Interestingly, Google no longer has a public frontier model. They have a very good flash model, but a very good flash model can't do frontier work without a good frontier orchestrator. I am sure this will change soon, but Gemini 3.1 Pro is very clearly lagging at this point.
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Technology integrated into human collaboration via Viktor in Teams
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I like when technology is placed inside the flow of human collaboration, where people already work together every day.
— Antonio Grasso (@antgrasso) 18 juin 2026
Viktor brings this idea into Microsoft Teams as an AI employee designed to support the team in its everyday work.@viktor__com Partner. https://t.co/BpYcuvjRqRI like when technology is integrated into the flow of human collaboration, where people already work together every day. Viktor embodies this idea within Microsoft Teams as an AI employee designed to support the team in its daily work. @viktor__com
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Viktor, shared AI agent, arrives in Microsoft Teams
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Viktor is now showing up in Microsoft Teams, Agents are thus entering the next significant work environment.
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 18 juin 2026
The promise is exciting: one AI the whole team shares, that remembers your work and ships finished output, not just answers.
They proved that on Slack and reached… https://t.co/Vdi9QTRRhNViktor now appears in Microsoft Teams, agents thus enter the next significant work environment. The promise is exciting: a single AI that the whole team shares, that remembers your work and delivers finished results, not just
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Global competition for elite AI talents
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The global competition for elite AI talent is unlike anything we have seen before. Multi-billion dollar compensation offers. Frontier labs battling for a handful of world-class minds. Because, the interesting thing is this: in a world defined by exponential systems, even a single… pic.twitter.com/jU24fGASEO
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 18 juin 2026Global competition for elite AI talents is unprecedented. Multi-billion dollar compensation offers. State-of-the-art laboratories vying for a handful of world-class minds. Because, the most interesting thing is this: in a world
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Noam Shazeer, co-author of Transformer paper, joins OpenAI
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Big win for OpenAI: Noam Shazeer joins OAI. Noam Shazeer, one of the authors of the seminal paper 'Attention is All You Need' that introduced the Transformer architecture at the origin of modern LLMs, now joins OpenAI.
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Critique of executives’ corporate banalities and bullshit on AI
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When executives from large groups talk about AI, publicly, it's always a disaster.
Banalities.
Obvious statements.
Punchlines already repeated and heard everywhere.
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Global AI rules: labs, governments, and who is missing?
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My question: Should a handful of labs and governments write the global rules for AI? And who's missing from that table?
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Anthropic asks US to lead AI after government pulls models
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The honest tension, Anthropic asked the US to lead global AI 5 days after that same government pulled its top models offline. No binding deals, but the labs want a seat at the table where the rules get written.
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Altman proposes international AI testing standards forum with global leaders
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Altman pitched an international AI-testing-standards forum. Canada's Carney said yes, the US could lead. Mistral, Cohere, Meta, Salesforce + labs from India, Japan, Italy all at the table. France framed it as global, not American.
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AI rivals agree: US should lead global AI alliance at G7
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At the G7 this week, the CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind sat at a closed-door lunch with Trump and a dozen world leaders and pushed the same idea: let the US lead a global AI alliance. Two labs that compete on everything. Agreeing on this. The rules for AI are being written