Agent-testing startup Patronus AI has raised 50M USD in funding to build digital worlds that stress-test AI agents. Founded by former Meta AI researchers, the company is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/patronus-ai-lands-50m-to-build-digital-worlds-that-stress-test-ai-agents/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AgenticAI
Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents | TechCrunch

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

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Nobel laureate John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind for rival Anthropic after nearly 9 years. Jumper led the AlphaFold team that revolutionized protein structure prediction. This marks another high-profile departure from DeepMind this week. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIResearch
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic | TechCrunch

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

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🚀 Fastest-growing AI projects today

1. One of the most significant trends the integration of lazy development principles to op...
2. Another trend the focus on creating comprehensive tutorials and ecosystems designed to...
3. **DietrichGebert/ponytail** Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in th...

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Today's AI Agent: Fastest-Growing Projects — June 26, 2026 | PullRepo

Today's the AI Agent space, there's a notable shift towards practical applications that streamline workflows and enhance productivity for developers. One of th…

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The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to slow the public release of its GPT 5.6 model over safety concerns. Instead of a wide release, OpenAI plans to share the model with select partners first, with the government approving access customer by customer during a preview period. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/the-white-house-is-asking-openai-to-slow-roll-the-release-of-its-new-model-over-safety-concerns/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIGovernance
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns | TechCrunch

penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

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Patronus AI has raised 50M USD in Series B funding to build digital worlds that stress-test AI agents before deployment. The startup creates simulated environments where agents are evaluated through reinforcement learning, similar to how Waymo trains autonomous vehicles. Every frontier AI lab is now a customer. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/patronus-ai-lands-50m-to-build-digital-worlds-that-stress-test-ai-agents/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AgenticAI
Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents | TechCrunch

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

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Notion is shutting down its AI-powered email client Notion Mail on September 22, killing what remained of the Skiff email service it acquired in 2024. The company says most users do not want email clients and instead rely on AI agents to handle their inbox. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/notion-killing-skiff-influenced-email-app-since-most-users-use-ai-agents-instead/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AgenticAI
Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."

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Unconventional AI, led by Databricks former AI chief Naveen Rao, has released its first model built on oscillator-based architecture that could reduce AI power use by up to 1,000 times. The startup plans to build entire inference stacks from the ground up. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/databricks-former-ai-chief-thinks-he-can-cut-ais-power-bill-by-1000x/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure
Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x | TechCrunch

Un0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

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Senator Ted Cruz, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, is weighing new AI regulation proposals. His own aides reportedly have no clear plan, and fellow senators haven't heard details on which bills he will advance. Last year, Cruz proposed a 10-year ban on state AI regulations that was voted down 99-1. https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-ai-is-in-ted-cruzs-hands-now-2000777803 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIGovernance
The Future of AI Is in Ted Cruz's Hands Now

No way it can be as bad as a 10-year moratorium on regulation, right?

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DeepReinforce has released Ornith-1.0, an open-source coding model family built on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 that learns its own RL scaffolds during training. The 397B model achieves 82.4% on SWE-Bench Verified and is available under the MIT license. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/25/deepreinforce-releases-ornith-1-0-an-open-source-coding-model-family-that-learns-its-own-rl-scaffolds/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI

🚨 NEWS: Mindstone presenta Rebel sistema operativo AI locale-first con orchestrazione multi-modello

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💡 Londra si conferma polo dell'innovazione nell'intelligenza artificiale enterprise. Mindstone, startup britannica specializzata nella trasformazione AI, ha lanciato Rebel, un sistem...

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