I feel like on X all you hear about is elaborate plans by firms to build their own AI stacks but in my experience companies are full of people who want access to Claude or ChatGPT and are pressuring their purchasing staff to get licenses so they can just use the tools they know.
GENERATIVE AI
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US can ban open weights models for companies
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As this post points out, contrary to what many say, the US government could absolutely effectively ban open weights models. That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to download the weights & run them, but they can ensure that no US company would use or provide access or host them
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GLM 5.2 drives enterprises off cloud, checkmate for open-source AI
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Thanks to GLM 5.2, I know for a fact that enterprises are moving off the cloud, acquiring compute, and working on having post-trained models for their own use cases. It's checkmate for Opensource AI, they just don't know it yet.
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Microsoft announces Skills for Copilot in Excel for finance
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Microsoft announced Skills for Copilot in Excel!
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 26 juin 2026
> Today, we’re introducing new features built for financial professionals to continue doing that with skills for repeatable workflows, new financial connectors for trusted data, and improved capabilities for traceability.
We'll… https://t.co/UcuXHEQZQw pic.twitter.com/m3sjCBTli9Microsoft announced Skills for Copilot in Excel! > Today, we’re introducing new features built for financial professionals to continue doing that with skills for repeatable workflows, new financial connectors for trusted data, and improved capabilities for traceability. We'll
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AI 5.5 fails deep report and forgets it
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Yeah, 5.5 is pretty dumb. Asked to generate a deep research report and it spent way too little time on it. Asked it to tell me the word count of the report and it was like "what report? I only see your prompt!" wtf
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Trump admin limits GPT-5.6 release to 20 partners via Bedrock
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The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to initially limit the release of GPT-5.6, we learned. At first, it'll be available to 20 partners; a path to access it will be via Amazon's Bedrock.
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Grok’s reports improve by learning from uploaded videos
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Grok's reports are getting better about what it learned by watching the videos I upload:
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AI-assisted writing’s atrociousness underrated; new creative benchmark coming
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AI-assisted writing being atrocious is underrated as a problem, the harness around it matters way more than the model here. That's also why we'll soon be releasing a creative benchmark we've been working on for a while. Super excited to push it!
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White House delays GPT 5.6; Marcus says significance overlooked
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People are not getting how significant this news – The White House delaying GPT 5.6 – is. Here’s the context and a suggestion. Both @pmarca and @DavidSacks did everything in their power to keep the White House from meaningfully regulate AI. About a month ago, sparked by