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An AI Agent Finds Four New Energy Superconductors - TCR 07/06/26
Alibaba's Elements Claw scanned 2.4M crystal structures in 28 hours and surfaced four lab-verified superconductors, as AI discovery outpaces the bench.
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SK Telecom Pours $91.5B Into AI Power - TCR 07/05/26
SK Telecom's $91.5B, a Texas gas plant for Microsoft, and faster modular fabs show the AI buildout arriving as poured concrete and real power.
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Federal Order Puts AI's Power Bill on the Grid - TCR 07/04/26
A federal emergency order put data centers on backup power during the early July heat wave, tying the cost of AI's load to the loads that create it.
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A Robot Fell and Still Beat Half-Marathon Record - TCR 04/21/26
The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic announced a $5 billion investment from Amazon alongside a commitment to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade, securing up to 5 GW of compute capacity through Trainium4 chips. * Fervo Energy filed for its long-awaited IPO, disclosing 3.65 GW of enhanced geothermal
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CRISPR Reads the Tumor - TCR 04/20/26
The 20-Second Scan * The IEA's 2026 Global Energy Review confirmed that solar was the single largest contributor to global energy supply growth in 2025, accounting for more than 25% of the increase. * A study published in Nature identified a CRISPR variant called ThermoCas9 that distinguishes tumor DNA from
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The Century Report: February 9, 2026
The 10-Second Scan * Cloudflare launched an open-source tool that lets anyone run a personal AI agent on edge infrastructure - no local hardware required. * New York lawmakers proposed a three-year moratorium on new data center construction - the sixth state to consider such a pause. * A California community blocked a