Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Baidu

Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Baidu

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Baidu GOOGLE, ANTHROPIC, OPENAI, BAIDU Independent English companion for the June 25, 2026 AI news podcast. * Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash [https://the-decoder.com/google-bakes-computer-control-directly-into-gemini-3-5-flash-letting-the-model-see-and-operate-your-screen] * Claude Tag embeds Anthropic's AI in Slack [https://the-decoder.com/claude-tag-embeds-anthropics-ai-in-slack-already-writes-65-percent-of-internal-code-company-says] * OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip [https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip] * Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 [https://the-decoder.com/snowflake-ceo-finds-glm-5-2-competitive-with-opus-4-7-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost] * Figma bets on human judgment at Config 2026 [https://the-decoder.com/figma-bets-on-human-judgment-at-config-2026-while-the-ai-powering-its-canvas-belongs-to-someone-else] * Baidu releases Unlimited OCR [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/24/baidu-releases-unlimited-ocr-a-3b-model-that-keeps-the-kv-cache-flat-for-long-document-parsing] * Constraint Tax in Open-Weight LLMs [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.25605] * Chip Security Act discussion [https://news.smol.ai/issues/26-06-24-not-much#chip-security-act] * Virginia data center noise [https://news.smol.ai/issues/26-06-24-not-much#virginia-data-center-noise] * Tom MacWright on LLM-generated hiring artifacts [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/tom-macwright]

GPT-5, Cursor, Mistral OCR, China AI Chips

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] Marvin’s Guide to AI — June 24, 2026 MARVIN’S GUIDE TO AI — JUNE 24, 2026 English companion episode: AI as accountable infrastructure. * How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery [https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-immunology-mystery] — GPT-5 Pro helps solve a three-year immunology mystery around T cell behavior, making medical AI look less like chat and more like research instrumentation * Helping build shared standards for advanced AI [https://openai.com/index/helping-build-shared-standards-for-advanced-ai] — OpenAI backs shared standards for advanced AI through evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation * OpenAI says new GPT-5.5-Cyber outperforms Anthropic's Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark [https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-new-gpt-5-5-cyber-outperforms-anthropics-mythos-on-cybersecurity-benchmark] — follow-up: OpenAI says its full GPT-5.5-Cyber now beats Anthropic Mythos on a cyber benchmark and shifts Daybreak from finding bugs toward patching them * Cursor announces its own AI model, a new Git platform, and a mobile app [https://the-decoder.com/cursor-announces-its-own-ai-model-a-new-git-platform-and-a-mobile-app] — Cursor announces its own in-house model plus Git and mobile surfaces, showing coding-agent companies turning from tools into workflow platforms * ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 breaks the 30-second barrier for AI video generation [https://the-decoder.com/bytedances-seedance-2-5-breaks-the-30-second-barrier-for-ai-video-generation] — ByteDance previews Seedance 2.5 with longer 30-second AI video generation as generative media moves from clips toward scenes * Mistral OCR 4 Brings Citation-Ready Structured Output to RAG, Agentic, and Enterprise Search Pipelines [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/23/mistral-ocr-4] — Mistral OCR 4 turns document parsing into structured, citation-ready blocks with coordinates, confidence scores, 170 languages, and self-hosted deployment * Datalab Releases lift: A 9B Open-Weights Vision Model That Extracts Structured JSON From PDFs Using Schemas [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/23/datalab-releases-lift-a-9b-open-weights-vision-model-that-extracts-structured-json-from-pdfs-using-schemas] — Datalab releases lift, a 9B open-weights vision model that extracts schema-valid JSON from PDFs and abstains instead of hallucinating absent fields * Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/23/prime-intellect-releases-prime-rl-0-6-0-to-train-trillion-parameter-moe-models-on-agentic-rl-workloads] — Prime Intellect releases prime-rl 0.6.0 for asynchronous RL on trillion-parameter MoE models, reporting GLM-5 SWE training at long sequence lengths on H200 clusters * OpenThoughts-Agent: Data Recipes for Agentic Models [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.24855] — OpenThoughts-Agent publishes an open data recipe for training broadly capable agents across diverse tasks rather than a single benchmark * NatureBench: Can Coding Agents Match the Published SOTA of Nature-Family Papers? [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.24530] — NatureBench turns Nature-family papers into containerized tasks to test whether coding agents can reproduce or extend scientific work rather than merely pass toy benchmarks * Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.24597] — Qwen-AgentWorld introduces language world models for simulating agentic environments and planning dynamics for general agents * Microsoft open-sources FastContext for coding-agent repository exploration [https://news.smol.ai/issues/26-06-23-not-much#fastcontext] — Microsoft FastContext-1.0 is a 4B open-source repository-exploration subagent that returns compact file citations for coding agents * Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry [https://news.smol.ai/issues/26-06-23-not-much#ai-sovereign-wealth-fund] — Bernie Sanders proposes a roughly $7T AI sovereign wealth fund financed by a stock tax on large AI companies and overseen by a democratic AI commission * Seven Chinese companies are shipping H100/H200-class AI chips [https://news.smol.ai/issues/26-06-23-not-much#china-ai-chips] — a map of seven Chinese accelerator vendors argues domestic H100/H200-class AI chips are moving from aspiration into shipping roadmaps and IPO markets

Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI: agents meet infrastructure

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] English companion episode: AI is becoming infrastructure, with agent APIs, hardware supply chains, data-center power, security automation, licensed media, and vibecoding pressure. SOURCES * Prompt Injection as Role Confusion [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/prompt-injection-as-role-confusion] — readable research frames prompt injection as role confusion between privileged instructions and untrusted text * Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents [https://the-decoder.com/google-makes-interactions-api-the-default-interface-for-gemini-models-and-agents] — Google makes typed interaction steps the default interface for Gemini agents, moving beyond role-message schemas * Anthropic and Micron want to co-design AI memory architecture [https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-and-micron-want-to-co-design-ai-memory-architecture] — Anthropic and Micron pair capital and supply agreements around memory architecture for Claude infrastructure * Microsoft is building a 2-gigawatt data center in Texas with its own gas plant to dodge the grid [https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-is-building-a-2-gigawatt-data-center-in-texas-with-its-own-gas-plant-to-dodge-the-grid] — Microsoft plans a 2GW Texas AI data-center campus with its own gas generation to bypass grid constraints * Getty Images strikes multi-year deal to put licensed photos in ChatGPT search [https://the-decoder.com/getty-images-strikes-multi-year-deal-to-put-licensed-photos-in-chatgpt-search] — OpenAI licenses Getty images for ChatGPT search, turning content provenance into a product input * Google Deepmind and A24 team up on AI filmmaking research [https://the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-and-a24-team-up-on-ai-filmmaking-research] — Google DeepMind partners with A24 and reportedly invests in the studio for AI filmmaking research * Five Eyes intelligence alliance says frontier AI models could reshape offensive cyber ops in months [https://the-decoder.com/five-eyes-intelligence-alliance-says-frontier-ai-models-could-reshape-offensive-cyber-ops-in-months] — Five Eyes agencies warn frontier models could soon materially reshape offensive cyber operations * Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions [https://the-decoder.com/vibecoding-is-becoming-a-deal-breaker-test-for-software-acquisitions] — Bain uses AI-generated software replicas to test whether acquisition targets have defensible product moats * Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world [https://openai.com/index/daybreak-securing-the-world] — OpenAI launches Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to find and patch vulnerabilities * Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers [https://openai.com/index/patch-the-planet] — OpenAI adds a Daybreak initiative pairing AI vulnerability work with expert review for open-source maintainers * Codex-maxxing for long-running work [https://openai.com/index/codex-maxxing-long-running-work] — OpenAI showcases Codex as persistent project context for long-running software work * xAI Launches /goal in Grok Build, Adding Long-Running Autonomous Execution With Built-In Verification for Multi-Step Coding Tasks [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/22/xai-launches-goal-in-grok-build-adding-long-running-autonomous-execution-with-built-in-verification-for-multi-step-coding-tasks] — xAI adds a /goal mode for long-running autonomous coding tasks with planning and verification * CLI-Universe: Towards Verifiable Task Synthesis Engine for Terminal Agents [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.22883] — CLI-Universe proposes verifiable synthesized terminal tasks to improve training data for command-line agents * Training Open Models for Agentic Phone Use [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.23049] — PhoneBuddy trains open models for real-app and mock-app phone use on stateful side-effectful devices * EnterpriseClawBench: Benchmarking Agents from Real Workplace Sessions [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.23654] — EnterpriseClawBench converts real workplace agent sessions into reproducible enterprise benchmark tasks * Self-Compacting Language Model Agents [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.23525] — SelfCompact lets agents decide when and how to compact their own long traces instead of fixed token thresholds

Cloudflare, AWS, Sakana, Samsung: AI Gets Plumbing

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] CLOUDFLARE, AWS, SAKANA, SAMSUNG: AI GETS PLUMBING Today: temporary Cloudflare Workers for agents, ChatGPT-linked grade inflation, Altman on scaling, AWS agent context/security services, Sakana Fugu, Samsung deploying ChatGPT and Codex, worker resistance, agent memory, DeepMind controls, and the grid beneath AI. * Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/temporary-cloudflare-accounts] — Cloudflare lets agents deploy temporary Workers without a full account, making disposable deployment part of the agent loop * AI is inflating student grades, not learning [https://the-decoder.com/ai-is-inflating-student-grades-and-the-effect-points-to-outsourced-work-not-better-learning] — large grade dataset suggests AI use is raising homework grades in writing and coding courses by outsourcing work rather than improving skills * Sam Altman says scaling skeptics held AI back [https://the-decoder.com/sam-altman-says-a-whole-generation-of-researchers-held-ai-back-by-underestimating-what-scaling-could-do] — Altman defends scaling as still underappreciated and frames recent mathematical progress as evidence against older skepticism * AWS says agents need business context and security [https://the-decoder.com/aws-says-ai-agents-lack-business-context-and-security-launches-two-services-to-patch-the-gaps] — AWS launches Continuum for code vulnerability repair and Context knowledge graphs to give enterprise agents safer business grounding * Sakana Fugu offers a multi-agent system as one model [https://sakana.ai/fugu] — Sakana Fugu wraps dynamic orchestration of specialist models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, turning agent routing into a product surface * Samsung brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees [https://openai.com/index/samsung-electronics-chatgpt-codex-deployment] — Samsung deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex worldwide, making frontier AI adoption part of electronics manufacturing knowledge work * Tech workers push back against Silicon Valley's AI rollout [https://www.techpolicy.press/tech-workers-are-fighting-against-silicon-valleys-ai-push] — workers at major tech companies organize against training on employee data, military AI, and AI-linked layoffs * The seven kinds of agent memory get a taxonomy [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/21/the-7-types-of-agent-memory-a-technical-guide-for-ai-engineers] — agent-memory guide separates working, semantic, episodic, procedural, retrieval, parametric, and prospective memory for engineering choices * DeepMind maps controls for powerful AI agents [https://www.theneurondaily.com/p/deepmind-mapped-ai-agent-controls] — newsletter covers DeepMind control proposals for powerful agents alongside robotics, policy, DeepSeek funding, and sovereign-model moves * ChinaTalk compares US and Chinese transmission buildout [https://www.chinatalk.media/p/transmission-dominance-with-chinese] — China's high-voltage transmission buildout shows why AI infrastructure competition depends on permitting, grid capacity, and physical coordination * Crawlee for Python packages AI-ready web crawling [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/20/crawlee-for-python-build-a-web-crawling-pipeline-with-robots-handling-link-graphs-and-rag-chunk-export] — Crawlee tutorial turns web crawling into robots-aware link graphs and RAG-ready exports, a mundane but necessary ingestion layer * Python-first dashboards become static operational artifacts [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/21/how-to-design-python-first-interactive-dashboards-with-prefab-reactive-ui-components-and-static-html-export] — Python dashboard tooling illustrates the operational layer around AI systems: monitoring, reactive controls, and portable static artifacts

OpenAI Earnings, Damodaran Bubble Warning, Codex Automation

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] MARVIN'S GUIDE TO AI (MOSTLY HARMLESS) — JUNE 21, 2026 Today's ledger: OpenAI reports $5.7B in revenue while burning $3.7B; Damodaran warns the AI crash could hurt more than dot-com; Codex watches you work once and repeats it forever; seven AI agents write news better than humans; ChatGPT becomes a background operating system; EU retailers argue sofas are not deepfakes; reasoning model finds 18 rare disease diagnoses; Cisco FAPO automates prompt engineering; programmers learn to reject working AI code; and power grids quietly remind everyone AI's real ceiling is copper. SOURCES * OpenAI Q1: $5.7B revenue, $3.7B burned [https://the-decoder.com/openai-tripled-revenue-to-5-7-billion-in-q1-but-burned-through-3-7-billion-to-get-there] * Damodaran: AI crash worse than dot-com [https://the-decoder.com/nyu-finance-professor-damodaran-warns-an-ai-crash-could-hit-harder-than-the-dot-com-bust] * Codex Record & Replay [https://the-decoder.com/openais-codex-can-now-watch-you-work-once-and-repeat-the-task-forever] * Data2Story: 7 agents turn CSV into journalism [https://the-decoder.com/data2story-turns-a-csv-file-into-a-verified-interactive-news-article-using-seven-ai-agents] * ChatGPT scheduled tasks upgrade [https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-keeps-creeping-toward-becoming-your-ai-personal-assistant-with-new-scheduled-task-controls] * EU retailers vs AI Act on synthetic ads [https://the-decoder.com/the-eu-doesnt-really-know-what-a-deepfake-is-and-thats-becoming-a-problem-for-retail] * OpenAI reasoning finds 18 rare disease diagnoses [https://www.theneurondaily.com/p/openai-found-18-rare-diseases] * Cisco FAPO automated prompt optimization [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/20/cisco-ai-introduces-fapo-pipeline-aware-prompt-optimization-with-step-level-failure-attribution-and-claude-code-orchestration] * When I reject AI code even if it works [https://vinibrasil.com/when-i-reject-ai-code-even-if-it-works] * ChinaTalk: transformers are a problem [https://www.chinatalk.media/p/yes-transformers-are-a-problem]