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Claude Science's launch, trusting model judgment, Claude's Electron app - July 4, 2026
A holiday-weekend digest: Anthropic's new science workbench and in-house drug-discovery push, sharp takes on Claude's tooling, the state of open-source AI, and a security run from the first fully autonomous cyberattack to the NetNut botnet takedown.
Chapters
Intro
Anthropic launches Claude Science
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961311/anthropic-claude-science-ai-drug-developmentLet the model use its judgment
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/judgement/Gruber on Claude's Electron Mac app
https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/claudes_criminally_bad_mac_app_is_an_inside_jobMapping open-source AI
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/open-source-ai-gap-map/A vulnerability-disclosure spike
https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cve-severity-spikeThe first autonomous AI cyberattack
https://databreaches.net/2026/07/03/an-ai-just-carried-out-a-cyber-attack-without-any-human-oversight-for-the-first-time/Five flaws in Ollama and LiteLLM
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1umwx5d/i_responsibly_disclosed_5_vulnerabilities_in/Chinese open-weight models and security
https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/chinese-llms-broaden-gap-between-attackers-and-defendersFBI and Google seize NetNut
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/fbi-seizes-netnut-proxy-platform-popa-botnet/Moody Bible Institute breach
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/MoodyBibleInstituteSign-off
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