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June 25, 2026 8:50 PM PT

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• SoftBank shares tumble ~13% on report OpenAI may delay IPO to 2027 — CNBC — 26-06-2026 • Anthropic is testing desktop-like Claude Cowork for mobile — Bleeping Computer — 25-06-2026 • Trump administration steps in to limit OpenAI's latest model launch — Politico — 25-06-2026 • SpaceX bond sale signals markets are in 'bubble territory', warns Allianz CIO — Financial Times — 25-06-2026 • In a new policy paper released today, we detail how the right governance frameworks can help us capture AI’s massive potential—without slowing down innovation. (Google) — Kent Walker/Twitter— 25-06-2026 • Congress needs transparency with AI. When it comes to national security and public safety implications, information from the private sector about what these models are doing and what they're capable of is imperative to protecting Americans. [Thread] — Congressman Nathaniel Moran/Twitter— 25-06-2026 • What are the strategies of Chinese AI companies? To understand this better, @cherylwoooo, @datagenproc, and @ansonwhho scraped >1600 job postings from six major Chinese firms. Here’s what they learned. — Epoch AI/Twitter— 25-06-2026 • The AI backlash is only getting started — The Economist — 25-06-2026 • The state of the AI economy — Exponential View — 25-06-2026 • OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O. — New York Times — 25-06-2026 • Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Stagger Release of New Model Over Security Concerns — The Information — 25-06-2026 • I Met With China's Top AI Experts. They're Freaking Out, Too — Wired — 25-06-2026 • And new data release: in partnership with @GSMA we publish Telco-Common-Corpus, the largest fully open corpus for the telecom sector, 10 billion tokens all under free license/public domain. (Pleias AI) — Alexander Doria/Twitter— 25-06-2026 • China claims to have developed AI 'cyber nuclear weapon' — Telegraph — 25-06-2026 • US lawmaker proposes bill to require AI companies to report critical incidents — Reuters — 25-06-2026 • US Seeks AI Partnership With EU on Regulation, Supply Chains — Financial Post — 25-06-2026 • We just crossed $100M annual run-rate. I know many AI companies are capturing much more $$$ these days, but still proud of the milestone! — ClementDelangue/Twitter— 25-06-2026 • IBM debuts world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology — IBM — 25-06-2026 • DeepSeek Plans to Double Staff Across All Departments — Bloomberg — 25-06-2026 • OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it's already in the API — VentureBeat — 25-06-2026 • Anthropic hires Orange's AI chief as its European build-out accelerates — The Next Web — 25-06-2026 • Raimondo launches AI project with backing of tech giants — Semafor — 25-06-2026 • Exclusive: Meta poaches Virtue AI bigwigs to boost security — Axios — 25-06-2026 • EU discusses AI model access with US after Anthropic cuts off foreign access — Crypto Briefing — 25-06-2026 • Anthropic’s letter accusing Alibaba of distillation. — Discoplomacy/Twitter— 25-06-2026 • Are AI chatbots politically biased? We tested them — The Washington Post — 24-06-2026 • 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 • We Need an International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence — Persuasion — 24-06-2026 • Alibaba cuts Qwen AI model costs on Qoder coding platform to capture US workday demand — South China Morning Post — 24-06-2026 • Who should the U.S. Talk to in China on AI? — Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment)/Substack — 24-06-2026 • Key House Democrat Calls for a National Data Center Moratorium — Heatmap News — 24-06-2026 • Alibaba's model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks — VentureBeat — 24-06-2026 • Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models — Bloomberg — 24-06-2026 • Two more leading AI researchers leaving Google for Anthropic, Bloomberg says — TipRanks — 24-06-2026 • 70% GM and 15%-20% FCF margin Damn Anthropic is printing cash now — Zephyr/Twitter— 24-06-2026 • Anthropic Co-Founder: "The Most Powerful Technology Ever Built" — Reason — 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 • BREAKING: Claude Code v2.1.190 introduces several string changes that hint at preparations for a Fable 5 return, with it being permanently included in subscriptions with weekly usage. — synthwavedd/Twitter— 24-06-2026 • Google introduces Computer Use in Gemini 3.5 Flash — Google — 24-06-2026 • How Demis Hassabis views the future of creativity, and AI (attempts) to take on medical imaging — Semafor — 24-06-2026 • The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — Wired — 24-06-2026 • Stripe, Anthropic and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections — MIT Technology Review — 24-06-2026 • OpenAI and Broadcom unveil 'Jalapeño,' OpenAI's first custom AI inference chip — CNBC — 24-06-2026 • XAI Bets on Grok's Racy Side — The Information — 24-06-2026 • Reid Hoffman says SpaceX is 'not an AI company,' xAI a 'complete train wreck' — Fortune — 24-06-2026 • Statement on export controls for Anthropic Fable 5 — Volt Europa — 24-06-2026 • Mistral OCR 4 Ships: Structure-Aware Document AI Runs On Your Own Infrastructure — TechTimes — 24-06-2026 • Zhipu Said to Weigh Multibillion-Dollar Share Sale in Hong Kong After 2,000% Gain — Bloomberg — 23-06-2026 • 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 • N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute — New York Times — 23-06-2026 • U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews — The New York Times — 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 • Alibaba sues US for being linked to Chinese military — Reuters — 23-06-2026 • Japan seeks AI alliances with France, India to curb US-China dominance — Nikkei Asia — 23-06-2026 • White House Quiet on OpenAI's Mythos-Like Model — Axios — 23-06-2026 • Bipartisan Senate Duo to Unveil Bill Protecting Kids From AI Chatbots — Politico — 23-06-2026 • Anthropic debuts Claude Tag, a more capable AI teammate that lives within Slack — SiliconANGLE — 23-06-2026 • Anthropic Wants Claude to Be Your New Slack Coworker — Bloomberg — 23-06-2026 • NVIDIA Announces BioNeMo Agent Toolkit — Tools for Agents to Accelerate Scientific Discovery (Multiple AI Labs named) — NVIDIA Newsroom — 23-06-2026 • Meta is Now Designing Its Own, Cheaper AI Smart Glasses — CNN — 23-06-2026 • UN Chief Calls on AI Firms to Come Clean on Environmental Costs — Reuters — 23-06-2026 • Netherlands to Join US-Led Pax Silica AI Initiative Despite ASML Dispute — Reuters — 23-06-2026 • Abu Dhabi's MGX Raises About $50 Billion to Accelerate AI Deals — Bloomberg — 23-06-2026 • OpenAI pitches ChatGPT ads to Cannes marketers ahead of IPO — Crypto Briefing — 23-06-2026 • WeChat begins testing 'Xiaowei' native AI assistant for 1.4 billion users — Pandaily — 23-06-2026 • Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents — Qwen Team — 22-06-2026 • See How Sam Altman's Personal Investments Benefit From Ties to OpenAI — The Wall Street Journal — 22-06-2026 • Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak — Wired — 22-06-2026 • Astonishing difference between US and Chinese AI capex, even after taking into account differences in PPP — Callum Williams/Twitter— 22-06-2026 • The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now — NCSC.gov.uk — 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 • Google invests in A24 to build AI filmmaking tools — Variety — 22-06-2026 • OpenAI signs deal to show Getty Images in ChatGPT — Engadget — 22-06-2026 • NVIDIA announces Halos for Robotics, first full-stack safety system for physical AI — The Robot Report — 22-06-2026 • Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center — Chevron — 22-06-2026 • Alphabet shares slide ~7% as Nobel laureate John Jumper departs DeepMind for Anthropic — Quartz — 22-06-2026 • OpenAI expands Daybreak with GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security — Investing.com — 22-06-2026 • In AI Pitch, Alibaba Chairman Urges Europe to Look Beyond U.S. Tech — Caixin Global — 22-06-2026 • AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns — The Guardian — 22-06-2026 • SpaceX Signs Computing Power Deal With Open-Source AI Startup Reflection Worth Up to $6.3 Billion — CNBC — 22-06-2026 • Micron and Anthropic Announce Strategic Agreement to Scale Next-Generation AI Infrastructure — Micron — 22-06-2026 • China's Synthetic Diamond Finds Its Biggest Opportunity Yet: Cooling AI Chips — Pandaily — 22-06-2026 • AI Healthcare Fills With Internet Giants: ByteDance, Tencent, JD Health, and Ant Group Go All In — Pandaily — 22-06-2026 • Cover Story: China's AI Boom Is Rewiring Its Power Grid — Caixin Global — 22-06-2026 • Singapore's Sea Ltd. expands AI partnership with OpenAI across Southeast Asia, Brazil — Xinhua — 22-06-2026 • Sakana Fugu: One Model to Command Them All — Sakana AI — 22-06-2026 • Zhipu AI market cap tops HK$1 trillion as shares of GLM-5.2 developer soar — South China Morning Post — 22-06-2026 • OpenAI supplies ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to Samsung Electronics globally — Chosun Biz — 22-06-2026 • RL at 1T Scale: prime-rl Performance Deep Dive — Prime Intellect — 21-06-2026 • "We expect GLM-5.5 to launch in August, potentially as a >1T-parameter model. This will be the next major test of Zhipu’s ability to keep moving up the capability curve." - JPM — zerohedge/Twitter— 21-06-2026 • A new, more capable version of Mythos has emerged from training. I don't know whether it will be called Mythos 5.1 or Mythos 6, or if Anthropic will keep it internal to accelerate further development - but it has arrived. — Andrew Curran/Twitter— 21-06-2026 • Estonia to become first country to issue ID codes to AI agents — ERR News — 21-06-2026 • Europe cannot rent its way to AI sovereignty — Air Street Press — 21-06-2026 • Anthropic to require ID & age verification for consumer Claude users starting July 8 — Cybernews — 21-06-2026 • As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster? — The Guardian — 20-06-2026 • Nvidia quietly acquihires Essential AI team, including Transformer coauthor Ashish Vaswani — Ground Level AI — 20-06-2026 • Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance — The Register — 20-06-2026 • China's trillion-parameter AI race: how developers strive to narrow gap with US rivals — South China Morning Post — 19-06-2026 • AI Warfare Is at the Point of No Return. What Now? — Wall Street Journal — 19-06-2026 • API prices of key AI models: US vs China — zerohedge/Twitter— 19-06-2026 • Trump Tells Axios He Doesn't See Anthropic as US Security Threat — Bloomberg — 19-06-2026 • A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. — John Jumper/Twitter — 19-06-2026 • US Tells ASML It's Concerned China May Have Top Chip Tool — Bloomberg — 19-06-2026 • Norway Imposes Near Ban on AI in Elementary School — Straits Times — 19-06-2026 • Google takes aim at Nvidia: $3.2B guarantee behind Lake Mariner data center leasing TPUs to Anthropic — Yahoo Finance — 19-06-2026 • Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership — The Verge — 19-06-2026 • Looks like @ashVaswani’s Essential AI was acquihired, as per their Head of Talent’s LinkedIn. Is this news or am I late to the party? — Aarush Sah/Twitter — 18-06-2026 • Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again after just five months — The Verge/Twitter — 18-06-2026 • Bipartisan letter from House Representatives to Howard Lutnick, "Re: Recent Application of Export Administration Regulations to the 'Claude Mythos 5' and 'Claude Fable 5' Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model" — via Congressman Sam Liccardo — 18-06-2026 • AI Has Granted America Vast New Power — The Economist — 18-06-2026 • Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order — Bloomberg — 18-06-2026 • "Trump is taking a page out of China’s sovereign AI playbook" https://ft.com/content/fd95e4c7-40d4-4074-a074-144809b97b45 "Once governments become equity holders, these AI companies face complex questions that traditional governance frameworks were never designed to resolve" — Scott Linciome/Twitter — 18-06-2026 • ASML CEO Warns Europe is 'Quite Behind' in AI Race as US Buys 80% of Advanced Chips — Wccftech — 18-06-2026 • The problem with AI's concentration of power (Laude Institute) — ACCESS Podcast/YouTube — 18-06-2026 • Our Co-Founder and CEO Urges G7 Leaders to Back Open Innovation — Black Forest Labs — 18-06-2026 • White House Talks With Anthropic Shift to Setting AI Security Rules — Politico — 18-06-2026 • Meta signs ~1.6GW AI compute deal with Crusoe — Data Center Dynamics — 18-06-2026 • Grok 4.3 now generally available on Amazon Bedrock — xAI — 18-06-2026 • Grok for PowerPoint: xAI launches free Microsoft 365 add-ins for PowerPoint, Word & Excel — xAI — 18-06-2026 • Sillon: A Specialised 600M Model for Parisian Subway Operator (RATP) — Pleias — 17-06-2026 • Project Fetch: Phase Two — Anthropic — 18-06-2026 • Chips Security Act Gains Industry Support: Letter — NBC News — 18-06-2026 • US to Fast-Track Grid Connections for AI Data Centers — Bloomberg — 18-06-2026 • OpenAI Hires Former Trump AI Official Dean Ball — Politico — 18-06-2026 • New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit A.I. — New York Times — 18-06-2026 • Anthropic Lays Out Vision for How to Bolster AI Models' Safety — Bloomberg — 18-06-2026 • China's National AI Industry Investment Fund is the only outside investor in DeepSeek's $7.4 billion round with voting rights and no lock-up. Its commitment: Rmb 1 billion. Less than 2% of the total. The Wall Street Journal reported its role was "significantly scaled down" from initial plans. State capital entered, on the founder's terms. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 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 • Lutnick's Letter to Anthropic Warned of Curbs on Top AI Models — Bloomberg — 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 • Pete Hegseth, White House allies intensify attacks on Anthropic — The Hill — 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 • Dangerous Technology For Americans Only — Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings — 13-06-2026 • Exclusive: White House's export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access — Semafor — 13-06-2026 • 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 • Silicon Valley's Bad Bet on the Gulf — Foreign Affairs — 11-06-2026 • 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 • 'It's Like We Don't Exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe Residents Face Power Loss as Utility Redirects Lines to Data Centers — Fortune — 12-05-2026 • 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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