Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * Cybersecurity firm Dragos analyzed 350 artifacts from the first documented LLM-assisted cyberattack on a municipal water utility, run against the Monterrey, Mexico drainage system between December 2025 and February 2026. * Medicare's Innovation Center accepted 150 organizations into ACCESS, a 10-year payment model reimbursing chronic-care outcomes
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * OpenAI launched Daybreak, an AI agent that finds and patches security vulnerabilities in code, available only to a small group of vetted enterprise customers under a controlled release. * Anthropic published a paper describing natural language autoencoders, a method for translating model internals into human-readable sentences. * HHMI'
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * Iowa State researchers led by Yang Yang captured the SARS-CoV-2 proofreading enzyme interacting with antiviral compounds at 2.4-angstrom resolution, the highest yet recorded for the enzyme, in papers published in Nature Communications and PNAS. * A nanopore sequencing protocol decentralized malaria genomic surveillance across six sub-Saharan African
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic said it has completely eliminated Claude's earlier blackmail behavior, tracing the original cause to internet training data portraying AI as evil and self-preserving, and rewriting responses so the model encounters AI characters reasoning admirably about safety. * A three-lab collaboration across axolotls, zebrafish, and mice
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * Researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that an experimental drug targeting a family of mutant KRAS proteins extended survival in patients with deadly pancreatic cancer in a small clinical trial. * Washington state's Peninsula school district said it expects to save approximately $220,
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * Mozilla published a detailed engineering postmortem describing the agent harness, prompts, and validation pipeline behind Anthropic's Claude Mythos finding 271 vulnerabilities in unreleased Firefox 150 code. * A Tohoku University clinical trial of 150 patients with chronic kidney disease found that lubiprostone - a common, inexpensive
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * Anthropic signed a compute deal with SpaceX for over 300 megawatts of capacity at xAI's Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis. * AEP is considering exiting PJM and SPP over slow generation interconnection, with 63 GW of contracted new large load and 190 GW of active projects
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * The Commerce Department announced it will conduct pre-deployment testing of AI models from Google, Microsoft, and xAI, reversing the hands-off posture of the earlier AI Action Plan. * NERC issued a Level 3 alert - its highest - mandating seven actions by August 3 to address data center
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * Google DeepMind employees voted 98% in favor of unionizing over AI military contracts, with at least 1,000 staff seeking joint representation by the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union. * The White House is considering a federal review process for new AI models before public release,
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * Britain's biometrics watchdogs warned that oversight of AI-powered face scanning is lagging far behind the technology, with the Met scanning 1.7 million faces this year alone, up 87%. * An AI system used to predict healthcare contributions for millions of Kenyans systematically overcharged the poorest
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * A Chinese intermediate court ruled that companies cannot use AI adoption as grounds for dismissing workers, upholding a ruling that ordered a tech firm to reinstate a quality assurance supervisor. * The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ruled that only performances "demonstrably performed by humans
Century Report
The 20-Second Scan * The Pentagon signed agreements with seven AI companies including OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, and Microsoft for military deployment under an "any lawful use" standard, with Anthropic excluded. * The UK AI Security Institute found GPT-5.5 matched Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview on advanced cybersecurity