AI Hot Daily Brief · 2026-06-21

New models, weights and benchmarks.

Simon WillisonRSS·3d ago64

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for everyone else as well. Short version: you can now create a Cloudflare Workers project and run this, without even creating a Cloudflare account: npx wrangler deploy --temporary Cloudflare will deploy the application to a new, ephemeral project which will stay live for 60 minutes. I had GPT-5.5 xhigh in Codex Desktop build this test application providing a tool for following HTTP redirects and returning the final destination. The temporary deployment worked as advertised. Running the deployment spits out the URL to a page for claiming the new project, for if you want it to last for more than 60 minutes. Here's what that claim screen looks like: Via Hacker News Tags: cloudflare

What the major labs and platforms shipped.

TechCrunch AIRSS·3d ago71

When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?

On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.

TechCrunch AIRSS·3d ago71

Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.