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
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