Good morning, welcome to this week’s Lore Brief, your 3-minute brief of the most important moves in AI and tech.
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Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion → Demis Hassabis announced the funding to accelerate AI-powered drug discovery at the Google DeepMind spinout. Building on AlphaFold, the mission is to reimagine the entire process and one day solve all disease. Read more here →
OpenAI brings Codex to your phone → You can now control and monitor your active Codex sessions directly from the ChatGPT mobile app while the agent keeps working on your laptop or remote machine. It’s rolling out today in preview for all plans on iOS and Android. Read more here →
New way to learn science with AI:
Robots now running 8-hr work shift:
AI Videos are getting close to Hollywood level:
Shape rotating LLMs:
Krea launches its first foundation model → Krea 2 was built from scratch for aesthetic diversity and strong stylistic control, with advanced style transfer, moodboards, and explorative text-to-image. Max and Business users get access now. Read more here →
Google DeepMind reimagines the mouse pointer with AI → Experimental demos show Gemini understanding exactly what you point at on screen so you can direct it with motion, speech, and natural shorthand. Point at a PDF for bullet points, hover over a table for a chart, or highlight a recipe and say “double these ingredients.” Read more here →
Claude Code weekly limits increase 50% → The boost applies to all Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise users through July 13 and stacks with last week’s doubling of the five-hour window. Read more here →
a16z partner switches to Codex for non-technical work → Olivia Moore moved most of her agentic workflows from Claude Cowork to OpenAI’s Codex desktop app because of its clean UI, pre-built skills, reliable automations, and higher success rate on complex multi-app tasks. Read more here →
OpenAI’s /goal mode - a practical playbook → Chris Hayduk shares tips for using Codex’s continuous-loop feature: set clear quantitative goals, keep feedback loops tight, and give the agent markdown files to track plans, experiments, and notes so it can grind for hours or days. Read more here →
Thinking Machines debuts real-time collaborative AI → The new model listens, watches, thinks, and responds simultaneously like a human teammate, handling interruptions, multi-tasking, and natural conversation without rigid turn-taking. Read more here →
