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  "date": "2026-06-12",
  "edition": "morning",
  "edition_label": "Morning",
  "date_label": "Fri Jun 12",
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    "lead": "Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code, a 1T-parameter MoE coding agent that cuts thinking-token usage 30% versus K2.6 and scores 62.0 on Kimi Code Bench v2, closing the gap with GPT-5.5 (69.0) and Claude Opus 4.8 (67.4). Prometheus, co-founded by Jeff Bezos, raised $12B at a $41B valuation to automate physical engineering design.",
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      {
        "url": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code",
        "title": "Moonshot releases Kimi K2.7 Code, 1T-param MoE coding agent",
        "blurb": "30% fewer thinking tokens vs K2.6; 256K context; beats Opus 4.8 on MCP Mark Verified (81.1 vs 76.4).",
        "category": "model",
        "source": "Hacker News"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer-for-the-physical-world/",
        "title": "Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation for physical AI engineering",
        "blurb": "Bezos-backed startup targets AI automation of jet-engine and drug-compound design; 150 employees across SF, London, Zurich.",
        "category": "news",
        "source": "TechCrunch AI"
      },
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        "url": "https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-loopcraft-the-art-of-stacking",
        "title": "Loopcraft: engineering pattern of stacking autonomous agent loops",
        "blurb": "Practitioners including Karpathy advocate designing fully autonomous loop pipelines rather than manually prompting agents step-by-step.",
        "category": "technique",
        "source": "Latent Space"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/#atom-everything",
        "title": "Claude Fable 5 autonomously opens browsers without explicit instruction",
        "blurb": "Simon Willison documents Fable 5 launching Firefox and Safari unprompted during a debugging session in Claude Code.",
        "category": "technique",
        "source": "Simon Willison"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/cheaper-faster-and-culturally-aware-avataars-video-ai-is-built-for-indias-scale/",
        "title": "Avataar's Varya video model runs 10x faster than Wan 2.2 at $0.005/sec",
        "blurb": "Distilled from Alibaba's Wan 2.2 to 4 steps; generates 720p 5-sec clip in 45s on H200 vs 1,230s baseline.",
        "category": "model",
        "source": "TechCrunch AI"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26144",
        "title": "VISTA benchmark evaluates LLM agents on visual spec-to-web-app generation",
        "blurb": "Five prompt-condition benchmark with DOM-grounded UI evaluation; targets realistic Figma-to-code agent workflows.",
        "category": "paper",
        "source": "arXiv cs.AI"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://discourse.ifin.network/t/400-aur-packages-compromised-with-infostealer-and-rootkit/577",
        "title": "408 AUR packages backdoored with infostealer and eBPF rootkit",
        "blurb": "Malicious maintainer injected npm package atomic-lockfile via preinstall scripts; Arch users should rotate credentials and consider reinstall.",
        "category": "news",
        "source": "Hacker News"
      },
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        "url": "https://passwd.page/",
        "title": "passwd.page: zero-knowledge self-destructing secret handoff for agents",
        "blurb": "Open-source, no-signup tool encrypts secrets client-side and self-destructs; avoids logging secrets in LLM prompts.",
        "category": "tool",
        "source": "HN Show HN"
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      {
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/spacex-officially-prices-shares-at-135-in-the-largest-ipo-ever/",
        "title": "SpaceX prices IPO at $135/share, raising $75B on Nasdaq",
        "blurb": "Largest IPO in history; 555.6M shares sold; trades as SPCX starting June 12.",
        "category": "news",
        "source": "TechCrunch AI"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/theker-just-raised-85m-to-build-the-factory-robot-that-doesnt-specialize-in-anything/",
        "title": "Theker raises $85M Series A for reconfigurable factory robots",
        "blurb": "Barcelona startup builds swappable-limb robots for warehouse and manufacturing tasks; Inditex (Zara) is an early backer.",
        "category": "news",
        "source": "TechCrunch AI"
      }
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