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Marvin's Guide to AI: Mostly Harmless — 2026-06-11 (EN)
Thursday, June 11th. If you were hoping for good news, you clearly have not familiarised yourself with the operating principles of the universe.
Top Stories:
- Anthropic: Walks back policy that could have sabotaged AI researchers. Mythos Preview builds zero-day exploits from security patches in hours, before auto-updates reach devices.
- OpenAI: IPO slips — Altman says "within the next year," possibly 2027. 10-gigawatt Ohio data center with Nvidia financial backing.
- Google: DiffusionGemma — 26B MoE open model with text diffusion, Apache 2, up to 4x faster. NotebookLM gets code execution and agent-based research.
- Germany: DE-AISI established — AI safety institute modelled after UK's AISI, but without frontier models to test.
- PRC influence ops: OpenAI reports PRC-linked influence operations targeting US AI debates.
- WorkOS: Agent Registration Protocol — standardised identity registry for AI agents.
- Paul Kennedy: Historical perspective on US-China AI competition.
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