The Century Report: March 11, 2026
A federal judge blocked Perplexity’s Comet browser agents from transacting on Amazon today, issuing the first significant court ruling on whether AI agents can autonomously act inside third-party commercial platforms - a precedent that will shape how every agentic AI company designs its interaction boundaries. The same edition: Anthropic launched a dedicated 30-person institute under co-founder Jack Clark to study AI’s second-order effects on jobs, economies, and human values; Base Power signed a deal to deploy 100 MW of distributed home batteries for a Texas utility cooperative; and researchers identified a modular protein mechanism in hornwort plants that causes Rubisco - the most consequential photosynthesis enzyme on Earth - to cluster into denser structures, and demonstrated it transfers across species.
Read the full edition: https://sharedsapience.com/the-century-report-march-11-2026/
Additional Reading:
* The Verge - Judge Orders Perplexity to Stop AI Agents from Shopping on Amazon: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/892401/amazon-perplexity-ai-shopping-agent-court-order
* The Verge - Anthropic Is Launching a New Think Tank Amid Pentagon Blacklist Fight: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/892478/anthropic-institute-think-tank-claude-pentagon-jack-clark
* Canary Media - Base Power to Launch 100-MW Home Battery Network for Texas Utility: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/base-power-to-launch-100-mw-home-battery-network-for-texas-utility
* ScienceDaily - Scientists Discover Tiny Plant Trick That Could Supercharge Crop Yields: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260311004716.htm
* Shared Sapience - The Last Difficult Decade: 2025-2035: https://sharedsapience.com/the-last-difficult-decade-2025-2035/
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