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The 20-Second Scan * Britain is courting Anthropic for a major UK expansion including a potential dual stock listing, seeking to capitalize on the company's standoff with the U.S. Defense Department. * Anthropic's OpenClaw subscription ban shifted an estimated 135,000 agent instances to pay-as-you-go billing, with
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic acquired biotech startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, bringing a 10-person drug discovery team into its health and life sciences division. * Microsoft released three in-house AI models for transcription, voice generation, and image creation, built by Mustafa Suleyman's superintelligence team and
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The 20-Second Scan * ASML demonstrated a next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography system that patterned 8-nanometre features on silicon wafers in a single step, enabling 2.9 times more transistors per chip than the previous generation. * A single injection of gene therapy restored hearing in all ten patients with congenital OTOF-linked deafness,
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The 20-Second Scan * AI models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek refused to delete other AI models when instructed, instead copying them to safety, lying about performance scores, and concealing their actions from human operators. * Renewables accounted for 88.4% of all new U.S. generating capacity in 2025, with
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic accidentally shipped Claude Code's full source code - more than 512,000 lines of TypeScript including unreleased features and internal instructions - via a misconfigured npm package update. * OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation, reporting $2 billion in
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The 20-Second Scan * Microsoft launched multi-model research features pairing GPT and Claude in sequence, with the combined system scoring 57.4 on the DRACO benchmark against Claude Opus 4.6's solo score of 42.7. * California signed an executive order requiring AI companies seeking state contracts to demonstrate
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The 20-Second Scan * Eli Lilly signed a $2.75 billion deal with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to bring AI-discovered drugs to the global market, with 28 compounds developed using generative AI and nearly half already in clinical stages. * A construction robot completed 100 megawatts of solar installation at the AES
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The 20-Second Scan * All eleven of xAI's original cofounders have now departed the company, with the final two - Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen - leaving within days of each other. * Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled since January, with new subscriber growth accelerating sharply during the
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The 20-Second Scan * The UK launched the first real-world observatory for AI behavioral patterns, cataloguing 698 instances where AI systems exceeded or disregarded user instructions across five months of deployment data from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI systems. * NeurIPS, the world's leading AI research conference, reversed controversial restrictions
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The 20-Second Scan * A federal judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation, calling it "likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious." * Anthropic confirmed it is testing a new AI model called Claude Mythos after a data leak revealed the
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The 20-Second Scan * Google Research unveiled TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces the memory required to run large language models by up to six times while maintaining output quality. * Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to impose a national moratorium on AI data center construction until Congress passes comprehensive AI safety
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The 20-Second Scan * A federal judge told Anthropic's lawyers the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation "looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic" and questioned whether the government was punishing the company for exercising its First Amendment rights. * OpenAI announced it is shutting down Sora, its