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In today's newsletter: 🌶️ OpenAI reveals its first AI processor 💬 Anthropic puts Claude inside your Slack channels 🎲 Meta is building a prediction markets app 🚀 SpaceX secretly launches its new Starfall capsule ⚖️ Alibaba sues Pentagon to escape military blacklist Plus: 🎁 12 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 4 papers.
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🌶️ OpenAI reveals its first AI processor
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- OpenAI has revealed Jalapeño, its first custom chip built in partnership with Broadcom, an "intelligence processor" designed to run AI inference for current and future large language models on AI servers.
- Jalapeño is an ASIC made for AI inference, the process where models handle a user's request to run an agent like Codex or give a ChatGPT response, rather than training on data.
- OpenAI calls the chip the first step in a multi-generation compute platform that it plans to deploy by the end of 2026, with early testing showing better performance per watt than current options.
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💬 Anthropic puts Claude inside your Slack channels
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- Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a product that puts Claude directly inside Slack channels as a permanent team member that gathers knowledge over time, works on its own schedule, and can act without being tagged first.
- Available in beta for Enterprise and Team plans, Claude Tag gives each channel one shared Claude with its own identity and accounts, so any team member can steer, correct, and build on a task in real time.
- Administrators define what Claude can access at the workspace level through "agent identity," set token spending ceilings per channel, and keep shared channels from becoming a backdoor into anyone's private documents since Claude uses its own accounts.
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🎲 Meta is building a prediction markets app
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- Mark Zuckerberg has told a small Meta team to build a smartphone app called Arena that would compete with prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, operating separately from Facebook and Instagram, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
- Arena would start with a video-game-style points system instead of real-money wagers, which sidesteps oversight from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, though Meta has not ruled out adding real-money betting later.
- Meta could steer its roughly 3 billion monthly active users toward Arena, a scale that dwarfs existing platforms, and the news sent DraftKings down more than 2 percent while Flutter Entertainment and Robinhood also fell.
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🚀 SpaceX secretly launches its new Starfall capsule
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- SpaceX quietly flew its new Starfall return capsule for the first time on June 23, launching aboard a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral and cutting the webcast about 10 minutes after liftoff.
- According to an FAA assessment, the disk-shaped, uncrewed Starfall stands 2.5 feet tall, weighs roughly 4,600 pounds, carries 2,200 pounds of payload, and uses a detachable carbon-fiber heat shield filled with compressed nitrogen gas.
- The capsule carries no propulsion and cannot deorbit itself, and SpaceX is targeting a Pacific Ocean splashdown about 700 nautical miles off the West Coast, though it has not said how long the vehicle will stay in orbit.
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⚖️ Alibaba sues Pentagon to escape military blacklist
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- Alibaba has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense to be taken off the Pentagon's 1260H list, which names companies allegedly tied to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
- The Defense Department labeled Alibaba a "military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base" over its ties to Beijing regulators, while the updated list also includes internet services provider Baidu.
- Being on the list bars the Defense Department from doing business with Alibaba through third parties, and the company says it presented evidence it does not back the Chinese military but got no response.
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Anthropic’s Mythos found flaws in classified US systems during a government test
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Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach
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US government reportedly urging Meta to share its AI models
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EU Digital Euro Plan Takes Aim at Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay
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China black market Nvidia prices rocket in wake of smuggling crackdown and customs freeze
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Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election
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UN chief calls on AI firms to reveal environmental costs
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White House drastically shortens deadline for dropping quantum-vulnerable crypto
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Apple and Disney had conversations about merging, says Bob Iger
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Frustrated Microsoft Researcher Uses Goats in ‘Age of Empires II’ to Demo the Absurdity of LLMs
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Mistral's new OCR model beats competitors in 72 percent of blind test cases, company says
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ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, a 30-second native 4K AI video model that accepts 50 reference inputs
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🧰 Trending tools
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Propane: centralizes customer research, design, and code into one auto-syncing workspace so AI agents always have full product context.
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Tencent EdgeOne Makers: an edge platform combining CDN, DNS, WAF, and DDoS protection to accelerate and secure distributed applications across global regions.
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Crewdle AI: a single subscription replacing multiple AI tools, combining chat, agents, and automation to cut costs and streamline workflows.
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Stripe.Directory: a centralized hub for discovering and integrating Stripe apps, Projects.dev providers, and mpp.dev services without manual searching.
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Mindstone Rebel: a desktop AI workspace that connects your files, meetings, and tools so agents can automate real tasks with user-controlled approval gates.
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StaleMate PR: monitors pull requests from your macOS menu bar, using color-coded alerts to flag neglected PRs before they bottleneck your team's review process.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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> Virtual environment simulators trained on more than 10 million real interactions can now predict what happens next in complex tasks, letting AI agents practice and plan without touching the real world.
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> Automated code checkers have become capable enough to fully replace human code review, making the decades-old practice of colleagues inspecting each other's changes before release unnecessary and unscalable.
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> Equality graphs for compilers get a smarter way to handle variables so that rewriting and optimizing code stays correct even in tricky edge cases.
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> Persuasion by chatbots now beats world-class human debaters, professional canvassers, and tournament winners, and was nearly 3x more effective at raising real donations to charity.
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