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Anduril Industries announced a new Long Beach campus covering 1.18 million sq ft, slated for mid‑2027 completion. The facility will create about 5,500 new jobs across engineering, manufacturing and logistics. It will serve as the production hub for the autonomous Fury fighter jet, which completed its first test flight in 2025. Founder Palmer Luckey highlighted the prospect of jets taking off directly from the factory as the most exciting aspect.
Researchers analyzed plasma proteomes of elite HIV controllers, a rare group that naturally suppresses viral replication without therapy. Using high‑resolution mass spectrometry, they identified a distinct protein signature marked by lower inflammatory mediators and altered metabolic pathways. Comparative analysis with...
Sa Sa International posted a 12.5% rise in quarterly turnover to HK$1.16 billion, driven by both brick‑and‑mortar and online channels. Offline sales in Hong Kong and Macau grew 11.8% year‑on‑year, with same‑store sales up 14.7%, while average transaction value rose 9.4%....
Corcept Therapeutics reported positive Phase III results for relacorilant in platinum‑resistant ovarian cancer, meeting the overall survival endpoint. The data lifted the stock after a steep decline following a complete response letter that had cut the company's market value by half...
A federal judge disclosed an undisclosed six‑year, $800 million partnership between Epic Games and Google focused on Unreal Engine services and joint marketing. The agreement, kept largely confidential, involves Epic paying Google for cloud and AI services rather than co‑creating a...
Inferact Inc. launched with a $150 million seed round that values the startup at $800 million. The company will commercialize the open‑source vLLM inference engine, known for its PagedAttention memory‑saving technique and quantization. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed and Databricks’ VC arm,...
Chinese startup DeepSeek has launched an AI model that rivals top U.S. systems at a fraction of the cost, prompting the company to target Europe as its primary export market. While the EU has moved to restrict access over fears...
OpenAI has appointed Barret Zoph, a former VP of post‑training inference, to lead its enterprise division as the company seeks to recapture lost market share. Zoph returned after a stint at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machine Labs, positioning him at the forefront of...
Space Systems Command (SSC), the Space Force’s acquisition arm, is scrambling to rebuild its contracting workforce after shedding roughly 780 civilian staff – about 14% of its civilian headcount – during last year’s federal downsizing. The loss of contracting officers...
Payments Canada has completed the integration of the ISO 20022 messaging standard into its Lynx high‑value payment platform, finalizing the transition on November 22, 2025. By October 2025, 98% of domestic payment messages had already migrated, demonstrating rapid industry adoption. The new data‑rich MX...
Corxel Pharmaceuticals announced a $287 million Series D‑1 financing round aimed at advancing its oral GLP‑1 therapy into late‑stage clinical trials. The capital will enable the company to move beyond its China‑only data and pursue a global development strategy. Existing backers RTW...
A nationwide Danish cohort study examined whether maternal infections during pregnancy raise the risk of suicide in offspring. Using linked health registers, the researchers identified over 1.2 million births and tracked maternal infection diagnoses alongside suicide outcomes up to age...
Amazon announced a next‑generation RFID lane system that is fully portable and can be installed in a matter of hours rather than weeks. The new lanes retain the high‑accuracy scanning capabilities of earlier models while shedding the need for permanent...
Microsoft announced the 2026 Quantum Pioneers Program, a competitive research grant aimed at advancing measurement‑based quantum computing (MBQC). Up to five academic proposals will receive up to $200,000 each for a 12‑month project starting August 2026. The program focuses on...
IBM has launched Qiskit SDK version 2.3, emphasizing tighter integration with high‑performance computing and fault‑tolerant compilation pipelines. The update expands the C API with new QkDag and QkTarget objects, allowing custom transpiler passes in C, and introduces Rust‑driven performance gains...
YOKKAO, the Thailand‑born Muay Thai gear maker, has become the world’s most‑watched fight‑gear brand, logging over 45 million video views each month and more than 500 million annually across its social‑media channels. The brand’s digital dominance stems from a relentless content engine that...
Astellas CEO Naoki Okamura argues that Japan’s biotech sector is constrained more by the ability to translate scientific discoveries into market‑ready products than by a lack of capital. He outlines Astellas’ strategic focus on cell and gene therapies, a menopause...
Oportun Financial announced that long‑time CEO Raul Vazquez will step down by April 3, remaining as an advisor through July 3. The departure follows a two‑year campaign by activist investor Findell Capital, which accused Vazquez of costly acquisitions and a bloated cost...
Colorado’s Chamber & Economic Development Corp., along with the El Paso County Board and the Colorado Springs City Council, filed a brief opposing the state’s lawsuit aimed at keeping U.S. Space Command in Colorado. The lawsuit challenges former President Trump’s reversal...
X is testing in‑stream paid‑partnership tags that would let creators flag sponsored content directly within the feed. The feature would replace manual #ad disclosures with an automated tag, potentially offering brands performance analytics similar to those on rival platforms. This...
The Hubble Space Telescope’s ultraviolet survey of 48 Milky Way globular clusters has produced the largest catalog of blue straggler stars, exceeding 3,000 objects. Analysis shows these anomalously young‑looking stars are far more common in low‑density clusters than in crowded...
Okta has identified a new wave of vishing‑based phishing kits sold as a service, allowing attackers to conduct live, voice‑driven credential theft. The kits let threat actors spoof corporate numbers, manipulate phishing pages in real time, and capture both passwords...
A new white‑collar benchmark called APEX‑Agents, released by Mercur, tests AI agents on real consulting, banking and legal tasks. Leading models, including Gemini 3 Flash and GPT‑5.2, achieved only about a quarter of queries correctly, with most responses wrong or missing. The...
Researchers have discovered that glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression directly influences cerebral lateralization in zebrafish embryos. Using CRISPR‑mediated knock‑down and over‑expression assays, the team quantified asymmetrical gene‑expression patterns and behavioral turning bias. Zebrafish with elevated GR levels showed pronounced left‑right brain...
Dell’s Vice President of Unstructured Data Solutions warned that reusing enterprise SSDs—often called flash reclamation—poses a serious reliability threat as AI and other mission‑critical workloads demand consistent, high‑performance storage. Recycled drives suffer accelerated wear, increasing the likelihood of component failure...
A recent survey of 1,200 physicians across the United States reveals that 68% view AI chatbots as useful adjuncts in clinical decision‑making, while 22% remain skeptical about their reliability. Doctors cite faster information retrieval and patient education as primary benefits,...
OpenAI scaled a single‑primary Azure PostgreSQL flexible server to serve 800 million ChatGPT users, leveraging nearly 50 read‑replicas across global regions. By combining aggressive query tuning, connection pooling with PgBouncer, and off‑loading write‑heavy workloads to sharded Cosmos DB, the platform now handles...
A new multi‑institutional study identifies high PRDM16 expression as a powerful prognostic marker in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Analysis of over 500 patient transcriptomes shows that elevated PRDM16 correlates with significantly shorter overall survival and remains independent of established risk...
The Essential Reading Series curates a dozen titles that map the scientific, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). From Carl Sagan’s fictional dramatization of a first contact signal to Jill Tarter’s biography of the field’s...
The article declares the end of the traditional app era, ushering in an “Instruct/Verify” era where users command AI agents to perform tasks. It outlines two parallel shifts – an interface shift turning super‑apps into conversational operating systems, and a...
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is creating digital reference standards (dRS) and digitally structured compendial methods (dDS) to support digital‑first pharmaceutical workflows. These standards will be incorporated into the USP‑NF, allowing manufacturers to use machine‑readable data instead of physical materials....
The White House shared an image on X that had been altered with generative AI to make civil‑rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong appear sobbing during her arrest, despite the original photo showing a stoic pose and bright pink lipstick. The...
Microsoft unveiled VibeVoice‑ASR, an open‑source speech‑to‑text model that processes up to 60 minutes of continuous audio in a single pass using a 64K‑token context. The model jointly performs automatic speech recognition, speaker diarization, and timestamping, delivering structured transcripts that capture who...
Johns Hopkins researchers led by Dwight Bergles uncovered that oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) continuously differentiate into myelinating oligodendrocytes, a process they term constitutive differentiation. Using cross‑species gene‑expression profiling, protein localization, and live‑mouse time‑lapse microscopy, they identified distinctive “dandelion clock‑like” extracellular...
A recent study demonstrates that pre‑operative transthoracic echocardiography can reliably predict post‑induction hypotension (PIH) in patients over 65. Specific echo metrics, especially markers of diastolic dysfunction, showed strong correlation with intra‑operative blood pressure drops. The predictive model achieved over 80%...
Huntington Bank closed its $12.7 billion Veritex deal and is finalizing the $53.5 billion Cadence acquisition, expanding its Texas footprint to 118 branches. The Texas moves are expected to lift 2026 loan growth to 11‑12% and deposit growth to 8‑9%, adding $34 billion...
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have built robotic fins that replicate stingray swimming mechanics, revealing how the animals achieve precise maneuverability. High‑speed video and fluid‑dynamic modeling showed that subtle fin curvature and timing generate lift and thrust efficiently....
A new study in Advances in Space Research compares technologies for extracting water on Mars, focusing on subsurface ice, soil moisture, and atmospheric vapor. The analysis rates subsurface ice as the most viable long‑term source, while soil and air water...
The National Space Society is accepting abstract proposals for its International Space Development Conference (ISDC) from now until April 15, 2026. The event will take place June 4‑7, 2026 in McLean, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., under the theme “Space for...
New Celent‑Plaid research projects SEPA Instant Credit Transfers will overtake traditional credit transfers by 2030, reaching roughly 18% of euro‑zone transactions by 2035. The EU’s 2027 Instant Payments Regulation forces banks, EMIs and payment institutions to support instant euro payments,...
OpenAI’s chief marketing officer, Kate Rouch, pushed back against accusations that the company is a "Woke AI" by highlighting her own Republican background and a $25 million MAGA donation from co‑founder Greg Brockman. The criticism originated from MAGA activist Katie Miller,...
LiveKit announced a $100 million Series C round that values the San Francisco‑based real‑time communication platform at $1 billion. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures and Hanabi Capital. LiveKit will use the capital to...
LivsMed completed a KOSDAQ IPO, raising ₩135.9 billion ($94 million) and achieving a $1 billion market valuation. The proceeds will fund a new production base, R&D, and global expansion of its minimally invasive surgical portfolio. The company showcased its STARK robotic system in...
Machine learning is now central to satellite‑object tracking, where algorithms scan thousands of orbital coordinates to flag collision risks far earlier than traditional radar. With over 12,000 active satellites, manual monitoring is infeasible, prompting platforms like Orb to blend telescope,...
Early diagnosis is emerging as the linchpin for effective management of developmental disorders, with recent studies showing that interventions before age three dramatically improve functional outcomes. A multinational cohort of 12,000 infants revealed a 25% boost in adaptive behavior scores...
Temu captured roughly 24% of cross‑border ecommerce sales in 2025, matching Amazon as the leading seller in that segment. The surge follows a sub‑1% share in 2022 and a high‑profile Super Bowl campaign in early 2023. IPC data shows shoppers...
Telesat announced that lawsuits filed by creditors over its September 2025 equity distribution are "without merit." The suits, brought in New York and Ontario, claim the company moved its Low‑Earth Orbit Lightspeed assets to shield them from creditors holding 90%...
The U.S. Space Force is poised to double its personnel to roughly 20,000 within the next decade as the Pentagon treats space as a contested warfighting domain. General Shawn Bratton said the service is being pressed by the Army, Navy...
Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have identified a novel enzyme, MAN PPK2, that universally phosphorylates all four RNA nucleotides into nucleoside triphosphates. The enzyme uses inexpensive polyphosphate as a phosphate donor, enabling a single‑step, low‑cost conversion of monophosphate and...
