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1  Sam Altman proposes giving the US government a 5% stake in every major AI lab.

OpenAI has reportedly proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund, with the plan requiring Anthropic, Google, Meta, and other frontier labs to match it. Altman's argument is that it spreads the financial upside of AI more broadly and, not incidentally, helps OpenAI ease tensions with the Trump administration ahead of its planned public listing. Read the full proposal here.

2  Microsoft puts $2.5B and 6,000 engineers behind a new AI deployment division.

The Microsoft Frontier Company will embed experts directly inside enterprise customers to help them actually deploy Microsoft's AI tools, not just buy access to them. The move mirrors what the rest of the industry is already doing: AWS committed $1B to its own deployment organization two days earlier, and both OpenAI and Anthropic stood up similar ventures in May. The message from all four companies is the same - selling model access is no longer enough.

3  Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung to co-develop a custom chip.

According to The Information, Anthropic is in discussions with Samsung to build custom silicon. The timing is notable: OpenAI debuted its own Broadcom-built inference chip, Jalapeño, just a week earlier. Every major AI lab is now racing to design its own hardware and reduce its dependence on Nvidia. Anthropic declined to confirm the Samsung talks, pointing to its existing partnerships with Nvidia, Google, and Amazon.

The model access picture, clarified. Claude Fable 5 came back online this week after the US government lifted the export controls that froze it. Both Claude Mythos and OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 series (Sol, Terra, and Luna) remain in limited government-approved preview. Meanwhile, Z.ai's GLM-5.2 and other Chinese models are pressing the frontier from below, matching top US performance at a fraction of the price. The access landscape is more fragmented than it has ever been.

The keyboard agent is here. Acti puts a Gemini-powered AI agent directly in your phone's keyboard, so you can summon help without leaving whatever app you are using. Hold the space bar, and Acti reads your screen, understands the context, and acts. The launch video cleared 3M views, which is a reasonable proxy for how much demand exists for AI that does not require you to switch apps.

Meta's brain-to-text tool gets stronger. Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 decodes raw brain signals into full sentences in real time at 61% accuracy, the highest the system has achieved. The research is aimed at helping people who have lost the ability to speak after strokes, accidents, or brain disorders. Sixty-one percent is not enough for daily use, but the trajectory of the improvement matters more than the current number.

A chip startup emerges with $1B in contracts already signed. Etched came out of stealth this week building chips, racks, and software designed to make today's AI models run faster and cheaper. The launch announcement arrived with a $5B valuation and $1B in customer contracts already in place. Products ship this summer. If the company delivers, it could meaningfully ease the memory crunch that has been pushing up the price of everything from MacBooks to Microsoft's Xbox.

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The zero-person company. Listen Labs claims one of its interns built a company where AI handled the entire operation from start to scale, including identifying the opportunity, building the site, and growing the customer base without a single human employee. The case study is here, and it is worth reading regardless of whether you believe every detail.

Use Fable 5 before July 7th. Anthropic's most capable model is included in base plans until July 7th, after which it moves to pay-per-usage. A viral Reddit thread makes a practical case for using Fable 5 now to write skills, prompts, and system instructions that your other models can run later. The window is narrow.

Walk around Hogwarts. Someone built a vibecoded Hogwarts campus using Claude Fable 5, and you can stroll or fly a broomstick around the grounds. It is a reasonable showcase of how far in-browser experiences have come when you give a capable model a creative brief and enough compute.

Claude's inner voice, leaked. A transcript showing Claude Fable 5's chain-of-thought reasoning surfaced on Reddit this week, and the comment section found it equal parts hilarious and genuinely revealing about how the model actually works through problems before it responds to you.

A phone with no distractions. Lenovo launched an AI student phone with no internet, no social media, and no games, just voice calling and an AI assistant designed for learning. The design brief is aimed squarely at parents who want to give their kids a phone without giving them everything that comes with a phone.

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