AI Industry & Major Model Releases
Andrej Karpathy announced on Twitter that he has joined Anthropic.
Anthropic announced the acquisition of Stainless, a company that builds SDK and API tooling.
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, skipping the preview stage and going straight to general availability. Google appears to be deploying it broadly across its products.
Financial Times · www.ft.com
Anthropic will discuss the capabilities of its Mythos AI model with the Financial Stability Board, as its new model exposes cybersecurity vulnerabilities in financial infrastructure.
Anthropic Research · www.anthropic.com
Anthropic released a policy paper outlining its views on the AI competition between the US and China, arguing it is essential that the US and allies maintain a lead over authoritarian governments.
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
Simon Willison published annotated slides from his five-minute PyCon US 2026 lightning talk summarizing the last six months of LLM developments.
AI's Impact on Software Engineering & Work
An essay exploring the current era where software engineers work as human-AI centaurs, combining human judgment with AI coding capabilities.
An analysis of how humans are becoming the bottleneck in software development workflows as AI coding tools accelerate code generation.
Financial Times · www.ft.com
The world's largest accounting firms are now posting more job ads for AI specialists than for auditors, as they rush to adapt to technological disruption.