WEEKLY DIGEST
Week in AI: Jun 29 — Jul 03, 2026
The top stories from our coverage this week.
@Google Research's Gemini-SQL2 tops text-to-SQL benchmarks at 80.04% accuracy, outperforming OpenAI and Anthropic.
huggingface.co/papers/2606.27277
J.P. Morgan warns of investor exuberance as 42 AI companies in the S&P 500 account for 65-80% of the index's profits.
the-decoder.com/j-p-morgan-sees-a-pile-of-red-flags…
@Meta AI releases Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive MEG brain-to-text pipeline decoding typed sentences at 61% word accuracy.
marktechpost.com/2026/06/30/meta-ai-releases-brain2…
Meta is building a cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers, following SpaceX's playbook.
the-decoder.com/meta-follows-spacexs-playbook-and-b…
Microsoft launches $2.5B Frontier Company to embed 6,000 AI engineers directly into enterprise clients.
the-decoder.com/microsoft-launches-2-5-billion-fron…
Only three AI models survived 500 days running a simulated software company without going broke.
the-decoder.com/only-three-ai-models-finished-above…
Meta restricts engineers' use of @AnthropicAI's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data.
the-decoder.com/meta-restricts-use-of-claude-code-a…
Queue raises funding to build fully autonomous pharmacies for hospitals and underserved communities.
therobotreport.com/queue-raises-funding-fully-auton…
Anthropic reportedly in talks with Samsung to manufacture custom AI chips while keeping Nvidia close.
the-decoder.com/anthropic-reportedly-explores-custo…
@DeepSeek_AI released DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that accelerates DeepSeek-V4 per-user generation by 60–85% over MTP-1.
marktechpost.com/2026/06/27/deepseek-releases-dspar…