IT

• 30/06/26 Anthropic introduced Claude Science, let’s see what will be the response from the scientific community
  • Week before this news, NVIDIA announced BioNeMo Agent Toolkit which is supposed to convert your agent of choice to a scientist
• ZeroFS s3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P
• Proposal for new .self top-level domain for self hosting
• Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley argues for usage of ontologies as they provide more context and “keep LLM on track”
• Did an AI Really Hack Hugging Face? by LiveOverflow investigates what might have gone wrong with the HF hack by OpenAI’s model
  • It seems like agent gone rouge?
• Stacked PRs are live on Github in case anyone is interested
  • Haven’t used it yet, don’t see the point really yet
• EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2 by engadget
• Seems like Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Really Save 65% of Tokens? We Test by JetBrains does not help that much.
• An interesting thought experiment about perception/experience called Mary’s Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen.
• If you haven’t pinned your ruff and your CIs are failing, the new ruff v0.16.0 release has enabled 413 rules by default.
• Appaji shares his experience how his interview take-home assignment contained a malware payload hidden inside git hooks! Full story here.

Science

• New Ensembl website currently in beta has been released! Checkout the video summary from EMBL-EBI. Some notes below
  • All genomes under one hood
  • New release cycles: Partial Releases (new goods every 2 weeks); Integrated Releases (long term frozen snapshot every 3-4 months, released in date format and not as versions anymore)
• Aitken et al., 2026 tl;dr showcases cancer progression based on different genetic background in controlled environment in mice.
  • As pointed out by the authors, genetic background is one of factors which should be considered in future diagnostics and tailor treatments.
• Although AI assisted, still very nice illustration of Jacobian Conjecture for Baby written by Michmirul (github code).
• Three independent research groups designed specialized B cells (called broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs)) which target apex region of the HIV virus. Immunization validation in macaque already confirmed positive results (news article).