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AI Daily Newsletter: Anthropic Creates Its Own Medication and Students Receive Lower Test Scores Due to AI Use

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🧬 Anthropic Develops Its Own Medicines, Showing AI is Not Just a Chatbot Anthropic has announced that it will develop its own medicines for diseases that Big Pharma has overlooked due to lack of profitability. At the launch event of Claude Science (an AI workspace for researchers), Anthropic clarified that this timeline aims to support its non-profit mission and help them better understand how AI can be applied in science.

AI Daily Newsletter: Microsoft Invests 2.5 Billion USD in AI Deployment and OpenAI Wants to Donate Shares

🔥 1. Microsoft Launches Frontier Company — $2.5 Billion, 6,000 Engineers to Deploy AI Microsoft has officially established Microsoft Frontier Company, a new business unit with a $2.5 billion commitment and 6,000 technical experts, focusing on deploying AI for businesses. Unlike AWS’s ($1B) Forward-Deployed Engineer model, Microsoft calls this the largest “outcome-driven engineering” organization in the industry. Initial partners include the London Stock Exchange Group, Unilever, and Land O’Lakes.

AI Daily Newsletter: Together AI Raises $800 Million in Funding and Ford Rehires Veteran Engineers

🔥 1. Together AI Successfully Raises $800M, Valued at $8.3 Billion Together AI, a neocloud platform specializing in providing infrastructure for AI training and inference, has just concluded an $800M funding round, raising the company’s valuation to $8.3B. This is a signal that the demand for specialized AI cloud infrastructure is still booming, despite the cost-cutting wave in other areas.

AI Daily Newsletter: Claude Sonnet 5 Launches and AI Chip Etched Valued at 5 Billion USD

🔥 1. Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 — Cheaper, Stronger, Focus on AI Agent Sonnet 5 is Anthropic’s new mid-size upgrade, specifically designed to run AI agents at a lower cost. For just $2/M input token (reduced to $3 after August), this model achieves 63.2% on the agentic coding benchmark — nearly equal to Opus 4.8 (69.2%) while being significantly cheaper. As of today, Sonnet 5 becomes the default model for both Free and Pro plans. Anthropic is proving that agentic capability has become the baseline — the game is now about price and reliability.

AI Daily Newsletter: Claude Code Refutes Doctors and GLM 5.2 Surpasses Claude in Security

🔥 1. GLM 5.2 surpasses Claude for the first time in security benchmark Zhipu AI launched GLM 5.2 — a 750B parameter MoE model (40B active), MIT license, 1M token context — and it defeated Claude Code by 7 F1 points in the IDOR vulnerability detection task on Semgrep’s benchmark. The cost is only ~$0.17 per vulnerability found, 6 times cheaper than frontier models. This is the first time an open-weight model on a prompt surpasses a commercial coding agent in a security reasoning-heavy task.

AI Daily Newsletter: Anthropic accuses Alibaba of plagiarism and GPT-5.6 Sol embroiled in cheating scandal

🔥 1. The US Allows Anthropic to Release Claude Mythos 5 to Trusted Organizations The Trump administration has lifted the ban on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5, allowing over 100 US organizations (including major companies and government agencies) to use the model. This is a significant de-escalation in the standoff between the Trump administration and Anthropic. However, Fable 5 has not been restored yet.

AI Daily Newsletter: Preview of GPT-5.6 Sol and OpenAI's Self-Designed Jalapeño Chip

🔥 1. GPT-5.6 Sol Officially Previewed — US Government to Control Who Gets to Use It OpenAI has announced the GPT-5.6 line with three versions: Sol (flagship), Terra (balanced), and Luna (fast, affordable). The most notable point is that the US government has requested OpenAI to approve each customer before using Sol, causing public concern about a de facto AI licensing mechanism. OpenAI stated that they do not want this to become the “default” for future releases. Sol achieves SOTA on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and GeneBench v1 with pricing at $5/$30 per 1M token.

AI Daily Newsletter: Gemini Staff Flock to Anthropic and Qualcomm Acquires Modular

🔥 1. OpenAI Launches Its First Custom AI Chip, Partnering with Broadcom OpenAI has officially entered the hardware sector with its first custom AI chip, built by Broadcom. This strategic move from a pure software company to hardware enables OpenAI to be more proactive in optimizing inference and reducing its dependence on Nvidia.

AI Daily Newsletter: John Jumper joins Anthropic and the 4 billion USD Modular deal

📡 OpenAI Launches Its First Custom AI Chip OpenAI has officially announced its first custom AI chip, designed in collaboration with Broadcom. Codenamed “Jalapeño”, this chip is optimized for inference, promising to reduce dependence on Nvidia and optimize operating costs. This strategic move helps OpenAI compete with Google (TPU) and Amazon (Trainium) in the custom AI chip race.

AI Daily Newsletter: OpenAI partners with Broadcom to make chips and Reid Hoffman harshly criticizes xAI

Notable News — 06/24/2026 🔥 1. There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days (Hacker News, 458 points)