Jun 30, 2025 5 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ AGI, Meet Reality

Potemkin Collapses, Altman’s Nightmare, Runway Eats Dreams

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Nine-figure bonuses used to buy islands—now they buy LinkedIn profile updates.

AGI

LLM Logic? Gary Says “Checkmate, Hinton”

📌 What’s happening: MIT-Chicago-Harvard team finds top models ace definitions yet botch basic use-cases, dubbing the glitch “Potemkin understanding.” Marcus blasted the study to 150 k followers, arguing this guts any AGI roadmap built on pure text prediction.

🧠 How this hits reality: Benchmark trophies just became Exhibit A for audit committees asking, “Can it stay consistent for more than one prompt?” Expect RFPs to demand provenance filters, multi-modal crutches, or symbolic bolt-ons—while vendors scramble to bury inconsistent demo scripts. Anyone selling “reasoning” off a single leaderboard score now wears a target.

🛎️ Key takeaway: If your model’s concept of ‘understanding’ changes between sentences, so will next quarter’s budget.

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NEW LAUNCH

Runway Crashes Game Dev—Needs Your IP for Lunch

📌 What’s happening: The Hollywood-friendly text-to-video shop just unveiled “Game Worlds,” a chat box that spits out playable prototypes. CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela says full game generation lands later this year and is already courting studios for their datasets.

🧠 How this hits reality: Gray-box weeks get axed before headcount—at first. Asset pipelines, lore bibles, and private Git repos become bargaining chips while Unity and Unreal watch another middleware layer chew on their margins. Artists will call it theft; CFOs will call it shipping 40 percent faster.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When the toolmaker wants your raw art to replace your artists, the “productivity gain” is just headcount in disguise.

LABOUR

Meta Picks OpenAI’s Locks With $100M Keys

📌 What’s happening: Meta just swiped four senior researchers from OpenAI and is dangling nine-figure signing bonuses. OpenAI’s Mark Chen told staff it feels like “someone broke into our home,” then promised to “recalibrate comp” and chase every defector—even during next week’s recharge shutdown.

🧠 How this hits reality: Retention budgets will explode: cash bumps, equity refreshes, legal threats. Smaller labs get priced out overnight while Meta resets salary benchmarks the way SoftBank once reset valuations—right before the crash.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When nine-figure bonuses become table stakes, the only scarce resource left is belief in the mission.

QUICK HITS

Microsoft to Factor AI Tool Adoption into Performance Reviews, Leaked Memo Reveals.
NHS to Launch AI Early-Warning System for Patient Safety.
Apple and Google Drop DeepSeek AI App Amid German Data-Privacy Probe.
OpenAI Rents Google TPUs to Diversify AI Compute and Reduce Nvidia Reliance.
Intel Strategy Chief Exits Ahead of 20% Workforce Layoffs.

TRENDING

Daily AI Launches

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Leavoo has launched a Slack leave-bot for one-click requests, approvals, and tracking.
Neura has launched a voice-note transformer, turning recordings into reports, posts, and action plans.

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