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  • Briefing date: 2026-06-25
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Stories covered on 2026-06-25

  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