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The 20-Second Scan * The White House is preparing to distribute Claude Mythos to major federal agencies including Defense, Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, Justice, and State, weeks after designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk. * Finance ministers, central bank governors, and bank CEOs at the IMF spring meetings in Washington described Mythos as
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic announced a London office expansion to 800 staff, days after OpenAI unveiled its own permanent UK headquarters in the same district. * OpenAI released GPT-5.4-Cyber and expanded its Trusted Access programme to thousands of verified defenders, taking the opposite approach to Anthropic's restricted Mythos
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The 20-Second Scan * An autonomous closed-loop framework published in Nature discovered a new passivation molecule and fabricated perovskite solar cells at 27.22% efficiency with five times the reproducibility of manual fabrication. * Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark confirmed the company briefed the Trump administration on Claude Mythos while simultaneously suing the
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The 20-Second Scan * Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon disclosed that the bank has Claude Mythos deployed and is working directly with Anthropic to harden its cybersecurity infrastructure. * The UK AI Security Institute confirmed that Claude Mythos completed a 32-step autonomous cyberattack simulation in three out of ten attempts, the first
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The 20-Second Scan * Stanford researchers used AI to identify a naturally occurring peptide called BRP that reduced appetite and body fat in animal studies without the nausea, constipation, or muscle loss associated with semaglutide. * A separate Stanford study found that roughly 10% of the population carries genetic variants conferring "
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic is close to overtaking OpenAI in enterprise AI spending, with 30.6% of Ramp's corporate customers now paying for Anthropic products versus 35.2% for OpenAI. * NBC News reported that cybersecurity experts are warning of a "Vulnpocalypse" scenario in which AI-enabled vulnerability
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The 20-Second Scan * Five U.S. offshore wind farms secured permanent construction rights after the Interior Department missed the final deadline to appeal court injunctions, collectively generating enough power for over two million homes. * Port Washington, Wisconsin voted by a 2-to-1 margin to require voter approval before awarding tax breaks
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The 20-Second Scan * Renewables surpassed natural gas as the largest source of U.S. electricity for the first time across an entire month in March 2026. * The U.S. Treasury Secretary summoned major bank CEOs to Washington to discuss cybersecurity risks posed by Claude Mythos, with the Federal Reserve chair
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The 20-Second Scan * A D.C. Circuit appeals court declined to block the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic, directly contradicting a San Francisco judge's ruling that the designation was unlawful. * Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark, the first model from its nine-month ground-up rebuild, scoring
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity coalition with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and over 40 other organizations, granting them exclusive access to Claude Mythos Preview to scan their systems for vulnerabilities. * Claude Mythos Preview identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and a
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The 20-Second Scan * Generalist announced GEN-1, a physical AI system reaching 99% success rates on delicate manufacturing tasks and demonstrating the ability to improvise solutions outside its training distribution. * OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google began sharing information through the Frontier Model Forum to detect and counter Chinese labs systematically extracting capabilities
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The 20-Second Scan * Tufts University researchers demonstrated a neuro-symbolic AI system that cut robotic training energy consumption by 99% and inference energy by 95% while raising task success rates from 34% to 95%. * Apple's App Store received 235,800 new apps in the first quarter of 2026, an