The Pentagon opens a formal review of Anthropic's Claude Gov defense contracts, Dario Amodei says AGI arrives in 2026 and 50% of white-collar jobs face automation within five years, Demis Hassabis calls this a golden era for science then immediately warns about AI-accelerated bio and cyber threats, states are racing to pass AI regulation faster than Congress can meet, and Yale's Budget Lab finds no mass AI layoffs in the official data — yet.