AI Daily Dev — June 23, 2026

Gemini 2.5 Pro Gets Deep Think, Computer Use, and Native Audio in One Drop

Deep Think reasoning rolls out to 2.5 Pro on the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI — no longer Ultra-only.
Project Mariner's browser-control tool and native audio output now exposed for both 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash.
Thinking budgets extend to 2.5 Pro so developers can cap or disable reasoning tokens per call; structured thought summaries land in the response payload.
Cited benchmarks: 87.6% LiveCodeBench, 65th percentile USAMO, IMO gold-medal standard.

models deepmind.google

Full GPT-5.5-Cyber GA for verified defenders: 85.6% on CyberGym vs 81.8% for stock GPT-5.5.
Codex Security plugin ships in the Codex app — finds, validates, and patches vulnerabilities inline with attack-path traces and severity reports.
'Patch the Planet' partners with Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and Calif across cURL, Python, Go, urllib3, PyPI, Valkey, RustCrypto, and 12 more.
First-week tally: hundreds of bugs, 64 PRs, 51 issues across 19 projects; field results include a Firefox WASM CVE patched before Pwn2Own.

tools openai.com

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI commits $150M/month from July 1 through 2029 for GB300 capacity at SpaceX's Memphis data center.
Reflection has yet to ship a public frontier model; this is the compute it needs to actually train one.
Adds an open-source lab to Colossus's roster alongside existing Anthropic, Google, and Cursor deals.
SPCX closed off ~10%, its worst day since the Nasdaq debut — the market still hasn't decided if AI compute revenue makes SpaceX a hyperscaler.

industry cnbc.com

Nous Research's self-evolving agent runtime added 23K stars in roughly two weeks; Dealroom names it the fastest-growing open-source agent framework of 2026.
June 5's 'Surface Release' v0.16.0 shipped a native macOS/Windows/Linux desktop app with one-click install and concurrent multi-profile sessions.
Skills Hub now lists 90,881 community skills across 12 registries, up from a few hundred at launch.
Self-evolution loop pairs DSPy + GEPA to let Hermes optimize its own prompts, skills, and code from real usage.

open-source github.com

AlphaFold lead and 2024 Chemistry Nobel winner is leaving Google DeepMind after almost nine years to join Anthropic after a short break.
Lands four days after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer's jump to OpenAI — two top architects out of DeepMind in one week.
Anthropic gets a marquee science-AI hire on top of its existing Claude-for-Science push and the John Jumper-style protein work it already funds.
Bloomberg broke the story; CNBC, TechCrunch, and TNW confirmed within hours.

industry bloomberg.com