Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents

The same month that Science's Editor-in-Chief called AI in publishing "slower, worse, and more expensive", the White House committed $5B+ to a national AI-for-science mission and ARIA backed a directory of 123 problems for AI researchers to solve. Meanwhile, a PNNL team argues the entire "AI scientist" wave has been scaling individual reasoners when the actual bottleneck is team coordination. Institutions are not arguing about whether AI belongs in. Full edition: hallway.aris.pub/no/018/