**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🤖 OpenAI’s Influence and Oversight in the AI Landscape
OpenAI’s internal model behaviors, partnerships, and the push for greater transparency highlight its pivotal role and scrutiny in the race to AGI.

The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI

🚀 AI Startup Funding Surges in 2025
AI startups in the US continue to raise massive funding rounds, signaling growing momentum into 2025.

Here are the 24 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025

🎥 AI Video Generation Advances
Midjourney and Google DeepMind showcase impressive new AI video generation models, reshaping creative workflows in film and media.

Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1

🧩 AI in Gaming: Art, Ethics, and Success
Indie game ‘The Roottrees are Dead’ finds success after moving away from AI-generated art amid industry debates on ethics and originality.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/686651/roottrees-ai-original-illustrator-replacement

🔐 AI Security Practices for Developers
Secure Code Warrior releases AI coding rulesets to help developers integrate AI safely and securely into critical workflows.

Secure Code Warrior Unveils Industry-First AI Coding Rulesets

🏥 Healthcare IT Faces Overconfidence in Security
A new report reveals a dangerous overestimation of email security among healthcare IT leaders, leaving patient data at risk.

New Report Exposes Confidence Crisis in Healthcare IT Security

📚 Best Practices for AI Documentation
Effective documentation is crucial for optimizing AI and LLM performance in retrieval-augmented generation systems.
https://docs.kapa.ai/improving/writing-best-practices

⚡ xAI Faces Legal Action Over Data Center Emissions
xAI is sued for operating a large data center with gas turbines without proper environmental permits.

xAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines without permits

💡 AI-Driven Decision Making Gets a Boost
decisionMe launches to help professionals and teams make complex decisions using AI-powered guidance.

New Startup decisionMe Improves Complex Decisioning with AI

🔍 Fuzzing and LLMs Advance Automated Code Porting
LLMs are increasingly effective at generating code and automating the porting of software through fuzzing techniques.
https://rjp.io/blog/2025-06-17-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-fuzzing

📈 AI Agents’ Success Over Time: The ‘Half-Life’ Concept
Research reveals the ‘half-life’ of AI agent success rates on tasks, with performance duration doubling as models advance.
https://www.tobyord.com/writing/half-life

🔒 Homomorphic Encryption for Collaborative AI Tools
Homomorphic encryption enables secure, privacy-preserving collaboration in local-first software and CRDTs.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/homomorphically-encrypted-crdts/

💼 AI-Powered Accounting Startups Attract Investment
Multiplier secures $27.5M to revolutionize accounting roll-ups with AI for professional service firms.

Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups

🧠 Revisiting the Foundations of AI Intelligence
A technical reflection on Marvin Minsky’s ‘Society of Mind’ and its influence on building modern AI systems.
https://suthakamal.substack.com/p/revisiting-minskys-society-of-mind

👶 AI in Daily Life: Sam Altman Uses ChatGPT for Parenting
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares how ChatGPT assists him with parenting questions in his personal life.

‘Kid-pilled’ Sam Altman ‘constantly’ asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn

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