Skip to content
← All news

June 29, 2026

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

  1. Previewing the GPT-5.6 series: Sol, Terra, and Luna

    openai.com

    OpenAI introduces the GPT-5.6 series, featuring the flagship Sol model for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows alongside Terra and Luna.

  2. Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies

    techcrunch.com

    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.

  3. Wrong Reasons to Build an MCP Server (and What to Do Instead)

    youtube.com

    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.

  4. Your AI Agent Has Too Much Power: Inside Intent-Based Access Control

    youtube.com

    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.

  5. Securing agentic AI: What's new in VPC Service Controls

    cloud.google.com

    Google Cloud introduces new network-level, destination-based perimeter capabilities in VPC Service Controls tailored for securing agentic AI workloads.

  6. TechByte: Navigating the agentic era: Data Analytics innovation roadmap

    youtube.com

    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.

  7. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

    reuters.com

    Anthropic accuses Alibaba's Qwen Lab of executing a massive distillation attack utilizing 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude model capabilities.

  8. Why is Meta destroying its engineering?

    newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

    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.

  9. The Truth about Space Data Centers

    youtube.com

    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.