AI — Page 72
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Changling Li leads EvalAwareBench to measure when LLMs know they are being tested
In a new paper and open releases, Li and collaborators decompose evaluation awareness, test nine models across four benchmarks, and publish a factor-controlled dataset and code.
- Hugging Face leader says Gemma 4 tops 120M downloads in weeks, counting Hugging Face and Ollama only
The tally counts only Hugging Face and Ollama pulls, hinting at on-device demand but leaving methodology and release timing unclear.
- Asimov plans Palo Alto, SF, and Austin meetups to talk humanoids and AI
Coffee meetups land June 2nd, 4, and 6, with RSVPs running through Luma as Asimov convenes folks interested in humanoids and AI.
- Freu AI launches Mac agent that compiles your cross-app workflow once, then runs it locally with zero recurring token cost
Demos show a Mac agent that records your cross-app workflow once, compiles it into a deterministic DSL, and replays it locally with zero recurring tokens. With freu-cli open-sourced and a local vision execution model coming, can ahead-of-time semantic compilation beat screenshot agents on cost and latency?
- Socket uncovers TrapDoor campaign stealing keys and wallets via open source packages
Socket researchers say the TrapDoor campaign planted credential-stealing payloads in more than 34 packages and 384+ versions, targeting crypto and AI developers.
- DeepMind preprint: LLM+Lean agent resolves 9 Erdos problems and 44 OEIS conjectures
Google DeepMind reports a full-featured AlphaProof Nexus agent solved 9 of 353 open Erdos problems at a few hundred dollars per problem and proved 44 of 492 OEIS conjectures; code and Lean proofs are on GitHub. This is an arXiv preprint and community validation is pending.
- Greg Brockman walks through the 72 hours that almost killed OpenAI
In a rare interview on The Knowledge Project, the OpenAI co-founder recounts quitting within hours, sketching a backup company, and why they stopped showing reasoning traces.
- Draw Things adds on-device Qwen 3.5 4B and a clearer mode selector on iOS and macOS
The app says it now runs a lightweight local LLM as an interrogator model and splits generation and editing into distinct modes for a cleaner workflow.
- Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic after stints at OpenAI and Tesla
Aligned News flagged the move; Wikipedia lists Karpathy on Anthropic’s pretraining team in 2026, underscoring top-tier talent consolidation at frontier labs.
- BenchFlow to launch SkillsBench at ACM CAIS, presented by Google DeepMind
The San Francisco afterparty will spotlight 100+ expert curated agent tasks, live demos of the BenchFlow SDK, and Kaggle’s new Agent Benchmarks.
- Anthropic says Project Glasswing surfaced 10,000+ high-severity bugs in a month
Cloudflare alone found 2,000 issues; Anthropic’s OSS scans show a 90.6% triaged true-positive rate and project nearly 3,900 high-or-critical bugs ahead.
- Atomic.chat says Qwen 3.7-max beat Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 in agentic Tetris-bot test
In a 10-iteration code-and-rewrite challenge, the team let each model build and train a Tetris bot, then compared the final agents.
- Solo founder Ben Cera says Polsia raise it's own financing of $30M at a $250M valuation, autonomously
Approaching $10M ARR, Cera says Polsia runs companies autonomously with one founder and AI, and even handled its own raise while he "just showed up for signatures."
- Klemen Kotar announces PSI-0.5, a promptable physical world model
Kotar framed PSI-0.5 as contrasting with world models focused on moving around scenes; the reposted announcement we saw did not include links to code, a demo, or a paper.
- Speridlabs exits stealth to build a spatial AI foundation model
The research lab outlined a staged plan for a single 3D-native model and an open-by-default posture; Pear VC and Base10 are backing the effort.
- Qwen 3.7 Max draws head-to-head comparisons with GPT and Gemini-class systems
Benchmark chatter has shifted from open vs weak baselines to parity talk, with hints that Qwen 3.7 Max posts a strong math score.
- Cosmo aims to give AI agents a desktop UI, launched by Shiyuan on X
In an X thread, Shiyuan says Cosmo lets you type or speak from the desktop while the interface renders live; some demo changes are not live yet.
- Runway pushes Aleph 2.0 into an editing workflow with new Edit Studio
Runway is steering its video model toward controllable, preview-first editing, not just one-shot generation, per a thread on X and a new Generative Session page.
- Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses, pushes engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI
Internal memo sets a June 30th cutoff for most Claude Code seats; Microsoft frames the shift as convergence on a first-party CLI and a cost move tied to fiscal year-end, per The Verge.
- Inside 'Google Zero': AI answers move intent off the open web
Founders and indie publishers describe the same analytics signature as Google's summary-style results, including AI Overviews, satisfy queries on the results page and thin out the clicks that fund new work.
- ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans says agent-driven workflows can 100x orgs and 1000x top performers
In an X thread announcing a 22% cut, Evans framed a shift to agents and smaller, faster teams, citing a weeklong frontend architecture rebuild, 40x research, faster code review of agent outputs, and million-dollar bands for outsized impact.
- Anthropic-backed services firm acquires Fractional AI to anchor enterprise push
San Francisco-based Fractional AI, founded by Chris Taylor, Eddie Siegel, and Travis May, will be the operational core of a new Anthropic, Blackstone, and H&F backed firm.
- Minkai Xu introduces Gemini Omni, a self-described world model, in a Google DeepMind X post
Researcher-builder Minkai Xu says he has been heads-down for months on a world model, with the announcement appearing on Google DeepMind's X account.
- OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT images with Google's SynthID and launch a provenance checker
Images from ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and OpenAI Codex will carry SynthID and C2PA signals, with a checker to verify provenance and new participation in C2PA conformance.