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Anthropic just dropped a free course on building AI Apps with MCP. Learn to connect AI Agents to external data sources like GitHub, Google Docs, local files using MCP. 100% free. https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1929916710682783915

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

Tulsi Gabbard says AI is speeding up US intelligence work | AP News https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-trump-ai-amazon-intelligence-beca4c4e25581e52de5343244e995e78

Uber to launch self-driving taxis in London | Fortune Europe https://fortune.com/europe/2025/06/12/uber-launch-self-driving-taxis-london-complex-roads-andrew-macdonald/

Nvidia’s pitch for sovereign AI resonates with EU leaders | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nvidias-pitch-sovereign-ai-resonates-with-eu-leaders-2025-06-16/

Sakana AI and MUFG sign agreement to automate creation of banking documents https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1934264383510925732

Today we’re announcing we’re going to build an AI cloud together with @MistralAI”” – Jensen @nvidia GTC today unveiling Mistral Compute This is a massive win for America and for open source Open models on US chips wil be the template for AI infrastructure buildouts globally https://x.com/AnjneyMidha/status/1932782589410226388

Seedance 1.0: Exploring the Boundaries of Video Generation Models – Publications – ByteDance Seed Team https://seed.bytedance.com/en/public_papers/seedance-1-0-exploring-the-boundaries-of-video-generation-models

So where did ByteDance Seed come from? The team was actually founded in 2023, but the “ByteDance Seed” branding didn’t become visible externally until around January 2025. Before that, their papers listed more generic ByteDance-affiliated names, without a consistent team”” / X https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1935603383014248764

#CVPR2025 Picks #3 Alibaba just released VideoRefer-VideoLLaMA3 (2B & 7B video LLMs with A2.0 license!) These models can understand videos and segment objects, answer questions about them throughout the video at the same time 🤯 see it in action ⤵️ https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1935739721772081336

Controllable and Expressive One-Shot Video Head Swapping https://humanaigc.github.io/SwapAnyHead/

Eleven v3 now supports Text to Speech in 41 new languages – bringing the total to over 70. This means you can now reach over 90% of the global population with ElevenLabs. https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/1933557199294640171

Introducing ElevenLabs Conversational AI 2.0 – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlclS4wLWgY

ByteDance going from, well, TikTok to AI for chemical engineering is entirely unsurprising, happens all the time, I unironically expect MiHoYo to eventually do robots/AGI or get more involved in nuclear fusion”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1935567992852455528

A big AI question is why, as LLMs get bigger, their values seem to increasingly converge on the same preferences, and this holds for Musk’s Grok and China’s DeepSeek, too. “These findings suggest that value systems emerge in LLMs in a meaningful sense, with broad implications” https://x.com/emollick/status/1934278025685901374

30 lines is all you need to create a MCP Agent using @GoogleDeepMind Gemini 2.5 and remote MCP servers. Here is an example using @cognition_labs Deepwiki MCP server to to chat about repositories. https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1930357626686296237

Does MCP Kill (Centralized) Vector Search? In the post-MCP world, AI agents will interact with the external world through MCP tools. There is a very valid question on whether you would want to have a centralized search index at all if agents can just directly interface with the https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1935473439948890177

With MCP, you can connect your agent to an entire ecosystem of tools – but how can you ensure your agent orchestrates those tools reliably? Tool rules in Letta allow you to specify constraints on your agent’s tool calling, so you can trade off autonomy and control. https://x.com/Letta_AI/status/1932836369128436042

Bring your Apple apps into the agent ecosystem. @mattt from @loopworkai demos iMCP, a native macOS app that connects services like Messages and Contacts to MCP agents using the Swift MCP SDK—yes, even for AI-powered birthday reminders. https://x.com/WorkOS/status/1930978482705572204

🤖 Introducing Motion for AI Supercharge your LLM with the new Motion MCP: • Generate CSS spring and bounce easings • Spring and easing visualisations • Documentation Plus Motion+ Rules and vibe coding guides for @framer, @v0, and @figma https://x.com/mattgperry/status/1932776126314918020

Claude Code can now connect to remote MCP servers. Pull context from your tools directly into Claude Code with no local setup required. https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1935367951542280239

Free Open Source Course on MCP – Built with Knowledge Graphs! I created a complete course on how to build an MCP Client and MCP Server using the Python SDK. All structured via knowledge graphs extracted from the repo itself. Let me show you what’s inside 👇 🧵 1/ https://x.com/dani_avila7/status/1930266266884870458

Had nothing better to do, so I turned a free day into a 12-hour hackathon and built an MCP server for @Core_LN in Rust. Because obviously, trusting your node to an AI is peak Bitcoin security.😃 Still rough around the edges, but it works! https://x.com/adityaa2011/status/1932824974022083031

Huge quality of life upgrade for devs If you haven’t already tried connecting some MCP servers in Claude Code, now’s the time to do so”” / X https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1935384922493173861

Just dropped something we’ve been building: MonetizedMCP ( https://x.com/chetan_guevara/status/1932159875771215996

MorphIS is built for extensibility. From financial tools to robotic controllers, agents can plug into real-world systems using add-ons powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Any service. Any industry. One interface. https://x.com/Morphisdotai/status/1932092824264352226

RT @chu_onthis: new mcp spec just dropped: 1. auth is fixed! at last! 2. elicitation now makes it possible for a server to ask an end-user…”” / X https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1935481114195542291

Something magical happens when you combine MCP with generative UI 🤩 https://x.com/fr0gger_/status/1930901099655176660

Thanks @TaskmasterAI another project complete! This is an excellent MCP for working on new projects with @cursor_ai or @claude_code Link below 👇 https://x.com/majidmanzarpour/status/1931421962120925242

Tired of opening old codebases and feeling like a stranger in your own repo? I built a couple of MCP servers so Claude can read my code, summarize it, and write notes straight into Obsidian. We chill like that. https://x.com/freshlimesofa/status/1931358615119786456

Want to code insanely fast and stay secure? Time to level up with AI powered secure code scanning from @snyksec available as a one click install from @cursor_ai MCP directory Instantly scan raw code, catch vulnerabilities as they’re born, and all without needing a build. https://x.com/edsim/status/1932789827935875444

ElevenLabs said its Conversational AI offering now supports Anthropic’s open Model Context Protocol (MCP) The development will enable ElevenLabs users to build voice agents that can easily connect to data from third-party apps like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Gmail”” / X https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1934881619086586251

Claude Code + Gemini Pro: Two AI coders teaming up. Yes, A redditor just dropped an MCP server that lets Claude Code and Gemini 2.5 Pro work together, and the results are seriously next-level. Claude kicks things off with planning, while Gemini adds deep reasoning and context. https://x.com/HarshaGadekar/status/1932132749923758195

Running mlx-lm locally with MCP using @huggingface’s tiny-agents is actually pretty easy and works quite well. A demo running Qwen3 4B with an MCP client for the local file system: https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1931755333011349831

MCP servers – OpenAI API https://platform.openai.com/docs/mcp

Turn your designs directly into code using @figma’s Dev Mode MCP server in @code – now available in open beta! https://x.com/code/status/1930300967695548919

RT @menloresearch: Meet Jan-nano, a 4B model that outscores DeepSeek-v3-671B using MCP. It’s built on Qwen3-4B with DAPO fine-tuning, it h…”” / X https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1934909412117741601

Built an internal tool to connect any remotely hosted MCP server and test it against multiple agent architectures to perform evals. Just paste the MCP server URL and hit connect. Database is SQLite and all agent run logs are stored locally. https://x.com/trillhause_/status/1931525724713705589

Excited to announce that the local mistral-rs inference server now has full, built-in 🔌 MCP support – the emerging AI agent interface or ‘USB-C for AI’! You can seamlessly use your local LLM with any MCP, locally hosted or in the cloud, with automatic tool detection. Just https://x.com/ProfBuehlerMIT/status/1932743945651683466

🎙️🤖 Local AI Podcast Generator Transform text into multilingual podcasts with this AI system! Built using LangChain + Ollama, it combines text summarization and speech generation for seamless podcast creation. Check out the tutorial here https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1933917455560114287

Denmark is using robotic boats to surveil for maritime threats – Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91353311/why-danish-military-using-crewless-vessels-north-baltic-seas

Swedish Gripen E flies combat missions using onboard AI system https://interestingengineering.com/military/gripen-e-ai-first-combat-flight-saab-helsing

DAMN! Mistral just dropped an update to Mistral Small 3.2 24B – better at instruction following, less prone to repetitions AND much more robust at Function calling! 🔥 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1936094433985826972

Chinese scientists find first evidence that AI could think like a human | South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3314376/chinese-scientists-find-first-evidence-ai-could-think-human

Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure | VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-backed-mistral-launches-european-ai-cloud-to-compete-with-aws-and-azure/

RT @lmarena_ai: 🚨Breaking: New DeepSeek-r1 (0528) just tied for #1 in WebDev Arena, matching Claude Opus 4! More highlights: 💠 #6 Overall…”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1934714392693588415

Create TikTok-Style Videos Faster With New AI Tools From TikTok Symphony | TikTok For Business Blog https://ads.tiktok.com/business/en-US/blog/tiktok-symphony-ai-tools?acq_banner_version=73758464

New Chinese rules classify autonomous driving data as sensitive. To regulate outbound car data transfers. The rules classify data used for training autonomous driving or driver assistance as important. These transfers require government approval. Tesla operates over 2M EVs in https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1933758802710397079

stop using VLMs blindly ✋🏻 compare different VLM outputs on a huge variety of inputs (from reasoning to OCR!) 🔥 > has support for multiple VLMs: Gemma 3, Qwen2.5VL, Llama4 > recommend us new models or inputs, we’ll add 🫡 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1935708014645784713

German firms to submit separate EU bids for AI data centre, newspaper reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/german-firms-submit-competing-eu-bids-ai-gigafactory-newspaper-reports-2025-06-19/

TSMC eyes UAE for new advanced chip facility https://www.techinasia.com/news/tsmc-eyes-uae-for-new-advanced-chip-facility

Oklo moves closer to nuclear power deal with US Air Force | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oklo-moves-closer-nuclear-power-agreement-with-us-air-force-2025-06-11/

Very proud to announce Cohere’s partnerships with Canada and Britain! Thank you Prime Ministers Carney and Starmer for your vision and leadership. 🇨🇦 ❤️ 🇬🇧”” / X https://x.com/aidangomez/status/1934324250967437676

AstraZeneca signs AI research deal with China’s CSPC for chronic diseases | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-agrees-research-deal-worth-up-522-billion-with-cspc-2025-06-13/

Nvidia-backed AI startup SandboxAQ creates new data to speed up drug discovery | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nvidia-backed-ai-startup-sandboxaq-creates-new-data-speed-up-drug-discovery-2025-06-18/

Serving Large Language Models on Huawei CloudMatrix384 – Integrates 384 Ascend 910C NPUs, interconnected via an ultra-high-bandwidth, low-latency UB network, optimized for large-scale MoE and distributed KV cache access – DeepSeek-R1 on CloudMatrix-Infer hits 2k tokens/s decode https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1934812692587663697

Germany has the largest “”AI”” supercomputer in Europe with 24000 H200 chips but they are not using it to train LLMs”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1934023528262803710

Nvidia to build first industrial AI cloud in Germany | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-ceo-says-quantum-computing-is-an-inflection-point-2025-06-11/

Mistral just launched Mistral Compute — its own integrated AI infrastructure stack. It offers enterprises private access to NVIDIA GPUs, plus orchestration, model APIs, and training services A bold move to take on American and Chinese cloud giants https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1933072085288419804

RT @AndrewYNg: One of the most effective things the U.S. or any other nation can do to ensure its competitiveness in AI is to welcome high-…”” / X https://x.com/togelius/status/1935776385370362004

🚀 Excited to launch Qwen3 models in MLX format today! Now available in 4 quantization levels: 4bit, 6bit, 8bit, and BF16 — Optimized for MLX framework. 👉 Try it now! Huggingface: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1934517774635991412

Let’s goooo! @kyutai_labs just dropped SoTA Speech to Text transcriptions model – CC-BY-4.0 Licensed 🔥 > kyutai/stt-1b-en_fr (1B params, 500ms delay, English & French) > kyutai/stt-2.6b-en (2.6B params, 2.5s delay, English-only, higher accuracy) > Capable of 400 real-time https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1935655403024498814

Upgraded from Llama 3 to Qwen3 as my go-to model for research experiments, so I implemented qwen3 from scratch: https://x.com/rasbt/status/1936041873099063333

@MistralAI @64 Multilingual dexterity: The model excels in maintaining high-fidelity reasoning across numerous languages. Magistral is especially well-suited to reason in languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. https://x.com/sophiamyang/status/1932452468094312640

Mistral Small 3.2 is all you need, Apache weights btw”” / X https://x.com/qtnx_/status/1936093789442973902

RT @MistralAI: Introducing Mistral Small 3.2, a small update to Mistral Small 3.1 to improve: – Instruction following: Small 3.2 is bett…”” / X https://x.com/GuillaumeLample/status/1936104812447514968

China’s MiniMax debuts M1 model it says cost 200x less to train than OpenAI’s GPT-4 | Fortune https://fortune.com/2025/06/18/chinas-minimax-m1-ai-model-200x-less-expensive-to-train-than-openai-gpt-4/

🏆 MiniMax: the 2nd most intelligent open weights model after DeepSeek R1 And 1Mn token context window. The model is fully open source under an Apache 2.0 license. It is available now on Hugging Face and GitHub for unlimited commercial use. They release two versions of https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1935512689310044501

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