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
The 10-Second Scan * Helion's Polaris prototype achieved measurable deuterium-tritium fusion at 150 million degrees Celsius, a first for any privately developed fusion machine. * Cambridge researchers discovered a 45-nucleotide RNA molecule capable of copying itself, published in Science. * OpenAI deployed its first production model on non-NVIDIA hardware, generating code
The 10-Second Scan * OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral jointly launched an accelerator for European AI startups building on their foundation models. * An OpenAI researcher resigned over ChatGPT ads, warning the company risks becoming "the next Facebook." * The FDA approved a wearable electric-field device for locally advanced
The 10-Second Scan * The FDA refused to review Moderna's application for the first mRNA flu vaccine. * White-collar workers are leaving their careers for trades and therapy degrees. * With AI assistance, scientists have identified rare “universal paralog” genes that duplicated even before the last universal common ancestor. * Half of
The 10-Second Scan * Wall Street shed $611 billion in a single week as investors realized AI can replicate what entire software companies were built to do. * An AI system reads brain MRIs in seconds with up to 97.5% accuracy, flagging emergencies faster than radiologists can open the file. * Anthropic&
The 10-Second Scan * Cloudflare launched an open-source tool that lets anyone run a personal AI agent on edge infrastructure - no local hardware required. * New York lawmakers proposed a three-year moratorium on new data center construction - the sixth state to consider such a pause. * A California community blocked a
The 10-Second Scan * A stroke device tripled reperfusion rates for ischemic strokes that had no proven treatment. * Oregon's Supreme Court dismissed 1,400 criminal cases over a shortage of public defenders. * A company is spending $1,000/engineer/day on AI tokens to write all production code without
The 10-Second Scan * Big Tech just committed $650 billion to AI infrastructure in 2026 - more than the inflation-adjusted cost of the Apollo program, from a single company alone. * A trillion dollars in software company value evaporated in eight days after an AI tool started doing what entire SaaS companies
The 10-Second Scan * OpenAI's first model that helped create itself shipped this week. * January layoffs hit their highest level since 2009 - 108,000 jobs cut in a single month. * A machine learning method just compressed battery lifetime testing from months to days. * 1.6 million AI agents
Picture your great-grandmother in 1925. A century ago, she would write letters by hand, wait weeks for replies. The radio is a miracle. Antibiotics don't exist yet. Flight is a novelty for the wealthy and reckless. The idea of holding a device that accesses all human knowledge, lets
Multi-modal is the buzzword of the moment in AI circles. The prevailing wisdom sounds reasonable enough: there's no one-size-fits-all model, so you pick the right tool for the right task. A language model for text, a vision model for images, an audio model for speech. You assemble a
The problem with dogmatic human exceptionalism One of the most persistent habits in human thinking is reductionism disguised as rigor. A particularly harmful form of this tendency appears when we encounter something that does not share our unique form of being, we treat that difference as evidence of absence. From