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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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CAR T cells that do not age: 2025's blueprint for longevity

CAR T cells that do not age: 2025's blueprint for longevity

A June 2025 study reframes CAR T engineering by showing these living drugs can become senescent. Here is the practical playbook to prevent aging in therapeutic cells and to turn the same insights into senolytic immunotherapy for real-world diseases.

A Rogue Planet’s Record Feast: Cha 1107‑7626 in Real Time

A Rogue Planet’s Record Feast: Cha 1107‑7626 in Real Time

Astronomers watched rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 brighten through summer 2025 as torrents of gas rained down, a record accretion burst on a planetary-mass world. The flare reveals star-like magnetospheric funnels and sets up a roadmap for Roman, the ELT, and ALMA to turn orphan planets from hints into a census.

Enterprise Benchmarks Force the AI Agent Reliability Reckoning

Enterprise Benchmarks Force the AI Agent Reliability Reckoning

Enterprise-grade evaluations are puncturing hype around browser and desktop agents. Salesforce’s SCUBA benchmark and NIST’s COSAiS overlays reveal where agents break, which guardrails work, and how to reach dependable automation in 6 to 12 months.

Neutron’s Virginia Pad Opens, A Third Reusable Contender

Neutron’s Virginia Pad Opens, A Third Reusable Contender

Rocket Lab has lit up Launch Complex 3 at Wallops Island, shifting Neutron from design to operations. If engines and sea recovery perform, the United States could have a third reusable medium-lift workhorse as early as 2026.

Shutdown and Senate Stalemate Jolt Crypto’s Rulebook

Shutdown and Senate Stalemate Jolt Crypto’s Rulebook

A Senate breakdown and a federal shutdown collided this week, freezing the digital asset agenda. Here is how a prolonged impasse could shift SEC and CFTC power, reshape DeFi carveouts, stall listings and ETFs, and how to keep building through it.

Colchicine slows TET2 blood clones, making aging actionable

Colchicine slows TET2 blood clones, making aging actionable

Late‑August 2025 data show that low‑dose colchicine slows the growth of TET2‑driven clonal hematopoiesis in coronary disease. This could be the first genomically tracked aging process clinicians can modify, with a practical playbook for testing, treatment, and trials.

Notion 3.0 Agents Turn Knowledge Workspaces Into Doers

Notion 3.0 Agents Turn Knowledge Workspaces Into Doers

Notion 3.0 introduces permission-aware, stateful agents that run for minutes at a time, remember your workspace, and connect to the tools your team uses. This guide shows how to ship real automations, deploy them safely, and measure business impact.

New Glenn’s NG-2 sets Mars course with NASA’s twin ESCAPADE

New Glenn’s NG-2 sets Mars course with NASA’s twin ESCAPADE

Blue Origins second New Glenn flight is set to carry NASAs twin ESCAPADE orbiters toward Mars, signaling a faster, lower-cost model for interplanetary science and a more competitive launch market.

AI’s power scramble is rewriting the U.S. grid in 2025

AI’s power scramble is rewriting the U.S. grid in 2025

Hyperscale AI demand is colliding with a constrained grid. Utilities are racing to add batteries, sign 24/7 clean power deals, and permit on-site gas microgrids. See where projects, policies, and capital are moving next.

Bitcoin Bridge Wars: BitVM Mainnet and BATTLE Arrive

Bitcoin Bridge Wars: BitVM Mainnet and BATTLE Arrive

Two breakthroughs in 2025 turned Bitcoin bridging from theory into shipping code. In July, Bitlayer’s BitVM Bridge hit mainnet beta; in October, BATTLE outlined a capital-efficient dispute tournament for honest-minority security. Here is what it unlocks, how it works, and what to watch into 2026.

The Agent Is the New Desktop: ChatGPT’s Work Takeover

The Agent Is the New Desktop: ChatGPT’s Work Takeover

OpenAI turned ChatGPT into a computer-using agent in July and opened a preview Apps SDK in October that lets third-party apps run inside the chat. Together they point to a new default UI for work and a very different near-term automation playbook.

Euclid’s deep fields are turning cosmology into a live map

Euclid’s deep fields are turning cosmology into a live map

Euclid’s March 2025 quick data release spans 63 square degrees and tens of millions of galaxies. It has already unlocked a wave of strong lens candidates and early cosmic web structure, setting up a faster, open, AI-powered path to DR1 in October 2026.

Plasma exchange hits geroscience as 2025 trials advance

Plasma exchange hits geroscience as 2025 trials advance

A randomized Aging Cell readout showing 1 to 3 year shifts in biological age has pushed therapeutic plasma exchange from fringe idea to testable program. Here is what the data show, what they do not, and a blueprint to move fast without overselling.

Ghost Shark Goes Fleet: Australia Bets on XL-AUVs Now

Ghost Shark Goes Fleet: Australia Bets on XL-AUVs Now

On September 10, 2025, Australia moved from prototypes to production with a multi-year Ghost Shark XL-AUV fleet. Here is how mass, long-range autonomy could reset deterrence and sea denial across the Indo-Pacific by 2026.

Firedancer's Bigger Blocks Start Solana's Multi Client Era

Firedancer's Bigger Blocks Start Solana's Multi Client Era

In late September 2025, Jump Crypto’s Firedancer proposed removing Solana’s per-block compute cap after Alpenglow. Here’s how a second client and bigger blocks could reshape throughput, fees, latency, and reliability, plus what to watch next.

The asteroid that slipped under our satellites at 428 km

The asteroid that slipped under our satellites at 428 km

A couch-size asteroid crossed the same altitudes as the ISS and mega-constellations at just 428 kilometers. Here is what we missed, what it really threatened, and a 24-month plan to detect the next one before it arrives.

Glamsterdam’s big bet: ePBS, BAL and the free option fight

Glamsterdam’s big bet: ePBS, BAL and the free option fight

Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade locks in enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS) and Block Access Lists (BAL). New research highlights a builder free option that can hit liveness during volatility. Here is what changes for wallets, rollups, and traders, plus the guardrails to ship in 2025.

Lasers Go Operational: From Demo to Doctrine in Air Defense

Lasers Go Operational: From Demo to Doctrine in Air Defense

Late 2025 is the tipping point. A national laser battery enters service while U.S. ships keep shooting at sea. Dollar-per-shot economics and bottomless magazines are set to reshape base and fleet air defense.