The AI landscape is moving incredibly fast. Tools that were considered cutting-edge just a year ago are already facing new competitors focused on specific use cases like research, presentations, note-taking, content creation, and workflow automation. What's interesting is that
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zAI promises an open source Mythos model before 2027
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The founder of zAI, the company that published GLM-5.2, says that a Mythos-class model will be released before the first quarter of 2027. Or, in other words: He believes that open source will not remain seven months behind Frontier Labs, but will catch up.
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Software commoditized by AI, users cancel SaaS and vibe code
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I don't know if it's obvious information or not but if you talk to random people in San Francisco the general thing they say is that software is commoditized cause so easy to make anything with AI fast (like how I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and just vibe coded a
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New VocalBridge course to add a voice to AI agents
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New course: Add voice to your AI agents and applications, built with @VocalBridge (disclosure: an AI Fund portfolio company) and taught by its CEO @_ashwyn.
— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) 18 juin 2026
Voice applications historically required making a hard tradeoff: using fast voice-to-voice models that sacrifice… pic.twitter.com/L0f9iQhzd8New course: Add a voice to your AI agents and applications, built with @VocalBridge (disclosure: an AI Fund portfolio company) and taught by its CEO @_ashwyn. Voice applications have historically required a difficult trade-off: using —
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AI transforms empty dirt lot into hyper-realistic landscaping proposal
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ABSOLUTE MAGIC from @hyperagentapp ✨
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) 18 juin 2026
they just hooked Google's new Gemini Omni API into a live workflow and changed physical design.
> Input: raw video of an empty dirt lot
> Output: hyper-realistic landscaping proposal rendered directly into the footage
Watch this 👀↓ https://t.co/sjSwfkbT2DABSOLUTE MAGIC from @hyperagentapp they just hooked Google's new Gemini Omni API into a live workflow and changed physical design. > Input: raw video of an empty dirt lot > Output: hyper-realistic landscaping proposal rendered directly into the footage Watch this ↓
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AI bubble evident in quarterly losses except one subsidized quarter
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the bubble is here right now and you can see it in the burn statements. aside from one quarter for Anthropic heavily subsidized by Elon Musk, at the height of tokenmaxxing, every quarter has been a loss, mostly huge losses. “the bubble” is the fact that the valuations don’t
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Intense week for AI in biology: record deal and scaling
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it's been a huge few weeks for ai in bio: a $2.25b @profluentbio x @elilillyandco deal on ai-designed gene editors, verve's base-editing data, new scaling results on protein models from @czbiohub, @isomorphiclabs' haul.@thisismadani and i recorded a pod diving into all of it… pic.twitter.com/QNAuGmsjQW
— Nathan Benaich (@nathanbenaich) 18 juin 2026It has been intense weeks for AI in biology: a $2.25 billion deal between @profluentbio and @elilillyandco on gene editors designed by AI, Verve's base editing data, new scaling results on protein models from @czbiohub, the
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LabGeni partners with LG Chem for AI-driven tumor-targeting antibodies
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more @airstreet news! @labgeni_us partners with korea's largest chemicals company lg chem to develop tumor-targeting antibodies using their ai-driven platform
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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence in the AI Model War
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"The World's AI Model War" (Not that we need another AI war)
https://fastcompany.com/91549046/fei-fei-li-world-labs-ai-gets-physical-models-spatial-intelligence
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Scobleizer interviews Rahul Kar on cheaper AI datacenter power
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At the recent AI Infra Summit by Ignite GTM at @PlugandPlayTC they had me interview a few interesting founders. Here's Rahul Kar, founder of Hammerhead, http://
hammerheadco.ai, which is working to make power cheaper in AI datacenters. https://
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