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The day in AI dev tools, in five minutes. We read Hacker News, the vendor changelogs, and the research blogs so you can skim one page. Every claim linked to its source.
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Thursday, July 2, 2026
Meta employees burned 73.7 trillion tokens in 30 days, Snorkel drops a benchmark where Claude Opus 4.8 fails 76% of tasks, Kimi K2.7 becomes the first open-weight model in GitHub Copilot, and scientists build a synthetic cell that divides.
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Anthropic's most capable model returns from an export-control suspension today, a new agentic Sonnet lands near Opus performance at a fraction of the price, and the next MCP spec heads to release candidate with breaking changes.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Governor Newsom signs the first state-level Claude deployment covering every California agency, city, and county at half price; OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series stays locked to roughly 20 organizations while Anthropic's Mythos 5 comes back online for 100 approved partners; and Claude Managed Agents ships self-hosted sandboxes and private MCP tunnels in beta.
Monday, June 29, 2026
An open-weight model outperforms frontier Claude on IDOR detection. A developer's AI radiology experiment sparks real debate. And EU lawmakers negotiate private messaging limits behind closed doors.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Two weeks after the US export order took Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, the government cleared Mythos for 100+ critical-infrastructure organizations while Fable 5 stays banned. Google lost four senior AI researchers in six days, and OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 under a government-preview gate.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol with government vetting for access, Anthropic's Mythos goes to 'trusted' organizations under Commerce oversight, 22 companies pledge to coordinate AI-accelerated vulnerability response, and an AI-filed CVE gets negotiated to a close.
Friday, June 26, 2026
Five senior Google AI researchers departed for Anthropic and OpenAI this week, including Nobel laureate John Jumper and transformer co-author Noam Shazeer. GPT-5.6 prediction-market odds collapsed from 83% to 18% on a June 28 launch. OpenCode crossed 160K GitHub stars and 7.5M monthly active developers. DeepSeek V4-Pro's 75% price cut is now permanent.
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