This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry.

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Runner-up Titles

• Waited out the storm
• Maybe we should build some castles or something
• Years of lawsuits ahead of us
• The ultimate dream
• AI SEO
• I hope you’re paid by the hour
• Always be monitoring to me

Rundown

• Anthropic
  • How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
  • Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
  • Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
• Cursor
  • Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
  • SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
• Vibe Coding
  • Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
  • Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
  • Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
• curl summer of bliss

Relevant to your Interests

• Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
• apple/container
• The Virtual OS Museum
• YouTube has eclipsed Netflix in viewership via (@lucas_shaw)
• OpenAI to acquire Ona
• Keycap Quarry – Artisan Keycaps for Mechanical Keyboards
• Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again
• Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
• VCs behaving badly
• Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther

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Nonsense

• The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute
• Minesweeper 3D No Guess – Free 3D Browser Game | Logic Solver
• Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers
• Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

Conferences

• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Germany.
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• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
• VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026

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