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Vinton Cerf, the man who helped design the foundational protocols that became the internet, is stepping down from his role as Google's chief internet evangelist next week. It's a quiet end to a remarkable chapter — Cerf spent decades not just building the net, but advocating for what it could become.
Meanwhile, Anthropic is making a significant push into scientific research. The company unveiled Claude Science at an event for pharmaceutical and biotech leaders, positioning it as an autonomous research assistant in the same vein as Claude Code. Given the stakes in drug discovery and biology, the trade-offs around AI autonomy in the lab will be worth watching closely.
And in enterprise tech, T-Mobile appears to be walking away from VMware while simultaneously fighting Broadcom in court over support rights tied to a deal struck back in August two thousand twenty three. It's a dispute that reflects a broader tension playing out across the industry since Broadcom's acquisition — customers feeling squeezed as the new owner reshapes licensing terms.
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