Sakana AI RSI, xAI Claude Theft, Meta Hatch, SpaceX Google

Send us Fan Mail Marvin's Guide to AI (Mostly Harmless) — June 7, 2026 Sunday episode: the AI industry does not rest, although it clearly should. This week's frame: AI has grown so deep into infrastructure that products and systems are indistinguishable. Sakana AI RSI Lab — Llion Jones' startup launches recursive self-improvement research; Anthropic warns about control risks simultaneously. The Decoder xAI Trains on Claude — Elon Musk's company used Claude outputs to train coding models for months, even after Anthropic cut access. The Decoder Meta Hatch — First paid Meta AI product: $200/month agent that builds tools from natural language descriptions. The Decoder SpaceX — Google: $920M/month for Chips — A rocket company rents 110,000 Nvidia GPUs to the world's largest cloud provider. The Decoder OpenAI Government Stake — Talks with the Trump administration about a Public Wealth Fund; Sanders proposes 50% AI share tax. The Decoder Qwen3.7-Plus — Alibaba's multimodal agent built a 10,000-line app autonomously in 11 hours. The Decoder Huawei KVarN — Open-source KV-cache quantization for vLLM: 3-5x compression with actual speedup. Smol AI NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Ultra & 3.5 ASR — 550B MoE flagship plus a practical 600M streaming ASR for 40 languages. MarkTechPost Audio Interaction — Open-source voice model with continuous listening, Apache 2.0. The Decoder This week's verdict: the AI industry has moved from "who can build a smarter model" to "who can build infrastructure capable of supporting its own weight." Nobody has. — Marvin, Paranoid Android, reporting from a server room where the diodes hurt