Archive: 2026-06-25

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1. The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns

   TechCrunch · 2026-06-25

   OpenAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of with the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

2. Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data

   WIRED · 2026-06-25

   The decision by Amazon-owned MGM Studios to drop the OpenAI movie is just part of AI and film industries becoming increasingly intertwined.

3. 44 Seconds: How an AI Removed a Customer’s Fear and Recovered a £1,099 Sale

   Towards AI · 2026-06-25

   A customer’s abandoned £1,099 online purchase was successfully recovered after a generative AI chatbot engaged them for 44 seconds, addressing their hesitations.

4. OpenAI will initially only release ChatGPT 5.6 to government-approved customers

   Engadget · 2026-06-25

   OpenAI will restrict initial access to its latest ChatGPT model, codenamed GPT-5.6, to a select group of government-approved clients

5. Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Stagger AI Model Release

   Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

   The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of an upcoming powerful artificial intelligence model, according to a person familiar with the matter

6. Top 20 Naive Bayes Interview Questions and Answers

   Towards AI · 2026-06-25

   Machine Learning Interview PreparationContinue reading on Towards AI »

7. OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request

   The Verge · 2026-06-25

   The Trump administration, apprehensive of potential security issues, has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its next big-ticket model, GPT-5.6.

8. Consumer Side of AI Currently Underweighted, Says Mark Pincus

   Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

   Zynga founder Mark Pincus said that the consumer side of AI is being underweighted in comparison to the engineering and coding aspects of the technology and that capping the

9. I Built My Own Analytics + AB Testing Tool with Claude Code.

   Towards AI · 2026-06-25

   A developer successfully integrated Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus into a workflow to automate the creation of an analytics and A/B testing tool.

10. OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until 2027 for IPO, NYT Says

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    OpenAI is leaning toward holding off on an initial public offering until 2027, the New York Times reported, citing three people involved in the company’s deliberations.

11. Why South Korea’s AI Stock Mania Is a Warning

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    South Korea’s stock market has surged about 200% year-on-year, powered by an AI-fueled chip rally.

12. Pentagon Sees Bigger Role for AI in Setting Military Targets

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    The Pentagon has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets in battle, opening the way for artificial intelligence to make critical wartime decisions in

13. Tenstorrent CEO on Next Leg of AI Tech, Deal Interest

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller discusses AI buildout and what’s next for chips. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (

14. I Cut a “12 Open-Source AI Projects” List Down to The 7 I’d Actually Install

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    A recent curation pares down a broad list of open-source AI projects to a select seven deemed immediately practical for installation.

15. JPMorgan's Aliaga : Seeing Whipsaw In Markets Around AI

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    JPMorgan Asset Management Global Market Strategist Stephanie Aliaga discusses the current whipsaw in markets surrounding AI and gives her outlook on what’s ahead.

16. Building Your First Hermes Agent Skill: A Complete Walkthrough

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    Meta's open-sourcing of Hermes, its LLM fine-tuning framework, allows developers to create custom skills for AI agents.

17. Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-25

    Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

18. From PDEs to Graphs: A Primer on Physics Simulation and Geometric Deep Learning (Part 1/2)

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    A recent primer explores how geometric deep learning can augment traditional physics simulation techniques, moving beyond differential equation solvers.

19. Building an AI social simulation with OASIS

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    A walkthrough of persona design and multi-agent social simulationContinue reading on Towards AI »

20. Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

    Ars Technica · 2026-06-25

    Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."

21. Building a Slack AI Agent with Claude’s Web-Search Tool: An End-to-End Walkthrough

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    From an empty channel to a cited, auto-summarized news briefing — Socket Mode, tool use, Block Kit, the cost math, and the pitfalls I hit…

22. Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026

    Ars Technica · 2026-06-25

    It took 20 years, but the Finance app arrives just in time to be packed full of AI.

23. Vector RAG Isn’t Enough — I Built a Context Graph Layer for Multi-Agent Memory

    Towards Data Science · 2026-06-25

    I benchmarked raw chat history, vector-only RAG, and a context graph on the same multi-agent conversations. The results exposed a surprising weakness in relational retrieval.

24. Apple Raises Prices, Micron Rallies | Bloomberg Tech 6/25/2026

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Micron's blowout AI-fueled forecast shattering Wall Street's projections, and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon joins to weigh in on the company's own

25. Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack

    Ars Technica · 2026-06-25

    Alibaba allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges.

26. Google to Lose High-Profile AI Staffers to Rival Anthropic

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Two leading AI researchers at Google are planning to leave for rival Anthropic, according to sources, adding to a series of high-profile departures that risk undercutting the

27. AI Sales Start to Justify Data-Center Spending Boom, Report Says

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Revenue from AI has reached a tipping point, showing that the hundreds of billions of dollars tech companies are spending on it may be economically sustainable

28. Qualcomm CEO on Data Center Chips, Adding Meta as a Customer

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Qualcomm says its expansion into chips for data centers will produce “billions” in revenue in the fiscal year that begins in October

29. Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-25

    Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

30. Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?

    IEEE Spectrum · 2026-06-25

    This article is brought to you by Capital One.After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon

31. The Hidden Economy Beneath Every Agent

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    A new analysis reveals the complex financial ecosystem supporting the development and deployment of autonomous AI agents.

32. DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.0: An Open-Source Coding Model Family That Learns Its Own RL Scaffolds

    MarkTechPost · 2026-06-25

    DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source coding model family built on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5.

33. General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-25

    General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

34. Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-25

    Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

35. Bob Sloan's Market Positioning Warning

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Markets may be near record highs, but Bob Sloan, S3 Partners Founder & Managing Partner says the real story is happening beneath the surface.

36. Apple to Skip High-End M6 Mac Chips in Favor of AI-Focused M7 Line

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Apple Inc. is making one of the biggest-ever changes to its Mac silicon strategy, preparing to jump ahead to a new artificial intelligence-focused chip generation for its next

37. Micron's AI Pricing Power Explained

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Micron's pricing power may have permanently changed the semiconductor industry. D.A.

38. Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception

    The Decoder · 2026-06-25

    A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions.

39. General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-25

    General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

40. Substrate-Bound Coupling in Human-LLM Interaction

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    Researchers have demonstrated a novel method for more tightly integrating human feedback into large language model training

41. 3 Agents. 3 LLMs. 1 Aging GPU: Engineering Parallel Inference on Bare Metal

    Towards Data Science · 2026-06-25

    Beat the 8GB VRAM limit. Learn how to run three different LLMs on a single 8GB GPU using C++ layer multiplexing and admission control.

42. Nvidia Wants to Make Humanoid AI Robots Safer Around Humans

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Humanoid robots are getting smarter and moving closer to the real world. But before they can work alongside humans

43. I Built an Azure AI Agent That Passed Every Test. Here’s Why I Still Added a Human Approval Step.

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    An independent developer demonstrated an Azure AI agent capable of passing all predefined tests, yet chose to integrate a human review checkpoint.

44. Apple jacks up prices on its MacBooks and iPads - here's how much more you'll pay

    ZDNet · 2026-06-25

    Yes, you can blame AI. The price increases result from surging memory chip costs and short supply.

45. Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-25

    Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

46. DeepSeek Plans to Double Staff Across All Departments

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    China’s DeepSeek, fresh off agreements for a blockbuster fundraising, said it is working to at least double the size of all departments

47. Multi-Agent Memory Is Harder Than You Think

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    Why multi-agent systems that look brilliant in demos start contradicting themselves in production.

48. Repositioning retail for the AI era

    MIT Technology Review · 2026-06-25

    Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice.

49. Insurers turn to generative AI for catastrophe modeling, but hallucinations and sales logic could get in the way

    The Decoder · 2026-06-25

    Diffusion models generate tens of thousands of plausible weather events where historical data doesn't exist. Insurers are hoping for more precise risk assessments.

50. Google Turned LLM Load Balancing Into Scheduling. What That Means for the Rest of Us

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    Google has refined its approach to LLM deployment by treating inference load balancing as a scheduling problem, optimizing resource allocation for large language models.

51. Letting an LLM Pick the Right RAG Page: The Arbiter Pattern at the End of Retrieval

    Towards Data Science · 2026-06-25

    Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7C] - One LLM call ranks the candidates with reasons.

52. EU Held Talks With White House on Anthropic After Mythos Cutoff

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    The European Union held discussions with the Trump administration on access to Anthropic PBC’s most advanced artificial intelligence models after the US restricted foreign

53. Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content

    The Decoder · 2026-06-25

    Two former xAI employees estimate that porn accounts for well over half of all Grok traffic. xAI is leaning into it, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google won't touch adult content.

54. The Calibration Problem in Medical AI: Why Confidence Scores Can Be Misleading

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    A recent analysis highlights a critical flaw in medical AI: confidence scores often fail to accurately reflect true uncertainty

55. AI Cloud Provider IREN Gets Logo on Golden State Warriors Jerseys

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    The latest sign of the AI data center boom going mainstream: IREN Ltd., an Australia-founded cloud computing provider

56. For $4,500 a Week, AI Can Tutor Your Kids in the Hamptons

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-25

    Artificial intelligence is coming to summer school in the Hamptons this year, with tech-powered programs teaching academics alongside lessons in how to prepare a gourmet meal and

57. What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math

    IEEE Spectrum · 2026-06-25

    In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D.

58. Building AI-Powered Products— Prompt to Profit · Day 22 of 30

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    A new framework has been introduced to guide developers through the process of translating AI model capabilities into commercially viable products.

59. Building an LLM from Scratch with Pytorch

    Towards AI · 2026-06-25

    A recent publication detailed the process of constructing a large language model using PyTorch, outlining architectural choices and training methodologies.

60. Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-25

    Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.