Anthropic rolled out Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026 — a faster, cheaper Claude update with new agentic features, while Mythos remains tightly gated for security.

Webflow made surprise cuts this week; several employees said they were locked out of company accounts before receiving termination emails. CEO Linda Tong framed the move as a pivot toward AI‑driven marketing tools.

An experimental drug called bepirovirsen produced durable 'functional cures' in roughly 20% of patients in large trials, offering a potential finite therapy for chronic hepatitis B.

Gilead’s Hepcludex won FDA accelerated approval on May 22, 2026 — the first U.S. therapy for chronic hepatitis D — as Mirum and Vir push rival candidates toward late‑stage results.

Dropbox founder Drew Houston promoted Ashraf Alkarmi to co‑CEO and will transition to executive chairman as the company leans into AI and product work.

The Supreme Court declined to block Vermont’s consumer‑protection suit accusing Instagram of engineering features that addict teens, allowing the case to proceed. The decision follows recent state court setbacks for Meta.

After a failed flu trial, Marianne De Backer closed labs, cut staff and struck licensing deals that refocused San Francisco’s Vir on hepatitis and cancer. The result is a leaner company with big‑pharma partners.

Modelers have removed the extreme RCP8.5/SSP5‑8.5 marker from the CMIP7 design; the revision narrows the upper‑end of projections but still leaves large warming and financial risk.

UC Berkeley Law will bar most student use of generative AI in coursework and exams this summer, citing fabricated citations and faulty legal analysis. The policy keeps narrow exceptions for AI‑fluency training.

Theo Baker’s memoir shows how secret seminars, early VC money and campus rituals funnel Stanford freshmen into Silicon Valley power networks.

Kawasaki and Nvidia are reportedly lining up a San Jose robotics R&D hub to test medical and mobility robots with partners including Microsoft and Fujitsu.

Parag Agrawal’s Parallel launched Index, a dashboard that tracks AI agent use of web content and routes payments to publishers and creators.

Google's I/O keynote shifted Gemini into an "agentic" era, debuting Gemini Spark — a 24/7 AI agent — alongside faster models and a new AI video tool. Rollouts start with paid tiers and testers.