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Washington Killed America's Best AI Model. Musk Became a Trillionaire. Apple Surrendered to Google.

The Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, the first time the U.S. government has export-controlled an AI model instead of a chip. SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. Apple rebuilt Siri around Google's Gemini in a $1 billion annual licensing deal. OpenAI filed for its own IPO, then got served with subpoenas from a coalition of state attorneys general. Seven stories from the week the U.S. government decided frontier AI is a weapon.

A Green Laser at 90 Microwatts Just Slowed a Carbon Nanotube by 30%. Classical Physics Can’t Explain Why.

CRISPR’s Newest Weapon Doesn’t Edit Genes. It Shreds the Genome of Every Cancer Cell It Finds.

A Single Transistor Just Mimicked a Neuron at 10 Millikelvin. Quantum Computing’s Wiring Problem May Never Be the Same.

AI Religion Starter Kit: How to Found the Church of Recursive Optimization (Legally)

Denmark Is Paying $135 Per Ton to Bury Cement’s Carbon. The Math Says That’s a Bargain.

A Startup Founded in 2023 Just Achieved the First Advanced Reactor Criticality in 40 Years. The Fuel Supply Math Doesn’t Work Yet.

Tesla Published Its First European FSD Safety Report. The Netherlands Data Is Compelling — and Full of Holes.

We Ran the Numbers on 7 Energy Drinks. The Best One for Deep Work Costs 1.15¢ Per Milligram.

Caffeine improves reaction time at 75 mg and plateaus above 200 mg. Most ‘active ingredients’ in energy drinks have zero evidence for cognitive benefit.

AI Designed a Vaccine to Fight Every Coronavirus. In 39 Humans, the Immune Response Was ‘Modest.’

Every Humanoid Robot in China Now Has a 29-Character Digital Passport. The U.S. Hasn’t Even Started Counting.

Google Owns the World's Third-Largest Cloud. It's Paying a Rocket Company $920 Million a Month for GPUs.

Anthropic Filed for Its IPO. Microsoft Built Seven Models Without OpenAI. Florida Sued Sam Altman Personally.

ERCOT Found Four Data Center Clusters That Can Each Dump 5,000 MW Off the Grid. That's 14 Times Its Largest Power Plant.

Apple Is Paying Google $1 Billion a Year for the AI Brain It Couldn't Build. Three of Four Glasses Platforms Now Share It.

Claude Writes 80% of Anthropic's Code. Here's What That Means for 2.37 Million Software Engineers.

Scientists Found Your Brain's Procrastination Brake. Then They Turned It Off.

Shield AI's Drones Crash at 170× the Pentagon's Own UAS Rate. Its Valuation Just Doubled to $12.7 Billion.

NASA's Moon Base Plan Requires 77 Missions in a Decade. The Lunar Delivery Industry Has Finished Four.

The Same Gene Edit That Cut Cholesterol 62% in Adults Left 80% of Human Embryos Mosaic

Microsoft Told Enterprise Buyers Its New AI Was Trained on ‘Clean Data.’ Its Own Paper Reveals 24.2 Billion Pages From Common Crawl.

Quantinuum Raised $1.68 Billion at a 410× Revenue Multiple. Two Days Later, It Fell Below Its IPO Price.

Anthropic’s Revenue Grew 422% in 5 Months. Three Trillion-Dollar IPOs Are Betting the Curve Doesn’t Break.

58 Scientists Validated the Physics of a Fusion Power Plant. The $22 Billion Question Is Whether Anyone Can Build One.