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Good morning, tech enthusiasts. Apple just hiked Mac and iPad prices, with the company citing a memory chip market so broken that CEO Tim Cook called it a “hundred-year flood” — and said he’d never seen anything like it in over 40 years.

The AI infrastructure boom eating up global DRAM supply is now hitting your wallet too — and Apple is warning this might just be the beginning.

In today’s tech rundown:

Apple raises prices, blames AI chip crunch
Slate’s $25K electric truck is open for preorders
Zoox’s new robotaxi is a sweeter ride
YouTube Shorts just got even shorter
Quick hits on other tech news

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

APPLE

🍎 Apple raises prices, blames AI chip crunch

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The Rundown: Apple just hiked prices on its Macs and iPads by $100–$200, or more on some models, blaming soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI boom — with shares dropping in their worst session in over a year.

The details:

MacBook Neo jumped from $599 to $699, Air from $1,099 to $1,299, and Pro from $1,699 to $1,999. iPad Pro rose to $1,199 and Air to $749.
iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods were spared for now, but Apple hinted more products could follow.
DRAM prices surged nearly 100% in Q1 2026 and are set to jump another 58–63% this quarter, a crisis some analysts have dubbed “RAMageddon.”
Apple shares fell over 6% Thursday, as incoming CEO John Ternus prepares to inherit the memory crisis when he takes over on September 1.

Why it matters: This isn't just an Apple story — Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo, and others have all raised prices or flagged increases, meaning the AI infrastructure buildout is now hitting consumer hardware. IDC estimates the PC market will contract 11.3% this year, with the cheapest laptops at greatest risk of disappearing entirely.

SLATE

🛻 Slate's $25K electric truck is open for preorders

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The Rundown: Jeff Bezos-backed EV startup Slate opened pre-orders for a $24,950 electric pickup truck — what it says is the cheapest new truck in America — that ships with hand-crank windows and no infotainment screen by design.

The details:

Slate’s truck opens at $24,950 with base range bumped to 205 miles (up from 150); SUV conversion version: $29,950. First deliveries are expected this year.
Every truck ships in gray composite; buyers customize via wraps and bolt-ons — skipping the factory paint shop is core to hitting the price point.
Pre-orders are live via direct sales only, and Slate has granted Carvana a warrant to purchase its shares in a likely distribution tie-up.
For comparison, the Chevy Bolt starts at $28,995 with 262 miles of range; Ford is prototyping a $30K electric midsize pickup due in 2027.

Why it matters: The $7,500 federal EV tax credit is gone, emissions rules are loosening, and major automakers are shelving affordable EV programs, making Slate’s timing a bit tricky. If the company can actually manufacture at scale at a price even lower than the popular Bolt, it could genuinely expand who can afford to go electric.

ZOOX

🚖 Zoox’s new robotaxi is a sweeter ride

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The Rundown: Amazon’s Zoox just unveiled a production-ready refresh of its bidirectional robotaxi — the same boxy silhouette with more creature comforts and built to roll off the line at up to 100 units a week.

The details:

This refresh is about comfort, with ergonomic seat padding, fluted charging pads to keep phones in place, bigger cupholders, and a more vivid touchscreen.
On the outside, Zoox relocated its bidirectional reflectors and added two-way audio, enabling riders to communicate with support tech and first responders.
The updated vehicles are currently giving free rides in Austin, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Miami.
Zoox is awaiting an NHTSA exemption to run up to 2,500 driverless vehicles — public comments closed in April, and the decision is still pending.

Why it matters: Zoox designed its robotaxi without a steering wheel or pedals, which means existing NHTSA safety standards don’t straightforwardly apply — an exemption is a prerequisite for the first paying customer. Amazon has $1.2B in, a production-ready vehicle, and four test cities, while Waymo logs 500K paid rides a week.

YOUTUBE

👀 YouTube Shorts just got even shorter

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The Rundown: YouTube is rolling out its most significant Shorts redesign yet — ditching the dislike button, swapping likes for hearts, adding 2x playback speed, and introducing a distraction-free viewing mode.

The details:

2x playback speed lets users burn through Shorts even faster — YouTube’s framing: “absorb information more quickly or find your favorite part faster.”
The dislike button is gone entirely — users who want to push back on content are now limited to “Not Interested” and “Don’t recommend this channel.”
The thumbs-up is out too, replaced by a heart emoji — a small but telling cosmetic shift toward a warmer, more algorithmically frictionless experience.
The new “Clear Screen mode” strips all icons and text from the playback view, giving users a clean, uninterrupted look at the video itself

Why it matters: YouTube was a bit late to short-form video — Shorts launched years after TikTok and Reels had locked in user habits. Ditching the dislike button and engineering for speed shows it’s betting on frictionless engagement over pretty much everything else.

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Samsung Group reportedly plans to announce a $648B, 10-year investment in South Korea spanning semiconductors, AI, batteries, and displays.

Apple is skipping the M6 Pro and Max high-end chips entirely, jumping straight to an AI-focused M7 in 2027, Bloomberg reports.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he wants Australia’s social media ban for children strengthened after a study showed it has done little to curb teen use.

The FCC launched a sweeping review of the ~$2B E-Rate program that subsidizes internet access for schools and libraries, citing screen time concerns.

Disney is paying $50M to settle claims it forced YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream to bundle ESPN, inflating subscriber costs.

NHTSA is proposing to eliminate the manual brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles to accelerate robotaxi deployment on U.S. roads.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly ordered a small team to build “Arena,” a dedicated prediction-market app separate from Meta’s social media platforms.

A second worker was killed at BYD’s Szeged, Hungary factory construction site on June 18 — struck by a truck — marking the second fatality in four months.

Spain now requires mobile carriers to keep networks running for at least four hours during power outages to ensure people can still make calls and access mobile data.

The Trump administration barred Chinese-owned Swedish EV maker Polestar from selling new EVs in the U.S. starting with the 2027 model year.

Bumble is reportedly working with Morgan Stanley to explore a potential sale amid slowing growth in the online dating market.

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White House reins in OpenAI's GPT-5.6

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Anthropic isn’t the only one facing blowback for building a powerful AI model. OpenAI is now pretty much in the same position — for the same reason.

The White House has asked the company to limit the release of its next major model, GPT-5.6, as it brings “Mythos-like” capabilities and requires thorough testing before wider availability to the public.

In today’s AI rundown:

The White House limits GPT-5.6 release
Rowan’s Corner: The AI avatar confession
Give your AI agent a credit card (safely)
Anthropic flags Alibaba’s ‘largest’ distillation attack
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

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OPENAI

‼️ The White House limits GPT-5.6 release

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The Rundown: The Trump administration just asked OpenAI to limit the release of GPT-5.6 to select government-approved partners before any wider launch — citing security concerns stemming from the model’s capabilities, The Information reports.

The details:

Under the staggered rollout, OpenAI will preview the model to a small group of partners, with the government approving access “customer by customer.”
The intervention came as 5.6 is considered to have the same capability threshold as Mythos, with the government wanting to test it for safeguards.
In a memo, CEO Sam Altman told employees that this was the best path to getting 5.6 released, with a general release likely “a couple of weeks later.”
He also said that OAI has made it clear to the WH that this is not the preferred long-term model, and it will work toward a more sustainable release approach.

Why it matters: First, it was Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Now, it’s GPT-5.6. The pattern is clear: the U.S. is actively deciding when and how frontier AI reaches the public. The framing is security, not restriction, but the precedent is set. As models approach Mythos-level, government sign-off may become a new step before wider release.

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ROWAN’S CORNER

🪞 The AI avatar confession

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Rowan: For about a year, the face on our Instagram videos wasn’t fully me.

I’m a writer first. I built my audience on X and started The Rundown partly to avoid being on camera. But video was where the next wave of readers lived, and I was working 80-hour weeks with no time to get good at it.

So we ran an experiment. We cloned my face with HeyGen and my voice with ElevenLabs, fed the clone the stories we were already writing, and let an AI version of me host an Instagram account. Our readers were in on the whole thing.

It worked. The account went from zero to around 200K followers in about a year.

The surprising part wasn’t that we should spin up a dozen avatar accounts. It was clarity on where the media is headed: on one side, slop farms cranking out junk. On the other, authentic human brands that people actually trust. Everything in between dies.

So we shut it off, and I went back on camera myself. A 5% gain in authenticity is worth 500x down the line.

Our avatar wasn’t “slop” in the traditional sense. The team poured hours into every video: research, scripting, regenerating audio, and editing. But it wasn’t fully authentic either. It sat in the middle, and the middle has no moat. Authenticity is the moat now.

AI TRAINING

🛍️ Give your AI agent a credit card (safely)

The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to let an AI agent make a real online purchase without handing over your real card. We tested Agentcard, which gives an AI agent a capped prepaid card, by having Codex buy a low-cost item online.

Disclaimer: If you try this, read the Agentcard docs, only connect through Agentcard’s official Stripe connection, and fund it with a prepaid or low-limit card.

Step-by-step:

Install the AgentCard CLI, sign in, complete the setup through the official Stripe flow, then create a low-limit virtual card for a small test purchase
Give your AI agent (we used Codex) a tightly scoped checkout task: one merchant, one product, a maximum budget, use the AgentCard virtual card for payment, and stop before clicking Place Order
Watch as the agent works, approve any login, verification, or payment prompts, and only authorize the purchase after reviewing the final checkout screen
After the purchase, review the transaction history and remaining balance, then close the virtual card so it can’t be used again

Pro tip: Try AgentCard’s built-in shopping tools for supported merchants like DoorDash, which let agents search, budget, check out, and reorder within limits.

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ANTHROPIC

🛡️ Anthropic flags Alibaba’s ‘largest’ distillation attack

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The Rundown: Anthropic just accused Alibaba of running the largest known distillation attack, with 28.8M Claude exchanges extracted through nearly 25K fraudulent accounts in 45 days — targeting its AI models’ most advanced capabilities.

The details:

Distillation attacks work by querying a frontier model at scale and using the responses to improve a weaker one, capturing advanced capabilities.
In this attack, disclosed in a letter to the Senate Banking Committee, Claude’s agentic reasoning, coding, and long-horizon task capabilities were targeted.
In Feb., Anthropic had disclosed attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax involving 16M+ exchanges. OpenAI also raised similar concerns.
Anthropic is calling for antitrust clarity to let AI labs share threat intel, stronger chip export controls, and sanctions against Chinese labs behind distillation.

Why it matters: Distillation is a legitimate technique — every major lab does it. But there’s a difference between shrinking your own model and systematically harvesting a competitor’s capabilities. China’s AI progress has been real and impressive. The question is how much of it was earned, and how much was extracted.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs reportedly hired the founders and team behind AI security startup Virtue AI to strengthen its AI safety and agent security efforts.

Apple raised prices mid-cycle across several product categories, with Macs and iPads hit hardest, as memory and storage prices continue to surge in the age of AI.

Microsoft introduced AI Skills for Copilot in Excel, enabling reusable AI workflows, including pre-built skills for financial modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis.

U.S. giants, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon, backed the launch of RAISE US, a $500M initiative to help Americans prepare for AI job disruption.

Google is reportedly reorganizing its AI coding strike team into a dedicated “midtraining” group to catch up with Anthropic as key researchers leave for the rival lab.

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“I conduct my classes through Zoom. Since Zoom has the audio transcript feature, I save each one into a folder called ‘Class Transcripts.’ At the end of the week, Co-Work runs a scheduled task to review all the interactions in the classes I’ve had, highlights specific moments to flag, strengths, watch points, and next steps, against 6 frameworks I prioritize as an online educator. (CoI Facilitator, Online Learning Synthesist, Social Network Interaction Designer, and TBL Facilitator.)

It then suggests a few specific things I can do to improve my teaching. This way, I get incrementally better and better at my job!”

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Robotics

Agility Robotics going public at $2.5B

Good morning, robotics enthusiasts. Salem, Oregon’s Agility Robotics is going public via SPAC at a $2.5B valuation — ticker $AGLT — beating better-funded rivals like Figure AI to become the first pure-play humanoid company trading on U.S. markets, with its bipedal Digit robot already on Toyota and Schaeffler factory floors.

Now investors get to decide just how real the humanoid hype actually is.

In today’s robotics rundown:

Agility Robotics set to go public at $2.5B
Morgan Stanley doubles China’s humanoid forecast
MIT solves tiny robots’ navigation problem
Robot.com and Physical Intelligence’s new humanoid
Quick hits on other robotics news

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AGILITY ROBOTICS

🤖 Agility Robotics set to go public at $2.5B

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The Rundown: Agility Robotics is going public via SPAC at a $2.5B valuation, merging with Churchill Capital Corp XI to become the first pure-play humanoid company to trade on U.S. markets — beating better-funded rivals like Figure AI to Wall Street.

The details:

The deal is expected to generate more than $620M in proceeds, including ~$200M from a group led by manufacturing giant Foxconn.
Agility’s Digit is deployed across nine customer sites, including Schaeffler and Toyota, with more than 65K hours of real-world operation logged.
The cash is meant to scale production of Digit v5, a next-gen model designed to work smarter and move beyond fenced-off industrial cells.
Agility claims $300M+ in committed Digit v5 orders, but filings show the figure comes from a single undisclosed customer’s 3-year contract for 1K robots.

Why it matters: If the deal closes, Agility would be the first U.S. pure-play humanoid company with real deployments. Going public via SPAC won’t let Agility hide from the challenge much longer — scaling robots that work alongside people is brutally capital-intensive, and the market will now judge whether Digit can survive production reality.

CHINESE ROBOTICS

📈 Morgan Stanley doubles China’s humanoid forecast

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The Rundown: Morgan Stanley raised its 2026 forecast for Chinese humanoid shipments for the second time this year — now projecting 50K units, up from an initial January estimate of 14K, CNBC reports.

The details:

China’s humanoid market is projected to hit $2B this year and $15B by 2030, with annual shipments reaching 446K units.
The biggest demand signal: a ~$1B State Grid procurement order covering 500 humanoids, 3K dual-arm robots, and 5K quadruped robots.
China already accounts for 80%+ of global humanoid shipments, led domestically by Agibot, Unitree, UBTECH, and Leju.
Beijing has made “embodied AI” a five-year national priority, directing local governments to subsidize startups and banks to extend favorable lending.

Why it matters: China is moving faster from lab to deployment than anyone projected, with state-backed industrial policy now aligned behind humanoid robotics at scale. The gap with U.S. competitors is growing: China’s top two players each shipped 5K+ units in 2025, while Figure AI and Tesla each moved a few hundred or fewer.

MIT

🔎 MIT solves tiny robots’ navigation problem

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The Rundown: MIT’s new Gleanmer chip gives tiny robots a low-power way to see the world in 3D — turning depth-camera data into real-time navigation maps while sipping about 6 milliwatts or roughly LED-scale power.

The details:

The chip is built for small autonomous machines, like inspection drones and confined-space robots that cannot carry bulky mapping hardware.
Instead of voxel-heavy 3D maps, Gleanmer represents obstacles with Gaussian ellipsoids, compressing complex geometry into less memory.
Its companion algorithm, GMMap, processes depth images in a single pass, so the chip does not need to store whole images or revisit raw pixels repeatedly.

Why it matters: Tiny robots are useful only if they can understand complicated spaces without burning through their batteries. Gleanmer suggests that serious 3D spatial awareness could move out of power-hungry rigs and into microbots, AR glasses, and other edge devices that need to navigate the world on a tiny energy budget.

U.S. HUMANOIDS

🤝 Robot.com and Physical Intelligence’s new humanoid

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The Rundown: San Francisco’s Robot.com, the campus delivery startup formerly known as Kiwibot, is pivoting to workplace automation with a new wheeled humanoid built in partnership with Physical Intelligence.

The details:

The robot, called R-noid, is designed to handle repetitive commercial tasks like packing orders, loading boxes, and preparing workstations.
Robot.com is targeting warehouses, logistics operations, food service, and other commercial environments.
R-noid is wheeled rather than bipedal, a form factor that trades mobility for stability and easier deployment in structured indoor spaces.
Physical Intelligence — the robot startup backed by Google and Bezos — gives R-noid access to generalist manipulation models trained across diverse tasks.

Why it matters: Robot.com’s last-mile delivery robots, once confined to college campuses, are eyeing a bigger commercial opportunity in indoor automation. With Physical Intelligence’s software stack underneath, R-noid is betting that general-purpose manipulation is the faster path to warehouse-scale deployment.

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NVIDIA unveiled Halos for Robotics, a full-stack safety system adapted from its autonomous vehicle technology, with Agility Robotics as the first adopter.

Hyundai is buying out SoftBank’s remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to take full ownership and fast-track a Nasdaq IPO by 2027 or 2028.

Boston Dynamics is investing $100M to build an advanced robotics and AI center near its Massachusetts headquarters — a move expected to add 1,250 jobs by 2033.

Howard Lutnick warned top robotics execs that the Commerce Department is reviewing Chinese robotics imports and may move to restrict them, Politico reported.

JD.com founder Richard Liu said that robots will “sooner or later” replace the Chinese e-commerce giant’s 700K delivery couriers.

China is turning to AI-powered humanoids to plug its looming labor shortfall as its workforce shrinks sharply over the coming decades, The Financial Times reports.

The NTSB opened an investigation into a crash in Katy, Texas, where a Tesla driver allegedly using Autopilot slammed into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman.

Norway just sent an autonomous submarine the size of a torpedo 20K feet into the deep sea to map one of Earth’s last unexplored frontiers.

UBTech debuted the Walker C1 — a full-size service humanoid — as the official “silicon ambassador” at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing.

WeRide is partnering with Geely to launch purpose-built right-hand-drive robotaxis, with commercial services starting in Hong Kong.

Realbotix — a firm that emerged from a lifelike doll manufacturer — launched what it’s calling the first humanoid deployment in a U.S. public school district.

Waymo’s charging partner Terawatt Infrastructure is securing up to $300M to buy and build EV and autonomous-vehicle charging depots in the U.S. and abroad.

Indian factory workers are being made to wear head-mounted cameras to film their tasks to train robots, raising concerns over exploitation, consent, and job security.

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OpenAI's spicy new custom AI chip

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Back in October, OpenAI and Broadcom said they'd build custom chips together. Nine months later, the first one is running in the lab — and OpenAI's own AI helped build it.

Jalapeño is OpenAI's spicy entry into owning its own compute layer, with "substantially better than current state-of-the-art" performance claims that could give the AI giant a serious efficiency edge.

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In today’s AI rundown:

OpenAI designs its first custom AI chip
Anthropic, OpenAI join $500M plan to kill colds
Get World Cup ticket deals with AI price tracking
The Fable 5 comeback starts taking shape
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🌶️ OpenAI designs its first custom AI chip

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The Rundown: OpenAI just shared new details on Jalapeño, the company’s first custom chip co-built with Broadcom in just nine months to run ChatGPT, Codex, and future agents more efficiently while reducing reliance on Nvidia.

The details:

OAI says Jalapeño went from design to factory-ready in nine months, with its own models helping in design and optimization.
Jalapeño is an ASIC chip that handles inference for running finished models for users, different from the chips used in training.
OpenAI also revealed that Jalapeño has delivered “performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art” in testing.
OpenAI is pushing to power 10 GW of compute with custom chips by 2029, with Nvidia still anchoring model training.

Why it matters: OAI believes the buildout is “the fastest ASIC development cycle ever achieved”, and that’s only going to accelerate as its models become a bigger part of the process. Owning the silicon, models, and products at once lets OAI tune each layer for the other, unlocking cost and speed efficiency gains across the board.

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INTERCEPT

🦠 Anthropic, OpenAI join $500M plan to kill colds

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The Rundown: Stripe, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, and other donors formed Intercept, a $500M nonprofit funding respiratory-virus prevention tools and cleaner indoor-air tech — hoping to make routine sickness like cold and flu “a thing of the past”.

The details:

The group will fund development of shots, sprays, and pills that block dozens of respiratory viruses, plus air-cleaning tech for offices and schools.
Intercept says people lose 15-25 days a year to routine respiratory infections, adding up to roughly $600B in global productivity losses.
The $500M isn't meant to bring products to market, but take early research far enough that pharma firms and investors take over the costly final stretch.

Why it matters: We’ve seen plenty of lofty missions for curing medical issues in the AI-driven science age, but this one hits close to home for everyone. The deep-pocketed AI giants (and their employees) are hoping that funding the awkward middle of development that pharma won’t touch can help get a universal problem over the hump.

AI TRAINING

⚽️ Get World Cup ticket deals with AI price tracking

The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to turn ChatGPT Agent Mode into a recurring World Cup ticket scout. Run the search once, tune the prompt, then have ChatGPT check every morning.

Step-by-step:

Open a ChatGPT thread, type /agent, and give a brief detailing your location, the number of tickets needed, and the preferred venues, dates, and budget.
Prompt: “Build a World Cup 2026 ticket scout for [PARTY_SIZE] people from [HOME_CITY]. Include only [DOABLE_VENUES]. Check Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and [OTHER_TICKET_SOURCES]. Return a ranked table with match, date, venue, ticket total, transport, all-in total, link, and next action.”
Run the query once. Verify the result by clicking the source links and making sure the deals look real. Tweak, then turn off Agent Mode.
Now prompt: “Turn this into a recurring task every morning at 8:00 a.m,” and it will run every day, giving you updates on ticket deals.

Pro tip: Try the Codex desktop app for longer scouting runs. Codex is included with paid ChatGPT plans and can work longer while checking more sources.

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ANTHROPIC

👀 The Fable 5 comeback starts taking shape

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The Rundown: Anthropic's Fable and Mythos remain offline in compliance with the U.S. order, but there's smoke surrounding their path back — with Claude Code strings, White House talks, and a lawsuit hinting that the freeze may be starting to thaw.

The details:

A new Claude Code update log includes references to Fable usage and the removal of ‘purchased separately’, pointing to potential usage changes.
WIRED reported that the Trump admin is “happier” in talks with Anthropic, now dealing with co-founder Tom Brown instead of Dario Amodei in meetings.
Legal-tech firm Legion filed the first lawsuit against the order, calling it "unlawful" and arguing "the government’s real motive was unlawful retaliation."
Reps. Sam Liccardo, Jay Obernolte, and Ted Lieu gave Commerce until June 26 to lay out how and when the public could get the model back.

Why it matters: Where there is smoke, there is fire, and hopefully that means Fable’s return to the frontier is coming soon after nearly a month on ice. It sounds like removing Anthropic’s outspoken CEO from talks is working, given this quote from WIRED: “Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario and can actually engage”.

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Google AI researchers Jonas Adler, Alexander Prtizel, and Arthur Conmy are leaving the company and joining Anthropic, the latest in a wave of departures.

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"A young member of my family has selective mutism. At home, she is completely comfortable, but in social situations… speaking can be really hard for her. I wanted to see if I could build something that would help her practice in a low-pressure way.

Using Claude, I built a voice-based practice app from scratch. It lets her choose who she wants to practice with, such as a kid her age, a teacher, or a coach, and pick a real-world situation like a cafeteria.

I added background audio so the setting feels more realistic. The character asks her age-appropriate questions out loud, she responds using her voice, and Claude gives her warm, honest feedback. Parents can adjust the feedback style and the number of questions in each session. She is now using it, and that is what makes this one feel different for me. This was not about building something complex. It was about using AI to solve a real problem for someone I care about.”

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Meet your new Slack coworker — Claude

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Your Slack workspace has a new coworker — Claude.

Anthropic just debuted Claude Tag, which brings the agentic capabilities previously limited to Claude Code and Cowork into Slack channels, enabling entire teams to simply tag the AI to handle tasks ranging from engineering to marketing.

In today’s AI rundown:

Claude joins Slack as an agentic coworker
Meta doubles down on AI smart glasses
Build a Clippy-like desktop pet for Codex
Programming language for AI-driven biology
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ANTHROPIC

🤖 Claude joins Slack as an agentic coworker

Image source: Anthropic

The Rundown: Anthropic just launched Claude Tag, a new way to make its AI assistant available inside Slack, letting teams tag it like a teammate to handle tasks asynchronously and build context across channels, codebases, and tools over time.

The details:

While Claude Code brought agentic capabilities to individuals, Claude Tag takes it to teams, with the AI handling tasks for members in a Slack channel.
You just have to tag @Claude with the task, and the AI will break it into stages, work through them using approved tools and data, and respond when done.
Claude learns over time, builds context about the work being done, and can even take action across different channels — but only where it has access.
It also uses an ambient mode, where Claude fetches information from relevant channels and follows up on tasks that have gone quiet and may need attention.

Why it matters: Andrej Karpathy calls Claude Tag the “3rd major redesign of LLM UI UX,” and it’s hard to disagree. Going from chat and desktop to Slack — where most business context and tools live — is a natural next step. With Anthropic already rolling it out today, this release will surely hurt more than a few “agentic coworker” startups.

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😎 Meta doubles down on AI smart glasses

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The Rundown: Meta is doubling down on the AI wearable space with the launch of “Meta Glasses,” a new $299 line of smart glasses built in partnership with EssilorLuxottica and powered by its Muse Spark AI out of the box.

The details:

Meta Glasses come in three designs — Meta Adventurer, Meta Fury, and Meta Glasses by Kylie — spanning 26 styles across colors, lenses, and frames.
The Kylie variant, at $399, is designed to be a fan-favorite with an embedded gem, a custom chime, and the option to use Kylie Jenner’s voice for Meta AI.
The glasses use Meta’s Muse Spark AI, promising smarter answers, better visual understanding, turn-by-turn navigation, and live translation.
While the hardware remains the same as previous models, the price is the highlight, with Meta ditching the Ray-Ban/Oakley branding for affordability.

Why it matters: Meta’s AI glasses play has been far from perfect, but the company still holds ~80% of the market. With this release, it is implementing a two-tier strategy — Ray-Ban for fashion credibility, Meta Glasses for price accessibility — that aims to close all remaining gaps and further increase the lead over rivals, especially Google.

AI TRAINING

🐾 Build a Clippy-like desktop pet for Codex

The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to create a Clippy-like custom animated desktop pet for Codex. It will sit on your screen and show progress updates — keeping you informed while your agent works in the background.

Step-by-step:

Open the Codex app, update it, then go to Settings → Appearance → Pets to explore the built-in pets and see how they behave while Codex is working
Ask Codex for four simple mascot concepts that are readable at small sizes and work well on transparent backgrounds. Pick one and simplify it if needed
Prompt “Use @hatch-pet to create a custom Codex pet,” describing your mascot. Codex will generate the pet pack, poses, and desktop overlay assets
When the generation finishes, return to Settings → Appearance → Pets, click Refresh, select your new pet, and click Wake to bring it to life on your desktop

Pro tip: Keep your mascot simple. Clear animal or creature designs tend to generate more consistent sprite packs than complex characters with lots of details.

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AI BIOLOGY

🧬 Programming language for AI-driven biology

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The Rundown: Brian Hie — the Stanford professor behind Evo genomic language models — just released Proto, an open framework that lets researchers compose AI biology models and tools into unified pipelines, rather than running them in isolation.

The details:

Over 120 AI biology models exist, but combining them has been impossible due to incompatible software, conflicting dependencies, and different input formats.
Proto brings a shared language, taking a research goal, composing relevant models, scoring, and steering work across DNA, RNA, proteins, and ligands.
In tests, it designed cell-line-specific splicing patterns with 32% success, testing only 65 candidates, vs. 7% with previous methods testing ~1,000.
AI agents can also write Proto programs, with the team using Claude to diversify 249 human protein complexes and specify a lung cancer therapy.

Why it matters: AI biology models and tools have never been more capable, but most researchers still can’t combine them for maximum benefit. Proto is the integration layer that changes that. If it becomes the standard interface for biological AI, every new model plugs straight in. It won’t cure diseases on its own, but it will pave the way for it.

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📹️ Flow - Google’s creative AI studio, now generates videos with real locations

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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in an Axios interview that AI could “destroy small businesses” by making it harder for them to persuade agents to buy their products.

OpenAI researcher Shyamal Anadkat left the AI lab and returned to India, teasing a new AI venture and arguing that global AI breakthroughs can be built anywhere.

The Trump administration is pressuring Meta to submit its models for government reviews, as the U.S. increases scrutiny of advanced AI over security concerns.

Nvidia launched BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, which gives AI agents callable tools for protein structure prediction, molecular docking, generative chemistry, and more.

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“I am a special education teacher who has used AI to make learning accessible for my students...I used to spend hours developing activities. Now I can use AI as a brainstorming partner to develop and improve instructional lessons and activities.

Also, tabulating data is a big part of monitoring student success. Now, I can use AI not only to develop data collection systems but also to analyze and present data in a way that is meaningful and accessible to parents. I also used to have to coordinate individual learning for my disabled students. Now I can enter a specific target skill or level and develop lessons specific to that need.

After 30 years in special education, I feel like a first-year teacher again. Although I am still learning, the new, daily options for broadening my options are exciting and accessible. The user-friendly nature of The Rundown doesn’t leave people like me behind. Instead, it invites us into this new technology that will revolutionize all fields.”

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Tech

Meta's employee tracking hits a wall

Good morning, tech enthusiasts. Meta started logging its own employees’ keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots to train its AI, then accidentally exposed that data to the entire company.

The initiative, mandatory for most U.S. staff, captured computer usage before a permissions error left private conversations visible companywide. Meta has paused the program, but the backlash is just getting started.

In today’s tech rundown:

Meta pauses employee tracking program after leak
Instagram wants to be your next streaming service
Microsoft locks in 20 years of gas power
Stanford finds the off switch for aging joints
Quick hits on other tech news

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

👁️ Meta pauses employee tracking program after leak

Image source: Images 2.0 / The Rundown

The Rundown: Meta accidentally exposed employee keystroke data companywide while running a mandatory AI training program that most staff didn’t know was collecting their private conversations and performance records, Wired reports.

The details:

Meta launched the Model Capability Initiative (MCI) in April, logging keystrokes and mouse movements from most U.S. employees for AI training data.
A report was filed after employees found that collected data — including private conversations — was visible to far more workers than intended.
Meta classified it as a SEV 2, paused the program, and said there’s no indication that the data was improperly accessed.
Internal backlash was already brewing: a 1,500-person employee petition opposing the program predated the breach.

Why it matters: Meta’s employee tracking plan was already controversial before the data exposure. Now, the issue is bigger than whether the company should collect this kind of workplace data at all — it’s whether employees can trust Meta to handle it safely when they have little choice but to participate.

INSTAGRAM

📺 Instagram wants to be your next streaming service

Image source: Instagram

The Rundown: Instagram is making a serious play for the living room, expanding its TV app to Samsung devices while testing episodic series, long-form video, and live creator programming — formats it has never supported before.

The details:

The Samsung rollout extends the TV app’s reach; it had been limited to Amazon Fire TV and Google TV devices since launching last December.
New features include personalized channels, Stories support within the TV app, and the ability to cast Reels directly from your phone.
Instagram is also beginning to recruit creators to produce episodic content, serialized stories broken into one-to-three-minute installments.
Meta had already been testing a “Series” feature for episodic Reels on Instagram and Facebook earlier this month.

Why it matters: YouTube already overtook Netflix and other streaming services as the most-watched video provider on U.S. televisions in 2025, and Instagram is hoping creators can pull off a similar shift. If episodic and live formats gain traction, Meta starts competing for the TV attention that streamers have spent billions trying to keep.

MICROSOFT

🙊 Microsoft locks in 20 years of gas power

Image source: Ideogram / The Rundown

The Rundown: Chevron and Microsoft just signed a 20-year deal to build a 2.67-gigawatt gas-powered data center in the Permian Basin in West Texas, which the Wall Street Journal says could become one of the largest data centers in the U.S.

The details:

Chevron’s subsidiary Energy Forge One signed a 20-year PPA with Microsoft for Project Kilby, a co-located gas power and data center complex in Texas.
The 2K-acre Reeves County site will reportedly run on GE Vernova and Caterpillar turbines fed by Chevron’s Permian Basin gas.
Chevron is partnering with Joulent on development, targeting FID by the end of 2026, first power in 2028, and $10B+ in tax revenue.
The co-located design delivers power directly to Microsoft, limiting grid impact while giving Chevron cash flows decoupled from oil and gas price swings.

Why it matters: AI workloads are pushing tech giants to lock in decade-long energy supply deals, creating a new market for fossil fuel companies to plug directly into the data center buildout. Project Kilby marks Big Oil’s clearest bet yet that AI’s power hunger — not the energy transition — is the next growth frontier.

BIOTECH

🦵🏽 Stanford finds the off switch for aging joints

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The Rundown: Stanford researchers found that blocking an aging-related protein called 15-PGDH led to the regrowth of lost knee cartilage, raising hopes for a drug that could treat osteoarthritis without joint replacement surgery.

The details:

Stanford blocked 15-PGDH, a protein that doubles in aging joints, and saw dramatic cartilage regrowth in mice via both injections and systemic doses.
It works by reprogramming existing cartilage cells: the share of cells building healthy hyaline cartilage jumped from 22% to 42% after treatment.
Human cartilage removed during knee replacement surgeries also showed less cartilage breakdown and new cartilage generation after one week.
A 15-PGDH inhibitor is already in Phase 1 clinical trials for age-related muscle weakness and has shown a safe profile in healthy volunteers.

Why it matters: Osteoarthritis affects 1 in 5 U.S. adults and costs roughly $65B in healthcare annually, yet no approved drug can slow or reverse the underlying disease. This joins a wave of regenerative approaches, including University of Colorado scientists testing a slow-release injectable that nudges cells to regrow cartilage.

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Oracle said it cut about 21K jobs — 13% of its workforce — in the past year and that its growing use of AI has already replaced some roles and could drive further layoffs.

A Tesla plowed into a Texas home killing a 76-year-old woman — but the company says the driver, not Autopilot, had the pedal floored at 73 mph; NHTSA is investigating.

SpaceX has seen ~$400B wiped from its market value as its post-listing rally reversed, marking one of the largest single-day losses recorded for a public company.

WhatsApp’s CEO, Will Cathcart, is stepping down after seven years and will be replaced by Kunal Shah, founder of Indian fintech CRED.

Lucid slashed 18% of staff — around 1,500 jobs, its second major cut this year — as the struggling EV maker races to launch its first mass-market vehicle.

Claude Guillemot, who co-founded Ubisoft with his four brothers in 1986, died at 69 in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule

Rivian owners filed a class action suit against the EV maker, alleging it spent five years falsely promising hands-free, eyes-off driving that hasn’t yet been delivered.

Octopus Energy and CATL formed a joint venture called Swaptopus to roll out a network of battery swap stations for heavy trucks across Europe.

AI drug discovery firm Insilico Medicine signed a $2.5B deal with South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals to develop neuroimmune therapies using its Pharma.AI platform.

Trump signed two executive orders to accelerate U.S. quantum computing, directing federal agencies to help build a powerful research-grade quantum computer by 2028.

Italian software roll-up Bending Spoons — which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Eventbrite — is seeking to raise $1.62B in a Nasdaq IPO at a ~$19B valuation.

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Sakana’s Fugu takes aim at the frontier

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Relying on one AI model got scarier the day a U.S. order pulled Anthropic's top models. A Japanese lab’s answer is to never lean on a single one again.

Sakana’s Fugu orchestrates a group of models behind the scenes and claims to “stand shoulder to shoulder” with Mythos and Fable — though early reviews say the experience might not match the scoreboard.

In today’s AI rundown:

Sakana’s orchestration model aims at the frontier
SpaceX leases Colossus compute to Reflection AI
Cut typing time in half with AI voice commands
Google bankrolls A24 to build AI filmmaker tools
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

SAKANA

🇯🇵 Sakana’s orchestration model aims at the frontier

Image source: Sakana

The Rundown: Japan’s Sakana AI launched Fugu, a model that farms each request out to a pool of models through a single API, pitching multi-agent orchestration as a hedge against the export controls that pulled the plug on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable.

The details:

The core model chooses helpers, assigns work, checks results, and merges answers, hiding the multi-agent setup behind one API.
It comes in two versions on one API, with a faster Fugu for everyday coding and chat, and a heavier Ultra built for jobs like patent research and security testing.
Sakana claims both Fugu models perform above or near Fable 5 and the Mythos preview on several coding, reasoning, and science tests.
Sakana also pitched Fugu as “delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls” following the ban of Anthropic’s top models.
Reception has been mixed, with users reporting the model not performing at the frontier level and skepticism on model mix and cost.

Why it matters: Similar to OpenRouter’s Fusion, model orchestration is leading to interesting outcomes for labs trying to reach the frontier in creative ways. But the cost and lack of visibility for Fugu’s underlying models, combined with early reviews that don’t match the benchmarks, have us putting this in the wait-and-see file for now.

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SPACEX

🔌 SpaceX leases Colossus compute to Reflection AI

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The Rundown: SpaceX signed a deal with AI startup Reflection AI to rent $6.3B of Nvidia computing power, adding another new tenant to its Colossus data centers that are becoming a big AI moneymaker despite initially being built for its own Grok models.

The details:

The deal is the smallest of SpaceX's compute customers, with Anthropic at $1.25B a month, Google at $920M, and Cursor now acquired entirely for $60B.
The Colossus supercomputers began as Grok's training engine before shifting to provide compute capacity for other labs over the last year.
Reflection launched in October to build open frontier systems for government and enterprise, though it has yet to release a public model.

Why it matters: Grok may not be at the frontier, but that isn’t stopping Elon Musk and co. from cashing in on the other end of the equation — turning Colossus’ into rental centers for the compute crunch. Between an infra surge and space data center plans, SpaceX is looking well-positioned regardless of model performance.

AI TRAINING

🎙️ Cut typing time in half with AI voice commands

The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to share ideas faster with Typeless. Using dictation + AI, you will identify, research, and summarize a topic without touching your keyboard.

Step-by-step:

Download Typeless and complete the tutorial. Make sure the keyboard shortcuts don't conflict with other apps
Press Ask Anything to research: “What are some recent trends in consumer AI use cases that I could use to draft an interesting tweet? Pick one clear idea”
Open a useful article, select the relevant text, and tell Typeless to summarize it or rewrite it into your preferred format, such as an X thread or email
Use Ask Anything to open X, Gmail, or Docs, then dictate your draft naturally while Typeless cleans it up and turns rough speech into polished content

Pro tip: If you make a mistake while dictating, correct yourself naturally. Typeless's AI will understand and only write your final, corrected idea.

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GOOGLE & A24

🎬 Google bankrolls A24 to build AI filmmaker tools

Image Source: A24 / Google DeepMind

The Rundown: Google just put $75M behind indie film studio A24, pairing it with DeepMind to provide access to AI infrastructure and researchers — positioning the coming tools as filmmaker-shaped workflows rather than complete AI movie generation.

The details:

The deal gives Google its first studio stake, while A24 gets DeepMind research support across several projects without handing over any film library or data.
A24's tech arm, led by ex-Adobe exec Scott Belsky, is building AI storyboards that he said "won't look anything like the prompted generation type of AI".
The move ironically comes following A24’s ‘Backrooms’ success, with director Kane Parsons calling AI "a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot."

Why it matters: Hollywood keeps swinging between suing AI firms and signing with them. This partnership looks to avoid some of the core knocks on the tech’s use in the industry — but as we recently saw with director Martin Scorsese, even the lightest of AI touches can still be a bridge too far for a fanbase increasingly hostile towards it.

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🛠️ Trending AI Tools

🇯🇵 Sakana Fugu - Sakana’s new orchestration model nearing frontier
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🔒 Codex Security - OAI’s plugin for discovering, patching vulnerabilities
⚙️ Eve - Vercel's open-source framework to turn a file directory into an agent

📰 Everything else in AI today

The Five Eyes cyber agencies released a warning that AI is changing cyber risk in "months, not years," urging execs to harden defenses as attacks speed up.

OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cyber program, adding a Codex Security plugin, the full GPT-5.5-Cyber model, and a "Patch the Planet” effort to fix open-source flaws.

Micron signed a new strategic deal with Anthropic to supply memory and storage chips and co-design AI infrastructure, also investing in the lab's Series H round.

California Rep. Sam Liccardo introduced the SKILL Act, which would offer companies up to $5,000/worker in tax credits to fund AI job-training at colleges.

AI compute company Baseten announced a $1.5B funding round at a $13B valuation, after revenue grew roughly 20x in a year and its platform hit 1B+ daily inference calls.

NVIDIA said its Rubin servers are the first with 100% liquid cooling, running coolant at hot-tub temperature to cut cooling energy and reducing water use by “up to 100%”.

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“My business uses an ERP that's a bit dated, with very minimal reporting — but it has an API. I fed Claude the API documentation, and using MCP with Office 365, it created automated email reports for management: end-of-day sales by department and sales rep, plus morning reports with weekly and monthly trends on sales volume, product volume, and accounts receivable. They're scheduled to run twice a day on the server running the ERP.

I also had Claude create Zapier zaps that send new sales orders from our ERP to ShipStation, and tracking data back to our ERP when a shipment occurs.

These integrations would have cost thousands to hire a programmer to create. Now we can see sales and product movement trends, and it's a huge time saver — all these tasks were being done manually before.”

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Robotics

GM replaces 1K workers with 50 robots