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#1Claude Mythos Preview Shatters SWE-Bench at 93.9% — Then Gets Locked Away

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview set a new world record on SWE-bench Verified at 93.9%, resolving real GitHub issues nearly 19 out of 20 times, while also leading GPQA Diamond at 94.6% and SWE-bench Pro at 77.8%. There's a catch: Anthropic has explicitly said Mythos Preview will not be released for general availability, citing its advanced cybersecurity capabilities. The most powerful coding AI on the planet is also the most restricted.

🔗 MindStudio/Anthropic

#2MiniMax M3: First Open-Weight Model Combining Frontier Coding, 1M-Token Context, and Native Multimodality

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Chinese lab MiniMax released M3, claiming to be the first open-weight model to combine frontier-level coding, a one-million-token context window, and native image and video understanding in a single package. It tops the open-weight SWE-Bench Pro leaderboard at 59.0%, and weights are headed to Hugging Face within days of launch.

🔗 MiniMax

#3Alibaba Releases Qwen3-Coder-Next: 80B Parameters, 3B Active, 10x Throughput via Ultra-Sparse MoE

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Alibaba's Qwen team dropped Qwen3-Coder-Next, an 80B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that wakes only 3 billion parameters per forward pass via ultra-sparse attention, delivering 10x the throughput of dense equivalents on repository-level coding tasks. It was trained with large-scale executable task synthesis, environment interaction, and reinforcement learning.

🔗 VentureBeat/Qwen

#4ChatGPT Crosses 1 Billion Monthly Active Users — Fastest App in History

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ChatGPT has reached 1 billion monthly active users, making it the fastest app in history to hit that threshold — achieving in roughly three years what took Google Maps and YouTube five to eight years. Year-over-year growth stands at 62%, while Claude sits at 56 million MAUs but is growing at 640% year-over-year.

🔗 Reuters/Sensor Tower

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#5Google DeepMind Lands Contextual AI Founder Douwe Kiela and 20+ Researchers in ~$85M Deal

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Google DeepMind struck an acquihire-style deal with Contextual AI worth roughly $80–90 million, bringing founder and CEO Douwe Kiela and more than 20 researchers to DeepMind alongside non-exclusive IP licensing rights. The structure — talent plus technology, no formal acquisition — mirrors Google's earlier deals with Windsurf and Character.AI, sidestepping antitrust review while consolidating frontier talent.

🔗 Bloomberg

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#6Wired Investigation: Meta's NameTag Facial Recognition Code Sits on Millions of Phones, Undisclosed

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Wired uncovered code in Meta's AI app for a feature called NameTag: it captures faces via Ray-Ban smart glasses, stores faceprints locally, and alerts the wearer when a recognized person is nearby. The code has been on millions of phones since January 2026 but isn't active yet — and an internal memo reportedly advised timing the launch for a "dynamic political environment" when civil liberties groups would be distracted. The ACLU, Fight for the Future, and EPIC have raised immediate alarms.

🔗 Wired/TechTimes

#7OpenAI Codex Gets Six Role-Specific Plugins and a Sites Feature for Enterprise Workspaces

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OpenAI rolled out six role-specific plugins for Codex — covering data analytics, sales, product design, equity investing, investment banking, and creative production — each bundling dozens of popular SaaS integrations. A new Sites feature lets Codex build and host interactive web apps shareable via secure workspace URLs, with plugin sharing now enabled by default for Enterprise and EDU accounts.

🔗 VentureBeat

#8EU AI Act Omnibus Agreement: High-Risk Deadlines Pushed to 2027–2028, Deepfake Prohibition Added

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The EU Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement amending the AI Act: Annex III high-risk AI obligations are deferred to December 2027 and regulated product rules to August 2028, giving industry significantly more runway. The deal also added a new prohibition on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery under Article 5, with formal adoption expected before August 2026.

🔗 EU Council

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#9xAI Grok Connectors Link SharePoint, Google Workspace, GitHub, Notion, and Custom MCP Servers

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xAI shipped Grok Connectors, deep integrations letting Grok read and act within SharePoint, Outlook, OneDrive, Google Workspace, Notion, GitHub, Linear, and any custom MCP server — enabling users to draft emails, update documents, manage calendars, and query repositories without leaving Grok. Grok Build 0.1 API access launched simultaneously for developers building on the stack.

🔗 xAI/DevOps.com

#10OpenAI Sets Retirement Dates: GPT-4.5 Out of ChatGPT June 27, o3 Sunsets August 26

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OpenAI announced that GPT-4.5 will be removed from the ChatGPT model picker on June 27 and o3 will exit August 26, with both models remaining accessible via API. The announcements coincided with a GPT-5.5 Instant behavior upgrade, signaling a deliberate consolidation of the consumer product around the GPT-5 family.

🔗 OpenAI/gHacks

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Top stories, ranked by relevance.

#1Claude Mythos Preview Shatters SWE-Bench at 93.9% — Then Gets Locked Away

#2MiniMax M3: First Open-Weight Model Combining Frontier Coding, 1M-Token Context, and Native Multimodality

#3Alibaba Releases Qwen3-Coder-Next: 80B Parameters, 3B Active, 10x Throughput via Ultra-Sparse MoE

#4ChatGPT Crosses 1 Billion Monthly Active Users — Fastest App in History

#5Google DeepMind Lands Contextual AI Founder Douwe Kiela and 20+ Researchers in ~$85M Deal

#6Wired Investigation: Meta's NameTag Facial Recognition Code Sits on Millions of Phones, Undisclosed

#7OpenAI Codex Gets Six Role-Specific Plugins and a Sites Feature for Enterprise Workspaces

#8EU AI Act Omnibus Agreement: High-Risk Deadlines Pushed to 2027–2028, Deepfake Prohibition Added

#9xAI Grok Connectors Link SharePoint, Google Workspace, GitHub, Notion, and Custom MCP Servers

#10OpenAI Sets Retirement Dates: GPT-4.5 Out of ChatGPT June 27, o3 Sunsets August 26