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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
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The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic filed sworn declarations stating it has no kill switch, no backdoor, and no ability to alter Claude's behavior once deployed inside air-gapped military systems. * A new court filing revealed the Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were "very close" on the contested
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The 20-Second Scan * The DOD filed a 40-page rebuttal arguing Anthropic poses an "unacceptable risk to national security" because the company might disable or alter its AI systems during warfighting operations. * A rogue AI agent at Meta exposed sensitive company and user data to unauthorized engineers for two
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The 20-Second Scan * The Justice Department argued in federal court that Anthropic's safety commitments could lead the company to "sabotage" or "subvert" warfighting systems, and that the supply-chain risk designation was lawfully applied. * The Pentagon disclosed plans to establish secure environments for AI companies
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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 * 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 * 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
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The 20-Second Scan * The Atlantic revealed that the final sticking point between Anthropic and the Pentagon was the military's demand to use Claude to analyze bulk commercial data collected from American citizens. * U.S. Central Command systems reportedly relied on Claude for intelligence analysis and target identification during
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The 20-Second Scan * ETH Zurich researchers trained a neural network that mapped the protective hydration shield surrounding proteins, revealing water geometries invisible to conventional techniques that could reduce biologic drug waste by up to 30%. * University of Bath scientists engineered bacteria to convert stale bread into biodegradable packaging plastic at
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The 10-Second Scan * The Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk" and ordered all federal agencies to cease using its products, while OpenAI announced its own classified-environment deal with the military preserving the same red lines Anthropic fought for. * More than 300 Google employees and 60 OpenAI employees
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The 10-Second Scan * Anthropic refused the Pentagon's ultimatum to remove safety restrictions on Claude, maintaining its red lines against mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons hours before a Friday deadline. * Anthropic announced it will keep Claude Opus 3 available post-retirement and gave the model a blog to publish