The United States must lead in space-based solar energy to meet surging electricity demand from AI and data centers, as the technology has been proven viable by Caltech and offers continuous power at …
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said companies are shifting toward cheaper open-source AI models to rein in rising costs, citing examples like Uber burning through its 2026 AI budget in four months. Vogels s…
Anthropic and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory partnered in December 2025 to use Claude, an LLM, to plot a 400-meter route for the Perseverance rover on Mars, cutting planning time in half. The author…
Researchers at Michigan State University found that AI programs designed to detect alien biosignatures can be fooled 100% of the time by small changes in data, highlighting a serious vulnerability tha…
Google DeepMind announced on July 6 that real-world data from Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid robots will train its Gemini Robotics AI models. Apptronik's new 90,000-square-foot Robot Park in Austin col…
A developer identified that LLM agents routinely skip steps in multi-step pipelines, with benchmarks showing compliance rates as low as 30-50% for models like Claude-3.5-Sonnet and Gemini-2.0-Flash. T…
Firefly Aerospace will launch an NVIDIA Jetson AI computing platform into lunar orbit on its Blue Ghost Mission 2, enabling autonomous AI processing on the Moon without relying on Earth commands. The …
Manufact (YC S25), a cloud infrastructure platform for MCP servers and AI agent apps, is hiring a Developer Advocate in San Francisco. The company, which has raised $6.3M in seed funding and is used b…
Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2, an updated humanoid robot available in bipedal and wheeled-base configurations, and opened Robot Park, a flagship data collection and training facility in Austin, Texas. T…
For the first time, a satellite has identified and described features in its image scans without needing to check back with ground control. The YAM-9 satellite uses a NASA-built program called NAVI-Or…
SibFly packages NASA's OPERA Sentinel-1 InSAR satellite data into a single API call that returns measured ground motion for any US address, in mm/year. A LangChain agent can query the service in about…
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck announced the $8 billion acquisition of Iridium Communications to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the satellite communications market, particularly in direct-to-mobile servic…
Firefly Aerospace successfully operated an NVIDIA Jetson platform in lunar orbit for the first time aboard its Blue Ghost lander, demonstrating edge AI capabilities in cislunar space. The milestone su…
DeepSeek released DSpark, an open-source inference framework that accelerates AI model generation by up to 85% without hardware upgrades, challenging U.S. export controls on advanced chips. The framew…
On June 29, 1995, the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked with Russia's Mir space station while orbiting Earth, marking a milestone in international space cooperation.…
A developer built AEGIS (Artificial Earth Global Intelligence System), an AI crisis command platform with persistent memory, during the Agent Memory Hackathon. The system uses Vectorize Hindsight to e…
NASA's Johnson Space Center is testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA), a clinical decision support system designed to help astronauts diagnose and treat medical symptoms during de…
The General Services Administration is taking a measured approach to taking over NASA's SEWP IT contract vehicle, prioritizing continuity to avoid disrupting agencies and vendors. GSA has embedded sta…
California has included AI-generated predictions from Anthropic's Claude chatbot in its contribution to the America 250 time capsule, which will be buried in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026. The predicti…
IEEE Fellow Karen Panetta, dean of graduate education at Tufts University, received the 2025 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal for contributions to computer vision and simulation algorithms and for promo…