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• Paradromics puts its Connexus brain implant into a speech-restoration patient

  Matt Angle's Austin BCI company is moving from acute tests to a six-year study of whether neural signals can become speech.

• Jack Hidary's SandboxAQ wins $500 million CHIPS award for AI chipmaking materials

  The Commerce Department deal gives the U.S. a minority stake and pushes SandboxAQ from model vendor into industrial policy contractor.

• Anthropic's Mythos fight turns on the hacker who first told it to slow down

  Nicholas Carlini warned Anthropic not to release Mythos in March. He is now central to its case that guarded access is safer than a ban.

• AGI House turns its builder calendar toward agents and automation

  Rocky Yu's Hillsborough AI community is using build days to pull founders from model demos into live-web agents, identity, and enterprise workflows.

• Cursor Says Its Next Coding Model Is 1.5T Parameters and Training on 100,000 GPUs

  A Compile disclosure shows Cursor pushing beyond tool design into frontier-scale model ownership.

• Qualcomm's reported Tenstorrent talks value Jim Keller's AI chip team at $8B to $10B

  The reported approach would test whether Qualcomm wants another NUVIA-style team acquisition or a broader RISC-V AI architecture bet.

• Head to head: AnimateDiff Turbo vs Wan v2.6 Image to Video

  This matchup wasn’t close: one model kept the brief in view, the other kept wandering off into style-first abstraction. Across both prompts, Wan v2.6 Image to Video delivered the actual scene, action, and progression; AnimateDiff Turbo mostly delivered vibes.

• Unicorn Engine's decade-long CPU emulation bet still has teeth

  Nguyen Anh Quynh and Dang Hoang Vu built Unicorn as a focused alternative to QEMU, and security tooling still leans on that choice.

• GrapheneOS ports to Android 17 on release day

  The privacy-focused Android fork says an initial Android 17 build is planned for June 17 across supported devices.

• Leaked OpenAI financials put a hard number on Altman's compute burn

  Audited documents viewed by Ed Zitron and verified by the FT show $13.07B in 2025 revenue and a $38.5B net loss attributable to OpenAI.

• Coinbase rolls out AI investment advisor to Coinbase One members

  The SEC-registered advisory product gives automated portfolio guidance while keeping trade approval and execution in the user's hands.

• Anthropic fight with Trump turns into a cyber-defense fight

  Security leaders say the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 restrictions risk punishing the same bug-finding work defenders need.

• Head to head: Bagel vs Fibo Lite

  This one turns on control versus completeness. Bagel produces the cleaner single image, but Fibo Lite wins the matchup by solving more of the brief where it matters: scene logic, composition, and spatial fidelity.

• SpaceX agrees to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60 billion

  The stock deal gives Elon Musk's public-market SpaceX a fast-growing AI coding business as xAI chases Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft.

• YC Names Christopher Golda and Grey Baker General Partners

  The appointments add two YC-linked operators to Garry Tan's senior bench as YC runs more batches and competes earlier for technical founders.

• SubQ Releases Its 1.1 Small Model Card as Dangel and Whedon Try to Prove Long Context Can Beat RAG

  The Subquadratic team says its sparse-attention model hits 98% needle retrieval at 12M tokens, but access remains limited to design partners.

• Genesis AI's Eno robot rejects the humanoid default

  Xian Zhou and Theophile Gervet are taking a wheeled, foldable path into physical AI after raising a $105 million seed round.

• Analysis: Why Salesforce is buying Fin for about $3.6B

  Salesforce + Fin: packaging customer-service agents for Agentforce

• Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin Pushes Kimi Deeper Into Coding Agents

  Kimi K2.7-Code is a 1T-parameter MoE model with 32B active parameters, a 256K context window and open weights on Hugging Face.

• Anthropic faces class-action claim over Claude Max 20x limits

  Karl Kahn says Claude Max 20x delivered six to eight times Pro usage, not the 20x Anthropic advertised.

• Boz tells Meta employees its AI reorg rollout was 'atrocious'

  Meta is trying to repair morale inside a 6,500-person AI unit formed in March after employees pushed back on forced transfers and lower-status work.

• Microsoft's GitHub capacity crunch sends it to AWS

  AI coding agents have turned GitHub reliability into an infrastructure problem Azure cannot absorb alone on Microsoft's timetable.

• Hermes Agent's new async subagents take aim at the blocking-agent problem

  Teknium says the delegate tool can now fan out work without freezing the chat, a practical change for long-running agent workflows.

• Head to head: AnimateDiff Turbo vs Seedance 2 Image to Video

  One model mostly gestures at the prompts; the other actually stages them. This matchup isn’t close: Seedance 2 Image to Video wins by turning specific shot language into coherent motion instead of settling for attractive approximation.