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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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Bennu’s 2025 sample haul reshapes origin of life science

Bennu’s 2025 sample haul reshapes origin of life science

The first 2025 results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample show all five DNA and RNA nucleobases, dozens of amino acids, and a clean magnesium–sodium phosphate that points to briny water on Bennu’s parent world. The mix is pushing astrobiology toward faster, sample-first missions and a sharper planetary defense playbook.

FERC’s September grid reboot: virtualization, supply chain, cold

FERC’s September grid reboot: virtualization, supply chain, cold

FERC just set the next arc for grid cybersecurity and winter readiness. A virtualization-ready CIP rewrite, tougher supply chain rules that reach PCAs, and an upgraded extreme cold standard are now on the clock. Here is what changes, when it hits, and how to budget for 2026.

FDA backs a dog longevity pill, a first for lifespan claims

FDA backs a dog longevity pill, a first for lifespan claims

On February 26, 2025 the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine accepted Loyal’s efficacy package for LOY-002, a daily pill for senior dogs. Here is why that first-of-its-kind signal matters, how conditional approval works, and what to watch next.

Agentic Payments Go Mainstream with Mastercard Agent Pay

Agentic Payments Go Mainstream with Mastercard Agent Pay

Mastercard is putting AI agents on real payment rails. Inside Agent Pay, the Agent Toolkit, Insight Tokens, FIDO-aligned credentials and what it means for developers, merchants and banks by the 2025 holidays.

SDA Tranche 1 Takes Orbit, Rewiring Missile Warning and Comms

SDA Tranche 1 Takes Orbit, Rewiring Missile Warning and Comms

With a September 10, 2025 liftoff, the Space Development Agency began a ten‑mission, month‑by‑month buildout of a low Earth orbit mesh that will track hypersonic threats and move fire control data at combat speed to shooters across the Indo-Pacific.

GPT‑5‑Codex ushers in truly autonomous coding agents

GPT‑5‑Codex ushers in truly autonomous coding agents

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Codex upgrades turn coding copilots into agents that plan, execute, and review across IDE, terminal, cloud, and GitHub. See what changed, how workflows evolve, and how to roll it out safely with a 30-60-90 plan.

Guam’s Missile Shield Rewired for a Joint Kill Web

Guam’s Missile Shield Rewired for a Joint Kill Web

In January 2025 the Pentagon ended the AN/TPY-6 radar plan for Guam and shifted to a command and control first architecture built on JTMC, IBCS and Aegis C2. Here is how that pivot enables remote SM-6 shots against PRC missiles, and the risks between now and 2029.

Tornado Cash’s 2025 Pivot and the New Privacy Playbook

Tornado Cash’s 2025 Pivot and the New Privacy Playbook

Tornado Cash’s March 2025 delisting and an August jury split reset the U.S. privacy perimeter. See what changes for wallets, mixers, and DeFi interfaces, plus a concrete 90-day plan.

Judge revives Revolution Wind: BOEM’s power and New England

Judge revives Revolution Wind: BOEM’s power and New England

A September 22 ruling lets Ørsted’s Revolution Wind restart after a federal halt. Here is how the decision narrows BOEM’s stop-work latitude, shapes the appeal path, and affects Connecticut, Rhode Island, supply chains, and winter reliability.

Meta's Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band make agents real

Meta's Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band make agents real

Meta’s new Ray-Ban Display smart glasses and EMG-based Neural Band move assistants from apps to ambient computing. Here is what the September 2025 launch enables, the constraints that could stall it, and how developers should build for face-first agents.

Typhon in Japan: How Shore SM-6 and Tomahawk Reset Deterrence

Typhon in Japan: How Shore SM-6 and Tomahawk Reset Deterrence

The U.S. Army’s Typhon battery just made a public debut in Japan, putting land-based SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles inside the First Island Chain. This mobile mix compresses PLA decision time, plugs into allied kill-chains, and raises fresh questions about basing, survivability, and escalation.

GLP-1s at Scale: From Weight Loss to Longer, Stronger Lives

GLP-1s at Scale: From Weight Loss to Longer, Stronger Lives

September 2025 delivered two signals that reset the GLP-1 narrative: Swiss Re modeled population-level mortality gains, and new oral semaglutide data showed injectable-level weight loss. Here is how to translate weight loss into real healthspan while protecting muscle and bone.

Two Mars probes, one big moment for New Glenn and NASA

Two Mars probes, one big moment for New Glenn and NASA

Blue Origin’s New Glenn is slated to send NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft toward Mars as early as fall 2025. Explore what the mission will uncover about Mars’s magnetosphere and why a successful second New Glenn flight could reset pricing, cadence, and competition across the launch market.

Inside Citi’s 5,000‑User AI Agent Pilot and the Enterprise Playbook

Inside Citi’s 5,000‑User AI Agent Pilot and the Enterprise Playbook

Citi just pushed autonomous AI agents from demo to production with a 5,000-user pilot. See how the stack, controls, and unit economics work in practice and what it signals for Fortune 500 rollouts.

Transparent Oceans vs Submarines: AUKUS Races to Adapt

Transparent Oceans vs Submarines: AUKUS Races to Adapt

Breakthrough sensing, AI fusion, and swarming autonomy are shrinking the ocean’s shadows and challenging nuclear‑sub stealth. What is real, what is hype, and how AUKUS can adapt fast with Pillar II trials, software reforms, and large undersea drones.

SEC Fast-Tracks Crypto ETFs: What Generic Rules Unlock Next

SEC Fast-Tracks Crypto ETFs: What Generic Rules Unlock Next

On September 18, 2025, the SEC approved generic listing standards that let NYSE Arca, Nasdaq, and Cboe BZX list spot crypto ETPs without case-by-case rule changes. Approvals can now arrive in about 75 days. Here is what changed, why GDLC is trading, what is likely next, and a 30-60-180 day playbook.

FERC 1920-A, data centers, and a new grid playbook

FERC 1920-A, data centers, and a new grid playbook

States now have more say in who plans and pays for big wires. With PJM capacity prices spiking and data center demand soaring, here is what FERC 1920-A changes, where bottlenecks bite, and a 12‑month plan to put steel in the ground fast.

JWST’s little red dots point to a fast track for black holes

JWST’s little red dots point to a fast track for black holes

Some of JWST’s puzzling little red dots may be compact black hole-star atmospheres rather than tiny galaxies. Paired with new detections of dust-shrouded early quasars, they outline a fast route to supermassive black holes and a clear set of tests to confirm it.