AI Hot Daily Brief · 2026-06-20

Funding, policy and market moves.

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

TechCrunch AIRSS·4d ago71

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

What the major labs and platforms shipped.

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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

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