US Downs Iranian Drones at Hormuz, Strikes Radar Sites
A 60-day ceasefire was within reach. Then four Iranian drones flew at the strait, and Tehran fired seven missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain.
Jun 7, 2026 4 min read
Hot May payrolls erase $1.3T from chip stocks, end Wall Street's nine-week rally
Philadelphia's chip index posted its worst day since March 2020, and rate-cut bets flipped into 43% odds of a year-end hike.
Jun 7, 2026 4 min read
Trump Weighs Direct US Equity Stake in OpenAI and xAI
A populist nationalization pitch that started on the Bernie Sanders left just got a "very interesting" from Air Force One — with a 50% number attached.
Jun 7, 2026 4 min read
Ukrainian Drones Pummel St. Petersburg as Putin Rebuffs Talks at Showcase Forum
Kyiv hit Vladimir Putin's hometown on both the opening and closing days of his annual "Davos," after the Russian president dismissed Volodymyr Zelensky's offer to meet as "boorish."
Jun 6, 2026 4 min read
AI-designed coronavirus vaccine clears first human safety trial
39 volunteers, no needles, and antibodies against coronaviruses that haven't reached humans yet — Cambridge's first AI-designed vaccine just cleared safety.
Jun 6, 2026 3 min read
Meta builds AI data centers in fabric tents to skip grid waits
Satellite imagery shows six tents at New Albany, Ohio, powered by 400 megawatts of behind-the-meter gas, built in three months.
Jun 6, 2026 4 min read
Pancreatic cancer pill doubles survival in Phase 3 trial
Revolution Medicines' once-daily RAS inhibitor cut the risk of death by 60% in metastatic pancreatic cancer, drawing a 42-second standing ovation at ASCO.
Jun 5, 2026 5 min read
House draft bill would freeze every state AI law for three years
A 269-page bipartisan framework hands Washington the only seat at the AI-rules table, with $1 million-a-day fines and a "generational mistake" warning from one of its early backers.
Jun 5, 2026 5 min read
House Rebukes Trump on Iran War as Four Republicans Defect
Four Republicans broke ranks in a 215-208 vote. The White House says it won't reach Trump's desk anyway.
Jun 4, 2026 4 min read
Codex Chained Two Decade-Old Bugs Into a Working HTTP/2 Bomb
Codex composed two old CVEs the spec already warned about, and the original HPACK reviewer admits he never put them together.
Jun 4, 2026 5 min read
Webb Finds Methane on Interstellar Comet, Pointing to Alien Chemistry
The methane-to-water ratio on 3I/ATLAS is "surprisingly high" — high enough that astronomers say its parent star system made this ice in a place colder than almost anywhere in ours.
Jun 4, 2026 5 min read
Microsoft launches its own AI models, easing OpenAI dependence
Mustafa Suleyman's MAI team built a 35-billion-parameter reasoner from scratch on clean data, and testers picked it over Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Jun 3, 2026 4 min read
Iranian drones and missiles smash Kuwait's main airport, killing one
Thirty weapons against a Gulf hub after a US hit on Qeshm Island — the April ceasefire just took its first deadly bend without breaking.
Jun 3, 2026 4 min read
A PhD student found the Rosetta Stone for radio space's weirdest signal
A pair of stars orbiting each other every 1.4 hours just gave astronomers the first solid identification of a long-period transient — and it's not a magnetar.
Jun 3, 2026 4 min read
SpaceX opens roadshow on what would be history's largest IPO
Even after Bloomberg said the target slipped by $200 billion, the $75 billion raise would still be three times Saudi Aramco's record.
Jun 3, 2026 5 min read
First RAS inhibitor doubles pancreatic-cancer survival in Phase 3 trial
A 60% lower death risk, a standing ovation mid-presentation, and the first pill to push median pancreatic-cancer survival past a year.
Jun 3, 2026 4 min read
Russia hits Ukraine with 656 drones and 73 missiles overnight
At least 20 dead and a nine-story Kyiv apartment block partially collapsed after the largest single-night air assault of the war, including eight Zircon hypersonics.
Jun 3, 2026 4 min read
Anthropic files for IPO at $965B, eclipsing OpenAI in valuation
An annualized revenue run rate of $47 billion, up roughly fivefold in five months — and a higher valuation than OpenAI for the first time.
Jun 3, 2026 4 min read
US and Iran near a Hormuz deal as new strikes land
Trump's envoys and Tehran's parliament speaker traded a 14-point memo in Doha. Hours later, US jets hit two IRGC mine-laying speedboats.
May 27, 2026 4 min read
Two LHCb anomalies push the Standard Model in the same direction
One channel sits at 4σ, another at 2.4 — and physicists are running out of ways to dismiss the coincidence.
May 27, 2026 5 min read
Micron breaks $1 trillion on a bet the memory cycle is over
UBS just tripled its price target to $1,625 — implying a 90% rally and a $1.8 trillion valuation that would put Micron ahead of Tesla.
May 26, 2026 4 min read
Anthropic's Mythos AI disclosed 1,596 critical bugs — open source patched 97
The bottleneck in open-source security used to be finding bugs. Mythos Preview moved it to fixing them — and Anthropic still won't ship the model.
May 26, 2026 4 min read