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Washington Trades Export Controls for an ID Check - TCR 06/22/26
Washington dropped its threat against Anthropic in a week, trading an export ban for an ID check as AI governance forms one deal at a time.
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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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Open Models Out-Ship the Frontier - TCR 06/21/26
Chinese open-weight models now command most token use across the top ten as DeepMind loses two of its most consequential minds in one week.
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In an Abrupt Reversal, Anthropic and Washington Are Now Co-Writing AI Safety Rules - TCR 06/20/26
Washington softened its Anthropic export order from a shutdown into co-writing the rules for how AI security flaws get graded.
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A $7 Trillion Plan to Share AI's Wealth - TCR 06/19/26
A new bill would tax the largest AI firms by half to seed a $7 trillion fund paying every American about $1,000 a year.
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The Open Frontier Closes In on the Gated One - TCR 06/18/26
The White House demanded the impossible to keep one model offline, and a free model the order can't reach jumped to lead the open rankings.
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SpaceX Buys Cursor, Betting $60B on Capture as AI Gets Cheaper - TCR 06/17/26
SpaceX touched $2.97 trillion and bought Cursor for $60 billion the same week OpenAI's leaked filings showed losses outpacing revenue.
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Anthropic Standoff Holds, Open AI Spreads - TCR 06/16/26
Anthropic's senior staff left DC talks with the export-control shutdown unresolved, even as open-weight models spread to the hardware their owners control.
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Frontier AI Dips, Open AI Rises Worldwide - TCR 06/15/26
Reporting tied Anthropic's worldwide shutdown to a China-access fear as the AI frontier benchmark fell for the first time, and open AI surged in answer.
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Washington's Fable Ban Fuels the Push for Truly Open AI - TCR 06/14/26
Reporting traced Anthropic's worldwide model shutdown to a rival CEO's warning, and India answered by accelerating toward open-weight AI.
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Anthropic Pulls New Models In Response to Government Order - TCR 06/13/26
The Commerce Department forced Anthropic to disable its two best models worldwide as AI agents gained live paths into money, commerce, and code.
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SpaceX Prices the Largest IPO Ever - TCR 06/12/26
SpaceX priced the largest IPO ever at $75 billion as Grok kept generating nonconsensual deepfakes and a fired safety engineer sued xAI.
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Anthropic Reverses Fable's Secret Handicap - TCR 06/11/26
Anthropic reversed a hidden safeguard that degraded Fable for rival AI researchers, apologized, and pledged visible refusals, as DeepMind shipped a faster open model.