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A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?

We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.

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2 Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption

Notion's head of product said he was "astonished" at “the amount of people RT-ing this."

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3 OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’

"Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.

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4 OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be still vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process.

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5 The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link...

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6 How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits

Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford...

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7 Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI

The global health care sector is under increasing strain. Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps...

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8 Building Reflective Prompt Optimization with GEPA: Multi-Component Prompts, Structured Feedback, and Held-Out Validation

In this tutorial, we use GEPA as a reflective prompt-evolution framework to improve how a small language model solves multi-step arithmetic word problems. We start from a weak seed prompt,...

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9 Best 21 Low-Code and No-Code AI Tools in 2026

Low-code and no-code AI platforms now turn a prompt into a working app, agent, or model. This guide compares 21 tools across app builders, automation, AI agents, and machine learning...

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10 Meet Harness-1: A 20B Retrieval Subagent Trained With Reinforcement Learning Inside a Stateful Search Harness on gpt-oss-20b

UIUC and Chroma's Harness-1 is a 20B retrieval subagent trained with reinforcement learning inside a stateful search harness. The harness maintains the bookkeeping — candidate pool, importance-tagged curated set, evidence...

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