

🤖 Musk Says Grok 4.5 Enters Private Beta @elonmusk said Grok 4.5, based on xAI’s 1.5T V9 foundation model with added Cursor data, is now in private beta at @SpaceX and @Tesla. He claimed early evaluations show performance close to, and possibly above, Claude Opus. Musk also said SpaceX will release fully trained-from-scratch new models every month this year.

🧠 Samsung and SK Hynix Shares Fall on $1.3T Investment Report Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix shares fell Monday after reports said the two chipmakers may unveil investment plans worth up to 2,000T won/$1.3T over the next decade, per @CNBC. The plans are expected to cover semiconductors, AI data centers, advanced packaging and other key AI infrastructure areas.

🤖 Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI @NoamShazeer announced he is joining @OpenAI, leaving his VP Engineering / Gemini co-lead role at @GoogleDeepMind . Shazeer is best known as a co-author of the Transformer, T5 and Switch Transformer papers, and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of sparse MoE models.

🤖 Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of AI Distillation Attack @AnthropicAI sent a letter to the U.S. Senate accusing @AlibabaGroup of carrying out its largest known AI distillation attack, according to @CNBC. Anthropic said Alibaba-linked operators used about 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 28.8M exchanges with its models between April 22 and June 5. Alibaba has not commented on the claim.

🤝 Micron and Anthropic Sign AI Infrastructure Deal @MicronTech announced a strategic agreement with @AnthropicAI covering AI memory and storage design, supply commitments, Claude adoption, and an investment in Anthropic’s Series H round. The deal aims to help Anthropic scale compute infrastructure for Claude workloads.

🔬 Trump Signs Quantum Innovation Order President @realDonaldTrump signed an executive order to accelerate U.S. quantum development and strengthen national security. The order calls for an updated National Quantum Strategy, a push to build a science-enabling quantum computer, and plans to deploy quantum sensors and networks within 5 years.

🤖 Tencent Tests New WeChat AI Assistant @TencentGlobal has started testing Xiaowei, a new AI assistant inside @Weixin_WeChat, with a small group of users, per @business. The assistant supports text and voice interactions and can help complete tasks through WeChat mini-apps. Tencent said Xiaowei mainly uses Weixin’s own WeLM model, while sometimes turning to @deepseek_ai for certain queries.

