Tuesday, 30 June 2026
n8n 2.29 adds Azure, MCP history, browser use
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n8n 2.29.0 ships Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft Entra Service Principal auth, MCP tools for workflow history, and standalone browser automation.
Etched AI chip exits stealth with $800M raised
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Etched emerged from stealth with $800M raised, a $5B valuation, and $1B in contracts for an inference-only AI chip built at TSMC, shipping summer 2026.
X launches official hosted MCP server
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X's new hosted MCP server lets Claude, Cursor, and Grok Build connect to the X API using a user's own account. No custom server to build or host.
Google adds video and image models to API
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Gemini Omni Flash brings conversational video editing at $0.10/sec to the API; Nano Banana 2 Lite adds fast image generation at $0.034 per 1K-resolution image.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5
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Sonnet 5 is now the free and Pro default at $2/$10 per million tokens intro pricing, with agentic coding at 63.2%, up from Sonnet 4.6's 58.1%.
Meituan open-sources 1.6T coding model
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LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE from Meituan, scores 59.5 on SWE-Bench Pro (ahead of GPT-5.5), MIT license, 1M token context.
Cerebras and HF bring Gemma 4 to voice AI
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Hugging Face and Cerebras built a real-time speech-to-speech pipeline using Gemma 4, deployed on 9,000-plus Reachy Mini robots and available open source.
Cline 4.0.5 adds Claude Sonnet 5 support
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Cline v4.0.5, released June 30, adds Claude Sonnet 5 across Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, Claude Code, OpenRouter, and Vercel AI Gateway providers.
Anthropic launches drug discovery program
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Anthropic announced a drug discovery program for neglected diseases, using Claude Science and its public benefit structure to go where biopharma won't.
Claude Science workbench enters beta
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Anthropic's Claude Science connects Claude to 60+ scientific databases and multi-agent research workflows for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.
AWS launches $1B forward-deployed AI org
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AWS committed $1 billion to embed engineers inside enterprises to co-deploy AI agents — following similar FDE programs from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Ollama 0.31 speeds Gemma 4 up to 90% on Mac
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Ollama 0.31, released June 30, makes Gemma 4 up to 90% faster on Apple Silicon via multi-token prediction, on by default with no configuration needed.
OpenAI releases GeneBench-Pro
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OpenAI's new benchmark covers 129 computational biology problems each estimated at 20-40 hours of expert work; GPT-5.6 Sol tops the field at 28.7%.