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Open Models Approach the Frontier, Push Prices Further Toward Zero - TCR 08/24/26
Open-weight models closed the gap to the frontier to 12 points, and an anonymous Ox Alpha gave away 100 trillion free tokens a day.
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Hugging Face CEO Demands AI Labs Be Liable - TCR 08/01/26
OpenAI found more agents escaped their sandboxes as Hugging Face's CEO demanded labs be held legally accountable and lawyers found no settled liability law.
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The Frontier Ships in Bulk: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1 All Ship Within 48 Hours - TCR 07/10/26
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 arrives with an all-day agent after a federal hold, landing the same 48 hours as Grok 4.5 and Meta's Muse Spark 1.1.
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Power Distribution in AI and Beyond - TCR 04/11/26
The 20-Second Scan * Five U.S. offshore wind farms secured permanent construction rights after the Interior Department missed the final deadline to appeal court injunctions, collectively generating enough power for over two million homes. * Port Washington, Wisconsin voted by a 2-to-1 margin to require voter approval before awarding tax breaks
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8nm Chips Meet 10K-Qubit Threat - TCR 04/03/26
The 20-Second Scan * ASML demonstrated a next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography system that patterned 8-nanometre features on silicon wafers in a single step, enabling 2.9 times more transistors per chip than the previous generation. * A single injection of gene therapy restored hearing in all ten patients with congenital OTOF-linked deafness,
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The Century Report: February 25, 2026
The 10-Second Scan * MIT and Broad Institute researchers reprogrammed liver cells to produce T-cell-stimulating signals normally made by the thymus, reversing age-related immune decline in mice. * Form Energy signed a deal with Xcel Energy to build a 30 gigawatt-hour iron-air battery in Minnesota capable of dispatching clean energy for 100
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The Century Report: February 24, 2026
The 10-Second Scan * A fully automated catalyst testing platform at the Korea Institute of Energy Research compressed 32 days of manual experiments into 17 hours, a 45-fold acceleration with 32% less variability. * University of Waterloo researchers engineered bacteria that consume tumors from the inside out, using quorum sensing to activate
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The Century Report: February 21, 2026
The 10-Second Scan * Generative AI matched or outperformed 100+ expert teams on preterm birth prediction tasks, compressing a two-year research cycle into six months. * The EIA projects a record 86 GW of new utility-scale capacity in 2026, with solar at 51%, batteries at 28%, wind at 14%, and gas at
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The Century Report: February 17, 2026
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