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The 20-Second Scan * Earendil Labs raised $787 million backed by Sanofi and Pfizer for its AI-driven biologics platform, which has generated more than 40 drug programs including an anti-TL1A antibody entering Phase 2. * U.S. grid battery manufacturing capacity reached self-sufficiency for the first time, with domestic factories now able
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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 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 * A new AI framework called THOR computed thermodynamic properties of crystalline solids more than 400 times faster than conventional molecular dynamics simulations, published in Physical Review Materials. * ByteDance postponed the global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generation model after Hollywood studios sent cease-and-desist letters over
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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 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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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 10-Second Scan * Indian AI lab Sarvam unveiled open-source models up to 105 billion parameters. * Anthropic released Sonnet 4.6 with a 1-million-token context window and a 60.4% score on ARC-AGI-2, a benchmark designed to measure human-specific intelligence. * PJM Interconnection approved an $11.8 billion transmission expansion plan including
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The 10-Second Scan * Researchers at the Arc Institute discovered an entire hidden class of cancer-specific RNAs across 32 tumor types, with a simple blood test tracking treatment response and predicting survival. * Physicists achieved the first single-shot readout of a Majorana qubit, confirming millisecond-scale coherence in the most noise-resistant quantum computing
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The 10-Second Scan * Ant Group open-sourced trillion-parameter reasoning models with native agent support, downloadable rather than API-only. * Northwestern researchers grew a lab-built human spinal cord that healed after injury when treated with "dancing molecules," now carrying FDA Orphan Drug Designation. * The U.S. military airlifted a microreactor on