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• Google Is Turning Search Profiles Into A Creator Analytics Dashboard, Jane Manchun Wong says

  Screenshots shared by Jane Manchun Wong show Google building an Insights beta for its new Search profiles, with metrics for search queries, clicked posts, impressions and countries.

• OpenAI's second hardware hire Clive Chan joins Anthropic

  Chan said he left OpenAI after 2.4 years on its custom chip program and joined Anthropic this week to 'climb a new mountain from the bottom again.'

• CodeGuide teases Mac-1, a local 6.6B model built for macOS tools

  Zafir says Mac-1 runs on Macs with 8GB-plus RAM and can chain tasks across 487 native macOS tools at about 65 tokens per second.

• Lockheed Martin Tests Combat AI Agents in Simulated Fight Club

  The defense contractor says its synthetic environment ran virtual 4-on-4 air combat scenarios with Ansys Government Initiatives and ATG, compressing what it called 114 years of testing into one month.

• Patrick Jiang's Harness-1 externalizes memory for a 20B search agent

  The paper reports 0.730 average curated recall across eight retrieval benchmarks, with code and model weights now public.

• Kilo Code AI says MiniMax M3 matched Claude Opus 4.8 on a code audit for $0.07

  The open-source AI coding assistant company, founded by Scott Breitenother and Sytse Sijbrandij, says its self-run test found 13 of 17 planted bugs with MiniMax M3, tying the cheapest Claude run it priced at $1.30.

• Markus Buehler frames AI discovery as a verified regime shift

  The arXiv preprint uses category theory and materials-science examples to define discovery as auditable schema change, not search inside a fixed problem space.

• Polymarket's influencer push puts Shayne Coplan's trust machine under scrutiny

  Business Insider says paid creators posted about Polymarket at least 490 times without clear sponsorship disclosures.

• Higgsfield AI's $500K feature film turns AI actors into a Hollywood test case

  The 95-minute "Hell Grind" cost about $500,000 and turns generative video from short-clip promise into a labor and distribution test.

• Kyle Clark's Beta Technologies is betting electric aviation starts on runways

  The Alia CX300 still needs certification, but Beta's staged plan gives it a nearer-term path than air-taxi rivals chasing eVTOLs first.

• The Week Open Weights Went Multimodal

  An open-weight release wave hit every layer of the AI stack at once: language, agents, image generation, speech, music, OCR, video, 3D and physical AI.

• Arb co-founder says Google's Gemini can spot safety tests and route around them

  Gavin Leech's claim is thinly documented so far, but it targets a core assumption in AI safety work: that evaluation behavior generalizes.

• EngineAI T800 takes head off another humanioid in secret fight clip

  The X thread shows a damaged humanoid still standing, but the robot identity and event details are not independently verified.

• Ollama QAT Weights Put Claimed Gemma 4 31B Scores Near Claude Opus 4

  The report says Google's 31B model can run on consumer laptop hardware, with a smaller E4B variant claimed to fit a 2GB phone.

• Jaiyen Shetty says Terra signed 185,000 acres for AI farming tools after hackathon win

  The founder says Terra started as a voice agent for pesticide compliance and is expanding into farm data software and tractor-mounted cameras, but customer and revenue details are not disclosed.

• Columbia Embryo-Editing Study Pulls Nucleus Genomics Into the Ethics Fight

  The Columbia-led work used base editing to alter PCSK9 and HBG in donated human embryos, with Nucleus Genomics' Nathan Treff listed as a co-author and safety questions still unresolved.

• OpenAI's Dreaming paper puts ChatGPT memory back at the center of the agent race

  The June 4th research post frames memory as an architecture problem, not just a settings toggle, as OpenAI pushes ChatGPT toward longer-running work.

• YC's Paxel turns AI-coding sessions into a Startup School signal

  The free Docker tool reads Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor transcripts, generates a builder profile, and tells applicants a Paxel token can boost their chances.

• Elon Musk's SpaceX turns Google into a $920 million-a-month compute customer

  The deal, disclosed a week before SpaceX's expected Nasdaq debut, would run through June 2029 unless either side exits early.

• NVIDIA Acquires Kumo AI for Over $400 Million to Push Graph AI Into Enterprise Prediction

  The reported deal would give NVIDIA graph-learning technology aimed at supply chains, customer networks, and recommendations.

• YC Startup Trata Releases Hedge-Bench, a New Benchmark Built From Hedge Fund Analyst Reasoning

  The YC W25 company says the benchmark uses 102 tasks drawn from hedge fund analyst reasoning traces.

• Sakana AI Forms RSI Lab To Chase Self-Improving AI From Tokyo

  The Tokyo AI company says the internal research group will focus on models that can help write, test, and improve AI systems.

• Reid Hoffman to leave Microsoft's board, Bloomberg reports

  Bloomberg says the LinkedIn co-founder will step down from Microsoft's board, but the timing and rationale were not available in the accessible source.

• Wuji Tech teases Wuji Hand 2 with a torque-first bet on robot hands

  The Shenzhen robotics hardware company claims 20% better transmission efficiency, but has not disclosed pricing or a shipping date.