Image created with OpenAI GPT-Image-1. Image prompt: 1966 Kodachrome photo-look, thin white frame, forest-green title band in upper left with stacked yellow/white serif text reading “BUSINESS”, band absent—only goats and empty feed buckets scene featuring a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills resting on the fence; gentle film grain, overcast daylight

Meet Green Dot Assist: Starbucks Generative AI-Powered Coffeehouse Companion – About Starbucks (points for the vocal frye) https://about.starbucks.com/press/2025/meet-green-dot-assist-starbucks-generative-ai-powered-coffeehouse-companion/

The Rise of Systems of Consolidation Applications (I firmly believe this is the AI super power and will help health care in particular) https://selinasstack.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-systems-of-consolidation

Glean raises $150M Series F at $7.2B valuation to transform how companies use AI to accelerate innovation https://www.glean.com/blog/glean-series-f-announcement

Meta is reportedly making a $15 billion bet on AGI | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/684322/meta-scale-ai-15-billion-investment-zuckerberg

NEW: More details on Meta’s new “”superintelligence”” team Meta has hired top Google DeepMind researcher @jack_w_rae and Johan Schalkwyk, ML lead of popular voice assistant app, Sesame. Plans to hire up to 50 ppl, including a chief scientist, per sources. w/ @KurtWagner8 https://x.com/shiringhaffary/status/1932852606851789278

RT @coryweinberg: Scoop on Meta/Scale deal deets: – Meta investing >$14B in Scale, owning 49% of the startup. – Alex Wang and other top Sc…”” / X https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/1932588243897270454

Scale AI founder Wang announces exit for Meta part of $14 billion deal https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/scale-ai-founder-wang-announces-exit-for-meta-part-of-14-billion-deal.html

Zuckerberg makes Meta’s biggest bet on AI, $14 billion Scale AI deal https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/zuckerberg-makes-metas-biggest-bet-on-ai-14-billion-scale-ai-deal.html

RT @deedydas: Meta is currently offering $2M+/yr in offers for AI talent and still losing them to OpenAI and Anthropic. Heard ~3 such cases…”” / X https://x.com/slashML/status/1932441521049006586

Our vision is for AI that uses world models to adapt in new and dynamic environments and efficiently learn new skills. We’re sharing V-JEPA 2, a new world model with state-of-the-art performance in visual understanding and prediction. V-JEPA 2 is a 1.2 billion-parameter model, https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1932808881627148450

The 80% price drop of o3 came with no performance trade-offs”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1932846451681337674

The Information: Amazon is gearing up to test humanoid robots that walk on two legs to deliver packages. The company has set up an indoor obstacle course to test robots from a variety of companies, including Unitree. Eventually, humanoid robots could ride in Amazon’s electric https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930525233511117224

This graph (shows a steep decline in organic search traffic) https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1932501681628905788

Narrator: There was, in fact, some disagreement. (a screen shot of a series of headlines conflicting around AI taking graduates jobs) https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1931007004387992039

💡David Tag from @LinkedIn reveals how they built their first production AI agent for hiring using LangChain and LangGraph. Learn the technical architecture behind LinkedIn Hiring Assistant and the framework that scaled AI development across 20+ teams. Watch the full session https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1933576634843738434

Assaf Elovic (Head of AI at @mondaydotcom ) revealed how they are using LangGraph and LangSmith to power their AI agent workforce. Watch the full session here: https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1932165368375841255

Four termsheets received in 2 weeks. Back to building. ✈️”” / X https://x.com/scottastevenson/status/1933117996068905457

🎉 We’ve raised $150 million at a $7.2 billion valuation – advancing our mission to transform how enterprises use AI to accelerate innovation. We’re grateful to our customers, partners, investors, and team for helping us reach this milestone. Your support fuels our momentum and https://x.com/glean/status/1932453797051211825

A post by Stripe engineer @thegautam on building a successful payments foundation model for fraud detection recently went viral. I want to talk about how unusual this particular use case is, which helps understand why such “”instant wins”” from deploying advanced AI are so rare. As”” / X https://x.com/random_walker/status/1932046940822212827

Sam Altman-backed Reddit just sued Anthropic over data scraping The company has alleged that Anthropic denied its licensing deal offer and hit its servers with bots over 100K times This comes a day after Anthropic cut off model access to OpenAI-acquired Windsurf https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1930540021028717054

Wave 10: The Windsurf Browser https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-10-browser

How 100 Enterprise CIOs Are Building and Buying Gen AI in 2025 | Andreessen Horowitz https://a16z.com/ai-enterprise-2025/

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix | by Netflix Technology Blog | Jun, 2025 | Netflix TechBlog https://netflixtechblog.com/uda-unified-data-architecture-6a6aee261d8d

Getty argues its landmark UK copyright case does not threaten AI | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/gettys-landmark-uk-lawsuit-copyright-ai-set-begin-2025-06-09/

OpenAI 🤝 Mattel:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1933221591350964633

Built an MCP Agent That Finds Jobs Based on Your LinkedIn Profile! Recently, I was exploring the OpenAI Agents SDK and building MCP agents and agentic Workflows. To implement my learnings, I thought, why not solve a real, common problem? So I built this multi-agent job search https://x.com/Arindam_1729/status/1928800978452595114

Fireflies.ai | AI Teammate to transcribe, summarize, analyze meetings, Real time AI note taker https://fireflies.ai/

Retellio | Turn Call Recordings into Actionable Insights https://www.retellio.com/

Incredible, but I vibe-coded something that might be useful. Talkbuddy: It’s a simple but powerful feedback tool for speakers, built with v0 and deployed on Vercel 1. Get audience ideas/questions at the start 2. Check the results at the end I’ll use it for my upcoming talks. https://x.com/FrancescoCiull4/status/1929506471844167728

Using LLMs to generate structured output is easy. But building high-quality document extraction with precise citations and reasoning for every key in the extracted output is harder. LlamaExtract is our agentic document extraction service, over even the most complex documents and https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1932852719292985359

Japanese Financial Benchmark “EDINET-Bench” Released Utilizing securities reports from EDINET, the Financial Services Agency’s electronic disclosure system, we have developed a Japanese financial benchmark to measure how well AI can handle advanced financial tasks.
https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1931887596323717406

We are pleased to announce that we have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hokuriku Financial Holdings, Inc. regarding a strategic partnership aimed at promoting regional finance and AI. https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1932359607122628809

Your shopping sidekick has arrived. 🛍️ Smarter finds, better deals, and tailored picks—all in one place. https://x.com/Copilot/status/1930327585222996156

Today’s outage is a reminder that you should be able to hotswap out the AI API you are using in your apps for one by another provider in the event of issues (though different models do prompt a little bit differently & you also want to make sure they have similar capabilities)”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1932436040855290151

If I could tell my younger self one thing after 20 years of building tech: move fast Speed is the ultimate advantage…the ultimate moat I used to chase perfect – every launch, every feature. But perfect slows you down. It blocks feedback, delays learning, kills momentum”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1933226344156221746

RT @scaling01: OpenAI might actually be forcing Google and Anthropic to lower pirces 😂”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1932566284270538966

Tim Cooked Didn’t invest in AI and released the worst, most soulless UI update in history https://x.com/scaling01/status/1932222559610659063

Translucent UI is usually a bad idea outside of movies and non-critical game interfaces. The early moments of joy are fleeting, while the usability issues remain. Windows and Mac have both been down this road before, but I guess a new generation of designers needs to learn the”” / X https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1932521605340483607

I would argue further that visionary leaders will figure out many ways for AI to help companies expand across a wide range of capabilities, focusing on AI primarily for cost-cutting is going to lead to trouble, both due to the jagged frontier & because competing firms will expand”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1931452272480846026

Corporate AI adoption may be leveling off, according to Ramp data | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/corporate-ai-adoption-may-be-leveling-off-according-to-ramp-data/

Astronomer: The Best Place to Run Apache Airflow® https://www.astronomer.io/

Exclusive: OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry, sources say | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-taps-google-unprecedented-cloud-deal-despite-ai-rivalry-sources-say-2025-06-10/

Course 5 of the Data Analytics Professional Certificate is now available, and it’s all about data storytelling. Learn the best techniques to: ✔️ Choose the right medium for your insights (dashboard, memo, presentation) ✔️ Design interactive dashboards using Tableau ✔️ Align https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1932507879266820343

AI’s talent war. Some directionality clearly stands out on this graph. 😃 https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1931308446726459563

Dynatrace Playground https://www.dynatrace.com/signup/playground/ai-observability/

I feel there are two parallel worlds of AI use developing with a growing divide between. Engineers use APIs while everyone else uses a chatbot. I think coders don’t take what experts can do with chatbots seriously & non-tech people don’t understand building scalable AI tools.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1930508633910964595

Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-08/meta-in-talks-for-scale-ai-investment-that-could-top-10-billion?embedded-checkout=true

Meta poaches 28-year-old Scale AI CEO after taking multibillion dollar stake in startup | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/meta-finalizes-investment-scale-ai-valuing-startup-29-billion-2025-06-13/

Monthly alternative data report: OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft Anthropic https://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/monthly-alternative-data-report-openai

From fishing family to Big Tech: French CEO takes on Silicon Valley https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fishing-family-big-tech-french-030253230.html?guccounter=1

Mattel and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration https://corporate.mattel.com/news/mattel-and-openai-announce-strategic-collaboration?_gl=1*m338lj*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTAzOTUyNTUyMC4xNzQ5NzQyODA1*_ga_6TREHF7P2E*czE3NDk3NDI4MDQkbzEkZzAkdDE3NDk3NDI4MDQkajYwJGwwJGgyMDI0MTI1NTg2

AMD turns to AI startups to inform chip, software design | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-turns-ai-startups-inform-chip-software-design-2025-06-13/

Telus offers to fully own digital unit for greater control of AI capabilities | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/telus-offers-fully-own-digital-unit-greater-control-ai-capabilities-2025-06-12/

If I want to compare the generation costs, latency and other attributes for all the video models out there — is there a good resource you would recommend? Interested in everything from the Chinese open weights models to Veo 3 etc.”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1932799827324064026

First time we get real data on ChatGpt’s resource use per query. And it’s barely anything https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1932767187871412515

OpenAI hits $10 billion in annualized revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/openai-hits-10-billion-in-annualized-revenue-fueled-by-chatgpt-growth.html

Meet your new AI (travel) agent. Agentic commerce, now available for hotels via @perplexity_ai and @stripe. 🏩⤵️”” / X https://x.com/jeff_weinstein/status/1929689699821728090

Pepsi partners with AGIBOT to launch a Pepsi-branded humanoid robot for promotional use. The “Fizz Bot” shared the stage with David Beckham at the launch event. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930376252940267885

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