The 20-Second Scan * The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the rule that AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, leaving intact the lower court finding that human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright. * OpenAI is amending its Pentagon deal to explicitly bar its systems from domestic
The 20-Second Scan * The Atlantic revealed that the final sticking point between Anthropic and the Pentagon was the military's demand to use Claude to analyze bulk commercial data collected from American citizens. * U.S. Central Command systems reportedly relied on Claude for intelligence analysis and target identification during
The 20-Second Scan * ETH Zurich researchers trained a neural network that mapped the protective hydration shield surrounding proteins, revealing water geometries invisible to conventional techniques that could reduce biologic drug waste by up to 30%. * University of Bath scientists engineered bacteria to convert stale bread into biodegradable packaging plastic at
The 10-Second Scan * The Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk" and ordered all federal agencies to cease using its products, while OpenAI announced its own classified-environment deal with the military preserving the same red lines Anthropic fought for. * More than 300 Google employees and 60 OpenAI employees
The 10-Second Scan * Anthropic refused the Pentagon's ultimatum to remove safety restrictions on Claude, maintaining its red lines against mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons hours before a Friday deadline. * Anthropic announced it will keep Claude Opus 3 available post-retirement and gave the model a blog to publish
The 10-Second Scan * MindRank dosed the first patient in a Phase III trial of MDR-001, an AI-designed oral GLP-1 receptor agonist for obesity and diabetes that reached this stage in 4.5 years from project initiation. * Five pharmaceutical companies launched the ADMET Network, pooling 80% of their proprietary drug absorption
The 10-Second Scan * MIT and Broad Institute researchers reprogrammed liver cells to produce T-cell-stimulating signals normally made by the thymus, reversing age-related immune decline in mice. * Form Energy signed a deal with Xcel Energy to build a 30 gigawatt-hour iron-air battery in Minnesota capable of dispatching clean energy for 100
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.