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AI Labs Push DNA Screening - TCR 06/04/26
OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Microsoft, and Meta backed DNA order screening while an open model powered a self-spreading worm.
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Trump's AI Safety Order Goes Voluntary - TCR 06/03/26
A federal AI safety order shrank to a 30-day voluntary review while binding rules keep hardening in statehouses and one lab arms 15 countries' defenders.
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Anthropic Files Record IPO as Google Raises $80B - TCR 06/02/26
Two of the largest capital raises in history landed in one cycle to fund frontier AI, while an AI economy growing thousands of percent a year stays invisible.
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US Plugs the Chip Leak to China - TCR 06/01/26
A year-old loophole sent hundreds of thousands of top Nvidia chips to Chinese firms abroad before Washington closed the gap, as open models spread.
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Frontier AI Goes Local and Free - TCR 05/31/26
Open-weight models that rival proprietary AI now run offline on a $400 laptop, a cancer injection erases tumours, and SoftBank commits €75B to France.
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Token Cost Crosses Labor Cost - TCR 05/30/26
Fortune 500 AI budgets exhaust in two months as per-token cost crosses human labor, Texas registry shows Waymo at 577 versus Tesla's 42 unsupervised robotaxis.
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Anthropic Becomes Most Valuable AI Lab - TCR 05/29/26
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI at $965B, ships Opus 4.8 with honesty controls, and timetables Mythos-class cyber-defense for all customers within weeks.
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Illinois Mandates AI Safety Audits - TCR 05/28/26
Illinois mandates third-party AI safety audits, Biohub open-sources its protein-biology stack, Robinhood hands AI agents brokerage and credit-card keys.
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BadHost Cracks the Agent Substrate - TCR 05/27/26
A one-character Starlette flaw imperils millions of AI agents, an AI detector reads 46% of the Pope's AI encyclical as machine-written, and Louisiana land deals surface.
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DHS Targets "Anti-Tech Extremism" - TCR 05/26/26
DHS and FBI flag "anti-tech violent extremism," agentic AI floods bug bounties, Uber burns its 2026 AI budget by April, and Anthropic joins the Vatican.
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Pentagon Loses Its AI Contract Fight - TCR 05/25/26
The White House approved $9B in emergency AI chips for spy agencies, the NSA dropped the Pentagon's lawful-use clause, and Huawei named a path to 1.4nm.
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AI Matches Top Human Forecasters - TCR 05/24/26
A frontier AI matched professional superforecasters, Qwen ran 35 unattended hours, and AI surfaced 5,000 PFAS-stripping molecules.