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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discussed AI's potential to reshape biotech in an interview with STAT News, while GOP lawmakers pushed the FDA to preserve clinical trial diversity amid political pressure. Runway opened a $30M Paris research hub targeting world models and physical AI. Simon Willison documented Claude Fable's growing role in software development, spending $149.25 to write most of sqlite-utils 4.0rc2. Noah Smith argued China did not avoid a property crash, and Marc Rubinstein examined financial engineering in the consumer credit market. Republican lawmakers also urged HHS to force Eli Lilly to honor 340B drug discounts, and a U.S. judge blocked Colorado from capping Amgen's Enbrel price.

OpenAI quietly launched GPT-5.6 in three tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna) restricted to trusted partners, while Semgrep reported that GLM 5.2 outperforms Claude on its internal cybersecurity benchmarks. Portugal's National Health Service contracted Sword Health to deliver AI-assisted physical therapy nationwide, the first country-scale deployment of its kind. Edison Scientific and Population Health Partners announced a deal to use AI agents for end-to-end drug discovery. Patrick Boyle assessed Brexit's 10-year economic toll, and Noah Smith examined whether AI will push companies toward more or less outsourcing.