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EGS goes bankable: Cape Station’s 500 MW leap to 24/7

EGS goes bankable: Cape Station’s 500 MW leap to 24/7

Fervo Energy’s Cape Station in Utah has pushed enhanced geothermal from pilot to bankable with major equipment awards, financing, and long-term PPAs. Here is the 2026-2028 commercialization roadmap and what it means for utilities and 24/7 buyers that need firm, clean capacity.

Engineered Tregs After the Nobel: Immunity Rejuvenated

Engineered Tregs After the Nobel: Immunity Rejuvenated

October 2025 put regulatory T cells in the spotlight and turned immune rejuvenation from concept to clinical plan. Engineered Treg therapies and thymus regeneration are moving toward trials aimed at infections, inflammaging, and better vaccine responses.

Stablecoin Rail Wars: Visa and Stripe Go Mainstream

Stablecoin Rail Wars: Visa and Stripe Go Mainstream

Clear rules just unlocked prime time for stablecoins. After the GENIUS Act became law in July 2025, Visa expanded multi coin, multi chain settlement while Stripe rolled out USDC checkout and a coin issuance platform. Here is what it means for builders, merchants, and finance teams—and how to act now.

Dreamforce 2025: Agent Control Planes Go Mainstream

Dreamforce 2025: Agent Control Planes Go Mainstream

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveiled Agentforce 3 with a Command Center, Model Context Protocol support, and compliance upgrades. The signal is clear: control planes, not bigger models, will make enterprise agents observable, governable, and interoperable at scale.

Defiant proves crewless warships are ready to scale

Defiant proves crewless warships are ready to scale

After a five-day open-ocean transit and an at-sea refueling demo in September 2025, DARPA’s NOMARS Defiant shows that uncrewed surface vessels are moving from experiments to deployable fleet tools. Here is how reliability, CONOPS, and costs change next.

Babylon Genesis turns Bitcoin into shared security for Web3

Babylon Genesis turns Bitcoin into shared security for Web3

Babylon’s Genesis mainnet turns idle bitcoin into shared security you can stake natively to secure many chains, without wrapping or bridges. Here’s how it works, what went live on April 10, 2025, and why upcoming multi staking and EVM support could reshape rollups and app chains.

MoM‑z14 rewrites cosmic dawn as JWST’s farthest galaxy

MoM‑z14 rewrites cosmic dawn as JWST’s farthest galaxy

In May 2025, JWST confirmed MoM-z14 at redshift 14.44, a compact galaxy shining just 280 million years after the Big Bang. Its size, chemistry, and spectrum point to clustered starbursts, not a hidden black hole; and they force a rapid rewrite of how first light ignited. Here is what gets tested next and how ALMA, Euclid, and Roman can prove it.

One-Shot PCSK9 Editing Could Recode Heart Disease Risk

One-Shot PCSK9 Editing Could Recode Heart Disease Risk

In 2025, first-in-human data, Fast Track status, and a major pharma deal pushed one-time PCSK9 base editing from theory to clinical reality. Here is how a single dose could compress lifetime LDL exposure and what must still go right.

Chat Is the New Runtime: AgentKit and Apps Start the War

Chat Is the New Runtime: AgentKit and Apps Start the War

OpenAI just turned chat into a first-class runtime. AgentKit brings production-grade agents and the ChatGPT Apps SDK makes distribution native to conversations. The moat now shifts to data access, trust, and chat-native UX.

EigenLayer Goes Multichain: Portable AVSs Land First on Base

EigenLayer Goes Multichain: Portable AVSs Land First on Base

EigenLayer has switched on multichain verification, starting with Base, allowing AVSs like oracles, data layers, sequencers, and co-processors to run on L2s while staying secured by Ethereum. Here is how this could reshape L2s, MEV, fees, and cross-chain app design.

Ghost Shark Goes Fleet as Australia Bets on XLUUVs

Ghost Shark Goes Fleet as Australia Bets on XLUUVs

Canberra just moved Ghost Shark from prototype to program of record, funding a fleet of extra large uncrewed submarines for the Royal Australian Navy. Here is what that shift means for cost, doctrine, and allied adoption.

Flight 11 and Block 3: The Turn to Operational Reuse

Flight 11 and Block 3: The Turn to Operational Reuse

Starship Flight 11 closes the Block 2 era and points to a practical Block 3. Catching the booster, hardening the heat shield, and proving propellant transfer could compress costs and make monthly cislunar runs routine.

Windows backs MCP and the moat shifts to identity

Windows backs MCP and the moat shifts to identity

Windows 11 is adopting the Model Context Protocol, giving agents a universal port into apps and files. The next edge is not bigger models, but unified identity, consent, and short‑lived authorization that let agents act safely across desktops and clouds.

Tokenized Treasuries Hit $7.9B as DeFi Picks T-bills

Tokenized Treasuries Hit $7.9B as DeFi Picks T-bills

By October 2025, tokenized Treasury funds reached about $7.9 billion and began displacing idle stablecoin cash as onchain, yield-bearing collateral. Here is how T-bills are becoming DeFi’s base layer and what to expect over the next 6 to 12 months.

Iron Beam Goes Operational: Lasers Reset Air Defense Math

Iron Beam Goes Operational: Lasers Reset Air Defense Math

Israel’s Iron Beam crossed a key September 2025 test milestone and is slated for service by year end, making lasers a real layer in air defense. Here is how cost per shot flips against drones and rockets, where high power microwaves fit, and what must scale by 2030.

WebexOne 2025: When Meetings Become Agent Operating Systems

WebexOne 2025: When Meetings Become Agent Operating Systems

Cisco used WebexOne 2025 to debut Connected Intelligence, a suite of AI agents that turn meetings into autonomous workflows. Here is what ships through 2026, how it connects to Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Jira, and a build playbook to avoid agentwashing.

Natrium’s 2025 turning point: permits to poured steel

Natrium’s 2025 turning point: permits to poured steel

With an accelerated NRC review targeted for December 31, 2025 and Wyoming’s siting permit already in hand, Natrium is crossing from plan to construction. Here is what that inflection means for fuel supply, EPC execution, financing, and data center demand.

After the DeFi rule repeal: building U.S. onchain compliance

After the DeFi rule repeal: building U.S. onchain compliance

Congress nullified the IRS’s DeFi broker rule in April 2025, pausing noncustodial 1099-DA reporting while custodial brokers move ahead. This practical playbook shows exchanges, wallets, DAOs, and payment firms what to build next for private, user-first onchain compliance.