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The 20-Second Scan * Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory identified 2.3 million regulatory DNA sequences conserved across 314 plant genomes for over 400 million years, published in Science. * Meta is reportedly planning layoffs affecting 20% or more of its workforce, roughly 16,000 employees, while simultaneously delaying its flagship "Avocado&
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The 20-Second Scan * The Pentagon's chief technology officer said Anthropic's Claude would "pollute" the military supply chain because safety preferences are embedded in the model's architecture. * A Defense Department official disclosed that generative AI systems are being used to rank and prioritize
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The 20-Second Scan * Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Apple filed legal briefs supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation. * Nvidia disclosed a $26 billion commitment over five years to build open-weight AI models, releasing Nemotron 3 Super as its most capable model to date. * Atlassian
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic launched the Anthropic Institute, a 30-person internal research organization combining its societal impacts, frontier red team, and economic research units under co-founder Jack Clark. * Amazon engineers convened an emergency meeting after a trend of outages linked to AI coding assistants, with the company now requiring senior
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits against the Department of Defense, alleging the supply-chain risk designation violates its First and Fifth Amendment rights. * More than 30 OpenAI and Google employees, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic's lawsuit. * Anthropic executives
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The 20-Second Scan * Researchers at TU Wien derived a quantum version of Einstein's geodesic equation showing that particles in quantum spacetime deviate from the paths predicted by classical general relativity. * Scientists identified tanycyte brain cells that transport toxic tau protein from cerebrospinal fluid into the bloodstream, with damaged
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The 20-Second Scan * Researchers developed a machine learning pipeline that identifies a spectroscopic signal linked to liquid-like ion flow inside solid-state battery crystals, opening a new route for high-throughput discovery of superionic materials. * OpenAI's robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski resigned over the company's Pentagon agreement, citing concerns
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic published a labor market study finding that AI theoretically covers 94% of computer and math tasks but is currently performing only 33% of them in professional settings. * Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in two weeks, including 14 classified as high-severity, during a security partnership with
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The 20-Second Scan * AI identified a hidden signal in solid-state battery materials that could accelerate the development of next-generation energy storage. * Johns Hopkins researchers developed an AI-driven liquid biopsy that detects silent liver fibrosis and cirrhosis from DNA fragmentation patterns in a single blood draw. * The Pentagon formally designated Anthropic
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New starting with today's edition: AI Releases & Advancements segment, a cyclical daily list of major AI and AI-related product, feature, and tech releases. Find the new segment below, and look for it in all future editions of The Century Report. The 20-Second Scan * An open-source AI system
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The 20-Second Scan * Researchers at the University of Basel and ETH Zurich reversed the polarity of a ferromagnet using only a laser pulse, as published in Nature. * UCLA and UCSF scientists identified a natural tau cleanup system in the brain that determines which neurons survive Alzheimer's damage, published
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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