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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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Proba-3 makes eclipses on demand to map the inner corona

Proba-3 makes eclipses on demand to map the inner corona

ESA’s Proba-3 turns totality into a scheduled lab. By flying two small satellites 150 meters apart, the mission creates hours-long artificial eclipses that reveal the Sun’s inner corona and sharpen CME forecasts.

Typhon in Japan: Land-based Tomahawk and SM-6 change the game

Typhon in Japan: Land-based Tomahawk and SM-6 change the game

A U.S. Army Typhon battery just touched down at MCAS Iwakuni, putting ship-killing SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles on Japanese roads. Here is how mobile Mk 41 launchers plug into the kill web, survive in the archipelago, and reshape allied deterrence.

Capacity price shock: PJM hits the cap, MISO's summer soars

Capacity price shock: PJM hits the cap, MISO's summer soars

PJM’s 2026-2027 Base Residual Auction cleared at the price cap while MISO’s summer PRA spiked to $666.50 per MW-day. Here is what changed in 2025, where scarcity is tightest, and how developers and large buyers can position for 2026-2030.

GLP-1s, Healthspan, and a 6.4% Mortality Reset by 2045

GLP-1s, Healthspan, and a 6.4% Mortality Reset by 2045

Swiss Re modeling suggests GLP-1 drugs could reduce U.S. mortality up to 6.4 percent by 2045. With new Phase 3 data on oral semaglutide, we unpack biology, durability, biomarkers, trials, payer models, and equitable access.

Perplexity’s $200 Email Agent Tests the Inbox Future

Perplexity’s $200 Email Agent Tests the Inbox Future

Perplexity launched a $200 per month Email Assistant for Gmail and Outlook that triages, drafts, and schedules when you CC an agent. This review breaks down the features, ROI math, and how it stacks up against Copilot and Gemini to see when a premium, single-purpose inbox copilot actually pays off.

Arbitrum’s $40M DRIP targets leverage loops, not TVL

Arbitrum’s $40M DRIP targets leverage loops, not TVL

Arbitrum is turning incentives back on with DRIP, a four-season, 80 million ARB program that pays for borrowing against yield-bearing ETH and stablecoins. Here is how Season One (live since September 3, 2025) works, why it differs from 2021-style liquidity mining, who could benefit, and the KPIs that matter.

China’s New Hypersonic AShMs: Beyond Parade Hype to Reality

China’s New Hypersonic AShMs: Beyond Parade Hype to Reality

Beijing rolled out the YJ-17, YJ-19, and YJ-20 on Victory Day, but physics and kill-chain friction decide what truly threatens a carrier. This analysis maps likely performance, realistic timelines, and how Aegis with SPY-6 and SM-6 can blunt the risk.

Mars Samples at Stake: NASA’s 2025 Reset vs Tianwen-3

Mars Samples at Stake: NASA’s 2025 Reset vs Tianwen-3

NASA has launched a dual-architecture race to bring Perseverance's samples home while China advances Tianwen-3 for a 2028 to 2031 return. What changed, the science we must not lose, and how the outcome could reshape Mars exploration this decade.

45V Is Final: Hydrogen’s 2025 Reset and What Gets Built

45V Is Final: Hydrogen’s 2025 Reset and What Gets Built

Treasury and IRS finalized the 45V hydrogen tax credit on January 10, 2025. Here’s how hourly matching, deliverability, and carbon thresholds will shape green vs blue economics and 2026–2028 FIDs.

K2 Think and the small but mighty turn in reasoning AI

K2 Think and the small but mighty turn in reasoning AI

MBZUAI’s K2 Think signals a shift to smaller, faster reasoning systems. With long chain-of-thought, verifiable RL, and plan-first prompting, a 32B model can rival giants while staying deployable.

Aave V4’s hub and spoke reset of DeFi lending and yields

Aave V4’s hub and spoke reset of DeFi lending and yields

Aave V4 overhauls DeFi lending with a liquidity hub-and-spoke design, share-based accounting, and an optional reinvestment module. Here is how it could concentrate volume on a few networks, reshape risk, and reset yields as Q4 2025 approaches.

Cross-organ PER data mark 2025 pivot to first human trials

Cross-organ PER data mark 2025 pivot to first human trials

Cross-organ signals from Life Biosciences at ARDD 2025 move partial epigenetic reprogramming from hype to clinical planning. Here is what it means for delivery, safety, endpoints, first indications, and regulatory strategy.

Pentagon's Replicator Reset: DAWG, delays, and the race for AI mass

Pentagon's Replicator Reset: DAWG, delays, and the race for AI mass

Replicator set out to deliver autonomous mass by 2025. Instead, timelines slipped and stewardship reportedly shifted to DAWG under SOCOM. Here is what stalled, what can still be fixed in 12 to 18 months, and what it means for Pacific timelines.

After Congress Axes EPA Methane Fee, What Changes Now

After Congress Axes EPA Methane Fee, What Changes Now

On March 14, 2025 Congress used the Congressional Review Act to void EPA’s methane fee rule, and EPA removed it from the CFR in May. The fee is gone, but methane standards and Subpart W reporting remain, and markets will keep the pressure on through 2027.

OpenAI × Databricks: The Enterprise Agent Stack Goes Mainstream

OpenAI × Databricks: The Enterprise Agent Stack Goes Mainstream

OpenAI’s frontier models now meet Databricks’ lakehouse controls, turning agent pilots into production programs. See how identity, retrieval-to-action, observability, and cost governance align on the data plane, plus build patterns, risk tactics, and a practical 30-60-90 rollout.

USDH goes live on Hyperliquid: the DEX-native stablecoin moment

USDH goes live on Hyperliquid: the DEX-native stablecoin moment

USDH just launched inside Hyperliquid’s trading stack. Here is how exchange-aligned dollars could shift liquidity from USDC and USDT, the governance that matters, and the signals to watch next.

ESCAPADE on New Glenn rewrites the interplanetary playbook

ESCAPADE on New Glenn rewrites the interplanetary playbook

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes are back at Astrotech in Florida for a fall launch on Blue Origin’s New Glenn. The mission will map Mars space weather to sharpen habitability science and reduce mission risk, while pointing to a faster, cheaper model for planetary exploration.

F-35 TR-3 deliveries resume as full combat clearance slips

F-35 TR-3 deliveries resume as full combat clearance slips

By mid-2025, F-35 deliveries with TR-3 hardware resumed under payment withholds and partial software. Here is what jets can do now, what is delayed, and how units should train, plan loads, and plug into IAMD while Block 4 matures.