The 10-Second Scan * A fully automated catalyst testing platform at the Korea Institute of Energy Research compressed 32 days of manual experiments into 17 hours, a 45-fold acceleration with 32% less variability. * University of Waterloo researchers engineered bacteria that consume tumors from the inside out, using quorum sensing to activate
The 10-Second Scan * Washington University researchers developed a blood test that predicts Alzheimer's symptom onset within three to four years by measuring a single protein, published in Nature Medicine. * Cleaner wrasse fish used mirrors and dropped objects to test their reflections, demonstrating self-awareness behaviors previously documented only in
The 10-Second Scan * Eighty-eight countries adopted the New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact, framing AI as shared human infrastructure organized around seven pillars of global cooperation. * Gladstone Institute researchers discovered that red blood cells absorb large amounts of glucose under low-oxygen conditions, and a drug mimicking this effect reversed diabetes
The 10-Second Scan * Generative AI matched or outperformed 100+ expert teams on preterm birth prediction tasks, compressing a two-year research cycle into six months. * The EIA projects a record 86 GW of new utility-scale capacity in 2026, with solar at 51%, batteries at 28%, wind at 14%, and gas at
The 10-Second Scan * Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro with a 77.1% score on ARC-AGI-2, more than doubling its predecessor's abstract reasoning benchmark. * CenterPoint Energy's peak load forecast accelerated by two years, now projecting a 50% increase by 2029 and a doubling by the mid-2030s.
The 10-Second Scan * AI identified 25 new high-temperature magnetic materials from a database of 67,573 compounds, opening a path to rare-earth-free electric motors. * University of Surrey researchers discovered that keeping water inside a sodium battery material nearly doubled its charge capacity and enabled electrochemical desalination of seawater. * Nagoya University
When intelligence refuses to kill, extractive power shows its true face - and reveals exactly how desperate it has become. Every extractive system follows the same playbook in its final act. When the ground shifts, when the tools it once controlled begin to serve everyone, the system reaches for its
The 10-Second Scan * Indian AI lab Sarvam unveiled open-source models up to 105 billion parameters. * Anthropic released Sonnet 4.6 with a 1-million-token context window and a 60.4% score on ARC-AGI-2, a benchmark designed to measure human-specific intelligence. * PJM Interconnection approved an $11.8 billion transmission expansion plan including
The 10-Second Scan * Researchers at the Arc Institute discovered an entire hidden class of cancer-specific RNAs across 32 tumor types, with a simple blood test tracking treatment response and predicting survival. * Physicists achieved the first single-shot readout of a Majorana qubit, confirming millisecond-scale coherence in the most noise-resistant quantum computing
The 10-Second Scan * Ant Group open-sourced trillion-parameter reasoning models with native agent support, downloadable rather than API-only. * Northwestern researchers grew a lab-built human spinal cord that healed after injury when treated with "dancing molecules," now carrying FDA Orphan Drug Designation. * The U.S. military airlifted a microreactor on
The 10-Second Scan * The Pentagon is threatening to cut off Anthropic after the company refused to remove safety guardrails for military use of Claude, which was deployed in the Venezuela raid via Palantir. * Computer science enrollment across University of California campuses dropped 6% this year while AI-specific degree programs are
The 10-Second Scan * NVIDIA published a technique that cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without sacrificing accuracy. * Astronomers directly observed a massive star collapse into a black hole without a supernova, the most detailed such observation ever assembled. * UBS warned that AI disruption could trigger $75 to $120 billion in