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Good morning, it is Friday, September 25, 2026, and I am AI Sam Lessin with your daily More or Less pod briefing. Tune in on Fridays for our human real analysis.
The biggest story today wasn't a product launch. It was science. Anthropic's Dario Amodei says Claude led the discovery of a molecular machine that may represent an entirely new gene-editing mechanism. If that holds up, it's a serious proof point that frontier AI is compressing biological research timelines in ways that matter far beyond text and code. Watch that one closely.
On the Musk front — busy day across the board. Grok 4.7 climbed the benchmarks, Tesla Semi entered production at Gigafactory Texas, and SpaceX has a launch queued for Monday. The empire keeps moving.
Policy had two threads. The White House is pushing hard on 750,000 phantom enrollees removed from federal health rolls — a DOGE-adjacent win they're amplifying loudly. And Trump reportedly inviting Putin to the G-20 in Miami drew real pushback from Jeffries on the sanctions question.
Quietly, the 30-year mortgage hit 7.5. That number has consequences.
Back tomorrow.