AI Briefing — Tuesday, June 30, 2026

TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data

The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.

ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration

Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Science

Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration

Why Specialization Is Inevitable

Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages

DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions

Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command

VLK: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Synthetic Interactions in Reconstructed Scenes

Perception-based humanoid loco-manipulation requires connecting egocentric observations and task instructions to whole-body motion. Learning this mapping requires synchronized egocentric images, language commands, and r…