Evening brief

Tuesday, June 30

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TL;DR Gemini 3.5 Pro officially slipped to July, closing June with no launch. Anthropic ran its AI for Science event today, and fresh Economic Index data shows half of active Claude users say AI handles most of their job already.

Models & research

  • model-releases Gemini 3.5 Pro confirmed pushed to July – Google cited token-use tuning and long-task performance issues flagged by enterprise testers; Sundar Pichai’s “give us until next month” promise at I/O did not land. The concurrent headline: Fable 5 nears broader return while GPT-5.6 stays in government-gated preview. TechTimes Jun 29 · Crypto Briefing

  • model-releases Grok 5 did not ship before end of June; prediction markets priced it around 12-33% odds for a June 30 release and it remains in training on Colossus 2. xAI’s consolation releases this month were grok-imagine-video-1.5 (GA June 16) and Grok Build /goal autonomous mode. WaveSpeed tracker · felloai

Tools & dev

  • Anthropic hosted “The Briefing: AI for Science” today (Jun 30, 10am PST) for pharma/biotech/research executives; featured product demos and customer case studies from Claude’s use in drug discovery and lab workflows. Anthropic event

  • ai-research Anthropic Economic Index “Cadences” report finds half of ~9,700 surveyed Claude users say AI already handles 50%+ of their job tasks; 4% say Claude could do their entire job today; high-income users cluster late-night and weekends, AI use mirrors global work rhythms. Anthropic research · GIGAZINE Jun 29

OSS

  • msitarzewski/agency-agents – shell-based multi-expert AI agency, #1 all-language trending today +1,425 stars. GitHub

  • claude-code xbtlin/ai-berkshire – value investing research using Claude Code multi-agent pipelines, #1 Python trending today +1,386 stars. GitHub

  • browser-use/video-use – video editing driven by coding agents, +967 stars today. GitHub

  • topoteretes/cognee – open-source AI memory platform for agentic-ai with knowledge graph engine, +868 stars today. GitHub

  • TauricResearch/TradingAgents – multi-agent LLM financial trading framework, +362 stars today. GitHub