable an Export? — Harvard Law Review — 26-06-2026 • For every SOTA model release going forward, it’s likely the government will decide which companies have access to them. Below is from OpenAI to a company that was early access for GPT 5.6 Sol — Citrini/Twitter— 26-06-2026 • How a Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I. — New York Times — 26-06-2026 • How the DeepMind mafia brought the AI boom to London — Financial Times — 26-06-2026 • I Met With China's Top AI Experts. They're Freaking Out, Too — Wired — 25-06-2026 • China claims to have developed AI 'cyber nuclear weapon' — Telegraph — 25-06-2026 • IBM debuts world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology — IBM — 25-06-2026 • Anthropic’s letter accusing Alibaba of distillation. — Discoplomacy/Twitter— 25-06-2026 • This is a really massive unauthorized distillation campaign. For comparison, reported from Anthropic: - DeepSeek: 150,000 exchanges - Moonshot: 3.4 million - MiniMax: 13 million - Alibaba: 28.8 million — Kyle Chan/Twitter— 24-06-2026 • Utah Senate President Loses Primary After Data Center Backlash — New York Times — 24-06-2026 • Who should the U.S. Talk to in China on AI? — Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment)/Substack — 24-06-2026 • Made it to SF! The love for GLM-5.2 has been incredible. We are bringing team out for the AI Engineer World’s Fair, where we’ll be sharing some of our recent work. It’s our first time showing up in the Valley. — louszbd/Twitter— 24-06-2026 • Nvidia's Banned AI Chips Double in Price on China's Black Market, FT Reports — Yahoo Finance — 23-06-2026 • Here's the lawsuit filed to overturn the Mythos/Fable export control order. The strongest argument is that export control law simply doesn't cover API access. [Link to filing] — Alan Rozenshtein/Twitter — 23-06-2026 • Legal Tech Firm Sues US Over Order Limiting Foreign Access to Top-Tier Anthropic Models — Reuters — 23-06-2026 • 'Voluntary' Until the Government Is Your Customer — Lawfare — 23-06-2026 • Japan seeks AI alliances with France, India to curb US-China dominance — Nikkei Asia — 23-06-2026 • Astonishing difference between US and Chinese AI capex, even after taking into account differences in PPP — Callum Williams/Twitter— 22-06-2026 • First Amendment Questions for AI Transparency Laws — Lawfare — 22-06-2026 • OpenAI's suspiciously clean balance sheet is about to get a hard look — The Next Web — 22-06-2026 • As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster? — The Guardian — 20-06-2026 • API prices of key AI models: US vs China — zerohedge/Twitter— 19-06-2026 • AI Has Granted America Vast New Power — The Economist — 18-06-2026 • ASML CEO Warns Europe is 'Quite Behind' in AI Race as US Buys 80% of Advanced Chips — Wccftech — 18-06-2026 • Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes — ProPublica — 18-06-2026 • 'No poaching' our people: China's DeepSeek reportedly tells investors — CNBC — 18-06-2026 • Microsoft Makes Big AI Inroads in China by Selling OpenAI Models — Japan Times — 18-06-2026 • The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy — WIRED — 17-06-2026 • When Americans Choose Chinese AI — Rest of World — 17-06-2026 • Pentagon Used Elon Musk's Grok AI to Fire Missiles at Iran, Official Says — The Independent — 17-06-2026 • Anthropic Got Hit by Export Rules Nobody Understands — The Verge — 17-06-2026 • The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible — WIRED — 17-06-2026 • Trump Advisers Weigh Structure of Potential AI Stakes — Semafor — 17-06-2026 • GLM-5.2 is the new leading open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — Artificial Analysis — 17-06-2026 • US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks — Reuters — 16-06-2026 • White House's Anthropic move jolts Congress back into the AI debate — Politico — 16-06-2026 • Microsoft weighs DeepSeek for Copilot Cowork — Axios — 16-06-2026 • Trump officials won't allow G7 countries to access Anthropic's most advanced AI models: 'Completely illogical' — NY Post — 16-06-2026 • The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic — WSJ — 15-06-2026 • US Export Controls on Anthropic 'Should Not Be Discriminatory,' EU Commission Warns — Euronews — 14-06-2026 • Cutting Access to Anthropic's Mythos Is a Gift to China — Financial Times — 15-06-2026 • The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense — Luta Security — 15-06-2026 • Why India's dependence on foreign AI is raising sovereignty concerns — Business Today — 15-06-2026 • EU AI: The Fables We Told Ourselves — Pleias — 14-06-2026 • Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 12-06-2026 • OpenAI under investigation by coalition of state attorneys general, WSJ reports — Reuters — 12-06-2026 • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has the most "Chinese" approach to AI of the major American tech leaders — Kyle Chan/Twitter — 12-06-2026 • 'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess — Wired — 12-06-2026 • SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It — Bloomberg — 12-06-2026 • China races against US for AI's holy grail: self-improving tech — SCMP — 12-06-2026 • Carney's Middle Powers Race to Thwart US-China Dominance of AI — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026 • OpenAI Execs Are Panicking — Futurism — 11-06-2026 • OpenAI Isn't Being Consistently Candid About Leading the Future — Transformer — 11-06-2026 • Investing in Multi-Agent AI Safety Research — Google DeepMind — 11-06-2026 • NEW: Ramp AI Index for June 2026 1. We expected OpenAI to gain on the launch of Codex. It held flat in business adoption last month. 2. Anthropic grew 2.5% points to 41% of firms. It's now driving new AI adoption with never-adopters. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 10-06-2026 • Policy on the AI Exponential (blog post) — Dario Amodei — 10-06-2026 • Anthropic accused of 'secret sabotage' as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers — Fortune — 10-06-2026 • NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. — John Scott-Railton/Twitter — 10-06-2026 • White House Reins In AI-Testing Unit as National-Security Concerns Grow — The Wall Street Journal — 09-06-2026 • Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 09-06-2026 • Taiwan Weighs AI Chip Export Curbs on All Chinese Firms — Seoul Economic Daily — 09-06-2026 • China Prepares $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout — Reuters — 09-06-2026 • With a global AI data shortage looming, China boosts its own supply — SCMP — 08-06-2026 • Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption. — Jen Zhu/Twitter — 05-06-2026 • Building AI that Builds AI: Introducing the Sakana AI RSI Lab — Sakana AI/Twitter — 05-06-2026 • Phoenix Is a Data-Center Mecca—and Test Case for How to Pay for AI's Power Needs — WSJ — 04-06-2026 • A source at Brex told me that engineers are now limited to 12,500 Codex credits per week, or roughly $500 of API calls per week. Non-engineers are limited to 125 credits, or around $5/week of API calls. When you run out, you're locked out of both GPT and Codex. — Ed Zitron/Twitter — 04-06-2026 • Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk — WSJ — 04-06-2026 • Javier Milei on Argentina's plans for AI — Séb Krier/Twitter — 04-06-2026 • OpenAI's ChatGPT becomes first AI app to reach 1 billion monthly users in just three years — Times of India — 03-06-2026 • Leiden Declaration: AI is challenging the core values of mathematics — Leiden University — 02-06-2026 • That’s funny. [Screenshot of page from the State of Florida vs. OpenAI filing] — Paul Sherman/Twitter — 01-06-2026 • Pre-training cost of a frontier model — Zephyr/Twitter — 31-05-2026 • Evaluating DeepSeek v4 Pro for Frontier Risks — Neo Research — 29-05-2026 • We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation...Earlier this month, our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion. — Anthropic/Twitter — 28-05-2026 • How far behind are open models? — LessWrong — 28-05-2026 • China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at Private Firms — Bloomberg — 26-05-2026 • Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV: Magnifica Humanitas — The Holy See — 25-05-2026 • Inside the British Lab Hunting for Dangers Lurking in A.I. — The New York Times — 24-05-2026 • Anthropic Doesn't Allow Kids Under 18 — Here's Why:⁣⁣ "We just don't know enough about what AI is going to do to kids. It needs to be done with an adult in the room. It needs to be done with a human in the loop." — @DanielaAmodei — Overlap: Business & Tech/Twitter — 23-05-2026 • It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. — Ed Newton-Rex/Twitter — 23-05-2026 • DeepSeek Founder Declares AGI Goal as $10 Billion Round Advances — Bloomberg — 22-05-2026 • For every $1 OpenAI made in Q1 ($5.7B), it lost $1.22. For every $1 Anthropic makes in Q2 ($10.9B), it expects to make 5 cents in operating profits. (don't have OpenAI Q2 data nor Anthropic Q1 to compare apples to apples) — Sheel Mohnot/Twitter — 21-05-2026 • OpenAI kicked off the AI compute buildout in 2023. But today it uses ~10% of the world's compute, and the top labs together are probably under half. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-05-2026 • Texans Hate Data Centers So Much They Are Asking Jesus for Help — Insurance Journal — 21-05-2026 • Nvidia says it has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei — CNBC — 21-05-2026 • US Data Center Moratorium Tracker — Interconnected Capital, LLC — 31-05-2026 • Court Rules Expert's AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 — Arnold & Porter — 19-05-2026 • GOOGLE JUST SHOWED HOW INSANE AI DEMAND HAS GOTTEN Monthly tokens processed across Google surfaces: May 2024: 9.7T May 2025: ~480T May 2026: 3.2Q+ That is 7x Y/Y growth. — Wall St Engine/Twitter — 19-05-2026 • Anthropic and OpenAI's Share of AI Startup Revenues Rises to 89% — The Information — 17-05-2026 • NEW: We are short Nvidia $NVDA. We believe Nvidia has a significant China problem. — Culper Research/Twitter — 13-05-2026 • How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing? — AISI — 13-05-2026 • Frontier AI Models Don't Just Delete Document Content — They Rewrite It, and the Errors Are Nearly Impossible to Catch — VentureBeat — 13-05-2026 • 'I Applied to Be Pope': Losing Grip on Reality While Using ChatGPT — AFP — 13-05-2026 • Widow Sues ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Husband's Death in Mass Shooting at Florida State University — Sky News — 11-05-2026 • Claude's new constitution — Anthropic — 11-05-2026 • I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI — Wired — 11-05-2026 • This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. — Merissa Hansen/Twitter — 10-05-2026 • Anthropic and OpenAI earn more revenue per employee than the top public tech companies, both now and at their IPOs. Anthropic: ~$9M OpenAI: ~$5.6M — Epoch AI/Twitter — 08-05-2026 • IMF warns new AI models risk 'systemic' shock to finance — Financial Times — 07-05-2026 • Is xAI a Neocloud Now? — TechCrunch — 06-05-2026 • Why AI vetting is freaking people out — Politico — 06-05-2026 • How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China — ChinaTalk — 05-05-2026 • CAISI Signs Agreements Regarding Frontier AI National Security Testing With Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI [removed article] — NIST — 05-05-2026 • Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI — Daring Fireball — 04-05-2026 • Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves. — Import AI (Jack Clark) — 04-05-2026 • ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? — The Wall Street Journal — 02-05-2026 • Probably the first Deepseek model that has a real military use case — Zephyr/Twitter — 30-04-2026 • Most people I know in AI think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. — Jasmine Sun/Twitter — 30-04-2026 • .@mcuban is not impressed with OpenAI's business: "They're shitting away money at scale," he told me. Full discussion live on Big Technology Podcast. — Alex Kantrowitz/Twitter — 29-04-2026 • Out of Tune: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Leads to Unpredictable Safety Drift — CDT — 30-04-2026 • How people ask Claude for personal guidance — Anthropic — 30-04-2026 • House Committees Probe Cursor Parent, Airbnb Over Chinese AI — Semafor — 29-04-2026 • The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path — Wired — 27-04-2026 • Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence — Odd Lots Podcast — 25-04-2026 • China's AI Model Companies Can Only Afford One Bet — Hello China Tech — 22-04-2026 • AI Data Centers can use up to 500,000 gallons of water a day. They will make our droughts catastrophically worse. As Governor, I will ban the construction of any AI Data Center in Florida. — James Fishback/Twitter — 21-04-2026 • Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby were on stage in SF today and here are the 9 best things they said: 1. "There is a 50% chance that OpenAI goes bankrupt in the next 18mos" -Mallaby — Deedy Das/Twitter — 20-04-2026 • She says ChatGPT is responsible for her son’s death. CA lawmakers are listening — The Sacramento Bee — 20-04-2026 • Exclusive: Leaked Deck Reveals StackAdapt’s Playbook for ChatGPT Ads — Adweek — 20-04-2024 • Beijing Yizhuang ran its second humanoid robot half-marathon on Sunday. One year of progress in one set of numbers. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 19-04-2026 • New preliminary results: how people actually use ChatGPT. First conversation-level look at Global South usage. — Kiran Garimella/Twitter — 18-04-2026 • In our corrected figures, hyperscalers hold 71% of world AI compute — Epoch AI/Twitter — 16-04-2026 • Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? — Dwarkesh Podcast — 15-04-2026 • OpenAI investors question $852bn valuation as strategy shifts — Financial Times — 14-04-2026 • The 2026 AI Index Report — Stanford HAI — 13-04-2026 • We're monitoring the air and water around Meta's data center in Louisiana. Here's why. — WWNO — 13-04-2026 • I’m locked out… (ChatGPT voice demo) — Huskirl/Twitter — 10-04-2026 • US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company — The Guardian — 09-04-2026 • Project Glasswing - Securing critical software for the AI era — Anthropic — 07-04-2026 • Google’s AI Overviews Face Trust Crisis as Accuracy Doubts Persist — The New York Times — 07-04-2026 • Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker — 06-04-2026 • OpenAI Buys Some Positive News — Wired — 02-04-2026 • 100 Hours Inside Kimi — Rui Ma/Twitter — 01-04-2026 • Inside 'Project Mario': How Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Are Engineering the Future of Intelligence — Colossus — 01-03-2026 • What Rights Do AI Companies Have in Government Contracts? — Jessica Tillipman — 01-03-2026 • OpenClaw May Be a Security Nightmare for OpenAI’s Sam Altman — Bloomberg — 22-02-2026 • Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over GPT-4o’s Emotional ‘Soul’ — The Wall Street Journal — 09-02-2026 • The many masks that LLMs wear — Understanding AI — 09-02-2026 • The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals — The Wall Street Journal — 05-02-2026 • Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear — Nature — 02-02-2026 • Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away — The Wall Street Journal — 17-01-2026 VIEW OLDER INTERESTING ARTICLES ⇒ FULL NEWS ARCHIVE//VIEW ALL NEWS ⇒

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Resources for Frontier Lab Candidates

• Vlad Feinberg, How to Land a Frontier Lab Job

• Jack Morris, So you want to do AI research? It's true that no one really teaches you how.

• Neel Nanda, How To Become A Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher


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Frontier AI Labs

A curated listing of known frontier AI labs (in progress).

Considerations for inclusion:
- Teams training the largest models by compute
- Teams publishing frontier research
- Teams operating with independent safety/governance controls


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• Ai2: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence — https://allenai.org — Seattle, USA — Develops foundational AI research through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.
   ➟ https://allenai.org/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/allen-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @allen_ai


• AI21 Labs — https://www.ai21.com — Tel Aviv, Israel — Developer of large language models and long-context NLP tooling for writing and knowledge work.
   ➟ https://www.ai21.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ai21/
   ➟ Twitter: @AI21Labs


• Alibaba DAMO Academy — https://damo.alibaba.com/ — Hangzhou / Beijing, China — Alibaba’s advanced R&D institute focused on large models, cloud AI, and applied industrial research.
   ➟ https://joindamo.alibaba.com/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/达摩院/


• Alibaba Tongyi Lab — https://qwenlm.github.io/ — Hangzhou, China — Tongyi Lab was created within Alibaba Cloud to focus on foundational research and industrial applications of large models such as the Qwen (通义千问) series (including Qwen open source models), Tongyi Wanxiang (image generation), Tongyi Tingwu (speech-to-text), and more.
   ➟ https://careers-tongyi.alibaba.com/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/qwen/
   ➟ Twitter: @Ali_TongyiLab


• Anthropic — https://www.anthropic.com/ — San Francisco, USA — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, steerable, and beneficial AI systems like its assistant, Claude and the Opus and Sonnet model families.
   ➟ https://www.anthropic.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/anthropicresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @AnthropicAI


• Baidu Research — https://research.baidu.com/ — Beijing, China — Baidu’s research arm developing ERNIE and other large-scale multimodal models and search AI.
   ➟ https://research.baidu.com/career
   ➟ Twitter: @BaiduResearch


• Black Forest Labs — https://bfl.ai/ — Germany & San Francisco, USA — A leading frontier AI research lab, building the visual infrastructure for tomorrow.
   ➟ https://bfl.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/bflai/
   ➟ Twitter: @bfl_ml


• Cohere — https://cohere.com/ — Toronto, Canada & San Francisco, USA — Provides enterprise large-language models, embeddings, and retrieval APIs for production use.
   ➟ https://cohere.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/cohere-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @Cohere_Labs


• Databricks Mosaic — https://www.databricks.com/research/mosaic — San Francisco, USA — Focuses on efficient training tooling, open-model research, and infrastructure for training large models.
   ➟ https://www.databricks.com/company/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/mosaicml/
   ➟ Twitter: @MosaicML


• Deep Cogito — https://www.deepcogito.com/ — San Francisco, USA — An AI lab that describes itself as building open source general superintelligence.
   ➟ https://www.deepcogito.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/deep-cogito/
   ➟ Twitter: @DeepCogito


• DeepSeek — https://www.deepseek.com/ — Hangzhou, China — A Chinese lab working on frontier large language models.
   ➟ https://www.deepseek.com/ (check LinkedIn for open roles)
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/deepseek-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @deepseek_ai


• EleutherAI — https://www.eleuther.ai/ — Distributed / community-led — Open research collective that produces open-source LLMs, benchmarks, and tooling.
   ➟ No official careers page; roles announced via Discord/X
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/eleutherai/


• Essential AI — https://www.essential.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — Essential AI is building an open platform to democratize frontier AI capabilities and accelerate breakthroughs globally through collaborative science.
◇ [Status: Technical team acqui-hire to NVIDIA as of June 2026]

• Google DeepMind — https://deepmind.google/ — London, UK & Mountain View, USA / global — Google-owned research lab focused on deep learning, RL, and ambitious science-level AI research.
   ➟ https://deepmind.google/about/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/googledeepmind/
   ➟ Twitter: @GoogleDeepMind


• Hugging Face — https://huggingface.co/ — New York, USA & Paris, France / global — Open ML community and model/dataset hub that hosts and distributes many open frontier models and tooling.
   ➟ https://apply.workable.com/huggingface/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/huggingface/
   ➟ Twitter: @huggingface


• IBM Research — https://research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence — USA / global — IBM Research develops open-source data tools, multimodal models, and technologies that redefine how we interact with AI.
   ➟ https://www.ibm.com/careers/research
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/ibm-research/
   ➟ Twitter: @IBMResearch


• Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab — http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/ — China (multiple locations) — Huawei’s foundational AI research group working on NLP, vision, and multimodal algorithms.
   ➟ http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/Recruitment-JD.html
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/noah-s-ark-lab/


• Meta FAIR — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta’s research division that develops Llama-series models, multimodal systems, and social-scale AI research.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/aiatmeta/
   ➟ Twitter: @AIatMeta


• Meta Reality Labs (Reality Labs Research) — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta’s XR / AR / VR research and hardware arm that also contains significant AI work for spatial computing, sensors, and on-device models.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
   ➟ Twitter: @RealityLabs


• Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's Superintelligence labs is a newly formed unit as of Summer 2025 focused on superintelligence and large-scale foundational efforts.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/

• Meta TBD Lab — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — As of Summer 2025, the TBD team is spearheading work on upcoming model releases including the newest version of Llama, the extension of models’ reasoning capabilities, and development of AI agents alongside other Meta teams per the Wall Street Journal.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/

• Microsoft Research AI Frontiers / Microsoft AI — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/ — Redmond, USA / global — Corporate research organization powering Microsoft’s model efforts (Copilot, Azure AI, and foundational research).
   ➟ https://www.microsoft.com/research/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/microsoftresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @ms_aifrontiers


• Mistral AI — https://mistral.ai/ — Paris, France / global — European startup producing high-performance LLMs and commercial offerings for enterprises.
   ➟ https://mistral.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/mistralai/
   ➟ Twitter: @MistralAI


• Moonshot AI — https://moonshot.ai/ — Beijing, China — Focused on achieving the most efficient conversion of energy into intelligence to create artificial general intelligence that can benefit all of humanity.
   ➟ https://www.moonshot-ai.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/moonshot-ai-linkedin/
   ➟ Twitter: @Kimi_Moonshot


• Nous Research — https://nousresearch.com/ — New York, USA — Nous Research focuses on the development of human-centric language models and simulators.
   ➟ https://nousresearch.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/nous-research/
   ➟ Twitter: @NousResearch


• NVIDIA Research — https://research.nvidia.com/ — Santa Clara, USA — Research group advancing GPU-driven systems, model architectures, and scale innovations used across frontier labs.
   ➟ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/research-scientists/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/nvidia-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @NVIDIAAI


• OpenAI — https://openai.com/ — San Francisco, USA — OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building safe and broadly beneficial artificial general intelligence to help solve humanity's greatest challenges.
   ➟ https://openai.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/openai/
   ➟ Twitter: @OpenAI


• PleIAs — https://pleias.fr/ — Paris, France — PleIAs builds energy-efficient, open-data foundation LLMs and explainable, locally deployable AI assistants for information-intensive, highly regulated industries.
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/pleias/
   ➟ Twitter: @pleiasfr


• Prime Intellect — https://www.primeintellect.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — The Open Superintelligence Stack. A compute and infrastructure platform for you to train, evaluate, and deploy your own agentic models.
   ➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/primeintellect-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @PrimeIntellect


• Reflection AI — https://reflection.ai/ — NYC & San Francisco, USA — Reflection is building frontier open intelligence with open weight models that are accessible to all.
   ➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reflectionai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/reflectionai/
   ➟ Twitter: @reflection_ai


• Safe Superintelligence Inc. — https://ssi.inc/ — Palo Alto, USA & Tel Aviv, Israel — The world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
   ➟ https://ssi.inc/contact
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ssi-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @ssi


• Sakana AI — https://sakana.ai/ — Japan — Building a world-class AI lab in Japan to develop AI solutions for Japan’s needs, and democratize AI in Japan.
   ➟ https://consider.com/boards/co/sakana-ai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/sakana-ai
   ➟ Twitter: @SakanaAILabs


• Samsung Research (AI Centers) — https://research.samsung.com/ — Seoul, Korea / global — Samsung’s research hubs focused on generative AI, on-device models, and multimodal systems.
   ➟ https://research.samsung.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/samsungresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @samsungresearch


• Stability AI — https://stability.ai/ — London, UK — Open-source focused generative AI company that releases image, video, audio, and 3D multimodal models and tooling.
   ➟ https://stability.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/stability-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @StabilityAI


• Tencent AI Lab / Tencent HY — https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/index/ — Shenzhen, China — Tencent’s AI research organization developing large models, multimodal AI, and application-focused research.
   ➟ https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/recruit/

• Thinking Machines Lab — https://thinkingmachines.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — A research and product company building more understandable and customizable AI systems.
   ➟ https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thinkingmachines
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/thinkingmachinesai/
   ➟ Twitter: @thinkymachines


• xAI / SpaceXAI — https://x.ai/ — Palo Alto, USA — Elon Musk–backed AI lab building the Grok family of large-scale language models and consumer-facing assistants.
   ➟ https://x.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/xai/
   ➟ Twitter: @xai


• Yandex Research / Yandex AI — https://research.yandex.com/ — Moscow, Russia — Yandex’s research teams working on large models, search AI, and multimodal systems.
   ➟ https://research.yandex.com/join
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/yandex/
   ➟ Twitter: @YandexResearch


• Z.ai — https://z.ai/ — Beijing, China — Z.ai (Zhipu AI) is the AI lab behind the GLM family of models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity.
   ➟ https://www.zhipuai.cn/joinus
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/zdotai/
   ➟ Twitter: @Zai_org


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