Image created with Gemini. Image prompt: A spherical globe built from a grid of slightly offset and overlapping square photo panels, each panel a flat turquoise pool patch with hand-drawn white squiggle ripples and small hints of terracotta tile, lawn green grass, or hot yellow deck edges, tiling together into one planet floating in bright white space, flat saturated acrylic color with hard-edged shapes, no shading, no shadows, no text.

Meet Kimi Work – a local AI agent on your desktop that does the work for you. 🔹Native agent swarm: Up to 300 AI agents running in parallel on your local machine. 🔹Browser use: Paired with WebBridge extension, your agent will navigate websites in your browser: search, scroll,
https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2063990409903112344

Anthropic Embeds Engineers in the NSA to Deploy Mythos
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-embeds-engineers-in-the-nsa-to-deploy-mythos-for-offensive-cyber/

Last week, BYD Executive VP Stella Li said that BYD is “”developing humanoid robots.”” The headline: BYD plans to sell them through its global auto dealer network if they reach homes. – Initial deployment: overseas dealerships, especially European vehicle stores, for demos,
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2062437400522207604

China Plans $295 Billion Investment to Build Nationwide AI Data Centers – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-09/china-prepares-295-billion-plan-to-fund-nationwide-ai-buildout

China beats Elon Musk to launch world’s first commercial brain chip
https://nypost.com/2026/06/07/tech/china-beats-elon-musk-to-launch-worlds-first-commercial-brain-chip/

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is here
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-live-3-5-translate/

Fable 5 lies 96% of the time. We were surprised by it’s skill… 🧵
https://x.com/kradleai/status/2064907897373642912

Kimi Code, our open-source coding agent, just got a major upgrade! 🔹One-line CLI install, zero setup, fast startup​ 🔹Drag in videos as coding context: reference-to-LUT, long-video-to-short, screen-recording-to-code, and more​ 🔹Plugins for stocks, financial reports, academic
https://x.com/KimiDevs/status/2063981516708024369

Anthropic just delegated a lot of European companies to the permanent underclass if Anthropic saves data for Claude Mythos and Fable 5 for 30 days, then all companies that require zero data retention simply can’t use them
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2064685085379477742

China’s Xiaomi MiMo Is Now 15X Faster Than ChatGPT and Claude – Decrypt
https://decrypt.co/370449/xiaomi-mimo-ultraspeed-ai-model-faster-chatgpt-claude

Kimi desktop version is here! Available for macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows. Try it 👉
https://x.com/crystalsssup/status/2063992904209842215

We are releasing our first quantized checkpoints for the Qwen3.5 series of models, co-designed jointly with our inference engine to achieve maximum possible performance on Apple hardware Starting from 0.8B, 2B and 4B models
https://x.com/norpadon/status/2064040631479976240

Also, a lot depends on Chinese labs continuing to ship open weights models. If they stop, the frontier falls further and further behind to those who want to use local/fine-tuned models. I think this is possible because open weights may not be a good business model as costs rise.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2062746121055695077

Moonshot AI eyes US$30 billion valuation as China’s AI race intensifies | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3356348/moonshot-ai-eyes-us30-billion-valuation-chinas-ai-race-intensifies

UK sets out $1.5 billion AI hardware plan with supercomputer, chip funding | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-sets-out-15-billion-ai-hardware-plan-with-supercomputer-chip-funding-2026-06-08/

Before Neuralink, China’s NEO makes history with world’s first approved commercial brain chip
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/before-neuralink-china-s-neo-makes-history-with-world-s-first-approved-commercial-brain-chip-13945082.html

China Beats Elon Musk: Approves World’s First Commercial Brain-Computer Chip NEO | IBTimes UK
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-approves-brain-implant-paralysis-treatment-1801336

The desktop app now has a Chinese language support!
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2062953592131342832

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Live Translate, our real time speech to speech translation model which supports more than 70 languages (both in and out), and is so natural. It is available in the Gemini API, AI Studio, & Google Translate right now + coming soon to Google Meet!!
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2064369125447864674

A broccoli farmer in northern Japan shares his chats
https://chatgptpro.substack.com/p/hiroki-tomiyasu

⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — ‪@AhmadAwais‬ , CommandCode.ai – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rIAVuaRjOg

Milei promises tech firms new laws and ‘unregulated’ AI in Argentina | Buenos Aires Times
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-promises-tech-firms-new-laws-and-unregulated-ai-in-argentina.phtml

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us
https://x.com/signalapp/status/2064069692168519931

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