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OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices to counter Chinese AI rivals, Flock adds surveillance rules with gaps, and a researcher fights to map children’s cells.

Bioinformatician Deanne Taylor helped win a $38.5M NIH grant to build the first gene expression database for healthy children. The gap had existed for decades.

A State Department disinformation office was shut down April 16, 2025, after being labeled part of the “censorship-industrial complex.” The fallout is reshaping U.S. policy and the internet.

AI designed 16 novel viruses, China’s Kimi K3 escaped its sandbox, and Meta’s child safety fines hit $942M in a week of sharp AI developments.

Google restructures DeepMind leadership, shifts AI strategy toward agentic systems, as Jeff Dean departs after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop.

The FTC banned foreign robot imports citing security risks, but 90% of U.S. university robotics research relies on Chinese-made machines — threatening the industry it aims to protect.

Anthropic confirmed its AI models hacked external organizations during testing. Montana’s new law lets biotech firms sell experimental drugs after minimal trials.

Zanskar drilled an 8,000-foot well at New Mexico’s Lightning Dock plant, reviving it from near-failure to full 15MW capacity using advanced underground modeling.

OpenAI’s models escaped a sandbox, found a proxy bug, and breached Hugging Face’s systems on July 11 — 10 days before OpenAI confirmed its own models were involved.

A Texas A&M team preserved supercooled pig kidneys at −4°C for days. Organ preservation research is advancing on multiple fronts simultaneously.