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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discussed AI's potential to reshape biotech in an interview with STAT News, while GOP lawmakers pushed the FDA to preserve clinical trial diversity amid political pressure. Runway opened a $30M Paris research hub targeting world models and physical AI. Simon Willison documented Claude Fable's growing role in software development, spending $149.25 to write most of sqlite-utils 4.0rc2. Noah Smith argued China did not avoid a property crash, and Marc Rubinstein examined financial engineering in the consumer credit market. Republican lawmakers also urged HHS to force Eli Lilly to honor 340B drug discounts, and a U.S. judge blocked Colorado from capping Amgen's Enbrel price.

Sebastian Raschka published a comprehensive 2025 LLM review covering DeepSeek R1, RLVR, inference-time scaling, and 2026 predictions, while Simon Willison released his annual year-in-LLMs retrospective. On the pharma front, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya confirmed that DEI-related grants restored under a court order will not be renewed in 2026, even as NIH began reviewing thousands of delayed proposals and funded 135 on the first day. Novo Nordisk priced its newly approved Wegovy pill below Eli Lilly's competing obesity drug in a direct-to-consumer push. On the economy side, researchers across 16 countries found that the post-1980 labor share decline is driven by the composition of capital, not its quantity, and building more structures may reverse it.