# News: June 29, 2026

> 9 curated links on AI agents, Python, security, Google Cloud, and engineering, selected by Médéric Hurier.

- Author: [Médéric Hurier (Fmind)](https://www.fmind.dev/)
- Published: 2026-06-29
- URL: https://www.fmind.dev/news/2026-06-29/

- [Previewing the GPT-5.6 series: Sol, Terra, and Luna](<https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol>): OpenAI introduces the GPT-5.6 series, featuring the flagship Sol model for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows alongside Terra and Luna.
- [Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies](<https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/trump-admin-releases-anthropic-mythos-to-be-used-by-more-than-100-us-companies-agencies>): The Trump administration has authorized over 100 US companies and government agencies to deploy Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model, including access for non-American employees.
- [Wrong Reasons to Build an MCP Server (and What to Do Instead)](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VGfdBQ5VcM>): Daniel Oh of the Agentic AI Foundation cautions developers against prematurely adopting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, highlighting five core anti-patterns and recommending direct integration or task-intent abstractions instead.
- [Your AI Agent Has Too Much Power: Inside Intent-Based Access Control](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAaWyRs0aY>): The Agentic AI Foundation explains Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC) as an essential security architecture that dynamically validates an AI agent's actions against its current stated objective.
- [Securing agentic AI: What's new in VPC Service Controls](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/securing-agentic-ai-whats-new-in-vpc-service-controls>): Google Cloud introduces new network-level, destination-based perimeter capabilities in VPC Service Controls tailored for securing agentic AI workloads.
- [TechByte: Navigating the agentic era: Data Analytics innovation roadmap](<https://www.youtube.com/live/-ddjYT2pXiA>): Google Cloud outlines its data analytics innovation roadmap, detailing how developers can prepare lakehouses, real-time streams, and governance catalogs for autonomous AI agentic workflows.
- [Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities](<https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24>): Anthropic accuses Alibaba's Qwen Lab of executing a massive distillation attack utilizing 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude model capabilities.
- [Why is Meta destroying its engineering?](<https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering>): Gergely Orosz reports on an "AI-fueled rampage" at Meta, where up to 50% of the engineering staff are being forced into manual AI data labeling tasks under a new "Agent Data Optimisation" team.
- [The Truth about Space Data Centers](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpdUNMt2yg>): Real Engineering, in collaboration with IEEE Spectrum, analyzes the severe thermodynamics, radiation, and latency challenges of space-based data centers, debunking orbital cloud computing as highly impractical except for specialized orbital edge processing.