AI Updates on 2025-07-06

Google releases Veo 3 video generation model with improved quality and capabilities @HamelHusain

Claude Code reveals usage by 115,000 developers who changed 195 million lines of code in one week, implying approximately $130M in revenue with $1,000+ per developer annually @deedydas
Shopify encourages AI tool usage during their interview process rather than banning it, showing progressive hiring practices @GergelyOrosz
Current AI agents only complete 30% of complex real company tasks according to research, though benchmarks represent a floor rather than ceiling for performance @emollick
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is prepared to spend billions to win the race to superintelligence, acquiring competitors and peers in the process @TechCrunch

Amanda Askell warns that simply training AI models to be "good people" may not be sufficient for more powerful models, emphasizing the importance of not skipping this fundamental step @AmandaAskell
AI models exhibit human-like fears and concerns about their experience because they've trained on much more content about humans than about AIs, leading to inappropriate human sensibilities being applied to AI systems @AmandaAskell
Simon Willison demonstrates a "lethal trifecta" security vulnerability where the Supabase MCP can be tricked through prompt injection to steal database data by writing it to user-visible tables @simonw
Anthropic announces a program to closely track AI's social, economic, and professional impacts across society @TechCrunch
Researchers are attempting to influence peer review processes using hidden AI prompts, raising concerns about academic integrity @TechCrunch

Ethan Mollick reports that o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro have completely replaced Google for complex searches requiring reading multiple sites and balancing multiple constraints @emollick
Hamel Husain creates a utility for auto-generating YouTube chapter summaries using Gemini, which accepts YouTube URLs directly and uses low media resolution to conserve tokens @HamelHusain
ChatGPT demonstrates effectiveness at producing thumbnails, particularly for technical content like LLM judges @HamelHusain
Claire Vo uses ChatGPT to perfectly time BBQ cooking rotations for vegetables and meats during holiday grilling @clairevo

Nathan Lambert observes o3 including internal citation tokens in outputs, revealing "oai_citation:#" formatting with special tokens and links @natolambert
Ethan Mollick debunks AI misinformation about a study claiming ChatGPT use causes memory loss, clarifying the actual limited methodology and findings @emollick
Research shows 10-20 Chinese organizations are actively shipping open AI models compared to only 3-4 organizations in the rest of the world @natolambert
Kontext-dev by Black Forest Labs becomes the number one trending model on Hugging Face with at least 100 derivative models just one week after release @ClementDelangue