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Anthropic and Google DeepMind CEOs use the G7 summit in Evian to propose a U.S.-led global AI standards forum as leaked OpenAI financials reveal $21 billion in losses for 2025. Anthropic’s Seoul office opens with enterprise deployments at LG CNS, Samsung SDS, and NAVER; Z.ai releases GLM-5.2 under MIT as the strongest text-only open weights model; OpenAI updates GPT-Rosalind for drug discovery; Trump says Anthropic export-control talks are progressing; Sean Goedecke on what bubble investment leaves behind; and the 26,000 food compounds nutrition science has barely studied.

Eight items spanning AI policy and lab news—G7 standards proposals, OpenAI’s leaked financials, Anthropic’s Seoul expansion, and new model updates—plus a lighter engineering essay and a food-science wildcard.

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CNBC · Jun 17

CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7

Amodei and Hassabis called for a U.S.-led international forum to set global standards for frontier AI models at the G7 summit.

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Fortune · Jun 16

OpenAI’s financials have leaked, showing $21 billion in losses against $13 billion in revenue

Leaked documents show OpenAI’s 2025 net loss of $21 billion against $13 billion in revenue as the company prepares for a public listing.

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Anthropic · Jun 17

Anthropic opens Seoul office and announces new partnerships across the Korean AI ecosystem

Anthropic’s third Asia-Pacific office launches in Seoul with enterprise deployments at LG CNS, Samsung SDS, and NAVER alongside a government AI safety MOU.

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Ben Thompson · Jun 17

The Nvidia AI PC, Project Solara, Microsoft AI

Thompson’s daily update covers Nvidia’s AI PC launch, Project Solara, and the implications for Microsoft’s AI positioning.

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Simon Willison · Jun 17

GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM

Z.ai released GLM-5.2 full open weights under an MIT license, claiming the top spot among publicly available text-only language models.

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OpenAI · Jun 17

Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind

OpenAI updates GPT-Rosalind with stronger drug-discovery and genomics capabilities and introduces the LifeSciBench evaluation benchmark for life-sciences AI.

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Fortune · Jun 17

OpenAI’s balance sheet remains the most mysterious—and consequential—in business

Fortune examines what the leaked OpenAI financials still leave unknown about the company’s path to profitability and its IPO valuation.

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U.S. News · Jun 17

Trump Says Negotiations With Anthropic Are ‘Going Fine’

Trump told G7 reporters that White House talks with Anthropic over Fable 5 and Mythos 5 model access for foreign nationals are proceeding.

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Sean Goedecke · Jun 15

What’s next after the AI bubble bursts?

Goedecke argues that infrastructure investment from a bursting AI bubble persists and sets up the next technology development wave.

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Wildcard · Food Science · ScienceDaily · Jun 14

Scientists say most of what’s in your food is still a mystery

Researchers estimate human diets contain over 26,000 chemical compounds, with the vast majority entirely unstudied for health effects by nutrition science.