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Federal Order Puts AI's Power Bill on the Grid - TCR 07/04/26
A federal emergency order put data centers on backup power during the early July heat wave, tying the cost of AI's load to the loads that create it.
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The Century Report
A daily map of the transition already underway: AI, science, energy, robotics, governance, infrastructure, labor, and the strange new century taking shape around us.
Why It Exists
The Century Report tracks the daily signals that reveal where civilization is bending: the model releases, scientific breakthroughs, policy moves, infrastructure shifts, and institutional tremors that are easy to miss in isolation and impossible to ignore together.
How to Read It
Start with the newest edition, then scan backward through the archive. The value is cumulative: each report is a daily snapshot, and the archive becomes a record of acceleration. For a structured view of the patterns, use the Arcs Tracker to follow specific arcs across the daily reports.
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Zuckerburg Admits AI Buildout Spend Has Not Been "Clean" - TCR 07/03/26
Meta conceded AI agents lag the schedule its $125B buildout assumed, even as an internal model caught GPT-5.5. Capability is outpacing deployment.
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OpenAI Offers the Public a 5% Stake - TCR 07/02/26
OpenAI pitched giving the government a 5% stake as the White House nears a voluntary frontier-AI standards deal built around a classified safety benchmark.
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Washington Drops Its Export Control Order Against Anthropic Models - TCR 07/01/26
Commerce lifted every export control on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models three weeks after imposing them, as the capability spread past the gate.
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Supreme Court Walls Off Your Location Data - TCR 06/30/26
The Supreme Court ruled police need a warrant for your location history as Congress, California, and a Senate agent bill reach for the privacy layer.
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European Proposal to Onshore Anthropic - TCR 06/29/26
Austria asks the EU to host Anthropic as US export curbs lift, and Mythos 5 returns to a hundred institutions inside fifteen days.
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Asian Labs Rival Anthropic's Mythos - TCR 06/28/26
Commerce walks back its Anthropic Mythos restriction as China's 360 and Tokyo's Sakana ship rival agentic models within weeks.
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Washington Builds a Model-Release Gate - TCR 06/27/26
Washington now clears GPT-5.6 and Anthropic's Mythos customer by customer, while a quieter architecture of accountability builds from below.
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GPT-5.6 Outpaces Its Own Gate - TCR 06/26/26
The White House asked OpenAI to release GPT-5.6 customer by customer, the same week Anthropic said rivals copied Claude through 25,000 accounts.
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Three Companies Pry Open the Chip Layer - TCR 06/25/26
OpenAI built its own AI chip, IBM stacked transistors past the physics wall, and Qualcomm bought the code that frees AI to run on any silicon, all in one cycle.
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China Builds the World's Fastest Supercomputer - TCR 06/24/26
China's LineShine became the world's fastest supercomputer on conventional CPUs, around the chip controls built to contain it, as compute capability finds its level.
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OpenAI Arms Open-Source Defenders - TCR 06/23/26
Five nations warn AI cyberattack power is months away, while the same week OpenAI hands machine-speed patching to open-source defenders.