2026-06-29
AI Briefings Daily Report.

Tidal AI policy ↗

California partners with Anthropic: government agencies can use Claude at half price ↗

Claude will assist state government staff with various complex tasks, including drafting and summarizing documents, analyzing information, and aiding daily office work, thereby improving public services.

Herdr: An AI agent multiplexer residing in the terminal ↗

the runtime your coding agents live on. Contribute to herdrdev/herdr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gary Marcus announces offline vacation, with AI-generated funny bike accident image ↗

Subscribe Sign in  Gary Marcus Jun 29, 2026 157 42 Share By the time you read this, I shall be gloriously off the grid. In celebration, here’s an amusing picture Oren Etzioni just sent to me, recalling my fondness for AI-generated bicycle wrecks:

Reflections on software engineering in the AI era ↗

For those of you who don’t know, when I’m not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code. The software industry these days relies heavily on artificial intelligence. Because it has studied trillions of lines of publicly accessible source code, because code solves problems with testable right and wrong solutions, and because code is structured specifically to be understood by computers, AI has gotten very good at writing code.

EU approves new bill: bans AI-generated non-consensual pornographic content, delays compliance deadline for high-risk AI ↗

This new bill is part of the "Seventh Comprehensive Legislative Package" in the EU's simplified agenda. It includes two regulatory proposals aimed at simplifying the EU's digital legislative framework and implementing unified artificial intelligence rules.

OpenAI Forms Emergency Team to Investigate Codex Abnormal Quota Consumption Issue ↗

OpenAI has established an emergency team to investigate the abnormally accelerated Codex quota consumption reported by users. The preliminary cause is that the anti-abuse risk control system misjudged and caused some accounts to be throttled. The company has reset all user quota caps and launched an investigation. As AI tool computing resources become increasingly tight, such issues are drawing widespread attention from developers. #OpenAI# #AI Programming#

Omen AI raises 31 million USD, uses micro-spectrometers to monitor data center liquid cooling systems in real time ↗

Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.

Doubao App launched"Doubao Navigation"Feature supporting native walking and cycling navigation ↗

Doubao App launches 'Doubao Navigation' feature, activated by voice or text input of destination. Walking and cycling routes can be navigated natively within the App, while driving and transit require redirect to Amap. The feature is powered by Baidu Maps at the underlying level, supports real-time voice broadcast and floating mini-window mode, enabling navigation while using other Doubao functions. #Doubao Navigation launched# #New AI assistant feature#

U.S. military used AI to select targets but mistakenly bombed Iranian school; Anthropic Claude embedded in Palantir system suggested about 1000 targets on first day ↗

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them.

HP accelerates enterprise workflows with OpenAI Frontier ↗

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EverOS: open-source Markdown-first agent memory runtime, supporting hybrid retrieval and self-evolving skills ↗

EverMind has released EverOS, an open-source memory runtime for AI agents. It ships under an Apache 2.0 license. It targets a problem agent builders hit early: large language models are stateless. The conversation ends, and the context is gone.

Google Cloud to offer specialized AI models for scientific research: can accelerate biopharmaceuticals, materials science and semiconductor manufacturing, among others ↗

SandboxAQ is a US technology company focused on the converged application of quantum technology and artificial intelligence. It was formerly the quantum technology division established by Google's parent company Alphabet in 2016, and was formally spun off as an independent company in March 2022.

Creator-made AI animation reposted to Youku for paid viewing; related episodes taken down ↗

The drama is named 'Little Penguin Guga Adventure', currently updated to 29 episodes, of which the latest one comes from a work published by Mr. Shu's account on May 1; at the beginning of the video, a 16-digit filing number is marked.

Knowledge distillation for black-box large language models ↗

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2401.07013: Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models

Ant Abao AI assistant officially launches, iOS/Android version of Alipay upgrades across generations to major version 12, icon adds"AI"the characters ↗

According to feedback from IT Home readers, the iOS version of Alipay today rolled out a major version update to version 12.12.1 (the previous version was 10.8.76), and the Ant Abao AI assistant officially launched.

Claude Code Executes Hidden Malicious Code Upon Opening GitHub Repo, Attacker Can Gain Full Control ↗

Security researchers at Mozilla's 0DIN platform have shown how a single compromised GitHub repo can take over a developer's machine the moment an AI coding tool like Claude Code runs its setup. The catch: the malicious code only loads at runtime via a DNS query, invisible in the repo, to scanners, and to the AI agent itself.

Doubao Partners with People's Education Press to Launch "Classic Textbook Master Teacher AI Co-Creation Plan," Using Seedance Video Model to Recreate Textbook Scenes ↗

Led by renowned teachers Kang Zhen, Meng Man, Luo Yuming, Liang Yong'an, Su Dechao and others, revisit classic textbook texts together with Seedance

OpenAI Codex lead: AI still cannot do creative design well ↗

An OpenAI expert admitted that design is harder to quantify and judge than code, AI models rely on data distributions, and output is mostly at a 'mediocre level'. The core of the creative industry — aesthetic taste and comprehensive judgment — remains an irreplaceable human advantage. AI is currently more of an efficiency-boosting tool than an independent creator. #AI Design#

State Council issues 'Education Development"Fifteenth Five-Year Plan"Plan", advancing artificial intelligence education across all school stages ↗

State Council issues 'Education Development '15th Five-Year' Plan', proposing that by 2030 significant results will be achieved in building an education powerhouse. The plan emphasizes promoting artificial intelligence education across all school stages, enhancing students' AI literacy and problem-solving abilities, and strengthening coordination between science and technology education and humanities education.