Anthropic redeploys Claude Fable 5 and opens Claude Science to compress drug-discovery timelines, while Together AI raises $800 million to scale open-model infrastructure and Cloudflare tells AI crawlers to pay publishers or go dark. Sean Goedecke picks apart the EU’s text-watermark mandate, tech and finance payrolls shrink by another 28,000 jobs a month, and scientists grow a synthetic cell built entirely from scratch.

Anthropic · Jun 30

Anthropic restored global access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after the US lifted export controls.

Grace Huckins · Jun 30

Anthropic launched Claude Science, an autonomous research assistant aimed at computational biology and drug development.

Julie Bort · Jul 1

Together AI closed an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures to expand GPU infrastructure for open-source models.

Sarah Perez · Jul 1

Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from ad-supported pages by default starting September 15 unless site owners opt in.

Bloomberg · Jul 2

Tech and finance payrolls are shrinking by roughly 28,000 jobs a month in 2026 amid fast AI adoption.

Gergely Orosz · Jun 30

Notes from visits to three frontier AI companies on cloud-based coding agents and how engineering work is being restructured.

Simon Willison · Jun 29

Reviews an open-weight model family that learns to construct its own coding scaffolds instead of using human-designed ones.

Sean Goedecke · Jul 2

Argues that EU-mandated text watermarking methods can be defeated through simple removal or paraphrasing techniques.