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 “ETHICS”, goat hoof prints on the white border scene featuring a hovering holographic scales of justice beside a goat; 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

How @Uber used LangGraph to build AI developer agents that generate thousands of daily code fixes and saved 21,000+ hours — serving an organization of 5,000 developers working with hundreds of millions of lines of code. Watch their full session here: https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1932493346498543898

Geoffrey Hinton on our Brain vs AI Models —- From ‘Curt Jaimungal’ YT channel. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1931328195803959774

🚨 Alibaba, Tencent disable AI features during China’s gaokao exam AI features like image recognition in their chatbots (e.g., Qwen, Yuanbao, Kimi). Purpose: to prevent cheating via AI. → The move comes as China sees 13.4 million students sitting the exam this year. It’s a https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1932023557250515237

Chinese tech firms freeze AI tools in crackdown on exam cheats | China | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/09/chinese-tech-firms-freeze-ai-tools-exam-cheats-universities-gaokao

GenAI will remove any actionable information about someone that comes from non-real-life interactions. We will have to rely on “”rings of trust””, and my bet is on a revival/strengthening of the role of private clubs, resulting in a loss of opportunities for out-group people.”” / X https://x.com/francoisfleuret/status/1932683908715282670

Disney, Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/disney-nbcuniversal-studio-lawsuit-ai-midjourney-copyright-infringement-1236428188/

The Browser Company launches its AI-first browser, Dia, in beta | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/the-browser-company-launches-its-ai-first-browser-dia-in-beta/

It’s true. The Meta offers for the “”superintelligence”” team are actually insane. If you work at the big AI labs, Zuck is personally negotiating $10M+/yr in cold hard liquid money. I’ve never seen anything like it.”” / X https://x.com/deedydas/status/1932828204575961477

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Creating New Superintelligence AI Team – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/zuckerberg-recruits-new-superintelligence-ai-group-at-meta?embedded-checkout=true

That Altman essay… One thing you can definitely say about him and Dario is that they are making very bold, very testable predictions. We will know whether they are right or wrong in a remarkably short time https://x.com/emollick/status/1932564109477794146

some thoughts on human-ai relationships and how we’re approaching them at openai it’s a long blog post — tl;dr we build models to serve people first. as more people feel increasingly connected to ai, we’re prioritizing research into how this impacts their emotional well-being. https://x.com/joannejang/status/1930702341742944589

The Gentle Singularity – Sam Altman https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity

Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI): “”We do not know how far beyond human-level intelligence we can go, but we are about to find out”” https://x.com/scaling01/status/1932550566036804087

i like this take: “”The plan o3 gave us was plausible, reasonable; but the plan o3 Pro gave us was specific and rooted enough that it actually changed how we are thinking about our future.”””” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1932533208366608568

In expert evaluations, reviewers consistently prefer OpenAI o3-pro over o3, highlighting its improved performance in key domains—including science, education, programming, data analysis, and writing. Reviewers also rated o3-pro consistently higher for clarity, comprehensiveness, https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1932530411651150013

New paper shows a familiar result on LLMs & medicine: Doctors given clinical vignettes produce significantly more accurate diagnoses when using a custom GPT built with the (obsolete) GPT-4 than doctors with Google/Pubmed but not AI. Yet AI alone is as accurate as doctors + AI. https://x.com/emollick/status/1931907652118069510

Comet is peerless. Can’t wait to get everyone on it. More invites will go out this week as we near the final stage of testing ahead of the release.”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1933289407705960697

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

We keep talking about this binary future where we’re all watching the same Netflix show or we’re all lost in our own AI generated fever dreams. But that’s not how culture actually works. The interesting stuff happens in the middle. Think Westworld — the narrative division”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1932598550514586039

What “”Working”” Means in the Era of AI Apps | Andreessen Horowitz https://a16z.com/revenue-benchmarks-ai-apps/

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

This weekend I’m excited to share a tutorial that shows you how to build an agentic extraction workflow over a Fidelity Multi-Fund Annual Report: the document contains a list of multiple funds, with each fund reporting multiple tables of financial data. Extracting a list of https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1931810929425158272

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

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/

Ohio State launches bold AI Fluency initiative to redefine learning and innovation https://news.osu.edu/ohio-state-launches-bold-ai-fluency-initiative-to-redefine-learning-and-innovation/

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companies-tentative-deal-actors-strike-1236125631/

RT @higgsfield_ai: Higgsfield integrated Flux.1 Kontext. The content game changes today. Photo editing, cinematic motion, VFX, and avatar…”” / X https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1932903530173747261

RT @krea_ai: today, we’re introducing our first image model: Krea 1. Krea 1 offers superior aesthetic control and image quality. It has a…”” / X https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1932479466300670401

RT @HuggingPapers: NVIDIA just released Nemotron-Personas on Hugging Face An open-source dataset of 100k synthetically-generated personas…”” / X https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1932198253417861222

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

How we’re responding to The New York Times’ data demands in order to protect user privacy | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/

Sycophantic AI is one of the worst possible outcomes because it simply amplifies every existing belief. We need based AI. Your feelings don’t matter, and you are not the smartest, wisest and most beautiful person on the planet. Most young people are already delusional enough.”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1931373162479997268

The future of government work is here. Using Caucus, government employees can automate repetitive clerical tasks. With MCP integrations (including the first ever built for https://x.com/trycaucus/status/1929264100044931330

1/ 🚨 Trading crypto with JUST YOUR VOICE? Sounds like a movie, but I BUILT IT! 🎙️ 💸 Integrated #Claude s MCP server with @DeltaExFno And now I say “Buy 1000₹ of Ethereum,” and my bot does the rest! 😎 #CryptoTrading #VoiceTech https://x.com/yourasianquant/status/1928859588335391200

Voice cloning is now trivially easy with open source tools, while live avatar videos of real people are easy with proprietary tools & a variety of open source tools are getting there. Very limited time to adjust legal & financial safeguards to new ways of authenticating people”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1931364236304830675

We just launched our biggest update yet. Meet Higgsfield Speak — the fastest way to make motion-driven talking videos. Pick a style, choose an avatar, type a script. We do the rest — cinematic motion, voice, emotion. Comment Speak to get the full guide + promo code in the DM. https://x.com/higgsfield_ai/status/1930686472845455417

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

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

🔥 @harvey__ai’s Ben Liebald shares their proven approach to building legal AI agents using LangSmith evaluations and lawyer-in-the-loop methodology that lawyers trust for complex legal work. 🔥 Watch the full video to see their approach: https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1932858287265099900

Great takedown of AI calorie counting apps. The concept is bad, not just the execution—there isn’t enough information in images to estimate calories accurately. https://t.co/07PKR1ovX0 I suspect that the companies know it and don’t care. My guess is that “”calorie counting”””” / X https://x.com/random_walker/status/1932763118498685276

Introducing Amy – The AI Agent for Private Market Investors Stop wasting 30% of your week on busy work. Amy handles sourcing, diligence, ops, admin & research 24/7, remembers every interaction, and sharpens over time. Are you ready? https://x.com/joeprkns/status/1929904771193778537

Google Gemini can now handle scheduled tasks like an assistant | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/681762/google-gemini-scheduled-actions-planned-tasks

Extract – a system built by the UK government, using our Gemini foundational model – will help council planners make faster decisions. 🚀 Using multimodal reasoning, it turns complex planning documents – even handwritten notes and blurry maps – into digital data in just 40s. https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1932032485254217799

Google’s newest experimental AI is making cyclone predictions https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weather-lab/

We’re using AI to improve cyclone prediction. 🌀 Introducing Weather Lab: a new interactive platform developed with @GoogleResearch, hosting our experimental AI weather model which can predict a cyclone’s track, intensity, size and structure. Here’s how it works. 🧵 https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1933178918715953660

RT @HuggingPapers: LLMs often guess in math proofs! 😱 A new study, IneqMath, reveals LLMs struggle to construct rigorous proofs, even when…”” / X https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1932894338616574091

This is really good blog post Love that it highlights “context engineering” “Context Engineering In 2025, the models out there are extremely intelligent. But even the smartest human won’t be able to do their job effectively without the context of what they’re being asked to”” / X https://x.com/hwchase17/status/1933278290992845201

Just launched: our production ready Spreadsheet Agent! Industries like audit firms, tax teams, insurance and corporate finance waste 10+ hours a week manually processing hundreds of spreadsheet files, just copying and pasting numbers. Our agent solves this pain point using a https://x.com/llama_index/status/1930658429473104324

UK government harnesses Gemini to support faster planning decisions https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/united-kingdom/uk-government-harnesses-gemini-to-support-faster-planning-decisions/

Excited to partner with @TIME, one of the most iconic and trusted media brands in the world. We just gave all of their digital subscribers free Pro on @youdotcom for a year. This is just the beginning. Stay tuned.❤️ ⏰ https://x.com/RichardSocher/status/1932165821805326830

He is a doomer, but he keeps working on “”AGI””. This means one of two things: 1. He is intellectually dishonest and/or morally corrupt. 2. He has a huge superiority complex, thinking only he is enlightened enough to have access to AI, but the unwashed masses are too stupid or immoral to use such a powerful tool. In reality, he is deluded about the dangers and power of current AI systems. https://www.threads.com/@yannlecun/post/DKmejx6tFXd?xmt=AQF0ptpMYQkwdpX4dNPfZwCmGt2zqt12hnD9LN3wrXzH-g

my brain is special and conscious because it is made of meat”” / X https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1932316124596895923

The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YQW2mH9FyA

When people talk about AGI and super intelligence and all of that, our conviction is that it will come from the community and the whole field collaborating on this topic.”” this convo btw @operationdanish and @ClementDelangue is packed with sharp insights https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1932136783443001432

This is a fantastic application of applied interpretability! When using llms to review resumes, prior debiasing techniques break in more realistic settings. But simply finding and removing gender or race directions remains effective, beating existing than baselines!”” / X https://x.com/NeelNanda5/status/1933645976889422110

Claude Gov Models for U.S. National Security Customers \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-gov-models-for-u-s-national-security-customers

National Security Expert Richard Fontaine appointed to Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/national-security-expert-richard-fontaine-appointed-to-anthropic-s-long-term-benefit-trust

I replicated the Anthropic alignment faking experiment on other models, and they didn’t fake alignment – LessWrong 2.0 viewer https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/pCMmLiBcHbKohQgwA/i-replicated-the-anthropic-alignment-faking-experiment-on

Big question in AI is whether new entrants can still hope to reach the state-of-the-art, or whether learning curve plus compute needs are high enough that this is impossible. xAI did it with massive compute & hiring investment. But otherwise is the list of competitors fixed?”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1932945672300314659

AI + Continously updated personal health data fed to it can change healthcare. Correlations that aren’t obvious to humans jump out fast. AI isn’t YET replacing your doctor. It’s augmenting your ability to ask better questions. Most people don’t track enough data to even ask https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1931298548831731769

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/

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

🔍 SEAL and Red Team at @scale_ai present a position paper outlining what we’ve learned from red teaming LLMs so far—what matters, what’s missing, and how model safety fits into broader system safety and monitoring. 🔗 https://x.com/summeryue0/status/1932487755034210475

An International Energy Agency report projects that AI will drive a sharp increase in electricity use, which could double data centers’ consumption by 2030. However, the report also highlights how AI can reduce emissions by making energy systems more efficient. Tools that https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1932271502017064960

Human and LLM reasoning are a different as apples and potatoes. That is, one is a sweeter version of the other, with a shinier peel, but both grow on vines and are often interbred.”” / X https://x.com/goodside/status/1932965557214851229

wrote a new post, the gentle singularity. realized it may be the last one like this i write with no AI help at all. (proud to have written “”From a relativistic perspective, the singularity happens bit by bit, and the merge happens slowly”” the old-fashioned way)”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1932547247243505924

Harvard’s Institutional Data Initiative released nearly 1 million public domain books. The dataset spans 394 million pages and yields 242 billion tokens. It covers works from the 1400s through the 19th century. apnews. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1933411514284695792

Ask an Auditor: AI in GRC | Drata https://drata.com/resources/webinars/ask-an-auditor-ai-in-grc

What if Your AI Conversations Become Public? https://huggingface.co/blog/fdaudens/ai-chatbot-privacy-risks

1 – 2025.06.11 – Complaint w Exhibits[63] | PDF | Star Wars | Copyright Infringement https://www.scribd.com/document/874749031/1-2025-06-11-Complaint-w-Exhibits-63

I was recently on @BBCNewsnight to discuss the accelerating pace of advances in AI capabilities and the emergence of deceptive and self-preserving behaviours in frontier models. This conversation with @faisalislam covers many issues that inspired me to launch @LawZero_.”” / X https://x.com/Yoshua_Bengio/status/1932859177283801470

How to Use Banned US Models in China https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-grey-market-for-american-llms

recently the NYT asked a court to force us to not delete any user chats. we think this was an inappropriate request that sets a bad precedent. we are appealing the decision. we will fight any demand that compromises our users’ privacy; this is a core principle.”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1930785054005076100

Thanks for the shoutout in AI news @swyx 🫡 How does one become an AI Scientist? 🥁 Evals, Evals, Evals. Look at data! 🥁 @sh_reya and I are currently training ~700 AI scientists but we haven’t told them about their new title yet 🤫 https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/1933619275325190194

Taiwan May exports hit record on AI demand and ahead of US tariffs | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-may-exports-hit-record-ai-demand-ahead-us-tariffs-2025-06-09/

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/

Mistral got hit by export restrictions again! They couldn’t evaluate the latest DeepSeek and Qwen I am risking being detained by going around export restrictions and checking the numbers on Qwen TL;DR Qwen 4B is ~close to their model and the small 30B MoE is better, let’s not https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1932563462963507589

Redditor says ChatGPT saved his wife’s life by correcting a doctor’s fatal misdiagnosis. Comments are filled with people sharing their own stories. I don’t understand the AI haters at all. This technology saves lives. https://x.com/deedydas/status/1933370776264323164

BREAKING: Apple just proved AI “”reasoning”” models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don’t actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here’s what Apple discovered: (hint: we’re not as close to AGI as the hype suggests) https://x.com/RubenHssd/status/1931389580105925115

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

Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Identification Tech Expands to UK – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-08/sam-altman-s-eyeball-scanning-identification-tech-expands-to-uk?embedded-checkout=true

This was less than almost every estimate I have seem: according to the latest Sam Altman post, the average ChatGPT query uses about the same amount of power as the average Google search in 2009 (the last time they released a per-search number)… 0.0003 kWh https://x.com/emollick/status/1932569021746196673

Many deployed AIs are plausibly capable of substantially assisting amateurs at making CBRN weapons (most centrally bioweapons) despite not having the safeguards this is supposed to trigger. In particular, I think o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Sonnet 4 are plausibly above the relevant”” / X https://x.com/RyanPGreenblatt/status/1931834526231339194

An example of why I think current LLMs are enough to change lots of work even if they don’t get better, once we start integrating them with other systems GPT-4 (now obsolete) went from 30% accuracy to 87% accuracy in clinical oncology decisions when given access to medical tools https://x.com/emollick/status/1931021160914821241

The reality of the UK AI and Biosciences industry by ChatGPT 🙁 LLMs are great for fact checking gov. Me: what do you think (critically) of the following announcement? Is it really helping the UK given that USA companies enforce 6 month garden leaves in the UK? ChatGPT: The”” / X https://x.com/NandoDF/status/1932549812785754524

We have been hearing many cases like this, ChatGPT is literally saving many lives. It will only be increasingly so. This is what keeps us up at night.”” / X https://x.com/shuchaobi/status/1933511659232112751

I am really encouraged by the interest in Perplexity Finance and the query growth in this vertical. It’s rare to see people complaining about things almost every day asking for features and changes. That’s a signal that you’ve shipped something good and are on a trajectory to”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1933508237934145989

It’s actually a good thing these days to have subtle grammar errors in your writing. It sprinkles on a clear human touch. You never want your reader questioning if what they’re reading was written or edited by chatgtp”” / X https://x.com/_jasonwei/status/1931467704495649165

[2506.07330] JavelinGuard: Low-Cost Transformer Architectures for LLM Security https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.07330

Think Like a Person Before Responding Online hate speech needs effective automated counter-narratives (CNs), but tone, accessibility, and ethics pose concerns. This paper evaluates LLMs’ counter-narrative generation using persona prompts, assessing four dimensions. Methods 🔧: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1931233410690818528

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