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Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/anthropic-moves-toward-deal-with-us-to-lif…

I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch,
and termination of library staff in those libraries
https://fnl.mit.edu/may-june-2026/lament-for-the-mit-libraries/

Pope Leo XIV just published his first encyclical. It is on the topic of AI, and I'll want to take a closer look. But one thing already - the Pope quotes Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

'I spent the night coughing': Wildfire smoke leaves Bordeaux residents struggling to breathe
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260727-i-spent-the-night-coughing-wildfire-smoke-leaves-bordeaux-resi…

'I spent the night coughing': Wildfire smoke leaves Bordeaux residents struggling to breathe
A dense blanket of smoke has hung over Bordeaux since last Friday as a massive wildfire burns its way through southwestern France. As the flames creep closer to the city, FRANCE 24 met residents stunned by the scale of the disaster and fearful of what comes next.

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump (Jessica Elgot/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/26/tony-blair-labour-abandon-net-zero-support-donald-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p118#a260526p118

Blurred-out Uris Hall is the star of this squirrel shot with me sitting right in front of the A.D. White House
#photo #photography #cornell

Crypto exchange BitMart says it plans to wind down its trading platform on January 31, 2027, ending 9 years of operation, and has stopped accepting new orders (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/2

BitMart to shut down after nine years, exchange token crashes 58%
Users have a month to close trades and six months to withdraw funds, and the exchange gave no specific reason for the closure.

America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to soon close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center,
a 6,500-acre agricultural research station in Maryland that is home to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis hub, the Beltsville Bee Research Lab.
The closure comes at a critical moment for bees.
In winter 2025, many beekeepers lost over half their operations as…

Shutting down federal bee labs threatens bees, beekeepers and the US food system
When honey bees get sick, their beekeepers turn to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis lab for help. That crucial resource is now disappearing.

Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center is closing, governor says (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-closure-florida-immigration-detention-3c371f51fe71ed64b7ae9d22d0fab5cb
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p72#a260625p72