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.
What's happening today?
Sentinel’s new-silo pivot: America’s biggest defense build
The Air Force’s decision to build hundreds of new ICBM silos turns Sentinel from a missile recapitalization into a five-state civil-works megaproject. Here’s what broke reuse, where the real chokepoints are, and how to move faster without sacrificing nuclear surety.
Office becomes an agent runtime with Copilot’s new modes
Microsoft just flipped the script on Word and Excel. With Copilot’s new Agent Mode and a cross app Office Agent, Office becomes a place where software agents plan, act, and leave an audit trail you can trust.
Chang’e‑6 farside samples rewrite the Moon’s water map
Peer-reviewed results from Chang'e 6 show the lunar farside mantle is ultra-dry, with fresh clues about long-lived volcanism and a surprising magnetic rebound. Here is what that means for ISRU bets, south pole site choices, Artemis vs ILRS strategy, and what to fly next.
AI Data Centers Ignite the Next Utility Capex Supercycle
New utility plans and federal transmission rules show how AI load is reshaping the U.S. grid. See what gets built from 2026 to 2030, who pays for it, and how to curb price spikes while accelerating electrification.
Plasma’s Mainnet Lands: Gasless USDT and a Neobank Inside
Plasma launches its EVM chain with XPL, zero fee USDT transfers, and Plasma One, a built in neobank. If it scales, on chain payments could jump in emerging markets and push wallets, exchanges, and L2s to compete on user experience by 2026.
OSI Arrives: A Common Language for Enterprise AI Agents
On September 23, 2025, Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs, BlackRock, and RelationalAI introduced Open Semantic Interchange, a shared specification that lets agents ground, reason, and govern across stacks. Here is what it changes and how to pilot it in 30 days.
Athena's 12 Hours Sideways Reset Lunar Surface Logistics
Two commercial landers touched down days apart. Firefly’s Blue Ghost worked through a full lunar day, while Intuitive Machines’ Athena landed near the south pole and operated for just 12 hours on its side. Here is what those bookend outcomes proved about LTE comms, PRIME-1, and Artemis surface logistics.
America’s Enrichment Comeback: 2025’s nuclear fuel reboot
The United States is finally breaking its uranium bottleneck. In 2025, DOE HALEU allocations, a Centrus extension, new Urenco cascades, and fresh Paducah licensing set the stage for secure fuel by 2030 and a new wave of reactors.
Pig Kidneys Enter Trials: 2025’s Biggest Longevity Bet
For the first time, U.S. regulators have authorized formal studies of gene-edited pig kidneys. Here is what changes for patients, safety, and longevity if xenotransplantation moves from one-off surgeries to scalable care.
USDC Gets Refunds: Circle’s Arc and the New Payments Era
Circle is pushing USDC into credit card style refunds via Arc, a programmable settlement chain for institutions. With the GENIUS Act now law and Visa expanding stablecoin settlement, onchain payments are set for a reset.
Gemini in Chrome: from web pages to an agent runtime
On September 18, 2025, Google began rolling out Gemini in Chrome to U.S. desktop users, turning the browser into an AI-powered assistant that can read pages, work across tabs, and soon act on websites. Here is how agentic browsing will reshape checkout, SEO and affiliate traffic, consent and fraud, and what developers should build next.
PAC-3 Mega Order and the U.S. Missile Production Surge
A 1,970-round PAC-3 MSE buy in early September signals a lasting shift in U.S. missile production. Can industry clear seeker and rocket motor bottlenecks, sync Patriot, Aegis and IBCS, and deepen magazines for Europe and the Indo-Pacific?
SEC generic listing rules spark a rush for SOL and XRP ETFs
A September 2025 rule change gives U.S. exchanges a standing pathway to list qualifying spot commodity ETPs without bespoke 19b-4 approvals. That unlocks a faster, broader lineup of crypto ETFs, with Solana and XRP poised to lead.
Copilot Spaces GA: from chat to codebase-aware agents
GitHub Copilot Spaces is generally available, bringing persistent project context into agent mode and the coding agent so teams can plan and ship multi-file changes under enterprise guardrails.
sBTC uncapped and listed: Stacks’ Bitcoin liquidity unlock
In September 2025, Stacks removed the sBTC supply cap and landed its first centralized exchange listing, opening mint and redeem flows to a wider audience. Learn what changes for BTC-native DeFi, how the peg works, what early data shows, and the risks to watch.
Uniswap’s Unichain: 200ms blocks and an MEV-aware L2
Uniswap’s app-native Layer 2 now touts ~200ms confirmations, TEE-based ordering, and revert protection. Here is how Unichain could recentralize liquidity, reshape MEV, and pressure Base, Arbitrum, and OP while raising the bar for fair, fast execution.
Taurine’s reality check: NIH study drops biomarker hype
An NIH analysis in Science on June 5, 2025 reports that circulating taurine does not consistently track aging in humans, monkeys, or mice. We explain biomarker versus endpoint, where human trials stand, and how to read longevity claims with discipline.
Australia’s Ghost Shark Fleet Becomes A$1.7B Program of Record
Canberra has moved from prototypes to a fleet buy of Ghost Shark autonomous submarines worth A$1.7 billion, with first deliveries expected in early 2026. Here is why it reshapes allied ISR, strike, and AUKUS Pillar II.

















