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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

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.

What is A.I. even good for?
How do you know what you’re buying,
and measure the value of what it enables?
How is it priced, and how will those prices change in the future?
What does the spending on it displace?
“It’s a currency where you have no instinct to know what you’re using,
and the accounting practices aren’t even there for it,”
said Howard Rubin, an economist who advises companies on technology spending.
One of the fundamental diffi…

What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?
A new field of “tokenomics” has emerged to measure the return on all the money companies are pouring into artificial intelligence.

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

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/

Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/muse-spark-1-2

Muse Spark 1.2
Independent analysis and benchmarks of Meta's Muse Spark 1.2

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.

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...