Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 9 stories

1. 1Residual Context Diffusion Language Models72
2. 2Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers
3. 3Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI is closing the gap with surgical implants

The AI products people actually use. · 26 stories

1. 1How JPMorgan Chase Is Building The AI-Powered Bank Of The Future78
2. 2Elon Musk Is Reportedly Showing Off an AI Device to Investors - Gizmodo
3. 3Run NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 16 stories

1. 1UAE's MGX raises one of the biggest AI funds ever as it closes at $49 billion92
2. 2Together AI raises $800M to grow its AI-optimized public cloud
3. 3Raja Koduri’s Oxmiq Labs raises $35M to lower the design cost of custom AI silicon

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 7 stories

1. 1Meta shares jump 9% on reported plan to offer AI infrastructure services78
2. 2NVIDIA Unlocks AI Compute at Scale, Inviting Capital Partners to Power the AI Infrastructure Buildout
3. 3Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 45 stories

1. 1White House accelerates plans for AI model standards78
2. 2Bank of England reviews AI rules for agentic AI in finance
3. 3Palantir CEO Alex Karp doesn’t hold back in interview as he rails against AI industry