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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI… · In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

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    Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

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    In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

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    The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

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    Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

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    IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Virtual Training Course

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    The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for June 21, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Siri AI Hands On: A Smart, Helpful Assistant Wired
  2. From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone TechCrunch
  3. The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  4. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  5. The inevitable weakness of metrics MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. Brain-computer interface trials are taking off MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  7. Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months The Verge
  8. How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members Wired
  9. As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military Ars Technica
  10. The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time Wired
  11. Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump Wired
  12. MosaicLeaks: Can your research agent keep a secret? Hugging Face
  13. Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry Ars Technica
  14. Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits The Verge
  15. Sound Waves Give Neuromorphic Chips a Brain-Simulating Edge IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  16. Beyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique? Hugging Face
  17. Is it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own tooling Hugging Face
  18. AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties Ars Technica
  19. "Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what Ars Technica
  20. MolmoMotion: Language-guided 3D motion forecasting Hugging Face
  21. How Musicians Can Get Paid for Training AI IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. General Motors Is Cutting Its Development Cycles in Half IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  23. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  24. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  25. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  26. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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