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FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2026
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★ Must-Read / Watch agentic engineering / build-better-agents📚 Learn state of AI coding / useful technique

⚡ AI Frontier · smol.ai

★ Must-ReadOpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built with Broadcom
OpenAI revealed its first in-house inference chip, co-developed with Broadcom, aimed at cutting its dependence on Nvidia and lowering cost per token. It is the company's first custom silicon, with initial deployment targeted later this year.
★ Must-ReadAnthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT
New data shows Claude steadily taking paid consumer subscribers in a market long dominated by ChatGPT, a notable shift for a company better known for enterprise and coding use.
AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals
The flow of senior AI researchers out of Google continued this week, with high-profile moves to OpenAI and Anthropic. The concentration of exits has renewed questions about talent retention at Google DeepMind.
📚 LearnAnthropic launches Claude Tag, a shared AI teammate inside Slack channels
Claude Tag turns @Claude into a shared teammate in Slack channels, breaking requests into stages, working asynchronously, and retaining channel context across handoffs. Anthropic says 65% of its product team's code now runs through an internal version.
📚 LearnPatronus AI lands $50M to build worlds that stress-test AI agents
Patronus AI raised $50M to build simulated environments that stress-test AI agents before they reach production, part of a fast-growing market for agent reliability and evaluation tooling.
Databricks' former AI chief thinks he can cut AI's power bill by 1,000x
Databricks' former AI lead launched a venture claiming it can cut the energy cost of AI inference by up to 1,000x, targeting the surging power demands of large-scale model serving.

📺 Watch · latest videos

★ Must-WatchTag Claude in, right where you already work
Claude works inside Slack with your channel's context and your org's tools, seeing multi-day work through alongside the team.
Claude / Anthropic · 1.9M views · 2.7K likes
★ Must-WatchPLANS for Fable 5: rebuilding my /Plan skill
Why planning beats vibe-coding, and how he rebuilt his /Plan skill for the new Fable 5 / Mythos-class models.
IndyDevDan · 13.4K views · 506 likes
★ Must-WatchMy AI memory now follows me across every tool
Giving an agent persistent memory that travels across tools, so context isn't lost switching from Claude Code to others.
Cole Medin · 7.7K views · 283 likes
📚 LearnI battle-tested Sakana Fugu's 'Fable killer'
Putting Sakana's Fugu orchestration up against the frontier models in real agent workflows.
Nate Herk · 95.3K views · 2.2K likes
📚 Learn12 open-source AI projects to try right now
A rundown of a dozen open-source AI projects worth a look this week.
Matthew Berman · 64.1K views · 3.4K likes
📚 LearnShadow AI is terrifying
Why unmanaged 'shadow AI' inside companies is a growing security risk, and how to find it.
NetworkChuck · 121.8K views · 4.7K likes
📚 LearnHow to use Agent in Google Flow
How Google Flow's agent plans and reasons through complex creative tasks under your control, built on Gemini.
Google · 13.2K views · 410 likes
OpenClaw creator's new secret project
First look at what the OpenClaw creator is building next and why builders should care.
AI Jason · 4.9K views · 115 likes
Midjourney wants to delete 30% of all death...
A fast take on Midjourney's latest move and where AI image generation is heading.
Fireship · 381.5K views · 13.7K likes
ChatGPT Futures, Class of 2026
The ChatGPT Futures class on what they hope AI helps people do next: access, education, connection.
OpenAI · 4.4K views · 161 likes

🗣 Voices & Blogs

★ Must-ReadLilian Weng: Scaling Laws, Carefully
Weng's first long-form post of 2026 is a careful tour of scaling laws: why the power-law link between compute, data, model size, and loss is so useful for planning training runs, and how sensitive the fitted predictions are to small choices in methodology.
★ Must-ReadSimon Willison: porting a PyTorch image model to the browser with Claude Code
Willison documents Claude Code autonomously converting a 0.2B model to ONNX, publishing it to Hugging Face, and building a working WebGPU demo. A concrete end-to-end agentic-coding case study.
📚 LearnSimon Willison: GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open-weights LLM right now
Willison argues Zhipu AI's latest release sets a new bar for open-weight text models, with implications for anyone building agents that need a capable, freely deployable backbone.
📚 LearnSimon Willison: Datasette Apps, hosting custom HTML applications inside Datasette
A practical post on embedding self-contained web apps directly inside Datasette instances, expanding what local-data tooling can do without external hosting.
AWS, Microsoft and Google agree the session is the new unit of compute. They disagree on how to isolate it.
Over the past few months, four AI giants quietly rebuilt the same thing at once: AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic The post AWS, Microsoft and… · The New Stack

🌏 The Wire · Drudge / Breitbart

AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they're the most resilient
Fresh hiring data complicates the displacement narrative: software engineering roles are holding up better than most knowledge work even as AI coding tools spread.
Solar generated more US electricity than coal in May, a historic first
Solar hit 12.8% of US electricity in May 2026 versus coal's 12.2%, the first month solar surpassed coal on the US grid since records began.
Global mangrove forests are now in net recovery after decades of loss
A Tulane University study in Science found mangrove gains have outpaced losses since 2010, with only a 1% net decline over 40 years.
French Polynesia expands ocean protections to 30% of its waters
Announced at the UN Ocean Conference, the move brings roughly 1.4 million square kilometers of French Polynesian waters under full protection from extractive industries.
General Fusion named TIME's top GreenTech company of 2026
The Canadian startup's LM26 machine, the first Magnetized Target Fusion device at commercially relevant scale, took the top spot from more than 8,300 applicants.
Amazon ups its India bet with a fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment
Amazon committed another $13B to data-center and AI infrastructure in India, deepening the buildout of compute capacity in one of the fastest-growing cloud markets.
General Intuition raises $2.3B on a bet that video games can train real-world AI agents
The startup is using game environments as a training ground for agents meant to act in the physical world, one of the largest early-stage raises of the year.

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