A24, the studio known for refusing to compromise its artistic vision, has accepted $75 million from Google DeepMind to build AI filmmaking tools, with A24 retaining full creative control and Google getting no access to its content library.
In six days, four of the most consequential researchers in Google DeepMind’s history have left for competitors including OpenAI and Anthropic, including Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer and Nobel laureate John Jumper.
OpenAI and Molecule.one published results from a three-month collaboration in which GPT-5.4 operated as a near-autonomous agent in a live pharmaceutical chemistry lab, running 10,080 reactions and discovering a novel improvement to drug synthesis chemistry.
Anthropic pushed a major update to Claude Design addressing its most persistent complaint: it has been consuming tokens at a rate that made large-scale design work economically unviable. The overhaul repositions the product as a design system compliance layer.
Researchers at the Shanghai AI Lab published Self-Harness, a framework that lets AI agents rewrite their own operating rules based on what goes wrong during execution. Results showed 33 to 60 percent relative performance gains across multiple models.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published an essay warning that if AI value concentrates in a handful of frontier models, the economic fallout will mirror what globalization did to manufacturing. He wrote: there is no societal permission for an AI future that hollows out entire industries.
Mistral AI released OCR 4 with a pitch for regulated industries: run it entirely inside your own infrastructure. Banks, hospitals, and law firms can now deploy the model on their own servers without any content touching an outside server.
SpaceX has inked a $6.3 billion compute agreement with Reflection AI, paying $150 million per month for access to Nvidia GB300 chips. This is SpaceX’s fourth major external compute deal, pushing total committed revenues from Colossus past $80 billion through 2029.
OpenAI launched the full version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and locked it behind a restricted access program that keeps it out of the public API entirely. The model scored the highest CyberGym score any single model has ever recorded.
Microsoft is pulling Claude Code from thousands of engineers in its Experiences and Devices division before June 30 and replacing it with GitHub Copilot CLI. The affected teams build Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, and Surface.