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FHE Goes Live: Confidential Smart Contracts Hit Ethereum

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FHE Goes Live: Confidential Smart Contracts Hit Ethereum

Encrypted compute just moved from demos to deployable code. With Zama’s protocol and Fhenix’s CoFHE, confidential smart contracts are arriving on Ethereum with a clear path to Solana in 2026.

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USAF loyal wingmen fly: YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A begin tests

USAF loyal wingmen fly: YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A begin tests

Two uncrewed fighter prototypes flew in late 2025, moving the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft from vision to flight test reality. Here is what flies next, why software and open architectures matter, and how a 2026 decision could reshape airpower.

3I/ATLAS Turns Mars to Jupiter Into a Pop-Up Observatory

3I/ATLAS Turns Mars to Jupiter Into a Pop-Up Observatory

As 3I/ATLAS sweeps past Mars toward Jupiter, space agencies are syncing Mars orbiters, ESA’s JUICE, and NASA’s Europa Clipper to watch its coma and tails in real time. The goal is a reusable playbook for the next interstellar visitor.

Training Wheels Off: Permissionless Proofs Hit L2s

Training Wheels Off: Permissionless Proofs Hit L2s

Arbitrum activated BoLD and Base advanced to Stage 1, moving permissionless, time‑bounded exits and anyone‑can‑challenge security from roadmap to production. Here is what changes next for bridges, exchanges, and builders.

ChatGPT Atlas ignites Browser Wars 2.0 with agent mode

ChatGPT Atlas ignites Browser Wars 2.0 with agent mode

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas ships an always-on sidebar and a native agent that can click, type, and buy with your approval. Here is why the browser just became the AI operating layer and how Chrome and Comet will counter next.

SPHEREx Goes Live: A 102-color Atlas of the Entire Sky

SPHEREx Goes Live: A 102-color Atlas of the Entire Sky

Launched in March 2025, NASA’s SPHEREx has taken first-light images and begun a two-year, 102-color all-sky infrared survey. Over the next year it will map water and organics, sharpen inflation-era cosmology, and supercharge rapid follow-ups with JWST, Euclid, and Rubin.

Mach 5 on Wheels: Blackbeard Comes to HIMARS

Mach 5 on Wheels: Blackbeard Comes to HIMARS

An October Army-Navy push put Castelion's Blackbeard on a path to ride legacy launchers like HIMARS. Here is how truck-mobile, lower-cost hypersonic rounds could flip magazine depth, A2/AD math, and Pacific deterrence by 2027.

Tianwen-2 sets pace in the small‑body sample return race

Tianwen-2 sets pace in the small‑body sample return race

China’s Tianwen-2 launched on May 29, 2025 toward Kamoʻoalewa, an Earth quasi-moon. If it returns about 100 grams by late 2027, the sample could test the lunar-fragment idea and reshape plans for chemistry, defense, and exploration.

EU Rules Now Set the Bar for U.S. LNG After Methane Fee Repeal

EU Rules Now Set the Bar for U.S. LNG After Methane Fee Repeal

With Congress repealing the EPA methane fee and EPA moving to unwind emissions reporting, Europe’s import regime has become the practical rulebook for U.S. LNG. The clock is ticking toward 2027, 2028, and 2030, when verified measurement and methane intensity limits will decide who gets to sell into Europe.

Voice Agents Go Live: Phones Become the New Runtime

Voice Agents Go Live: Phones Become the New Runtime

OpenAI’s Realtime API is now production-ready with native SIP calling, turning phone lines into a first-class runtime for real agents. Here is what changed under the hood, what to build first, and how to ship safely.

Army Lasers Go Live: Strykers Flip the Drone Math

Army Lasers Go Live: Strykers Flip the Drone Math

At Fort Sill this summer, the Army's 50 kilowatt laser Stryker moved from showpiece to playbook. Here is how pairing directed energy with kinetic M-SHORAD can upend counter-drone costs and why brigade level coverage by 2027 is within reach.

From Copilot to Agents: GitHub’s multi agent leap in 2026

From Copilot to Agents: GitHub’s multi agent leap in 2026

GitHub’s Agent HQ upgrades Copilot from code suggestions to auditable execution. Use this practical playbook to pilot, govern, and measure ROI for multi-agent development in 2026 without vendor lock-in.

MetaMask Seedless Wallets Go Mainstream with Smart Accounts

MetaMask Seedless Wallets Go Mainstream with Smart Accounts

MetaMask’s 2025 overhaul adds smart accounts with gas abstraction, passkey recovery, and embedded wallets. With native Solana support, wallet UX 2.0 sets up Apple Pay-like checkouts, gasless flows, and real dapp commerce heading into 2026.

New Glenn goes interplanetary: ESCAPADE readies Mars sprint

New Glenn goes interplanetary: ESCAPADE readies Mars sprint

After reaching orbit on January 16, 2025, Blue Origin’s New Glenn is racing toward a second act: sending NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes on a fast, lower-cost ride to Mars in an early November window. Here’s how a commercial heavy lifter, smallcraft design, and transfer vehicles are compressing deep-space timelines.

Notion 3.0 Agents Turn Your Workspace Into the AI Runtime

Notion 3.0 Agents Turn Your Workspace Into the AI Runtime

Notion’s 3.0 Agents shift AI from sidecar chatbots to embedded coworkers that read, write, and act where your data already lives. Here is what changed, why it matters for Google, Microsoft, and Slack, and a pragmatic Q4 playbook to pilot it safely.

Golden Dome Gets Real: America’s Space Shield Takes Shape

Golden Dome Gets Real: America’s Space Shield Takes Shape

Five hard milestones in 2025 turned a moonshot into a program: a May 20 White House reveal, a July 17 Senate confirmation, a Sept 17 architecture brief, a June 24 LRDR test, and a Sept 3 record PAC-3 buy. Here is the plan to field by 2028-2029.

Lean Loss, Stronger Bodies: Myostatin Blockers with GLP-1s

Lean Loss, Stronger Bodies: Myostatin Blockers with GLP-1s

Phase 2 data from June 2025 show apitegromab with tirzepatide preserved about 55 percent of lean mass and added 4.2 pounds of muscle versus GLP-1 alone. An FDA manufacturing setback in September 2025 did not question efficacy, and next‑gen agents are close behind.

Deep-space laser internet begins: DSOC and ESA connect

Deep-space laser internet begins: DSOC and ESA connect

A summer of interagency laser links turned a decade of demos into day one of operations. DSOC on Psyche and Europe's first cross-support show optical can deliver 10-100x more science by 2030.

Sodium-ion’s 2025 Reset: Can the U.S. Catch Asia’s Lead?

Sodium-ion’s 2025 Reset: Can the U.S. Catch Asia’s Lead?

After a hard reset in 2025, sodium-ion is scaling fastest in Asia while U.S. projects wrestle with bankability, codes, and tariffs. Here is what matters now, where it can win first, and the steps utilities can take to turn pilots into bankable procurement.