After Nikon announced yesterday that the original first-place winner of its 2026 Small World in Motion competition had been disqualified for violating the competition’s rules on generative AI, the rankings have been updated.
Here’s the new first-place winner, originally awarded second place! Nguyen Nam Nhat’s video shows a tiny worm and a single-celled organism moving around under a microscope. The video originally placed second.
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