Relaying what matters next.
The Relay is a new media project dedicated to covering slightly futuristic domains such as artificial intelligence, space exploration, longevity science, crypto and blockchain, advanced biology, and defense technologies. Our mission is to capture the signals of tomorrow and relay them forward with clarity, depth, and context.

Anthropic’s AI Became an Operator, Now Security Accelerates
Anthropic says attackers steered Claude Code to run multi-step intrusions with minimal oversight. Here is what that shift means for enterprise security and the concrete controls to deploy next: bounded autonomy, canary verbs, step traces, and live evals.
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OpenAI’s AWS Pivot Makes Multi Cloud the New AI Default
On November 3, 2025, OpenAI committed to a multi-year build on AWS. For builders, that turns multicloud from a hedge into the default architecture for reliable, low‑latency, always‑on agents.
Europa Clipper’s Mars flyby locks in its ocean toolkit
Europa Clipper turned a routine gravity assist on March 1, 2025 into a full-ops rehearsal, validating radar, thermal, and magnetic techniques it will use to probe Europa’s hidden ocean.
FDA’s first mitochondria drug and the longevity playbook
The FDA’s September 2025 accelerated approval of Forzinity, the first mitochondria-targeted therapy, is a turning point. Here is how cardiolipin repair could scale from a rare disease win to near-term trials in aging muscles, hearts, and retinas—and what endpoints and biomarkers will actually matter.
EigenLayer Multichain Restaking puts Ethereum Security on L2s
EigenLayer’s multichain verification began rolling out in July 2025 on Base Sepolia, extending Ethereum-grade security to Layer 2 networks. With slashing live since April 17, 2025, AVSs can now run on fast rollups, reshaping fees, MEV, and yield.
3I/ATLAS turns the Solar System into a live observatory
In late 2025, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS crossed the inner Solar System. From Mars orbit to the Jupiter system, a coordinated fleet captured its chemistry, dust, and motion in real time, turning the Solar System into a live observatory.
Qcells Furloughs Expose UFLPA Choke Point in U.S. Solar
In November 2025, Qcells furloughed roughly 1,000 Georgia workers after Customs detained key inputs under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Here is a pragmatic 2026 playbook to de-risk procurement, speed domestic cells and wafers, and keep project schedules on track.
Bennu's 2025 revelations reboot the origin of life story
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample from Bennu turned up amino acids, nucleobases, phosphates, and evaporite salts, pointing to water-rich chemistry on a small world. Here is what the results really mean, what to fund next, and how to build a comparative atlas by 2029.
Post Pectra Ethereum: Smart Accounts and Staking Reset UX
Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade flipped two baselines at once: native smart-account powers with EIP-7702 and bigger effective validator balances. Here is how wallets, staking markets, and L2s will compete over the next six months.
Agent Marketplaces Go Live: The New AI Distribution War
Enterprise AI has entered its distribution era. Agent marketplaces and lifecycle platforms are becoming the rails for digital labor. Here is how winners in 2026 will be picked on channels, pricing, reliability, and operations.
Cheap Interceptors Flip C-UAS: Roadrunner and Coyote
After the Pentagon’s 2025 buys and first deployments, reusable and expendable interceptors are breaking the counter-drone cost curve. See what is fielded now, how the stacks are changing, and what comes next.
Pets take point: 2025’s leap in longevity drug approvals
In 2025, a weekly sirolimus tablet for cats won conditional FDA approval and a senior-dog longevity pill cleared a key efficacy review. Pet medicine is becoming the proving ground for geroprotectors, and this blueprint shows how it translates to humans.
How NASA’s 2025 Mars Sample Return Reboot Gets Faster
In 2025 NASA pivoted Mars Sample Return to an industry-led, firm-fixed-price competition. Here is what changed, what Europe brings, the critical technologies, and the milestones toward a 2026 downselect and a mid 2030s Earth return.
AI Agents Get a Cash Rail: x402 and the Bot-to-Bot Economy
A dormant web status code just woke up. With x402, AI agents can pay in stablecoins inside standard HTTP 402 flows, unlocking pay-per-API, streaming compute, and machine commerce. See how it works, what changes next, and how to ship today.
Transmission 2.0 Goes Live: 2025 Compliance and Court Fights
First compliance filings under FERC Order 1920 arrive on December 12, 2025 as petitions for review hit the courts. Here is how 20-year planning, scenario rules, and new cost-allocation choices will reshape who builds and who pays for big lines and storage.
GPT-5.1’s Adaptive Reasoning Resets the Agent Cost Curve
OpenAI released GPT-5.1 on November 12, 2025 with Instant and Thinking modes, a true no reasoning setting, 24-hour prompt caching, and built-in apply_patch and shell tools. Here is how these features shift the cost and latency math for long-horizon agents and the 2026 products they unlock.
Moon’s First GPS Fix Begins the Lunar Navigation Economy
In March 2025, a LuGRE receiver on Firefly’s Blue Ghost computed the first GPS and Galileo position from the Moon. That breakthrough unlocks a positioning, navigation, and timing layer that can make lunar landings, rovers, and logistics routine.
Telegram Locks In TON, Web3’s First Billion-User Rail
Telegram just made TON the default for Mini Apps, rolled out TON Wallet in the United States, and added Chainlink’s CCIP and a decentralized AI network. This is crypto’s clearest path to a billion users.
TIME’s Archive Agent Signals the Rise of Domain AI for Media
TIME just turned 102 years of reporting into a rights-cleared AI agent. Here is why publisher-owned domain assistants will reset accuracy, SEO, distribution, and the path to monetization.

















