Katalyst Space Launched a Bid to Save NASA’s Falling Swift Telescope
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is now being targeted for an orbital rescue after Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft launched on…
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SpudCell Completes a Full Synthetic Cell Cycle With a 90,000-base-pair Genome
SpudCell is a bottom-up synthetic cell that can feed, grow, replicate a roughly 90,000-base-pair genome, divide, and pass through multiple…
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Anthropic Is Reportedly Working on a Custom AI Chip With Samsung
Anthropic has reportedly begun preliminary work on a custom AI chip and is discussing Samsung Foundry as a manufacturing partner,…
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Cloudflare Is Blocking Many AI Crawlers by Default on Ad-Supported Pages, Not Charging Them Automatically
Cloudflare is not automatically making AI companies pay publishers for content; starting September 15, 2026, it will default many ad-supported…
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Lumo Does Not Log Chats or Train on Them, and Saved History Is Zero-access Encrypted
Lumo is Proton’s privacy-first AI assistant, launched on July 23, 2025, and its defining pitch is simple: Proton says it…
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Arena Turned Its Chatbot Leaderboard Into a Paid AI Evaluations Business
Arena, formerly LMArena and best known for the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, is a venture-backed company that runs a crowdsourced AI…
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Foreign-run Pro-One Nation Facebook Groups Look More Like Ad Farms Than Propaganda Cells
Foreign-run pro-One Nation Facebook groups are best understood as an ad-arbitrage business: cheap partisan posts pull in a large, commercially…
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Ford Brought Back 350 Veteran Engineers After Its AI Quality Systems Missed Real-world Problems
Ford brought back about 350 veteran “gray beard” engineers over the last three years after its automated quality systems and…
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The Best Place to Watch the 2026 Solar Eclipse Is Inside the Path of Totality
The best place to watch the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse is anywhere inside the narrow path of totality,…
