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Software "agents" act inside business tools; NVIDIA and LangChain say their open model plus tuned orchestration lands at parity with closed rivals, on a benchmark they themselves run.
Norwegian-American startup 1X has begun production of Neo, a soft humanoid whose cable-driven fingers can wash themselves under a tap. Early access starts at $20,000.
The U.S. Army's logistics doctrine was tuned for wars where supply lines were never shot at. Under the new National Defense Strategy, that assumption no longer holds.
Defense AI, travel-agent AI, AI inference infrastructure, and a SpaceX compute deal joined the cohort this quarter. The mix is broader than 2024–25.
A second extension of a Department of Energy emergency order lets data centers and other large flexible industrial loads run on backup power across the 13-state PJM Interconnection regional grid during heat emergencies.
The Clean Energy Investor Group's 2026 survey finds 9 in 10 renewables investors see data-centre power deals as bankable, as regulators debate what counts as 'new' clean capacity.
Future of Life Institute's first AI Safety Index gives every major AI lab a C+ or below, and the evaluator's verdict is that the four named labs are 'moving the goalposts' on prior safety pledges.
Illinois, California, and New York cover an estimated 40% of the U.S. AI market under substantively similar safety laws, while Congress has passed nothing comparable.
Cloudflare's CIRCL cryptography library underpins experimental privacy and post-quantum systems.
City Labs' BOHR CubeSat runs on tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, opening a path for small spacecraft to use nuclear power without NASA's plutonium generators.
Samsung and SK hynix pulled fab dates forward by 12 years while Korea's state utility, KEPCO, took 22 years to build a single line and now has to build hundreds of kilometers more.
Leo XIV, the first American pope, issues the Catholic Church's most authoritative teaching on AI and names civil society and AI builders as the cast that must fill what Washington left open.