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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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New Glenn’s 2nd Flight Shoots for Mars with NASA ESCAPADE on Sept. 29

New Glenn’s 2nd Flight Shoots for Mars with NASA ESCAPADE on Sept. 29

New Glenn’s second launch is slated to send NASA’s twin ESCAPADE orbiters toward Mars on September 29, 2025. Here is why flying interplanetary so early matters for risk, cost, cadence, and competition in the U.S. launch market.

Salesforce Puts a Price on Digital Labor at $0.10 with Agentforce 3

Salesforce Puts a Price on Digital Labor at $0.10 with Agentforce 3

Salesforce just put a sticker price on digital labor. At 10 cents per action, Agentforce 3 pairs unit economics with a reliability stack and a Google partnership that makes agents ready for procurement.

Palisades Comes Back: The New Playbook for Reactor Re‑life

Palisades Comes Back: The New Playbook for Reactor Re‑life

With a fresh DOE loan disbursement on September 16 and summer NRC approvals, Palisades now has a credible path to a Q4 2025 restart. Here is the playbook behind the financing, offtake and licensing, what it means for MISO, and how SMR co-location could multiply the impact.

PCSK9’s 2025 tipping point: oral pills vs one-shot edits

PCSK9’s 2025 tipping point: oral pills vs one-shot edits

In 2025, PCSK9 moved from target to strategy. Verve's in vivo base edit delivered dose dependent LDL cuts while oral PCSK9 pills from AstraZeneca and Merck posted pivotal wins, setting up a permanence versus reversibility showdown.

Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band: A Real UI for AI Agents

Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band: A Real UI for AI Agents

Meta’s Ray-Ban Display smart glasses and Neural Band promise a practical UI for AI agents. With a tiny lens display and subtle wrist gestures, navigation, captions, and on-the-spot guidance shift from chat to action.

With Two B‑21s Flying, Weapons Integration Kicks Off

With Two B‑21s Flying, Weapons Integration Kicks Off

A second B-21 Raider has joined the Edwards AFB test team, shifting the program from basic flight trials to mission systems and weapons integration. Here is what that unlocks for sensors, datalinks, EW, LRSO, conventional loadouts, sustainment, and basing.

Saudi Awwal taps Chainlink. GCC banks race past US rails

Saudi Awwal taps Chainlink. GCC banks race past US rails

Saudi Awwal Bank is plugging into Chainlink’s CCIP and CRE to run real onchain finance with audit-ready controls. That unlocks cross-chain DvP, tokenized sukuk servicing, and faster cross-border settlement — and it may let Gulf banks move faster than the United States.

AI islands collide with Texas’s new 765 kV power superhighway

AI islands collide with Texas’s new 765 kV power superhighway

AI data centers are racing into the Permian on islanded gas-plus-battery microgrids while Texas readies 765 kV lines to move bulk ERCOT power west. SB 6 rewrites who pays, how to connect, and when operators must curtail.

Euclid’s first sky map opens the dark universe to all

Euclid’s first sky map opens the dark universe to all

On March 19, 2025, ESA's Euclid released Quick Data Release 1, a deep sampler of images, spectra, and catalogs. We unpack what is in Q1, how to access it, early science highlights, and what to watch before DR1 in 2026.

Ammo Factories Go to War: The 155mm Surge’s New Chokepoints

Ammo Factories Go to War: The 155mm Surge’s New Chokepoints

Spring to summer 2025 delivered new U.S. LAP lines and a greenlit Iowa complex, plus fresh European spend. Yet chemistry and small energetics now cap the rate. We map the real chokepoints, why six figures a month slips to mid 2026, and what sustained mass fires mean for doctrine and the Pacific.

America’s LNG Reboot: DOE ends pause, Gulf projects sprint

America’s LNG Reboot: DOE ends pause, Gulf projects sprint

The Department of Energy restored LNG approvals in January 2025, clearing a backlog and jump-starting Gulf Coast projects. We break down who advanced, what volumes are realistic for 2026 to 2030, and which bottlenecks like pipelines, labor and methane rules could still slow the surge.

GLP-1s at the 2025 inflection: from weight loss to healthspan

GLP-1s at the 2025 inflection: from weight loss to healthspan

Outcomes data and payer shifts have turned GLP-1s into a population health tool. Here is the biology, the care models, and the metrics that turn pounds into years lived better.

JUICE’s hot Venus slingshot and the near-miss timer bug

JUICE’s hot Venus slingshot and the near-miss timer bug

In late August 2025 ESA’s JUICE skimmed past Venus for a high-heat gravity assist while controllers beat a last-minute comms glitch traced to a software timer. Why cameras stayed off, how the team kept the spacecraft cool, and what this flyby sets up next.

At Zoomtopia 2025, AI Companion 3.0 goes cross-platform

At Zoomtopia 2025, AI Companion 3.0 goes cross-platform

Zoom’s AI Companion 3.0 debuts as a low code, cross platform agent that follows you into Teams and Google Meet, automates follow through, and brings enterprise controls. Here is why bring your own agent matters, how it changes Monday workflows, and the questions to ask before you buy.

From Ghost Shark to Swarms: How XL-AUVs Scale to War

From Ghost Shark to Swarms: How XL-AUVs Scale to War

Australia just locked in a Ghost Shark fleet, signaling that extra‑large autonomous subs are moving from prototypes to massed systems. The shift will reshape anti‑submarine warfare, seabed security, and coalition kill chains across AUKUS.

MiCA’s Passporting Showdown Tests Europe’s Unity

MiCA’s Passporting Showdown Tests Europe’s Unity

France and allies just challenged MiCA’s single license promise, hinting at passport vetoes and a push to shift big‑firm oversight to ESMA. We map the legal mechanics, three scenarios, near‑term risks, and how a tightening UK and US corridor could siphon activity.

How 2025 locked in the West’s two-track day-ahead market

How 2025 locked in the West’s two-track day-ahead market

In 2025, CAISO’s EDAM and SPP’s Markets+ moved from debate to buildout. Here is who joins when, how the seam will work, and what changes by 2026 to 2028.

Senolytics hit the clinic: three 2025 trials define the turn

Senolytics hit the clinic: three 2025 trials define the turn

Three credible trials are dragging senolytics out of mouse lore and into human data. St. Jude pits dasatinib plus quercetin against fisetin, Washington University runs SToMP-AD in early Alzheimer’s, and NIH backs a frailty study in people aging with HIV. Intermittent pulse dosing, functional endpoints like gait speed, and on-target biomarkers could make 2025 the pivot year.