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Today in brief.
Claude for every US government level at 40% off
Anthropic's new GSA OneGov deal discounts Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the API by 40% for federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments, with no minimum spend.
🔬 Science
Claude designs a shorter, stronger CAR-T part
Anthropic shared early results from six drug-development partnerships plus its own programs. At Generate Biomedicines, a Claude-proposed design was about 70% shorter than standard and in lab tests let immune cells make roughly 10x more receptors.
🤖 AI
AI was supposed to mean less work
The day's top HN post, 'AI promised less work. I've never worked more', hit 614 points, while a16z argues agent task length doubles every 7 months yet companies still don't trust them with a Salesforce record.
🤖 AI
Genie 4 makes playable worlds with sound
Google DeepMind put Genie 4 in research preview: photorealistic interactive worlds with real-time audio and dialogue, prompt edits mid-simulation, and scenes that hold together for up to two minutes.
🎬 Media
Try today: Runway Ads, Super Mario 64 in your room, Firefox Smart Window
Runway Ads turns creative direction into platform ads that learn what wins, a dev used Claude Opus 5.5 to put Super Mario 64 in mixed reality at 90 FPS, and Firefox Smart Window adds AI form filling and page monitoring.
🔬 Science
Update: Anthropic says Claude refuted ETH too
New beat on yesterday's ETH story: Anthropic posted its own 2^o(n) 3-SAT algorithm on Hexagon, saying an internal Claude research model got there independently on Oct 16. Researchers are pushing back on how labs release these results.
🤖 AI
AI on trial: traffic stops, a GPT-4o suit, pirated books
The ACLU says police are using license plate readers and AI to stop drivers for 'suspicious' travel patterns, parents sued OpenAI over GPT-4o advice on seizure medication, and Stanford professors' pirated books turned up in Claude's training data.
🤖 AI
Local AI goes into the browser and off the grid
Opera proposed WebAI, a web standard for running models like Gemma locally in the browser, and Survival LLM packs a model plus about 930,000 Wikipedia articles into a free offline emergency assistant.
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