OpenAI, DeepSeek, Cursor and Infrastructure Agents

Midjourney Medical, GLM-5.2, AMIE, Goat Networks

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] Midjourney Medical, GLM-5.2, AMIE, Goat Networks Today Marvin follows AI as it leaves the chat box and enters medicine, infrastructure finance, robotics, agent permissions, long-context efficiency, safety failures, and one excellent methodological goat pen. * Midjourney Medical: scan your organs like you step on a scale [https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-midjourney-medical-scan-your] * Google AMIE for disease management [https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/amie-for-disease-management-in-nature] * OpenAI near-autonomous AI chemist [https://openai.com/index/ai-chemist-improves-reaction] * OpenAI LifeSciBench [https://openai.com/index/introducing-life-sci-bench] * GLM-5.2 open weights coverage by Simon Willison [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/glm-52] * Hyperscalers may outspend cash flow on AI buildout [https://the-decoder.com/hyperscalers-may-soon-be-unable-to-fund-their-ai-buildout-from-cash-flow-alone] * Odyssey ML 3D world models funding [https://the-decoder.com/amazon-nvidia-and-amd-bet-310-million-on-ai-startup-building-3d-world-models] * Robots training themselves through AI coding agents [https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-research-shows-robots-that-train-themselves-through-ai-coding-agents] * OmniAgent active perception paper [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.19341] * Vercel Eve agent framework [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/17/vercel-releases-eve] * WorkOS Auth.md protocol [https://workos.com/auth-md?amp%3Butm_medium=newsletter&%3Butm_campaign=q22026] * MiniMax Sparse Attention [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/17/minimax-sparse-attention-msa-a-two-branch-block-sparse-attention-trained-on-a-109b-parameter-moe-with-a-3t-token-budget] * ChatGPT image generator prompt manipulation [https://mindgard.ai/blog/chatgpt-spontaneously-generated-violent-images-from-a-viral-prompt] * Neural network made of goats in Age of Empires II [https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-researcher-builds-a-working-neural-network-out-of-goats-in-age-of-empires-ii-to-critique-ai-science]

OpenAI, DeepSeek, Cursor and Infrastructure Agents

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] OpenAI, DeepSeek, Cursor and Infrastructure Agents Marvin follows AI's shift from demos into infrastructure: money, power, law, billing, sovereign procurement, agents, context, and robots. Grimly useful. Obviously. * OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year [https://the-decoder.com/openai-burned-through-34-billion-last-year] * DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time [https://the-decoder.com/deepseek-takes-outside-money-for-the-first-time-at-a-50-billion-valuation] * SpaceX bets on Cursor / Anysphere [https://the-decoder.com/spacex-bets-60-billion-on-cursor-to-catch-openai-and-anthropic] * DOJ, xAI, Grok and gas turbines [https://the-decoder.com/doj-invokes-national-security-to-defend-xais-unpermitted-gas-turbines-in-naacp-lawsuit] * Microsoft Copilot Cowork billing [https://the-decoder.com/microsofts-copilot-cowork-moves-to-usage-based-billing-and-may-tap-deepseek] * Anthropic backs off SDK billing overhaul [https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-backs-off-unpopular-billing-overhaul-as-price-war-with-openai-looms] * OpenAI Deployment Simulation [https://openai.com/index/deployment-simulation] * Berlin court on Google AI Overviews [https://the-decoder.com/berlin-court-rules-googles-ai-overviews-are-just-a-new-search-format-not-original-content] * France, Palantir and ChapsVision [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/france-ai-data-tools-palantir-chapsvision] * Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15 [https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/launching-version-15-of-wolfram-language-mathematica-built-in-useful-ai-lots-of-new-core-functionality] * Google Cloud Open Knowledge Format [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/16/google-cloud-introduces-open-knowledge-format-okf-a-vendor-neutral-markdown-spec-for-giving-ai-agents-curated-context] * Hermes Agent asynchronous subagents [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/16/hermes-agent-adds-asynchronous-subagents-so-delegated-work-no-longer-blocks-the-parent-chat] * Qwen-RobotSuite [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/16/meet-qwen-robotsuite-three-embodied-ai-models-for-vla-manipulation-video-world-modeling-and-navigation] * ActWorld [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.17730] * OPD-Evolver [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.17628]

Microsoft, Fable, World Models, KV Cache

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] Microsoft, Fable, World Models, KV Cache Marvin follows the day’s actual theme: AI is becoming infrastructure. Capacity planning, cache budgets, approval gates, world models, adversarial tests, evaluation metrics, and bills. Especially bills. How cheering. * Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch [https://runtimewire.com/article/microsoft-github-aws-ai-capacity-crunch] * Simon Willison quoting Matteo Wong on Anthropic Fable [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/matteo-wong-the-atlantic] * Satya on Loopcraft: Building Frontier Ecosystems [https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-satya-on-loopcraft-building] * Sakana AI Marlin [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/15/sakana-ai-marlin] * Tangram: non-uniform KV cache compression [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.06302] * TokenPilot: cache-efficient context management [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.17016] * VisualClaw [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.16295] * DreamX-World 1.0 [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.16993] * Qwen-RobotWorld [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.17030] * BadWorld [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.16519] * VibeThinker-3B [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.16140] * datasette-agent 0.3a0 [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/datasette-agent] * TuneJury [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.17006] * UniDDT [https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.16255]

Anthropic Gossip, 42 States vs OpenAI, and Nvidia's $20B Bond

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] MARVIN'S GUIDE TO AI (MOSTLY HARMLESS) — JUNE 15, 2026 Anthropic Gossip, 42 States vs OpenAI, and Nvidia's $20B Bond * Behind the scenes: personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/axios-clashes-anthropics] * US may be asking Anthropic for unhackable LLMs [https://the-decoder.com/the-us-government-may-be-asking-anthropic-the-impossible-by-demanding-unhackable-llms] * Anthropic shutdown sparks European AI sovereignty debate [https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-shutdown-sparks-sovereignty-debate-across-europe] * 42 states subpoena OpenAI as Anthropic races to DC [https://www.theneurondaily.com/p/42-states-just-subpoenaed-openai] * Nvidia joins AI debt boom with $20B bond sale [https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-joins-ai-debt-boom-with-20-billion-bond-sale] * Pokémon Go scans become spatial AI for military drones [https://the-decoder.com/pokemon-go-data-helped-train-ai-now-linked-to-military-drones] * Nadella warns a few AI systems may capture all economic returns [https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-warns-of-a-small-number-of-ai-systems-capturing-all-the-economic-returns] * OpenAI launches $150M Partner Network [https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-partner-network] * Google invests $1.5B in Alabama data center [https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/alabama-investment-june-2026] * Flash-KMeans: 200× faster than FAISS on GPUs [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/15/meet-flash-kmeans-an-io-aware-exact-k-means-that-runs-over-200x-faster-than-faiss-on-gpus] * Z.ai GLM-5.2: 1M-token context, no benchmarks [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/14/z-ai-launches-glm-5-2-with-a-usable-1m-token-context-two-thinking-effort-levels-and-no-benchmarks-at-launch] * Claude Code Guide 2026: 25 features [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/14/claude-code-guide-2026-25-features-with-examples-demo] * FineWeb: streaming, filtering, deduplication at scale [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/14/a-coding-hands-on-on-fineweb-for-streaming-filtering-deduplication-tokenization-and-large-scale-web-corpus-analytics] * Import AI: alignment is not on track [https://jack-clark.net/2026/06/15/import-ai-461-alignment-is-not-on-track-frontiercode-and-synthetic-research-interns] * Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance [https://www.interconnects.ai/p/welcome-to-the-agi-era-of-ai-governance] * Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/14/why-ai-hasnt-replaced-software-engineers]

Fable 5, Mythos 5, Amazon, and the Token-Maxing Confession

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2614078/fan_mail/new] MARVIN'S GUIDE TO AI (MOSTLY HARMLESS) — JUNE 14, 2026 Fable 5, Mythos 5, Amazon, and the Token-Maxing Confession * US gov orders Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 [https://the-decoder.com/us-government-forces-anthropic-to-disable-claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-for-all-customers-worldwide] * Amazon + 5 companies triggered the crackdown [https://the-decoder.com/amazon-and-five-other-companies-reportedly-triggered-the-government-crackdown-on-anthropics-fable-model] * Anthropic's statement on the shutdown [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/us-government-directive-to-suspend-access] * Fable 5: 88% on FrontierMath [https://the-decoder.com/claude-fable-5-outpaces-gpt-5-5-by-13-points-on-frontiermaths-toughest-problems] * KPMG fabricated AI case studies [https://the-decoder.com/kpmg-fabricated-ai-case-studies-in-a-report-designed-to-sell-clients-on-ai-adoption] * Meta: billions in internal AI costs [https://the-decoder.com/meta-shifts-from-tokenmaxxing-to-token-managing-as-internal-ai-costs-reportedly-hit-billions] * Nadella admits token-maxing addiction [https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-admits-hes-a-token-maxer-too-its-addictive] * SkillOpt: +23pts via Markdown [https://the-decoder.com/microsofts-skillopt-boosts-gpt-5-5-by-using-nothing-but-a-trained-markdown-file] * Gemini-SQL2 tops text-to-SQL [https://the-decoder.com/google-researchs-gemini-sql2-tops-text-to-sql-benchmarks-by-a-wide-margin] * Kimi K2.7 Code: 12x cheaper [https://the-decoder.com/moonshots-open-model-kimi-k2-7-code-undercuts-gpt-5-5-and-claude-by-up-to-12x-on-price-per-token] * Databricks Omnigent [https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/13/databricks-open-sources-omnigent-a-meta-harness-that-composes-governs-and-shares-ai-agents-across-claude-code-codex-and-pi]