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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.

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Telegram’s TON Lock-in and U.S. Wallet Create a Real Onramp

Telegram’s TON Lock-in and U.S. Wallet Create a Real Onramp

Telegram made TON the exclusive chain for Mini Apps and shipped a self-custodial wallet to U.S. users. That pairing ties distribution to payments and gives crypto its most credible mobile onramp yet.

GitHub’s Copilot Agent Goes GA, PR-Native Coding Arrives

GitHub’s Copilot Agent Goes GA, PR-Native Coding Arrives

GitHub’s Copilot coding agent is now generally available with pull request native automation, enterprise policies, and Actions-powered sandboxes. Use this 30‑day rollout plan to deploy it safely and see what it means for 2026.

45Z Goes Live: How New Rules Rewire U.S. Clean Fuels

45Z Goes Live: How New Rules Rewire U.S. Clean Fuels

Section 45Z flipped on January 1, 2025 and is already moving margins. With IRS and Treasury guidance on January 10 and late May updates, the winners are producers that register on time, document wage compliance, and design for LCFS plus low lifecycle emissions.

Starship Flight 11: the week reusability jumps a gear

Starship Flight 11: the week reusability jumps a gear

Starship Flight 11 is set for October 13 with a new landing-burn profile and a workhorse heat shield. Here is how those choices set up pad catches, faster turnarounds, near-term lunar cargo, and a clear three-flight roadmap.

Fusaka Nears Mainnet: PeerDAS and the Coming Blob Market

Fusaka Nears Mainnet: PeerDAS and the Coming Blob Market

Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade is tracking October testnets and a December 3 mainnet target. PeerDAS and staged blob increases aim to cut rollup costs, make stablecoin payments cheaper, and catalyze a competitive market for data capacity.

Agents That Can Spend Arrive: ChatGPT Checkout and UPI

Agents That Can Spend Arrive: ChatGPT Checkout and UPI

OpenAI added a Buy button inside ChatGPT and India launched a UPI pilot that lets the assistant complete payments. Here is how agentic checkout works, why it will scale first, and what retailers should do in the next 90 days.

JATM Arrives: AIM-260 and the New Playbook for Air Combat

JATM Arrives: AIM-260 and the New Playbook for Air Combat

The AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile is moving from secrecy to squadrons. Here is what 2025 tests and FY26 procurement really signal, and how F-22, F-35 and Collaborative Combat Aircraft will fight differently through 2030 without breaking the budget.

Senolytics Get Real: 2025 Eye Trial Puts Them on the Map

Senolytics Get Real: 2025 Eye Trial Puts Them on the Map

Unity Biotechnology’s senolytic UBX1325 kept pace with aflibercept over 36 weeks in diabetic macular edema, with clean ocular safety and a clear responder subgroup. Here is why the eye was the right proving ground and what this means for the next wave of aging drugs.

Chang’e‑6 rewrites the Moon: cooler, drier, stranger

Chang’e‑6 rewrites the Moon: cooler, drier, stranger

New analyses of Chang'e-6 lunar samples reveal an ultra-dry farside mantle, cooler interior temperatures, and longer-lived volcanism, reshaping formation models and near-term choices for Artemis, CLPS, and Blue Moon.

Proof Markets Hit Mainnet, ZK Compute Becomes Commodity

Proof Markets Hit Mainnet, ZK Compute Becomes Commodity

Succinct and Boundless have switched on live proof markets, turning zero-knowledge proving into an on-demand commodity. Here’s how proofspace reshapes rollup costs, interoperability, and the next wave of onchain agents.

Dreamforce's Voice‑Native Agents Signal the AI Labor Shift

Dreamforce's Voice‑Native Agents Signal the AI Labor Shift

Salesforce is adding native voice and hybrid reasoning to Agentforce, setting a practical path from demos to revenue in customer service and CRM. Here is what leaders can deploy in two quarters and how to measure impact.

JWST’s dark star hints ignite a high stakes cosmic test

JWST’s dark star hints ignite a high stakes cosmic test

In late September and early October 2025, four cosmic‑dawn objects in JWST data were flagged as possible dark stars, with one showing a tentative helium 1640 absorption. The debate is on; here is what to watch next and why it matters.

F-35 TR-3 Is Here: What the Block 4 Era Really Unlocks

F-35 TR-3 Is Here: What the Block 4 Era Really Unlocks

After a choppy 2024 restart, F-35 TR-3 deliveries are flowing again with initial training software. The full-capability drop is next, setting up a 2025 to 2028 upgrade wave that turns the fleet into a faster sensor, electronic warfare, and weapons node.

Sora 2 goes enterprise: AI video is the new product pipeline

Sora 2 goes enterprise: AI video is the new product pipeline

At DevDay on October 6, 2025, OpenAI launched Sora 2 with synchronized sound, finer control, and a dedicated app, moving AI video from demo to daily tool. Inside enterprises like Mattel, sketches now become shareable motion briefs in hours, reshaping budgets, workflows, and governance.

Rubin’s First Images Ignite the Real-Time Sky Movie Era

Rubin’s First Images Ignite the Real-Time Sky Movie Era

With first images now public, Rubin Observatory shifts from construction to action. Over the next decade, its rapid all-sky cadence will speed near-Earth asteroid discovery and turn fleeting cosmic events into same-day science.

Apple’s on‑device agents make private automation mainstream

Apple’s on‑device agents make private automation mainstream

On September 15, 2025, Apple switched on Apple Intelligence's on-device model and new intelligent actions in Shortcuts. That update turns iPhone, iPad, and Mac into private agents that work offline, act fast, and raise the bar on privacy.

Galaxy Onchain: Samsung and Coinbase flip crypto on for 75M

Galaxy Onchain: Samsung and Coinbase flip crypto on for 75M

On October 3, Samsung expanded its Coinbase partnership and put a system-level crypto wallet one tap away for more than 75 million Galaxy owners in the United States. Here is how device-native wallets will reshape onboarding and payments.

Automation Hits the Arsenal: Inside the 2025 Factory Surge

Automation Hits the Arsenal: Inside the 2025 Factory Surge

New U.S. ammo plants and automated missile lines announced in 2025 mark a pivot from bespoke manufacturing to software defined factories. Here is how they can compress lead times by 2026 and what still blocks true surge.