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US Denies Visas to Iran National Football Team Officials Ahead of World Cup (Tasnim News Agency)
https://tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/06/06/3609562/us-denies-visas-to-iran-national-football-team-officials-ahead-of-world-cup
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p50#a260606p50

X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and says it will discontinue Revenue Sharing on September 7; existing members must apply for the new program (@xcreators)
https://x.com/xcreators/status/2085835082166653393

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Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small set of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace

A global workspace in language models
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and debuts a new logo (Kelsey Vlamis/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-rebrand-spacexai-new-logo-x-handle-spacex-2026-7

XAI rebrands to SpaceXAI with new logo, X handle, under SpaceX
XAI has rebranded to SpaceXAI, debuting a new logo and X handle. Elon Musk previously said the Grok maker would be folded into SpaceX.

At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment (Black Hat on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY

Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/byylhojqze

Alta raises $25 million Series A: “We’re doing for marketing and sales what AWS did for cloud infrastructure”
The AI agent platform founded by monday.com alumni has reached $15 million in new revenue run rate after 800% revenue growth. CEO Stav Levi-Neumark tells Calcalist the company is moving beyond SaaS toward a services model that manages the entire sales lifecycle and enables one account manager to oversee 80 customers instead of 20.

OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-futurist-joshua-achiam-is-leaving-the-company/

OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.

Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/business/alibaba-ai-qwen.html

Alibaba’s A.I. Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker
The Chinese company’s models have won over developers worldwide, but they are open source — so they can be used and modified freely.

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/openai-gpt-55-cybersecurity-model

OpenAI makes its Mythos rival more widely available to cyber defenders
Recent security testing suggests that GPT-5.5. model is nearly as good at finding and exploiting software bugs as Anthropic's Mythos Preview.

Google announces a Pixel event on August 12 in NYC, where it is expected to launch Pixel 11 series of phones and Pixel Watch 5 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/07/07/made-by-google-2026-invite/

Google announces August 12 event for Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5
Made by Google 2026 is officially taking place on Wednesday, August 12. This is a week earlier compared to last year...