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Illinois Mandates AI Safety Audits - TCR 05/28/26
Illinois mandates third-party AI safety audits, Biohub open-sources its protein-biology stack, Robinhood hands AI agents brokerage and credit-card keys.
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BadHost Cracks the Agent Substrate - TCR 05/27/26
A one-character Starlette flaw imperils millions of AI agents, an AI detector reads 46% of the Pope's AI encyclical as machine-written, and Louisiana land deals surface.
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Britain Courts Anthropic - TCR 04/05/26
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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Safety Wins in Court - TCR 03/27/26
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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AI Takes the Desktop - TCR 03/24/26
The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic launched computer-use capability for Claude, allowing the AI system to open apps, navigate browsers, and fill spreadsheets on a user's machine after receiving a task prompt from a phone. * Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared on the Lex Fridman podcast that he believes AGI has
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TCR 03/22/26: Code Writes Itself Now
The 20-Second Scan * OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 employees by end of 2026, with new hires concentrated in engineering, research, sales, and "technical ambassadorship" roles. * OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy disclosed he has not written a line of code since December, describing a complete
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TCR 03/20/26: The Automated Researcher
The 20-Second Scan * OpenAI announced its acquisition of Astral, the company behind Python development tools used hundreds of millions of times monthly, integrating the team into its Codex division. * OpenAI's chief scientist disclosed the company is building a fully automated AI researcher targeting an "autonomous research intern&
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The Century Report: February 6, 2026
The 10-Second Scan * OpenAI's first model that helped create itself shipped this week. * January layoffs hit their highest level since 2009 - 108,000 jobs cut in a single month. * A machine learning method just compressed battery lifetime testing from months to days. * 1.6 million AI agents